AI workflow automation: the tech stack of 21 real products
Building automations and workflows that connect apps, with or without AI steps.
The typical stack
The leading pick where at least 8 of them show the decision and the leader has at least a quarter of it.
| Decision | Most common pick | Share | At default usage |
|---|---|---|---|
| LLM API | 11 of 16 · 69% | $10/mo · GPT-6 Luna | |
| Database | 8 of 14 · 57% | — | |
| Frontend Framework | 12 of 13 · 92% | — | |
| Transactional Email | 7 of 12 · 58% | $20/mo · Pro 50k | |
| AI SDK & Agent Framework | 5 of 8 · 63% | — | |
| Backend Framework | 4 of 8 · 50% | — | |
| Vector Database | 4 of 8 · 50% | — |
Monthly bills add up to about $30 at the calculators' default usage, list prices. Set your own usage →
What they chose, decision by decision
Among the AI workflow automation that show each choice, from makers' products and open-source code alike.
Small samples, fewer than 8 products: Authentication (Clerk 4, Supabase 1) · Database Access & ORMs (Prisma 3, SQLAlchemy 3) · Background Jobs & Cron (BullMQ 3, Trigger.dev 1) · File Storage (Amazon S3 4, MinIO 3) · Payments (Stripe 5, Lemon Squeezy 1) · Product Analytics (PostHog 5) · Error Monitoring (Sentry 4) · AI App Builders (Lovable 1, Base44 1) · Hosting (Cloudflare 1, Render 1) · Image & Video Hosting (sharp 3) · Lifecycle Email (Loops 2, Customer.io 1) · LLM Observability & Evals (Langfuse 3)
AI workflow automation we track
15 makers' products and 6 open-source projects. Makers' products first.