Automate Basics

Activepieces vs Make

Pick up to 4 tools and see their free plans, entry prices, platforms and limits in one table. Every fact comes from each vendor's own pages, checked 25 September 2026.

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Activepieces

Open source · cloud from $20/mo

Make

Free plan · from $9/mo

What it isOpen-source no-code builder for automations and AI agents, cloud or self-hostedVisual no-code tool for building automated workflows and AI agents across apps
Free planCloud Free plan: 100 credits a day that reset daily (runs wait for the next day once used up); 1 user; unlimited flows1,000 credits per month; 2 active scenarios; 15-minute minimum interval between scheduled runs
Cheapest paid plan$20/mo (Plus)Activepieces pricing$9/mo billed annually (Core)Make pricing
What it covers10,000 credits/month, then $0.007 per credit; up to 5 users; a flow run costs one credit however many steps it has.For 10,000 credits/month; price rises with credit volume.
Free trialNone statedNone stated
PlatformsWeb, Self-hosted, APIWeb, API
Integrations (vendor's figure)760+ integrations (pieces)3,000+ apps
Open sourceYes, self-hostableNo
Good for
  • Automating lead routing and notifications between common business apps
  • Running automations on a company's own server for data control
  • Letting AI assistants trigger prepared workflows through MCP
  • Syncing new e-commerce orders into accounting tools and spreadsheets
  • Routing incoming leads to different teams based on form answers
  • Scheduling recurring reports that pull data from several apps
Watch out for
  • Free cloud plan is capped at 100 credits a day and one user
  • Usage beyond the monthly allowance on Plus and Team costs $0.007 per credit
  • The self-hosted Community Edition lacks Agents and Chat, access controls and audit history, which require a paid plan
  • Free plan: 1,000 credits a month, 2 active scenarios and a 15-minute minimum interval between runs
  • Each module action uses a credit, so multi-step scenarios use credits faster
  • Team roles and shared scenario templates require the Teams plan or higher
Made byActivepiecesMake (part of Celonis)

Entry prices are the cheapest paid plan, as each vendor publishes it; “What it covers” says what that price is per (a user, a channel, a brand, a number of contacts). The sources are listed on each tool's page.

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