Automate Basics

Make vs Microsoft Power Automate

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 23 September 2026.

Compared on
Make

Free plan · from $9/mo

Microsoft Power Automate

Free trial · from $15/user/mo

What it isVisual no-code tool for building automated workflows and AI agents across appsMicrosoft tool for cloud workflows, desktop RPA and process mining
Free plan1,000 credits per month; 2 active scenarios; 15-minute minimum interval between scheduled runsNo
Cheapest paid plan$9/mo billed annually (Core)Make pricing$15/user/mo billed annually (Power Automate Premium)Microsoft Power Automate pricing
What it coversFor 10,000 credits/month; price rises with credit volume.Paid yearly; includes cloud flows, attended desktop flows and process/task mining (50 MB).
Free trialNone stated30-day free trial covering UI-based cloud flows and standard connectors
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, Windows
Integrations (vendor's figure)3,000+ apps1,400+ connectors
Open sourceNoNo
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
  • Routing approval requests and documents in SharePoint and Teams
  • Copying data from invoices or legacy desktop apps into Excel or an ERP system
  • Automating repetitive data entry on a Windows PC
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
  • The free trial covers only UI-based cloud flows and standard connectors
  • Unattended desktop automation needs the per-bot Process or Hosted Process plan
  • Power Automate for desktop runs only on Windows (not on ARM processors); Windows Home editions cannot trigger desktop flows from the cloud
Made byMake (part of Celonis)Microsoft Corporation

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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