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Make vs Zapier
Make scores higher overall (8.4 vs 8.2), but the right pick depends on what you need.
Choose Make if…
Teams who want complex, visual workflows at a much lower price than Zapier
8.4/10★★★★★Full review →Choose Zapier if…
Non-technical teams who want the widest app coverage and the fastest setup
8.2/10★★★★★Full review →Side by side
| Make | Zapier | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall score | 8.4/10 | 8.2/10 |
| Rank in category | #2 of 10 | #3 of 10 |
| Price | Freemium · from $9/month | Freemium · from $19.99/month |
| Free version | 1,000 credits a month, 2 active scenarios, 15-minute minimum interval | 100 tasks a month, two-step Zaps, Agents with 400 activities a month |
| Platforms | Web, API | Web |
| Made by | Celonis | Zapier, Inc. |
| Automation power | 8.5 | 8 |
| Ease of use | 7.5 | 9.5 |
| Features | 8.5 | 8.5 |
| Value for money | 9 | 6 |
| Platforms | 8.5 | 10 |
Make: what the AI does
- Make AI Agents inside visual scenarios
- Maia, a conversational builder and debugger
- 350+ AI apps in its catalogue
- Make MCP Server
- Make Grid to map and monitor all automations
- Cheapest paid entry point among the leaders
- Visual builder handles branching and data transformation well
- 3,000+ app integrations
- Maia and AI Agents included on all plans
- Steeper learning curve than Zapier
- No self-hosting
- Credit counting per operation can be hard to predict
Zapier: what the AI does
- Zapier Agents that work across connected apps
- Copilot builds Zaps and agents from plain English
- AI by Zapier steps inside workflows
- AI chatbots trained on your own docs
- Agent templates for leads, support and sales
- Largest integration catalogue of any tool here (9,000+ apps)
- Easiest builder to learn, with Copilot doing much of the setup
- Agents, chatbots, Tables and Forms in one account
- Usable free plan
- Most expensive per task; costs climb quickly at volume
- Cloud only, with no self-hosting
- Agent capabilities are less flexible than n8n or Make