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.
Written head to head: Zapier vs Make, with when to choose each side.
For 10,000 credits/month; price rises with credit volume.
For 750 tasks/month; price rises with the task tier.
Free trial
None stated
None stated
14-day free trial of the Professional plan for new accounts, no credit card required
Platforms
Web, API
Web, API
Web
Integrations (vendor's figure)
3,000+ integrated apps
3,000+ apps
9,000+ apps
Open source
No
No
No
Good for
Receiving webhooks from one service and reshaping the data before sending it to another
Running scheduled scripts that call APIs without managing servers
Adding third-party app connections to a software product or AI agent
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
Sending new web-form leads into a CRM and a Slack channel
Copying email attachments to cloud storage automatically
Adding new orders or calendar events to a shared spreadsheet
Watch out for
Free plan: 100 credits a month, 3 active workflows and 3 connected accounts
Basic is limited to 10 active workflows and 5 connected accounts
Premium apps and GitHub Sync need Advanced or higher
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 plan allows only two-step Zaps and 100 tasks a month
Every Zap step, AI step, code run and connector call draws from one shared monthly task allowance
Multi-step Zaps, premium apps and webhooks require a paid plan
Made by
Pipedream, LLC (acquired by Workday, Inc.)
Make (part of Celonis)
Zapier, Inc.
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.
