Four Tasklet alternatives, and where open source changes the answer

What actually differs between the four

Four products get called Tasklet alternatives, and all four call tools and run prompts, so their lists converge. Five things separate them: where the work runs, where the setup lives, who can read the code, how you pay, and who approves a change.

Where the work runs. Tasklet runs each agent in an isolated cloud environment in its account. n8n runs on your infrastructure or on n8n Cloud. OpenClaw runs on your own computer. Kortix runs where you choose. Run it on Kortix Cloud, in your VPC, or on your own on-prem network. Self-host is free.

Where the setup lives. Tasklet keeps the workspace, agents, skills, memory and connections in your organization account, with no agent definitions as files. n8n keeps a workflow its editor can export. OpenClaw keeps its files on the machine. Kortix keeps the setup in a git repo, one project per repo, agents and connectors as files inside it.

Who can read the code. Anyone, for OpenClaw, which is MIT licensed. n8n publishes its source and runs the Community edition without a licence key. Kortix says it in one line: Open source. Read it, fork it, audit it. Tasklet's site and pricing page mention neither open source nor self-hosting.

How you pay. Tasklet bills per organization after a free trial: $25 a month for light use, $100 for heavy use, unlimited members on one pool that resets each cycle. n8n bills Cloud by monthly workflow executions and charges nothing self-hosted. OpenClaw charges nothing. Kortix gives every feature at $0 with 500 credits a month, then paid credits from $50 a month.

Who approves a change. On Tasklet, the permissions you set. On n8n, you publish the workflow. On OpenClaw, you edit the config. On Kortix, session work reaches main through a change request. Merge is default-deny for agents. That question decides most deployments: who may change how the work is done, and whether the change leaves a record anyone can read.

Four picks, by what you need to keep

Own the system as a repo, Kortix.

A Kortix project is one git repo, and the manifest is the whole declaration. Its comments say the file carries the agents, what each may use, its triggers and its sandboxes, committed beside your code. The reference line points at the schema; the project: block names the project. Changing how an agent works is then a diff a person reads: an agent that rewrites its own instructions proposes that change on its branch. Where the setup has to run on machines the company controls and survive a security review, that diff is the whole case: several people shape the agents, and who changed what is a git history.

It asks more of you than the others: someone owns the repo, and the first project means writing files rather than clicking a builder.

Stay managed, Tasklet.

Its own line: "Automate any business task with AI agents that run 24x7. Connect your company's tools and share agents & context across your team." The hard parts are real: thousands of SaaS tools, MCP servers and any API, a model chosen per thread, an approval prompt before a task leaves the account. Pick it when agents must work this month and nobody wants to run infrastructure. What you give up is custody: nothing to diff, review or deploy, and a thread moves only as a ZIP the agent packs (Tasklet's Teams FAQ).

Two more managed apps compete. Lindy gives free credits for a trial week, then bills each active member on a monthly credit pool, with actions that have outside impact waiting for approval (Lindy's pricing). Zapier Agents: Agents Free at 400 activities a month, Agents Pro $400 billed annually for 1,500, one pool per Team account (Zapier's pricing). Tasklet's credit math is worth running first.

Draw the workflow, n8n.

When the job is a fixed sequence of steps between systems, n8n is the shorter road: self-host it on your infrastructure or in a private cloud, or let n8n Cloud bill by execution. The cost is that the workflow graph is the program, so an agent's definition is not a file in a repo you own. It replaces Tasklet for pipelines, not for an assistant you talk to.

Run an assistant on your own machine, OpenClaw.

OpenClaw is an open-source AI assistant that runs on your own computer and meets you in the channels you already use, with memory and credentials on your hardware, MIT licensed, and no paid tier, hosted service or token to buy. What it does not hold is one company's shared agents, permissions and review path.

Where a Zap automates a hand-off, an agent owns an outcome, which Kortix works through against Zapier. Kortix lists the checks worth making before an install. The comparison against Tasklet takes both on one job, and Kortix has the shorter case.