What Is StackAI? An Enterprise Platform for AI Agents

The short answer: if you work in a company where IT owns AI and must govern it, StackAI is built for that buyer: an enterprise platform to build, deploy and govern AI agents and workflows, free for one seat, two projects and 500 runs a month, with every team plan quoted on request (pricing page, checked on 24 October 2026). It suits less well a small team that wants to buy by card today.

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Before you take it to IT:

1. Count runs. A run is one execution of a workflow, per the pricing FAQ. For example, a copy checker used on 25 assets a week runs 25 x 4 = 100 times a month, a fifth of the free allowance (pricing page).
2. List what it would read. Agents are grounded in knowledge bases built from your documents, and the homepage lists 500+ enterprise integrations. Name the documents and systems first.
3. Agree how it will be judged. StackAI has evaluation datasets of inputs with expected answers, so quality can be checked after every change (evaluation guide).

What it does

The homepage calls StackAI "The Enterprise AI Agent Factory", built for IT teams to orchestrate, deploy, govern and scale AI. The documentation covers an Agent Builder with reusable skills, a Workflow Builder, knowledge bases with citations, interfaces that publish a project as a chat, form, batch table or API, release approvals, evaluations and usage policies. Deployment can be multi-tenant cloud, a virtual private cloud or on-premise, and the homepage lists HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001.

Who it is for

Organisations where AI has to pass security review: the homepage names legal, compliance, finance, customer service and IT service teams. For marketing there, the fit is a governed agent working on approved material, such as checking copy against brand rules. It fits less well a startup that wants agents running by Friday without involving IT.

What it costs

Checked on 24 October 2026 on the pricing page: Free is $0 a month with 500 runs, 2 projects, 1 seat and Discord support. Enterprise is custom, adding dedicated infrastructure, solution engineers, on-premise and VPC deployment, access control and SSO. No price between the two is published. Usage settings track runs, credits, seats, projects and storage separately (usage guide), so ask which an Enterprise quote is built on.

The free plan's single seat is sized to prove an idea, not to run it for a team, so the first team price comes from StackAI's sales conversation. Arrive with your own run and seat counts.

Against Make, n8n and Zapier

All three publish self-serve plans. Make calls itself an AI automation platform, building agents and automations "in one visual landscape" and billing in credits that each action consumes (Make pricing); n8n bills by workflow execution with unlimited users and can be self-hosted (n8n pricing); Zapier bills in tasks. What decides it is who builds and who governs: a team building its own automations starts on one of those by card, while StackAI sells governance, private deployment and solution engineers to IT.

Getting started

Build one small, low-risk project on the free plan. How to use StackAI builds a checker for ad copy against brand rules. And if the blocker turns out to be that nobody in marketing owns the AI roadmap, that is a team problem rather than a tool problem, which an interim CMO can hold while you hire.

FAQ

Is StackAI a no-code tool?

Mostly. Agents are configured without arranging nodes, workflows are drawn on a canvas, and Python and JavaScript steps exist where code is needed.

Who owns StackAI?

Asana, following the acquisition StackAI announced on 27 May 2026; it continues as its own product and brand, with workflows and deployments unchanged (announcement).

Can it run on your own servers?

Yes, on Enterprise: the pricing page lists on-premise and VPC deployment there, and not on the free plan.