The three tools charge for different things, so compare them on your own workflow, not on the headline price. Make counts credits (one per module action) and starts at $9 a month for 10,000 credits billed yearly. Zapier counts tasks (every step in a Zap) and starts at $19.99 a month billed yearly. n8n counts whole workflow executions, however many steps, and starts at EUR 20 a month billed yearly for 2,500 executions. If your automations are short, Make or Zapier will do; if they are long, n8n’s meter favours you.
Entry prices from each pricing page
| Attribute | Zapier | Make | n8n |
|---|---|---|---|
| What is counted | Tasks: every step and connector call | Credits: one per module action | Executions: a whole run, any number of steps |
| Free | $0, 100 tasks a month | $0, 1,000 credits a month | EUR 0, 50 executions a month |
| Cheapest paid, billed yearly | from $19.99 a month | $9 a month (10,000 credits) | EUR 20 a month (2,500 executions) |
| Cheapest paid, billed monthly | from $29.99 | $10.59 | EUR 24 |
| Mid tier, billed yearly | Team from $69 | Pro $16 (10,000 credits) | Pro EUR 50 (10,000 executions) |
| Self-hosting | Not listed | Not listed | Community Edition on GitHub; Business and Enterprise can be self-hosted |
Zapier and Make prices are in USD; n8n’s page showed euros and no dollar edition. Each tool’s price rises with the volume slider, so these are starting points, not a quote for your volume.
Which type of user each suits
- Zapier suits people who want multi-step Zaps, webhooks and team features from one hosted plan; multi-step Zaps start at Professional. See the Zapier review.
- Make suits people who want a visual canvas at a low entry price and will watch credit use; unlimited active scenarios start at Core. See the Make review.
- n8n suits developers and technical teams: the page lists JavaScript and Python code steps, an API, webhooks and a self-hostable edition. See the n8n review.
Head-to-head and alternatives
For the two hosted tools side by side, see Make vs Zapier. If the job is an AI agent rather than a fixed sequence, look at Lindy.
What this page cannot tell you
Reliability, learning curve, app-library depth and the effort of maintaining a self-hosted n8n are not on pricing pages, and we have not assessed them. We quote no integration counts: Zapier’s page names 9,000+ apps for its SDK, Make lists 3,000+ standard apps, and n8n’s page gives no count, and the three figures do not measure the same thing.
Method
Researched from Make’s, Zapier’s and n8n’s pricing pages, read 29 Sep 2026 in a browser with the monthly and yearly toggles set both ways. Nothing here comes from using the products.