TL;DR
- Best for web scraping and AI-powered lead qualification: Bardeen ($10-50/mo, browser extension, scrape any website, AI qualification, enrichment, used by Deel with 75% efficiency boost)
- Best for all-in-one business automation with forms, data, and email: TinyWorkflows (100+ app integrations, natively connected to TinyForms, TinyTables, TinyEmails, TinyAgents)
- Pricing: Bardeen starts at $10/mo for 100 credits. TinyCommand starts free with all 5 products from $19/mo.
- The core difference: Bardeen is a browser-based tool that scrapes websites, finds leads, and enriches contact data. TinyWorkflows is a server-side tool that automates business processes across 100+ apps. Bardeen finds the leads. TinyWorkflows processes them. They are complementary, not competitive.
| Feature | TinyWorkflows | Bardeen |
|---|---|---|
| Browser automation | ✗ | ✓ (Chrome extension) |
| Web scraping | ✗ | ✓ |
| AI playbooks | ✗ | ✓ |
| Server-side reliability | ✓ | ✗ (browser-dependent) |
| Native forms | ✓ | ✗ |
| Native database | ✓ | ✗ |
| AI agents | ✓ | ✗ |
| Starting price | $49/mo | $99/mo |
We used to run our lead enrichment through five different tools. With TinyCommand, it is just one flow.
Ankit Solanki, InVideo
Bardeen started as a browser automation tool and evolved into an AI-powered lead generation platform. Its Chrome extension scrapes data from any website — LinkedIn profiles, company directories, job boards, real estate listings — and enriches it with verified emails, phone numbers, and company data. AI qualification automatically prioritizes leads matching your ideal customer profile. Deel reported a 75% efficiency boost. Casafari saved 60 hours per week on prospecting.
TinyWorkflows is a completely different tool. It is a visual workflow builder that automates multi-step business processes across 100+ apps — when a form is submitted, enrich the data, score the lead, send an email, update the CRM, notify Slack. It operates server-side, triggered by events and webhooks. It does not scrape websites or run in a browser.
These tools are complementary, not competitive. Bardeen finds and qualifies leads from the web. TinyWorkflows processes those leads through your business pipeline. Many teams use a scraping tool AND an automation tool together.
Where Each Tool Wins
Where Bardeen wins
Web scraping. Extract structured data from any website using a Chrome extension. Premium scrapers for LinkedIn, ZoomInfo, Apollo. TinyWorkflows cannot scrape websites.
AI lead qualification. Automatically score and prioritize scraped leads against your ICP. Filter out irrelevant prospects before they enter your pipeline.
Contact enrichment. Find verified emails and phone numbers from company names and domains. 3 credits per enriched contact. TinyWorkflows enriches through integrations but does not have native scraping-to-enrichment.
Browser-native. Works wherever you browse. See a prospect on LinkedIn, scrape their data instantly. No server setup, no API configuration.
Where TinyWorkflows wins
All-in-one platform. Workflows + forms + database + email + AI agents. Bardeen scrapes and enriches only. Processing, emailing, and CRM operations need separate tools.
100+ app integrations. Server-side automation across CRM, email, Slack, Stripe, Google Sheets, and any API. Bardeen exports to 4 destinations (Sheets, Airtable, Notion, CSV).
End-to-end pipeline. From form submission to email sequence to AI scoring to CRM update. Bardeen handles the top of funnel. TinyWorkflows handles the rest.
Free tier with all products. Unlimited forms, 1,000 credits across 5 products. Bardeen gives 100 free credits for scraping only.
Browser scraping tool vs server-side business automation
Bardeen runs as a Chrome extension. You visit a website, click the Bardeen icon, and it extracts structured data from the page — names, emails, phone numbers, company names, job titles, prices, addresses. Premium scrapers handle complex sites like LinkedIn, ZoomInfo, and Apollo. The AI qualification layer then scores each lead against your ideal customer profile, so you only pursue prospects that match.
The enrichment feature adds verified contact information. You have a list of company names and Bardeen finds the decision-maker emails and phone numbers. At 3 credits per enriched row, a $50/month Premium plan enriches about 333 contacts — enough for most SDR teams to build a solid pipeline.
But Bardeen does not automate what happens after you find the leads. It exports to Google Sheets, Airtable, Notion, or CSV. From there, you need a separate tool to send email sequences, update your CRM, trigger follow-up workflows, or route leads to the right team member. Bardeen finds leads. It does not nurture them.
TinyWorkflows picks up exactly where Bardeen stops. Import your enriched leads into TinyTables. Build a workflow: AI scores the lead (TinyAgents), sends a personalized email sequence (TinyEmails), updates your CRM, notifies the sales team on Slack, and schedules a follow-up task. This is the post-discovery pipeline that Bardeen does not cover.
TinyWorkflows cannot scrape websites. It cannot extract data from LinkedIn profiles or company directories. It does not run in a browser. These are fundamentally different architectures — browser-based extraction vs server-side process automation.
The pricing models reflect different value propositions. Bardeen charges per credit (1 credit per scraped row, 3 per enrichment). TinyCommand charges per credit too, but credits cover email, workflows, forms, and AI — not scraping. Neither has unlimited plans at the base tier.
For GTM teams, the ideal stack is Bardeen for prospecting + TinyCommand for nurturing. Bardeen scrapes and enriches. TinyWorkflows automates the follow-up. TinyEmails sends the outreach. TinyAgents scores and qualifies. TinyTables stores everything with 7 views for pipeline management.
Who should choose what
Choose TinyWorkflows if:
- You need multi-step business automation across 100+ apps (CRM, email, Slack, Stripe)
- You want automation connected to forms, databases, email, and AI agents natively
- You need to process leads through a pipeline — score, email, route, follow up
- Server-side automation (triggered by events, webhooks, schedules) is your requirement
- You want one platform for $19/month instead of separate scraping + automation tools
- Your bottleneck is processing leads, not finding them
Choose Bardeen if:
- You need to scrape data from websites — LinkedIn, directories, job boards, listings
- AI-powered lead qualification against your ideal customer profile is valuable
- Contact enrichment (verified emails and phones from company names) is your bottleneck
- You want a browser extension that works on any website without coding
- Your SDR team spends hours manually building lead lists
- You primarily need to find leads, not process them through workflows
This comparison also applies to
- Teams comparing TinyWorkflows with PhantomBuster (browser automation for LinkedIn)
- Teams comparing TinyWorkflows with Clay (data enrichment and outreach)
- Teams comparing TinyWorkflows with Apify (web scraping platform)
- GTM teams deciding between lead discovery tools and lead processing tools
- SDRs who need both scraping and automation in their stack
