Gumloop is a canvas you draw. Fasrad is an agent you talk to, and a recurring task takes one sentence to set up. No nodes, no broken edges.
Set up a recurring task by typing one sentence. No nodes, no triggers panel, and no debugging a broken edge at 11pm.
It's 11pm and a Gumloop run failed. You open the log and trace which node returned null, then check whether the JSON shape from box three still matches the input of box four. That's the canvas: powerful, and also a part-time job. Most people who want "email the new leads from this sheet every Monday" don't want to maintain a flowchart to get it.
Fasrad has no canvas. You get one agent with a real inbox, a Google Calendar, Sheets and Drive access, a CRM, private databases it builds itself, and web search. You set up automation by telling it what you want: "every weekday at 8, check my inbox, draft replies to anything from a client, and Telegram me a summary." It schedules the task, runs it on its own, and writes back.
The gap is widest when the work isn't a fixed pipeline. A Gumloop flow does exactly the steps you wired. An agent reads the actual email, decides this one is a refund request and that one is a press inquiry, and handles each its own way, because it's reasoning over the content.
Where Fasrad fits better:
Gumloop suits a deterministic, branching pipeline with many third-party integrations and a visual audit of every step. Pick Fasrad when you'd rather have an operator you talk to.
Buyers usually compare these adjacent jobs before choosing an AI agent.
No. There's no canvas and no nodes. You tell the agent what you want and when, in normal sentences. It converts that into a scheduled task or an event trigger and confirms the timing back to you. To change it, you just ask.
A Gumloop run executes the exact node graph you drew, every time. A Fasrad task runs an agent that reads the actual data and decides what to do per item. So "reply to client emails" handles a refund and a scheduling question differently, instead of pushing both through one fixed path.
Yes. new_email fires when mail hits the agent's inbox, lead_captured fires when someone submits the embedded chatbot, and new_public_message fires on inbound public chat. They're built in, so there's no webhook source to wire. You describe what should happen when they fire.
Differently. Gumloop's canvas gives you a deterministic, heavily branched pipeline with explicit third-party integrations and a step-by-step visual audit, so you can see and pin exactly what each node did. A Fasrad agent reasons over each item instead of replaying a fixed graph. There's no node-graph importer: you rebuild an existing Gumloop flow by describing the outcome.
Yes. It browses full pages, JS-heavy ones included, runs web searches, and calls any REST API with custom auth, so you can reach services Fasrad has no built-in skill for. Gumloop ships hundreds of pre-wired connectors. With Fasrad you point the agent at the API and describe what to do.
Start with a 7-day free trial. Full access, no card needed. Then $49 per month. Setup takes about four minutes: name the agent, give it a personality, connect Google if you want calendar and Sheets, and start typing. It's in public beta.