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July 27, 2026
AI Automation

Which AI models can you automate on Zapier? (Opus 4.8, Gemini 3.5 Flash, and more)

Overview

Zapier now lets business teams plug a wide menu of AI models into their automated workflows, spanning OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and specialty providers like Mistral and DeepSeek. To help users pick the right one, Zapier ranks each model with AutomationBench, its own test of how well models complete multi-step business tasks rather than one-off prompts. Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.0 leads the overall leaderboard, with Claude Opus 4.8 and Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash close behind.

Key Takeaways

  • Here's every major AI provider available on Zapier, the models you can plug into your Zap workflows today, and what each one is best for.

    See how Zapier helps you manage, secure, and scale automation across your organization.

  • Below, I'll walk through every major AI provider available on Zapier, the models you can plug into your Zap workflows today, and what each one is best for based on Zapier's AutomationBench.

    You'll also learn about direct AI integrations with hundreds of other AI apps-and how easy it is to automate AI with our built-in tool, AI by Zapier.

  • Realizing that gap existed in the market, we made it public.

    Every measured task is modeled on real workflow patterns we noticed on our platform.

  • This means a model that costs more but gets the job done will score higher than a cheaper one that doesn't.
  • In Zapier's early testing through AutomationBench, GPT-5.5 became the first model to break 10%.

Stats & Key Facts

  • #In Zapier's early testing through AutomationBench, GPT-5.5 became the first model to break 10%.

Here's every major AI provider available on Zapier, the models you can plug into your Zap workflows today, and what each one is best for. See how Zapier helps you manage, secure, and scale automation across your organization. Three phases to move from disconnected AI pilots to orchestrated systems that scale.

New AI models launch practically every week, and keeping up with which ones to use for specific workflows is a job in itself. Consider this article your living reference. At Zapier, we run every model through AutomationBench .

It's our benchmark for testing how well models carry out multi-step workflows, not just static prompts. Below, I'll walk through every major AI provider available on Zapier, the models you can plug into your Zap workflows today, and what each one is best for based on Zapier's AutomationBench. You'll also learn about direct AI integrations with hundreds of other AI apps-and how easy it is to automate AI with our built-in tool, AI by Zapier.

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