Automate Basics

Make vs Activepieces

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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Make

Free plan · from $9/mo

Activepieces

Open source · cloud from $20/mo

What it isVisual no-code tool for building automated workflows and AI agents across appsOpen-source no-code builder for automations and AI agents, cloud or self-hosted
Free plan1,000 credits per month; 2 active scenarios; 15-minute minimum interval between scheduled runsCloud Free plan: 100 credits a day that reset daily (runs wait for the next day once used up); 1 user; unlimited flows
Cheapest paid plan$9/mo billed annually (Core)Make pricing$20/mo (Plus)Activepieces pricing
What it coversFor 10,000 credits/month; price rises with credit volume.10,000 credits/month, then $0.007 per credit; up to 5 users; a flow run costs one credit however many steps it has.
Free trialNone statedNone stated
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, Self-hosted, API
Integrations (vendor's figure)3,000+ apps760+ integrations (pieces)
Open sourceNoYes, self-hostable
Good for
  • 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
  • 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
Watch out for
  • 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
  • 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
Made byMake (part of Celonis)Activepieces

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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