What will Zapier, n8n and Make actually cost you?

3 plain steps x 1 task each

= 3 tasks

1 AI step x 3 tasks each (Advanced tier, Zapier's default)

= 3 tasks

one run of one workflow

= 6 tasks

6 tasks x 1,000 runs a month

= 6,000 tasks

This is past the 750 tasks on Professional, which is the highest tier where Zapier publishes both a price and a task allowance we could verify. The Team tier is $69/mo but its allowance is not published, and above that Zapier says the cost per task falls without saying to what. We will not guess a number here. Zapier keeps running and bills you per task as you go.

• A Zapier task is one successful action step, so steps multiply. A workflow with twice the steps costs twice as much to run once.
• Triggers, Filters and Paths do not count as tasks, so they are not in the step count above.
• Connect your own AI account and those AI steps drop from 3x to 1x: 4,000 tasks a month instead of 6,000 tasks. Cheaper, and still counted. Bringing your own key removes the markup, not the meter.
• Zapier pauses any step that reaches 75 tasks in a single run and asks you to approve it. That circuit breaker exists because AI steps run away with allowances.
• If you drive Zapier from an AI assistant instead, every successful MCP tool call costs 2 tasks out of this same allowance. That is not in the total above, because it depends on what you ask.

4 steps in the workflow

= does not change the count

5 workflows x 200 runs each

= 1,000 executions

• One execution is one whole workflow run, however many steps it has. This is the single biggest difference in the table, and it is why step count has to be an input.
• n8n does not count sub-workflow runs, manual runs from the editor, error-workflow runs, or polls that returned no data. Of the three metered vendors here, n8n counts the most generously.
• Prices are the annual-billing figures and are in euros, as n8n publishes them. We do not convert to dollars, because we have no sourced exchange rate and inventing one is the exact mistake this page exists to fix.
• n8n's AI Assistant has its own separate credit allowance per cloud plan. It is a builder helper, not a workflow step, so it is not modelled here.

n8n Community Edition is free, self-hosted, and unlimited, and on self-hosted you bring your own API key with no credit limits at all. If you are willing to run a server, n8n costs less than we do and gives you the same no-meter deal. That is not a trick, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What you buy from us instead is that there is no server, no upgrades, no Docker, and no pager at 3am.

4 module actions x 1 credit each

= 4 credits

4 credits x 1,000 runs a month

= 4,000 credits, at minimum

• A Make credit is one module action, so steps multiply here the same way Zapier tasks do.
• Make replaced operations with credits on 2025-08-27. The plan prices did not move. The unit did, so that different actions could cost different numbers of credits.
• This figure is a floor, not a forecast. Make prices AI actions at a fixed rate or varying by model and token usage and does not publish the multiple, and their own announcement says credit usage may increase if you use Make's AI Provider. Your real number is higher than the one above. We do not know by how much, and will not pretend to.
• Make gates building with your own connection to the Pro plan or higher, so bringing your own AI key on Make starts at $21/mo, not $12.
• Make's pricing page has a monthly and annual toggle whose state we could not verify, so treat these as list prices at the 10,000 credit tier.

4,000 steps executed this month

= not counted

1,000 runs this month

= not counted

the bill

= $39 a month

• There is no unit here, so there is no multiplication to do. Steps do not matter. Runs do not matter. Runs are unlimited on every plan, including free.
• You bring your own AI key and pay the model provider directly with zero markup. That is what makes a flat price survivable, and it is the honest asterisk on this row: our $39 does not include what your AI provider charges you. Zapier's tasks and Make's credits do include model cost, which is exactly what their AI multipliers are for. Compare accordingly.
• Free is capped on how much runs at once, 3 Pilots and 1 System, never on how often. Keep more than 3 workflows running at the same time and that is Pro.
• Founding is $249 once for Pro for life, capped at 300 seats.
• 5 workflows is past the 3 the free beta keeps running at once, so this row prices Pro.

This is our product, so read this row with that in mind. We are pre-launch and small, we have no customer counts and no testimonials to show you, and Gumloop Pro is $37/mo, two dollars cheaper than us. The one thing we do that nobody else in this table does is stop counting.