Zapier vs Make vs n8n (2026)

Lowest listed monthly plans: Zapier Professional: $19.99/mo (starting price, billed annually; price rises with the monthly task tier you pick; multi-step Zaps, premium apps, webhooks, 1 user); Make Core: $12/mo (billed annually ($16/mo billed monthly) at 10,000 credits/mo; unlimited active scenarios, scheduling down to the minute, Make API); n8n lists its paid plans in euros, from Starter: €20/mo (billed annually). Of the plans listed in US dollars per month, Make lists the lowest; the others aren't like-for-like. All three have a free plan. Plans differ in what they include (tasks, operations, executions or Applets) and some are billed yearly, so compare the plan details. Checked October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026.

Zapier: yes. Its Free plan is $0 (100 tasks/mo; two-step Zaps; unlimited Zaps, Tables and Forms), checked October 24, 2026. Make: yes. Its Free plan is $0 (1,000 credits/mo; no-code visual builder, 3,500+ apps, routers and filters; 15-minute minimum interval between runs), checked October 24, 2026. n8n: yes. Its Community Edition plan is $0 (self-hosted, open source on GitHub; you run the server), checked October 23, 2026.

Zapier lists Free: $0 (100 tasks/mo; two-step Zaps; unlimited Zaps, Tables and Forms); Professional: $19.99/mo (starting price, billed annually; price rises with the monthly task tier you pick; multi-step Zaps, premium apps, webhooks, 1 user); Team: $69/mo (starting price, billed annually; 25 users, shared Zaps and app connections, SAML SSO); Enterprise: Custom pricing (unlimited users, advanced admin controls, annual task limits). Its lowest listed monthly plan is Professional: $19.99/mo (starting price, billed annually; price rises with the monthly task tier you pick; multi-step Zaps, premium apps, webhooks, 1 user). Zapier's pricing page defaults to yearly billing (it says paying yearly saves 33%), so paid prices here are the annual-billing starting rates. Paid plans are priced by how many tasks you run per month. Zapier Agents and Chatbots have their own add-on plans (e.g. Agents Pro $400 billed annually, Chatbots Pro $160 billed annually). Checked October 24, 2026 on the vendor's pricing page.

Make lists Free: $0 (1,000 credits/mo; no-code visual builder, 3,500+ apps, routers and filters; 15-minute minimum interval between runs); Core: $12/mo (billed annually ($16/mo billed monthly) at 10,000 credits/mo; unlimited active scenarios, scheduling down to the minute, Make API); Pro: $21/mo (billed annually ($28/mo billed monthly) at 10,000 credits/mo; priority execution, custom variables, full-text execution log search); Teams: $38/mo (billed annually ($51/mo billed monthly) at 10,000 credits/mo; teams and team roles, shared scenario templates); Enterprise: Custom pricing (custom functions, enterprise app integrations, 24/7 support, overage protection, advanced security). Its lowest listed monthly plan is Core: $12/mo (billed annually ($16/mo billed monthly) at 10,000 credits/mo; unlimited active scenarios, scheduling down to the minute, Make API). Make bills in credits (since August 27, per its pricing FAQ). Paid prices shown are for 10,000 credits/mo, the page's default; price rises with the credit tier you pick. The page defaults to annual billing (saves 25%); monthly-billing prices are in the tier notes. Extra credits can be bought in bundles of 1,000 or 10,000. Checked October 24, 2026 on the vendor's pricing page.

n8n lists Community Edition: $0 (self-hosted, open source on GitHub; you run the server); Starter: €20/mo (billed annually; hosted by n8n; 2.5K workflow executions/mo, 5 concurrent, 1,600 Assistant credits/mo); Pro: €50/mo (billed annually; hosted by n8n; 10K workflow executions/mo, up to 50 concurrent, admin roles, workflow history); Business: €667/mo (billed annually; self-hosted only; 40K workflow executions/mo, SSO/LDAP, Git version control, environments); Enterprise: Custom pricing (hosted or self-hosted; 200+ concurrent executions, log streaming, SLA support). It doesn't list a monthly price for every plan, so check the plan details. Prices are shown in euros on n8n.io/pricing and are the annual-billing rates (the page says annual saves 17%). All plans include unlimited users and workflows; you pay per workflow execution, however many steps it has. The n8n Cloud free trial needs no credit card. Checked October 23, 2026 on the vendor's pricing page.

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