Zapier vs Make: Automation Tool Comparison (2026)

The case for

• The free plan runs 100 tasks a month with no card, enough to test whether an automation is worth paying for at all
• Annual billing drops the 750 task Professional tier from $29.99 a month to $19.99 and halves the overage multiplier to 1.25x
• Team is a flat plan price for up to 25 users sharing one task pool, not billed per seat

The catch

• Every successful action counts as one task, so a four action Zap run 200 times a month consumes 800 tasks rather than 200
• Overage on monthly plans bills at 2.5 times your base task rate, and usage only stops once you hit three times your subscription
• Professional includes a single seat, so adding one colleague forces the Team plan at $69 a month annually for 2,000 tasks against $49
• Billing is in US dollars with no INR option, so Indian buyers absorb bank forex markup on every renewal and add 18 percent GST

The case for

• The free tier gives 1,000 credits per month across two active scenarios, enough to run a real automation before paying anything.
• Paid plans drop the minimum scenario interval from 15 minutes to 1 minute and raise max execution time from 5 to 40 minutes.
• Entry paid pricing starts at $9 per month for 5,000 credits, well under most per-task automation tools at the same volume.

The catch

• Make replaced operations with credits in August 2025, and native AI modules now consume credits by actual usage rather than one per run.
• Every module action counts as a credit, so loops, iterators and aggregators burn budget far faster than the scenario count suggests.
• Extra credits are sold in bundles of 1,000 or 10,000 at a rate defined inside your subscription rather than published on the pricing page.
• Execution log retention is 7 days on free and 30 days on the paid tier, which limits how far back you can debug a failure.