Toolspoke vs Zapier MCP
Zapier MCP rides on an existing Zapier account — there's no separate product or price, just an MCP server in front of Zapier's 9,000+ app library and your existing task quota. It's the fastest path to MCP if automation already runs through Zapier; it isn't a dedicated gateway.
Toolspoke vs Zapier MCP
- Self-hosting
Toolspoke
Docker Compose and PostgreSQL 17, on every plan including Free.
Zapier MCP
No self-hosted option at any tier.
- Credential handling
Toolspoke
Decrypted inside the gateway per call, never reaches the client or the model, on every plan.
Zapier MCP
Vendor-held in Zapier's managed connection layer, SOC 2 Type II certified. No encryption algorithm published.
- Audit log
Toolspoke
Every call writes a row — person, arguments, result, timing — on every plan including Free.
Zapier MCP
Per-action History on every plan; a separate account-wide Audit Log (Zap/connection/membership changes, not per-call) is Team plan and above.
- Pricing
Toolspoke
Free, or $19 per seat/month (Pro) with no seat cap.
Zapier MCP
Professional is capped at 1 seat; shared multi-user access starts on Team, from $69–103.50/month, bundling up to 25 users at that price.
- Cost for a 3-seat team
Toolspoke
$57/month (3 × Pro seat).
Zapier MCP
$69–103.50/month (Team's lowest tier), the same price whether the team has 3 members or 25.
$ curl -fsSL https://toolspoke.com/self-host/compose.yaml -o compose.self-host.yaml
$ echo "BETTER_AUTH_SECRET=$(openssl rand -base64 32)" >> .env
$ echo "CREDENTIALS_ENCRYPTION_KEY=$(openssl rand -base64 32)" >> .env
$ docker compose -f compose.self-host.yaml up -d
What this buys you
Your own Postgres, your own credential store, your own audit log. Nothing above needs an account with us: the compose file is public, and the image is public on GHCR.
When to pick Zapier MCP instead
- Your team already runs its automations through Zapier and wants agents reusing those same 9,000+ app connections without standing up anything new.
- A larger team (up to 25 seats) makes Team's flat price cheaper per person than Toolspoke's per-seat Pro price.
- You need Zapier's own multi-step Zap workflows alongside agent tool calls, not just the gateway.
Try Toolspoke on your own infrastructure
Start on the hosted Free plan, or self-host it from the start. Either way, the gateway, the credential store and the audit log are the same code.