How much does Make cost in 2026?

Core (10,000 credits/mo): $9 a month on annual billing ($10.59 billed monthly); Pro (10,000 credits/mo): $16 a month on annual billing ($18.82 billed monthly); Teams (10,000 credits/mo): $29 a month on annual billing ($34.12 billed monthly). 1,000 credits a month, 2 active scenarios and runs every 15 minutes at most. Checked October 26, 2026.

Visual no-code automation between apps

Should you build your own Make?

Q: Should you build your own Make?

Buy it. Make runs visual automations between apps. The 10,000-credit Core plan costs $9 a month on yearly billing, about $324 over 3 years. Rebuilding even a few scenarios as code costs about $1,300 once you count upkeep, because every API you call can change or fail without warning. Credits rise with every module that runs, so check your usage first, but at this price there is little to save.

Q: What is a cheaper alternative to Make?

n8n (Free to self-host under a fair-code license; paid hosted plans also available), Activepieces (Free to self-host (MIT); cloud free plan with 1,000 credits/mo; Plus $20/mo flat), Power Automate (Included in Microsoft 365 business plans for standard connectors; Premium $15/user/mo). A visual editor you control, but you run the server and the updates, and the license is source-available rather than open source.

Buy it. At $9 a month for 10,000 credits, Make is the cheap end of automation.

BUY

Short answer

Make runs visual automations between apps. The 10,000-credit Core plan costs $9 a month on yearly billing, about $324 over 3 years. Rebuilding even a few scenarios as code costs about $1,300 once you count upkeep, because every API you call can change or fail without warning. Credits rise with every module that runs, so check your usage first, but at this price there is little to save.

Buy for 3 years: $324
Build and run for 3 years: $1,345
Verdict: BUY

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Cheaper options

Freen8nFree to self-host under a fair-code license; paid hosted plans also availableA visual editor you control, but you run the server and the updates, and the license is source-available rather than open source.Open sourceActivepiecesFree to self-host (MIT); cloud free plan with 1,000 credits/mo; Plus $20/mo flatAn open-source builder with a smaller app library than Make’s, so check your key apps first.Already includedPower AutomateIncluded in Microsoft 365 business plans for standard connectors; Premium $15/user/moBest if your team lives in Microsoft 365, since premium connectors and many non-Microsoft apps need the paid license.

Make pricing in 2026

Plan	Billed yearly	Billed monthly
Core (10,000 credits/mo) Typical	$9/mo	$10.59/mo
Pro (10,000 credits/mo)	$16/mo	$18.82/mo
Teams (10,000 credits/mo)	$29/mo	$34.12/mo

Free plan: 1,000 credits a month, 2 active scenarios and runs every 15 minutes at most

Paying too much? If you run under 1,000 credits a month with two scenarios, the free plan is enough. Core covers most small teams until you need Pro’s priority execution and full-text log search.

Make’s pricing page loads its prices with scripts that our checker could not read, so these USD prices for 10,000 credits, billed annually, come from two reviews from September and October 2026 that agree. Prices rise with credit volume. Checked October 26, 2026 from 2026 reviews.

Run your own numbers

Defaults are a typical small team at $30/hour. Change anything.

If you buy Make

Plan

If you build it

Your time, $ per hour

Hours to build

Upkeep, hours per month

Hosting and services, $ per month

Buy

$324

Build

$1,345

Buying is about $1,021 cheaper over 3 years.

3-year totals. Building includes your time, upkeep, running costs and one month of an AI app builder ($25). Change any number to match your situation.

What you’d build

Webhooks or scheduled jobs (e.g. Supabase Edge Functions + cron) for your busiest scenarios
Retries and a failure log
An email or Slack alert when a job fails

Edge functions and cron jobs fit in free tiers at this volume.

What you’d give up

Thousands of ready-made app modules
A visual scenario editor non-developers can change
Execution history with replay
Login handling for every connected app

Risks the price doesn’t show

Third-party APIsHigh

Every API you call can change or rate-limit you.

Silent failuresHigh

Without monitoring, a broken job fails quietly for weeks.

OwnershipMedium

Non-developers can no longer change the automation.

When the verdict flips

Switch to HYBRID if one or two scenarios use most of your credits: move those into code and keep Make for the rest. Self-host n8n or Activepieces only if someone on your team will run the server and apply updates.

Sources

Make pricing · Make pricing, Sept 2026 (Jet Admin) · Make pricing, Oct 2026 (Latenode)

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