Tines
Verified Oct 16, 2026 ActiveWorkflow automation and AI agents for security and IT teams, with a free tier capped at three live workflows
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
The free edition gives unlimited users, spaces and connectors, three live workflows and a one-off $50 AI allowance. Paid editions lift the workflow cap and add deployment choices but carry no published price.
Use tool ↗About Tines
Tines started as automation for security operations and now covers IT, finance, HR and general operations. You build workflows visually, connect anything with an HTTP API, and add AI steps where they help; the platform keeps a record of what each workflow exists for, who built it and what it can reach, which is the governance argument it makes to security teams. Deployment can be cloud or self-hosted, and you can point it at your own model. Two former security operators, Eoin Hinchy and Thomas Kinsella, started it in 2018 in Dublin. The free edition allows unlimited users and connectors but only three live workflows; paid editions are quoted by sales.
- Platforms
- Web · API
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 16, 2026
Verified sources
- Product scope, governance positioning and vendor-agnostic integration claimtines.com ↗
- Free edition terms including three live workflows and the one-time $50 AI allowance; paid tiers quoted by salestines.com ↗
- Founded 2018 by Eoin Hinchy and Thomas Kinsella, both former security operatorstines.com ↗
Is Tines legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Jul 10, 1997 (29 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar Amazon Registrar, Inc., looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Nov 16, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 16, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 16, 2026The site answered
- On the market since
- 2018The vendor's own material, read by us
- Operated by
- Tines, IrelandOur research, card verified Aug 23, 2026
Pros & cons of Tines
The automation platform security teams actually keep, largely because it does not force you into vendor-specific connectors and because self-hosting is a first-class option rather than an enterprise upsell. Governance over who built what is genuinely useful once several teams are automating. Pricing opacity is the cost of entry, and the free tier's three-workflow cap is hit fast.
Pros
- Free edition with unlimited users, spaces and connectors, not just a time-limited trial
- Cloud or self-hosted deployment, plus bring-your-own AI model
- Vendor-agnostic: anything with an API can be wired in without waiting for a connector
- Tracks what each workflow is, who owns it and what it can access
Cons
- No published price for any paid edition
- Three live workflows on the free tier is restrictive for real use
- Learning curve is steeper than consumer-grade automation tools
Best for
- Security operations teams automating triage, enrichment and response
- IT and operations groups that need self-hosted or air-gapped automation
- Organisations wanting one automation layer governed centrally across departments
Not for
- Individuals or tiny teams who would be better served by a consumer automation tool
- Buyers who need a published price before starting an evaluation
Watch out: The free edition's AI allowance is a one-time $50 credit, not a recurring monthly budget.
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