n8n 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.
Change tools
Build workflows in managed Cloud or on your own infrastructure.
Connect app modules in visual automation scenarios.
- Free access
- n8n: Free access
- Make: Free access
- Paid from
- n8n: EUR 20 per month
- Make: No fixed price listed
- Plans listed
- n8n: 6
- Make: 3
- Public API
- n8n: Yes
- Make: Yes
Where n8n and Make differ
- Plansn8n lists 6 plans and Make lists 3.
Head to head
Each value from the tool’s profile and the vendor’s own pages
| n8n | Fact | Make |
|---|---|---|
| Access and price | ||
| Free access availableCommunity · Free software | Free accessSame | Free access availableFree · USD 0 |
| EUR 20 per monthStarter Cloud · billed annually | Lowest listed paid plan | No fixed price listed |
| Free self-hosted Community; paid Cloud | Pricing model | Free + paid; quote varies |
| 6 | Plans listedDiffers | 3 |
| Yes | Public APISame | Yes |
| Not required | Card to startSame | Not required |
| No | Open sourceSame | No |
| What it is for | ||
| Self-hostable workflow and AI-agent automation | Built for | Visual automation for app workflows |
| Automation | CategorySame | Automation |
| Platforms |
|
| Not listed | Works with | Not listed |
| How current | ||
| Profile sources checked | ||
| Pricing review due · Sep 24, 2026 | Pricing checkSame | 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
n8n
Pricing review due · Sep 24, 2026- CommunityFree software
- Cloud trial14-day trial
- Starter CloudEUR 20 per monthbilled annually
- Pro CloudEUR 50 per monthbilled annually
- Business self-hostedEUR 667 per monthbilled annually
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- EnterpriseContact provider
Make
Pricing review due · Sep 25, 2026- FreeUSD 0
- Paid automationConfirm current quote
- EnterpriseCustom pricing
Strengths and limits
n8n
Strengths
- Same product on Cloud or your servers: Managed n8n Cloud and a deployment on your own infrastructure run the same underlying product.
- Ongoing Community option: Self-hosted Community can be used without a software subscription; the cost is the hosting and the time to run it.
- No seat pricing: Every plan, Starter included, allows unlimited users, workflows and integrations, so adding colleagues does not change the price.
Limits to plan around
- Self-hosting is your job: You provide the servers, updates and restores yourself; if nobody on the team can restore the installation or trace failed runs, Cloud is the safer start.
- Cloud trial is temporary: If you don't upgrade, the 1,000-execution trial expires after 14 days and its workspace is removed; workflows can still be downloaded for 90 days after the trial ends.
- Governance costs extra: SSO, environments, shared projects and Git version control need a paid plan or edition, even on your own server.
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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