Gumloop

Gumloop closed a $50M Series B led by Benchmark in March 2026, bringing its total raise to $70M. n8n completed a $180M Series C backed by Accel and Nvidia. Zapier, the oldest of the three, quietly rebranded itself an “AI Orchestration Platform” without materially changing its trigger-action architecture. The funding numbers are loud, but the real divergence is architectural: one platform treats LLMs as the core processing layer, one gives developers full infrastructure control, and one staples an OpenAI step onto a 2011-era pipeline. If you are evaluating these three tools in 2026, the category label “workflow automation” obscures more than it reveals. This comparison cuts through the positioning and maps each platform to what it actually does well — and where it breaks down. ...

Gumloop raised $50M in a Series B led by Benchmark in March 2026 — a strong bet on a platform that started as a Y Combinator W24 startup with a single differentiating claim: automation built for AI workflows from the ground up, not retrofitted from legacy trigger-action systems. With $70M in total funding and a 4.8/5 rating on G2, Gumloop has traction. But the credit-based pricing model creates real cost surprises, and 125 integrations against Zapier’s 6,000+ is a genuine gap. Here’s the honest breakdown after putting it through its paces. ...