Is Cyclr or Tines better?

Neither clearly leads. Cyclr starts at $1595/month and Tines at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.

Which is cheaper, Cyclr or Tines?

Tines has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at $1595/month for Cyclr and Free for Tines.

Does Cyclr or Tines run on more platforms?

Cyclr runs on Web, API. Tines runs on Web.

Can I use Tines for free?

Yes. Tines has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Cyclr starts at $1595/month.

What is Cyclr best used for?

Cyclr is most often used for a mid-market saas vendor losing deals because prospects ask for a crm integration it has not built, a product team that would rather ship an integration marketplace this quarter than hire two engineers to maintain connectors, a european software company that needs its customers' integration data processed inside the eu for procurement reasons, a vendor whose customers each want a slightly different variation of the same integration and cannot be served by one hard-coded connector. Of those, a mid-market saas vendor losing deals because prospects ask for a crm integration it has not built and a product team that would rather ship an integration marketplace this quarter than hire two engineers to maintain connectors are not what Tines is typically brought in for.

What can Cyclr do that Tines cannot?

Cyclr covers White-label integration UI, Connector library, Workflow builder, Custom connectors. Tines covers Story builder, Drag-and-drop workflows, Event triggers, Incident response automation.

Automation Integration · head to head

Cyclr vs Tines

Cyclr

Automation Integration

Embedded integration platform that SaaS vendors ship inside their own product

From: $1595/month
Rated: -

Full review Website

Tines

Automation Integration

No-code automation for security teams

From: Free
Rated: -

Full review Website

The short version

Only Tines has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
Each has a real cost: Cyclr entry pricing of 1,595 US dollars a month for one connector and 100,000 API calls means small vendors will find building two or three integrations in-house genuinely cheaper, and Cyclr only pays off past a certain integration count.; Tines no-code, UI-driven approach is restrictive for complex logic and version control integration with SDLC
They diverge on capability: Cyclr covers White-label integration UI, Tines covers Story builder.
Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Cyclr and Tines actually diverge.

Attributes where Cyclr and Tines differ
Attribute	Cyclr	Tines
Starting price	$1595/month	Free
Pricing model	Per month by API call volume	Unknown
Free tier	No	Yes
Platforms	Web, API	Web
Founded	Unknown	2018

Identical on both: user rating (Not yet rated), category (Automation Integration).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Cyclr

White-label integration UI
Connector library
Workflow builder
Custom connectors
Regional hosting
MCP server offering
Usage metering
Templates

Only in Tines

Story builder
Drag-and-drop workflows
Event triggers
Incident response automation
Threat intelligence
Case management
Alert triage
Slack

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Cyclr

A mid-market SaaS vendor losing deals because prospects ask for a CRM integration it has not builtnot Tines
A product team that would rather ship an integration marketplace this quarter than hire two engineers to maintain connectorsnot Tines
A European software company that needs its customers' integration data processed inside the EU for procurement reasonsnot Tines
A vendor whose customers each want a slightly different variation of the same integration and cannot be served by one hard-coded connectornot Tines

Tines

Workflow Automationnot Cyclr
Data Integrationnot Cyclr
Process Automationnot Cyclr
App Integrationnot Cyclr
API Connectivitynot Cyclr

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Cyclr

Entry pricing of 1,595 US dollars a month for one connector and 100,000 API calls means small vendors will find building two or three integrations in-house genuinely cheaper, and Cyclr only pays off past a certain integration count.
Connectors and API calls are metered separately, so a successful integration marketplace pushes you up tiers as your customers adopt it, meaning the cost rises with usage rather than with the revenue that usage generates.
Custom connectors to APIs outside the library are your work to build and maintain, so the promise of not building integrations only holds for applications Cyclr already covers.
Debugging is harder when the integration runs in a third-party runtime, because your support team sees a failed workflow rather than an HTTP response and has to escalate to Cyclr for anything non-obvious.
Deep embedding creates real switching cost: your customers' live integrations run on Cyclr, so migrating later means recreating every customer workflow, which in practice means you rarely leave.

