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Make: features, pricing, and who it is for

Visual automation platform for connecting apps, routing data, and building AI-assisted workflows.

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Product type
Visual automation platform for connecting apps, routing data, and building AI-assisted workflows
Best for
Operations teams
Access
Browser/app; check current entitlements
Pricing
$0/month

Overview

What Make is

Make organizes automations as visual scenarios. A scenario starts from a schedule or app event and runs connected modules that search, transform, branch, and write data across services. This makes it useful when a process spans several systems and the team needs to see each step and mapping rather than maintain integration code.

Its AI Agent tools can choose modules, existing scenarios, and MCP tools, while conventional scenarios remain deterministic. For production use, the practical work is defining the trigger, permissions, error path, and credit budget. The attractive canvas does not remove the need to inspect execution history and avoid duplicate writes.

Use cases

Who Make is best for

The strongest fit depends on the job you need the product to complete, not the size of its feature list.

Operations teams

Synchronize records and route approvals between the apps already used every day.

Marketing teams

Move leads, forms, and campaign events through a repeatable enrichment and follow-up flow.

Automation builders

Combine no-code modules with branching, transformations, APIs, and agent tools when needed.

Capabilities

Core Make features

1

Visual scenario builder

Connect triggers and actions on a canvas with field mapping, filters, routers, and scheduling controls.

2

App integrations

The official pricing page lists more than 3,000 supported apps, with modules for common read and write operations.

3

AI Agent scenarios

Give an agent modules, scenarios, or MCP servers as tools so it can choose actions for a bounded task.

4

Scenario inputs and outputs

Define reusable subscenarios that can return structured results to a parent automation or agent.

5

Execution controls

Use logs, scheduling, and plan-specific controls to review failures and tune throughput.

Process

How the Make workflow works

  1. Step 1

    Define the event

    Choose a clear trigger and one successful outcome, such as a new qualified form submission creating a CRM task.

  2. Step 2

    Connect and map

    Authorize the relevant apps and map only needed fields into modules, filters, and branch routes.

  3. Step 3

    Test with samples

    Run success, missing-field, duplicate, and permission-error examples; inspect each module’s input and output.

  4. Step 4

    Monitor after activation

    Turn on the scenario, watch credit consumption and errors, and revise mappings when upstream schemas change.

Cost

Make pricing and free plan

Make meters most scenario module actions in credits; AI provider features can use more. Its live page shows Free at 1,000 credits per month and paid Core, Pro, Teams, and Enterprise plans.

Free

$0/month

For learning and light scheduled scenarios.

  • 1,000 credits per month
  • 15-minute minimum interval between runs
  • Visual builder and app connections

Core / Pro

From $12 / $21 per month at 10,000 credits

For active scenarios and faster execution controls.

  • Core adds unlimited active scenarios and API access
  • Pro adds priority execution and full-text log search
  • Displayed amounts are for 10,000 monthly credits

Teams / Enterprise

Teams $38/month at 10,000 credits; Enterprise custom

Adds collaboration or negotiated scale.

  • Teams adds roles and shared templates
  • Enterprise adds advanced security and support

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Assessment

Make strengths and limitations

Where it stands out

  • Clear visual view of data movement and conditional branches.
  • Large app catalog and reusable scenario tools.
  • Agent tools can sit alongside deterministic automation.

What to consider

  • Each module action can consume a credit, so one business event may cost several credits.
  • A free scenario has a 15-minute minimum scheduled interval.
  • Connected-app changes, expired permissions, and retries still need active operational monitoring.

Compare

Make alternatives

The right alternative depends on the specific output, workflow, controls and budget your project requires.

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Zapier

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n8n

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Business Operations

Activepieces

Choose for an open-source automation core and alternative cloud credit model.

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Questions

Make FAQs

What is a Make scenario?

It is an automated workflow of triggers and modules that move or transform information between applications.

Can Make run AI agents?

Yes. Its Agent scenario can be given modules, subscenarios, and MCP servers as tools; access and use should be scoped to the job.

Does Make have a free plan?

Yes. The official page lists 1,000 monthly credits and a 15-minute minimum interval for scheduled runs.

How should I estimate cost?

Count the modules that run per event, expected event volume, retries, and any AI actions, then compare that total with the monthly credit allowance.

Bottom line

Our Make verdict

Make suits teams whose operations cross many apps and whose builders want to understand the whole flow visually. Start with a bounded process, test retries and duplicate events, and size credits from actual module executions before moving a critical workflow.

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