Paragon vs. Pipedream Connect
Build native, multi-tenant integrations with far less plumbing. Paragon provides purpose-built products for every use case, from high volume sync to real-time actions for AI agents.
“We have a use case with Jira that we were able to enable in our product within less than an hour, I would even say minutes.”
Nuno Borges
VP of Engineering at Appsmith
“We have a use case with Jira that we were able to enable in our product within less than an hour, I would even say minutes.”
Nuno Borges
VP of Engineering at Appsmith
“We have a use case with Jira that we were able to enable in our product within less than an hour, I would even say minutes.”
Nuno Borges
VP of Engineering at Appsmith
“We have a use case with Jira that we were able to enable in our product within less than an hour, I would even say minutes.”
Nuno Borges
VP of Engineering at Appsmith
We've engaged with tons of tech companies. Paragon has the best onboarding of any company we've seen.
Rob Bailey
COO at CrewAI
We've engaged with tons of tech companies. Paragon has the best onboarding of any company we've seen.
Rob Bailey
COO at CrewAI
We've engaged with tons of tech companies. Paragon has the best onboarding of any company we've seen.
Rob Bailey
COO at CrewAI
We've engaged with tons of tech companies. Paragon has the best onboarding of any company we've seen.
Rob Bailey
COO at CrewAI
“We would have had to hire a dedicated team of engineer - but with Paragon, one engineer knocked out multiple integrations within a few weeks.”
Chris Lu
CTO & Co-founder of Copy.ai
“We would have had to hire a dedicated team of engineer - but with Paragon, one engineer knocked out multiple integrations within a few weeks.”
Chris Lu
CTO & Co-founder of Copy.ai
Trusted by hundreds of B2B & AI SaaS engineering teams
Trusted by hundreds of B2B & AI SaaS engineering teams
Trusted by hundreds of B2B & AI SaaS engineering teams
Trusted by hundreds of B2B & AI SaaS engineering teams
Why engineering teams pick Paragon over Pipedream
Why engineering teams pick Paragon over Pipedream
Why engineering teams pick Paragon over Pipedream
Integrations-as-code
Build integrations in code and low-code
Paragon fits seamlessly into your software development lifecycle with its Typescript framework and Git Sync.
Merge is just an API, which means your team still needs to orchestrate the integration logic, build in error-handling, and build the infrastructure to support concurrency.
Paragon provides a serverless workflow engine so your team can easily implementing the business logic, either in code (Paragraph) or with a visual workflow builder, without worrying about the plumbing.
Version control, code review, and collaborate on integrations
Bi-directionally synced with your git repository
CLI for managing your Paragon project programatically
Deployment
Developer-native deployment process
Don't risk accidentally deploying untested changes to integrations in production on Workato.
Paragon provides a robust release environments pipeline to ensure changes are safely deployed and version controlled.
Separate Development, Staging, and Production environments
Diff that highlights changes between versions
Warnings that highlight potential breaking changes being introduced
Hosting options
Self-host, forward-deploy or use Cloud
Paragon offers both cloud and self-hosted deployment options across the entire platform. Whereas Pipedream only supports self-hosting for workflows.
Deploy one or multiple on-premise instances of Paragon
Supports AWS, GCP, and Azure
But embedded iPaaS isn't enough
While embedded iPaaS is great for automation, it can't handle high volume ingestion or real-time use cases. That's where Paragon's product suite shines.
Managed Sync
Ingest full replicas of your customers’ external data, without any of the plumbing. Perfect for AI applications and structured data ingestion use cases.
Normalized schema per category
Historical and incremental syncs
Fully managed 3rd-party pipelines
// Enable a new Managed Sync pipeline
POST https://managed-sync.useparagon.com/sync \
{
"integration":
"
Google Drive
",
"pipeline":
"
Files
",
"configuration": {
"frequency": "30m",
"folder_id": "Product Team",
}
}
But embedded iPaaS isn't enough
While embedded iPaaS is great for automation, it can't handle high volume ingestion or real-time use cases. That's where Paragon's product suite shines.
