Tines 3B
Summary
Finance shipped an app on a personal Vercel account. Marketing is running Claude Code sessions nobody can audit. Someone committed an API key to GitHub. Tines 3B exists for the moment after you told everyone to use AI and realized you have no idea what they built or where it's running.
Tines 3B is an agent and automation platform aimed at IT and security teams who need to give the rest of the organization room to build without losing visibility or governance. The core loop is this: non-technical teams build workflows and agents on a shared canvas, while IT and security retain a control layer — approving what goes live, governing which LLMs are used, and monitoring what those agents touch. The vendor-agnostic LLM routing means you can swap models without rebuilding workflows. Anomaly detection flags potential breaks and surfaces suggested fixes, but the docs are clear: nothing goes live without you signing off. Self-hosted deployment is available for teams whose data cannot leave their own infrastructure.
Bottom line: Pick Tines 3B when your security team needs to govern employee-built automations at scale — and plan for friction when a data science team wants low-level Python control over agent logic that the no-code canvas was never designed to express.
Pricing Plans
- Free Tier
- 3 live workflows, one time $50 AI allowance
Free edition
Unlimited users, spaces, and connectors. 3 live workflows. One time $50 AI allowance.
- Unlimited users, spaces, connectors
- 3 live workflows
- One-time $50 AI allowance
Paid editions
Unlimited workflows and flexible deploy options.
- Unlimited workflows
- Flexible deploy options
- Bring your own AI model
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Pros
Sign in to edit- Governed LLM routing across the organization, so when a model needs to change for cost or compliance reasons, the swap is a configuration change — not a workflow rebuild.
- Approval gates on every agent output, which means non-technical teams can build and iterate without security losing the final say on what actually runs in production.
- Self-hosted deployment option, so teams with data residency or air-gap requirements are not forced onto a shared cloud — a wall that eliminates most no-code automation tools from regulated-industry procurement.
- Cross-team scope — IT, security, finance, people ops, and operations workflows on the same platform — which means governance policies apply uniformly instead of being re-negotiated per department.
- Anomaly detection with suggested fixes that surface proactively, so a workflow that would silently degrade at 2 a.m. gets flagged before the failure reaches a user.
Cons
Sign in to edit- Complex conditional agent logic — branching based on what a previous step returned, multi-path routing, dynamic subagent spawning — hits the visual canvas ceiling before a moderately complex security workflow is fully expressed. Teams building SOC automation beyond alert triage typically add a Python scripting layer, at which point they are debugging two systems under incident pressure.
- The governance model that makes Tines strong for IT and security becomes a bottleneck for teams that ship fast and iterate constantly. Every production change requiring IT sign-off adds latency that product or growth teams will not tolerate. Those teams abandon Tines for a self-service platform with fewer controls — exactly the shadow-AI problem Tines was purchased to solve.
- LLM vendor-agnosticism is a paid-only feature, meaning teams on the free tier are constrained in how they route or switch models — a real limit for anyone evaluating the platform specifically for its AI gateway capabilities before committing budget.
About
- API Available
- Yes
- Self-Hosted
- Yes
- Last Updated
- 2026-08-17T06:18:19.439Z
Best For
Who it's for
- IT and security teams needing governance
- Organizations scaling employee-built automations
- Users requiring flexible deployment
What it does well
- IT service delivery and support
- Security operations and SOAR
- Building intelligent workflows across teams
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- Is Tines 3B free?
- Tines 3B has a permanent free tier alongside paid upgrades. You can keep using a baseline version indefinitely without paying.
- Is Tines 3B open source?
- No — Tines 3B is a closed-source tool. Source code is not publicly available.
- Does Tines 3B have an API?
- Yes. Tines 3B exposes a developer API. See the official documentation at https://tines.com for details.
- Can I self-host Tines 3B?
- Yes. Tines 3B supports self-hosting on your own infrastructure.
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Shadow AI after the green light
Finance shipped an app on a personal Vercel account. Marketing is running Claude Code sessions nobody can audit. Someone committed an API key to GitHub. Tines 3B exists for the moment after you told everyone to use AI and realized you have no idea what they built or where it’s running.
What the platform provides
Non-technical teams build workflows and agents on a shared canvas. IT and security keep an approval layer before anything goes live, pick which models run, and watch what the agents touch. The routing works across different LLMs so a model swap stays a settings change rather than a rebuild. Anomaly detection flags breaks and suggests fixes. A self-hosted option exists for teams with data rules that block shared cloud tools. The free tier starts at three live workflows and a one-time $50 AI allowance.
Where it fits and where it stalls
IT service delivery, security operations, and cross-team automations are the stated use cases. Teams that need governance over employee-built tools get the strongest match. The same approval steps that protect production add steps for groups that want to ship and tweak daily. Complex branching and sub-agent logic also hit limits on the visual canvas, often pushing teams to add scripting.
Who it is for / who should skip it
Best for IT and security teams that must keep control while the rest of the organization builds, and for groups that need self-hosted deployment. Skip it if fast iteration without sign-offs is the main requirement or if security workflows quickly outgrow the canvas.