Azure Logic Apps vs Google Cloud Workflows
Azure Logic Apps
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Google Cloud Workflows
cloud.google.comSide by side
| Figure | Azure Logic Apps | Google Cloud Workflows |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $0.01/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 14 | 6 |
| Spec score · IT Orchestration Software | 9.4 (#1) | 8.8 (#2) |
| Connectors | The product provides more than 1,400 prebuilt connectors, including Microsoft, Salesforce, Dynamics 365, SAP, and IBM Mainframe, and users can create their own. | Connectors simplify Google Cloud API calls by formatting requests and providing built-in retries and long-running-operation handling. |
| Documentation depth | Microsoft documentation covers concepts, tutorials, B2B integration, custom code, security, testing, deployment, service limits, CLI, PowerShell and REST API reference. | The documentation set includes quickstarts, tutorials, syntax and standard-library references, REST APIs, connectors, quotas, release notes, training, and code samples. |
| Rating on G2 | 4.3 out of 5 from 104 reviews | 4.4 out of 5 from 6 reviews. |
| What it does | Azure Logic Apps is a fully managed integration service for automating workflows and coordinating data, applications and processes across cloud and on-premises environments. | Google Cloud Workflows orchestrates Google Cloud services, custom Cloud Run services or functions, and HTTP APIs into serverless applications and pipelines without infrastructure management. |
Plans
Azure Logic Apps
- ConsumptionPrice not published
- ConsumptionPriced on request
- StandardPrice not published
- StandardPriced on request
- HybridPrice not published
- HybridPriced on request
- Consumption actionsFree
- Enterprise connectorFree
- Standard connectorFree
- Integration Account Basic$0.42 a month
Google Cloud Workflows
- Always FreeFree
- Always Free external stepsFree
- Always Free internal stepsFree
- Internal steps$0.01 a month
- Pay as you go$0.01 a month
- External steps$0.03 a month
In their own words
Azure Logic Apps
Azure Logic Apps is a managed integration platform for automating workflows, connecting data, and coordinating processes across cloud and on-premises environments. A visual designer, prebuilt templates, and organizational templates support building and reusing workflows. The service offers more than 1,400 prebuilt connectors, and users can create their own. Workflows can include Python, .NET, PowerShell, or JavaScript, and can be built, tested, debugged, and run locally in Visual Studio Code. An Automated Test Framework supports mocked actions and workflow assertions. Logic Apps can also orchestrate AI agents, including multi-agent handoffs and nested hierarchies, and has Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search connectors. B2B and EDI operations support large payloads and formats such as EDIFACT, X12, AS2, RosettaNet, and SWIFT. Consumption workflows run in multi-tenant Azure, while Standard is single-tenant; Hybrid runs workflows on customer-managed infrastructure. Consumption meters triggers, actions, and connector executions; Standard uses hosting-plan pricing, with possible Azure Storage transaction charges for stateful workflows. The listed plans have no prices. Azure says users can try Azure free for up to 30 days.
Google Cloud Workflows
Google Cloud Workflows is a managed orchestration platform for running Google Cloud services, custom services, and HTTP APIs in a chosen sequence. Workflow definitions use YAML or JSON and can combine ordered steps with conditions, loops, parallel work, and reusable subworkflows. Start an execution manually, through client libraries or REST, or on a schedule with Cloud Scheduler. Connectors link workflows to Google Cloud APIs such as Pub/Sub, Firestore, and Secret Manager, while workflow steps can also call custom or private HTTP and HTTPS endpoints. Reliability features include retries, polling, error handling, callbacks, and waits of up to one year. A single execution can run up to 100,000 steps and last no more than one year. IAM controls access; Secret Manager can store and retrieve secrets. Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring surface execution logs, volume, errors, and duration. Pricing is based on executed steps, including failed and retried steps, while idle workflows incur no charges. The free plan includes 5,000 internal and 2,000 external steps; paid usage starts at $0.01 per month, with rates that vary by step type and volume.