Tool
Make
Free tier: Check pricing (opens in a new tab)
From: Check pricing (opens in a new tab)
Checked October 16, 2026
- Strength. The official pricing FAQ describes a free plan with 1,000 credits per month for visual automations.
- Weakness. The pricing page itself returned HTTP 403, so the paid Core, Pro, and Teams amounts were not confirmed from that page.
Checked October 15, 2026
Visual automation across apps. The pricing FAQ we fetched describes a free plan with 1,000 credits a month.
Make is a visual automation product. A direct HTML crawl of pricing sometimes returned 403; a fetch of the official pricing FAQ did describe a Free plan with 1,000 credits per month. Paid Core, Pro, and Teams plans sit above that. We did not create an account.
Best for
- Visual multi-step automations
- Teams that want a hosted builder rather than a library
Not ideal for
- Code-first agent frameworks
- Self-hosting the automation engine
What we checked
Docs checked means we opened the official site and the pricing and docs URLs on this page. We did not run a successful local install, so this is not a smoke test.
No local install attempted (SaaS/desktop/extension or install not feasible without account).
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