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Photo by Pavel Danilyuk on Pexels The short answer If you're comparing ClickUp's built-in automations against Zapier's free plan before you commit to either, here's the number that matters: ClickUp's Free Forever plan includes 100 automations per month, and Zapier's free plan gives you 100 tasks per month. On paper those look identical. They aren't, because what counts as "one" is defined differently by each tool, and that difference decides how fast you'll blow through the limit. I've written before about ClickUp's free plan storage cap being the limit that bites first for most people. Automations are the other free-tier ceiling that trips people up, usually a few weeks in, once they've built a couple of workflows and forgotten they're running. What actually counts as one automation run in ClickUp In ClickUp, an automation run is counted each time a trigger fires and the associated action executes, according to...