Managed Sync
Ingest full replicas of your customers’ external data, without any of the plumbing. Perfect for AI applications and structured data ingestion use cases.
Normalized schema per category
Historical and incremental syncs
Fully managed 3rd-party pipelines
// Enable a new Managed Sync pipeline
POST https://managed-sync.useparagon.com/sync \
{
"integration":
"
Google Drive
",
"pipeline":
"
Files
",
"configuration": {
"frequency": "30m",
"folder_id": "Product Team",
}
}
But embedded iPaaS isn't enough
While embedded iPaaS is great for automation, it can't handle high volume ingestion or real-time use cases. That's where Paragon's product suite shines.
Managed Sync
Ingest full replicas of your customers’ external data, without any of the plumbing. Perfect for AI applications and structured data ingestion use cases.
Normalized schema per category
Historical and incremental syncs
Fully managed 3rd-party pipelines
// Enable a new Managed Sync pipeline
POST https://managed-sync.useparagon.com/sync \
{
"integration":
"
Google Drive
",
"pipeline":
"
Files
",
"configuration": {
"frequency": "30m",
"folder_id": "Product Team",
}
}
But embedded iPaaS isn't enough
While embedded iPaaS is great for automation, it can't handle high volume ingestion or real-time use cases. That's where Paragon's product suite shines.
Managed Sync
Ingest full replicas of your customers’ external data, without any of the plumbing. Perfect for AI applications and structured data ingestion use cases.
Normalized schema per category
Historical and incremental syncs
Fully managed 3rd-party pipelines
// Enable a new Managed Sync pipeline
POST https://managed-sync.useparagon.com/sync \
{
"integration":
"
Google Drive
",
"pipeline":
"
Files
",
"configuration": {
"frequency": "30m",
"folder_id": "Product Team",
}
}
Actions API
Make requests to users’ connected integrations in real-time without building authentication or working with the underlying 3rd-party endpoints.
Get action schema metadata
Extensible to any 3rd-party API
Hosted MCP for AI agent implementations
// Expose all available integration actions
GET https://actionkit.useparagon.com/actions \
Search for ticket
Add to sequence
Get file content
Create contact
Create record
Get users
Search for call
Add comment
Update record
Send message
Upload call
Update opportunity
Search record
Create contact
Update event
Execute SQL
Workflows
Build asynchronous, custom integration automations with any 3rd-party API in code or no code:
Managed 3rd-party triggers and actions
Version controlled in Git
Out-of-the-box release environments (Dev, Staging, Prod)
Permissions API
Easily enforce 3rd-party permissions in your RAG pipeline with a fully managed permissions graph API.
Syncs permissions up to every hour
Check if a user has access to retrieved context
Get all documents a user has access to
// Check a user’s permissions to the retrieved data
POST https://managed-sync.useparagon.com/permissions/check \
{
"object":
["
Q1_Roadmap.docx
","
Feature requests
","
Specs..
",".."]
"user":
"
bowie@customer.com
",
}
Here's a quick summary
Here's a quick summary
A summary
Pipedream
Bespoke workflows for specific users
Bespoke workflows for specific users
Pre-built UI component
Pre-built UI component
Managed authentication
Managed authentication
High volume ingestion infrastructure
High volume ingestion infrastructure
Normalized 1:M schemas
Normalized 1:M schemas
Synchronous (real-time) integration actions
Synchronous (real-time) integration actions
Code-native integration development
Code-native integration development
Build custom integrations
Build custom integrations
Built-in error handling + replay
Built-in error handling + replay
Stream errors to error-logging tools
Stream errors to error-logging tools
End-user support dashboard
End-user support dashboard
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The embedded integration platform for developers
Platform
Use Cases
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© 2025 Paragon All Rights Reserved
The embedded integration platform for developers
Platform
Use Cases
Popular Categories
© 2025 Paragon All Rights Reserved