# Outgrown Zapier? Ship the workflows it can’t run | Ballet

> Canonical: https://ballet.dev/zapier-alternative

Stop patching broken Zaps. Ballet ships the complex, multi-system workflows Zapier can’t, and they run themselves. Live in hours.


The workflows Zapier can’t run.

Zapier is great until a workflow needs real logic or breaks at scale. Ballet reasons through the complex steps and self-heals, so the workflow just runs and you stop patching it.

## Compare

| | Ballet | Zapier (the old way) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Approach | Deterministic workflows + agents, written as code | Visual triggers and preset actions |
| New integration | Generated on demand against any API | Limited to its app directory |
| Complex multi-system work | Scales, written as code | Caps out as logic gets complex |
| Breakage | Evals on every step, auto-patched with a diff | Breaks silently when an app changes |
| Review & version control | Generated code, version-controlled | Opaque Zaps, no real version control |
| Time to first workflow | 30 minutes | Minutes, but caps out fast |


## Ballet vs. Zapier, answered

### Can Ballet do everything Zapier does?

For the multi-system, business-critical workflows teams get stuck on: yes, and it handles the logic Zapier caps out on.

### We already have hundreds of Zaps. Do we rip them out?

No. Keep Zapier for the simple stuff and bring Ballet in for the workflows that break or hit a complexity wall.

### Is it as reliable as Zapier?

More so. Ballet runs deterministic code where it matters and self-heals when an app changes, instead of breaking silently.

### How is it more reviewable than a Zap?

It generates real, version-controlled code with evals on each step. You review a diff in your own tooling, not an opaque Zap.

## Next step

We’ll rebuild your most painful Zapier workflow in Ballet, live.

[Request early access](https://ballet.dev/signup)