What Is Zapier MCP? Setup, Task Quota, Free Plan and Permissions

Zapier is an automation service that connects apps to each other. Zapier MCP opens these connections to your AI assistant: the assistant searches the apps connected to your Zapier account (find an email, look up a contact) and takes actions (send a message, create a task, update a record). Reading and writing run through separate meta-tools.

According to Zapier, MCP is where a job starts once in a chat; work that needs to run continuously is turned into a Zap with a trigger. Zapier's pages give three different action counts (40,000+, 66,000 actions and triggers, 30,000+); the app count is 9,000+ on all of them.

Who it's for: people who want to give their assistant apps like Gmail, Slack, spreadsheets and CRMs through Zapier instead of connecting them one by one.

Setup happens inside the assistant; Zapier creates the server itself when you sign in. There is a single connection URL: https://mcp.zapier.com/api/v1/connect (Streamable HTTP only; clients that support only SSE cannot connect).

The Claude › Customize› then Connectors › + path shown on the atlas card is not in Zapier's documentation; Zapier describes the prompt-pasting route. For clients not on the list, there is a long-lived connection token route.

Once connected, write your request as usual. The assistant first checks which app actions are enabled and enables new ones if needed.

In the default "agent" mode, the assistant finds and enables its tools on its own. If you want to decide which actions are enabled, switch to managed mode in the mcp.zapier.com dashboard. Every call is logged in the dashboard's History tab.

!In the default "agent" mode, the assistant can prepare and enable actions from the connected apps on your account by itself. If you don't want irreversible actions such as sending email, switch to managed mode and enable only the actions you choose. Enterprise customers are excluded from AI training by default; the documentation gives no such assurance for other plans.

On Team and Enterprise, an admin can turn off MCP, restrict users and set a task quota for the workspace. Because the cloud service is closed source, it cannot be checked against security advisory databases; the assurances are Zapier's own statements only. That does not mean "safe".

There is no separate MCP fee; it is included in every Zapier plan. But each successful tool call deducts 2 tasks from the plan's task quota; failed calls deduct nothing, while test calls do count. The free plan gives 100 tasks a month, which comes to about 50 successful calls (100 divided by 2). When the quota runs out: if pay-per-task is on, calls continue up to a set cap and the excess is billed; if it is off, calls stop until the end of the billing period.

Prices are from Zapier's pricing page, in US dollars; the page has a monthly/yearly toggle and the text doesn't say which one is shown. The documentation does not say, app by app, which apps work with MCP on the free plan. This is not financial advice.

Official pricing page last checked on October 28, 2026.

1. 1In the assistant: remove the connector in Claude; delete the plugin in ChatGPT; delete the MCP entry in Cursor and VS Code.
2. 2In the Zapier dashboard: on mcp.zapier.com you can select and delete the server or remove actions one by one; deleting the server also deletes its logs, and tasks already used still count toward that period's usage.
3. 3App permissions: remove connected app permissions such as Gmail and Slack separately from the app connections page of your Zapier account; the documentation does not say that deleting the server removes them automatically.