Automate Basics

Make vs Workato

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.

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Make

Free plan · from $9/mo

Workato

Contact sales

What it isVisual no-code tool for building automated workflows and AI agents across appsEnterprise platform for integrations, workflow automation, APIs and AI agents
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 pricingNot publishedWorkato pricing
What it coversFor 10,000 credits/month; price rises with credit volume.Not stated
Free trialNone statedNone stated
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, API
Integrations (vendor's figure)3,000+ apps1,200+ pre-built 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
  • Syncing customer and order data between CRM, ERP and finance systems
  • Automating multi-step processes that span several business applications
  • Giving AI agents governed access to company systems
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
  • No published prices, free plan or self-serve sign-up on the pricing page; pricing is by quote
  • The API platform and data integration start at the Business MCP edition; Agent Studio is in Workato ONE
  • Each edition includes a fixed number of on-premise agents (OPAs) and concurrency
Made byMake (part of Celonis)Workato

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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