Fathom vs Make
Plans, free access, limits and intended use side by side, taken from each vendor’s own pages. No score and no winner: the facts show where the two differ.
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- Free access
- Fathom: Free access
- Make: Free access
- Paid from
- Fathom: USD 19/user monthly; $15/user per month on annual billing
- Make: No fixed price listed
- Plans listed
- Fathom: 5
- Make: 3
- Public API
- Fathom: Not confirmed
- Make: Yes
Where Fathom and Make differ
- Pricing checkPrices confirmed for Fathom; pricing review due for Make.
- PlansFathom lists 5 plans and Make lists 3.
Head to head
Each value from the tool’s profile and the vendor’s own pages
| Fathom | Fact | Make |
|---|---|---|
| Access and price | ||
| Free access availableFree · USD 0 | Free accessSame | Free access availableFree · USD 0 |
| USD 19/user monthly; $15/user per month on annual billingTeam | Lowest listed paid plan | No fixed price listed |
| Free plan; Premium $20/user/month on monthly billing | Pricing model | Free + paid; quote varies |
| 5 | Plans listedDiffers | 3 |
| Not confirmed | Public API | Yes |
| Not confirmed | Card to start | Not required |
| Not confirmed | Open source | No |
| What it is for | ||
| Meeting owners who verify commitments | Built for | Visual automation for app workflows |
| Automation | CategorySame | Automation |
| Platforms |
|
| Not listed | Works with | Not listed |
| How current | ||
| Profile sources checked | ||
| Prices confirmed · Oct 5, 2026 | Pricing checkDiffers | Pricing review due · Sep 25, 2026 |
Official source check for both tools. No hands-on testing and no score: “Differs” marks a documented difference, not a better tool.
Plans and prices
Fathom
Prices confirmed · Oct 5, 2026- FreeUSD 0
- PremiumUSD 20/user monthly; $16/user per month on annual billing
- TeamUSD 19/user monthly; $15/user per month on annual billing
- BusinessUSD 34/user monthly; $25/user per month on annual billing
- EnterpriseCustom quote
Make
Pricing review due · Sep 25, 2026- FreeUSD 0
- Paid automationConfirm current quote
- EnterpriseCustom pricing
Strengths and limits
Fathom
Strengths
- Return to the evidence: A recorded passage can help resolve an ambiguous summary.
- Start with an individual workflow: A team purchase is unnecessary just to evaluate basic capture.
- No storage ceiling on Free: Recordings, storage and transcription are unlimited, so archive size alone is no reason to upgrade.
Limits to plan around
- Recording is not agreement: An assigned action still needs the named participant to confirm it.
- Capture-mode restrictions: The advertised bot-free option is a Mac beta, not a promise across platforms.
- Summary depth drops on Free: After the monthly advanced-summary allowance, later calls fall back to the General/Enhanced template.
Make
Strengths
- Visual scenario builder: Routers, filters and fallback routes are drawn as a diagram, so the path each record takes is visible before anything runs.
- Free plan with no time limit: Free does not expire, so a small scenario can keep running without a subscription as long as it stays within the Free limits.
- Countable billing unit: An ordinary non-AI module run normally uses one credit, so cost can be estimated by counting modules and bundles.
Limits to plan around
- Free scheduling floor: On Free, scheduled scenarios run at most every 15 minutes and only two scenarios can be active at once.
- Empty checks still count: A scheduled trigger uses an operation each time it looks for data, even when it finds nothing; budget for checks as well as records.
- Separate AI-provider charges: With an eligible custom AI-provider connection, the provider bills its tokens on top of the operation credits Make charges.
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