Tines

No-code, UI-driven approach is restrictive for complex logic and version control integration with SDLC
No native log intelligence layer to validate data completeness
Limited scope to security workloads, cannot handle general business automation
Governance features lag behind EU AI Act compliance requirements

Pricing, plan by plan

Cyclr

$1595/month

PAYG$1595/month
- 100,000 API calls included
- 1 connector included
- Unlimited integrations and users
Growth$2595/month
- 1,000,000 API calls included
- 10 connectors included
- Everything in PAYG
Scale$7195/month
- 5,000,000 API calls included
- Unlimited connectors
- Everything in Growth
Private Cloud$undefined/month
- Dedicated hosting in US, UK or EU
- Configurable processing and runtime
- Quoted pricing

Tines

Free

No published plan breakdown. See the Tines review.

Which should you pick?

Choose Cyclr if

You need white-label integration ui.
You work on Web, API.
You also want connector library.

Cyclr review

Choose Tines if

You need story builder.
You want to start without paying.
You also want drag-and-drop workflows.

Tines review

Questions people ask

Is Cyclr or Tines better?: Neither clearly leads. Cyclr starts at $1595/month and Tines at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Cyclr or Tines?: Tines has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at $1595/month for Cyclr and Free for Tines.
Does Cyclr or Tines run on more platforms?: Cyclr runs on Web, API. Tines runs on Web.
Can I use Tines for free?: Yes. Tines has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Cyclr starts at $1595/month.
What is Cyclr best used for?: Cyclr is most often used for a mid-market saas vendor losing deals because prospects ask for a crm integration it has not built, a product team that would rather ship an integration marketplace this quarter than hire two engineers to maintain connectors, a european software company that needs its customers' integration data processed inside the eu for procurement reasons, a vendor whose customers each want a slightly different variation of the same integration and cannot be served by one hard-coded connector. Of those, a mid-market saas vendor losing deals because prospects ask for a crm integration it has not built and a product team that would rather ship an integration marketplace this quarter than hire two engineers to maintain connectors are not what Tines is typically brought in for.
What can Cyclr do that Tines cannot?: Cyclr covers White-label integration UI, Connector library, Workflow builder, Custom connectors. Tines covers Story builder, Drag-and-drop workflows, Event triggers, Incident response automation.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Cyclr: What does Cyclr actually cost?

Published tiers start at 1,595 US dollars per month for 100,000 API calls and one connector, rising to 7,195 for unlimited connectors and five million calls.

Tines: What are Tines' pricing tiers?

Tines offers a free Community Edition for evaluation, Starter Edition at $500/month with annual billing, and Business/Enterprise tiers starting around $50,000/year for small security teams and scaling to $200,000+ for large SOCs.

Source

Cyclr: Do my customers know they are using Cyclr?

No. The interface is white-labelled to appear as part of your product.

Tines: What is the Community Edition limited to?

As of July 2026, the free Community Edition is scoped to 1 builder and 3 flows as an evaluation tool to test Tines' capabilities.

Source

Cyclr: Can I host it in the EU or UK?

Yes, on the private cloud tiers, which matters for European procurement requirements.

Tines: Is Tines limited to security automation?

Yes, Tines is purpose-built for security automation. Teams needing non-security automation on the same orchestration layer would need to evaluate alternatives.

Source

Cyclr: What if the connector I need does not exist?

You build a custom connector using Cyclr tooling, which is work you own rather than work the platform removes.

Tines: Does Tines have native log intelligence capabilities?

No, Tines lacks a native log intelligence layer, meaning it cannot determine whether the data feeding your detection tools is complete. Teams must build automation against whatever alerts their existing infrastructure provides.

Source

Cyclr vs Tines

Cyclr

Tines

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in Cyclr

Only in Tines

What people use each for

Cyclr

Tines

Where each one falls short

Cyclr

Tines

Pricing, plan by plan

Cyclr

Tines

Which should you pick?

Choose Cyclr if

Choose Tines if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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