Make vs Power Automate
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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Connect app modules in visual automation scenarios.
Microsoft's cloud and desktop flow automation, licensed per user or per process and metered in daily platform requests
- Free access
- Make: Free access
- Power Automate: Free access
- Paid from
- Make: No fixed price listed
- Power Automate: USD 15/user per month
- Plans listed
- Make: 3
- Power Automate: 7
- Public API
- Make: Yes
- Power Automate: Not confirmed
Where Make and Power Automate differ
- Pricing checkPricing review due for Make; some prices or terms not confirmed for Power Automate.
- PlansMake lists 3 plans and Power Automate lists 7.
Head to head
Each value from the tool’s profile and the vendor’s own pages
| Make | Fact | Power Automate |
|---|---|---|
| Access and price | ||
| Free access availableFree · USD 0 | Free accessSame | Free access availablePower Automate Free · USD 0 |
| No fixed price listed | Lowest listed paid plan | USD 15/user per monthPower Automate Premium · paid yearly |
| Free + paid; quote varies | Pricing model | Free with standard connectors (work or school accounts); Premium $15/user/month, Process $150/bot/month, Hosted Process $215/bot/month, paid yearly |
| 3 | Plans listedDiffers | 7 |
| Yes | Public API | Not confirmed |
| Not required | Card to start | Not confirmed |
| No | Open source | Not confirmed |
| What it is for | ||
| Visual automation for app workflows | Built for | Organisations on Microsoft 365 that want to automate Teams, SharePoint, Outlook and Excel work, with RPA for desktop apps |
| Automation | CategorySame | Automation |
| Platforms |
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| Not listed | Works with |
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| How current | ||
| Profile sources checked | ||
| Pricing review due · Sep 25, 2026 | Pricing checkDiffers | Some prices or terms not confirmed · Oct 24, 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
Make
Pricing review due · Sep 25, 2026- FreeUSD 0
- Paid automationConfirm current quote
- EnterpriseCustom pricing
Power Automate
Some prices or terms not confirmed · Oct 24, 2026- Power Automate FreeUSD 0
- Microsoft 365 / Office 365 (included)Included in eligible plans
- Free trialFree trial
- Power Automate PremiumUSD 15/user per monthpaid yearly
- Power Automate ProcessUSD 150/bot per monthpaid yearly
Show 2 more plans
- Power Automate Hosted ProcessUSD 215/bot per monthpaid yearly
- Process Mining add-onUSD 5,000/tenant per monthpaid yearly
Strengths and limits
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.
Power Automate
Strengths
- Included with Microsoft 365: Office 365 business and enterprise plans already include cloud flows with standard connectors, so many teams can start without a new purchase.
- Desktop and cloud in one product: The same licence family covers app-to-app flows and RPA on Windows desktops, including Microsoft-hosted machines.
- Volume is rarely the limit: A Premium user gets 40,000 requests a day and a Process licence 250,000, which ordinary office flows stay far below.
Limits to plan around
- Premium connectors cost extra: Salesforce and HubSpot are not on the standard connector list, so flows that touch them need Premium or a Process licence.
- AI credits are changing: Premium's 5,000 seeded AI Builder credits end on 1 November 2026, and new customers must buy Copilot Credits for AI steps.
- Licensing is layered: Which limit applies depends on flow type, owner, app context and any Process licence, and limits from different licences do not add up.
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