Your usage
Your workflow: 1,000 runs per month, 3 steps after the trigger.
Zapier
Professional, 5,000 tasks per month
$89 per month, billed yearly
$1,068 per year. Billed monthly instead: $133.50 per month.
Your estimate: 3,000 of 5,000 tasks included. Users: 1 of 1 allowed.
Make
4,000 credits per month
No price here: Make shows a different price list depending on your country. Open its pricing page and move the slider to this number of credits.
n8n
Starter, 2,500 executions per month
€20 per month, billed yearly
€240 per year. Billed monthly instead: €24 per month.
Your estimate: 1,000 of 2,500 executions included. Users and workflows are unlimited.
Open the Zapier calculator with these numbers · Open the n8n calculator with these numbers
Prices read on 2 November 2026 from zapier.com/pricing and n8n.io/pricing, list prices without tax. Zapier is in US dollars and n8n in euros, as each publishes them: nothing is converted.
One workflow, three billing units
Zapier
- Billing unit
- Task
- What counts
- Each successful action step. Triggers, checks for new data, failed actions and built-in steps such as Filter, Formatter and Paths do not count.
- 1,000 runs of a trigger and 3 steps
- 3,000 tasks
Make
- Billing unit
- Credit
- What counts
- One credit per module run for most apps (an operation is a module run). A trigger counts once per check, every other module once per item it processes.
- 1,000 runs of a trigger and 3 steps
- 4,000 credits
n8n
- Billing unit
- Execution
- What counts
- One run of the whole workflow, whatever its number of steps or the data it processes.
- 1,000 runs of a trigger and 3 steps
- 1,000 executions
The conversion assumes one item per run, every step succeeds and no AI step. Real counts move. Zapier never bills a check for new data, while Make bills one credit per check. In Make each item a module processes is its own operation (Make’s help gives an example of 31 operations for one run that sends ten form responses through three modules), while in n8n the same run is still one execution. Definitions read on 2 November 2026: Zapier pricing FAQ, n8n pricing page, Make help pages Credits and Operations.
Four workflows, priced
Same prices, four workflows. Zapier and n8n show the cheapest listed plan for one user, per month billed yearly, with the monthly-billing price after it. Make is shown in credits only.
| Workflow | Zapier | Make | n8n |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead alerts 300 runs, 2 steps | 600 tasks Professional $19.99 ($29.99) | 900 credits | 300 executions Starter €20 (€24) |
| Order sync 2,000 runs, 4 steps | 8,000 tasks Professional $129 ($193.50) | 10,000 credits | 2,000 executions Starter €20 (€24) |
| Support triage 10,000 runs, 6 steps | 60,000 tasks Professional $489 ($733.50) | 70,000 credits | 10,000 executions Pro €50 (€60) |
| Data pipeline 50,000 runs, 10 steps | 500,000 tasks Professional $1,499 ($2,199) | 550,000 credits | 50,000 executions Pro €120.83 (€145) |
Why Make has no price here
Make’s pricing page does not publish one price list. The HTML of the page shows only the first tier. The full list is loaded when the page opens, from Make’s pricing service, by country code. On 2 November 2026 we asked that service about several country codes and it returned different lists, so a figure printed here would be wrong for many visitors. The Make help pages we read (Credits, Operations, Subscription and Extra credits) explain how credits work but do not list tier prices.
To price Make, open its pricing page from your own country, move the credits slider to the number shown in the result above and read the Core, Pro or Teams price. The credit count is the part this page can give you reliably.
How to use the result
- Check limits that are not volume. The Zapier Free plan allows two-step Zaps only, and n8n Starter has 5 concurrent executions and one shared project. Each vendor lists them on its page.
- Add what the plans leave out. AI model usage, add-ons, overage and, if you self-host n8n, your server.
- Price your busiest month, not your average one.
Frequently asked questions
Is Zapier, Make or n8n cheaper?
It depends on the steps per run. n8n counts one execution per run whatever the steps, so the gap grows as workflows get longer. Zapier and Make count steps. The worked examples show how far apart the plans can land. Make’s price depends on your country.
Why can’t I compare a Zapier task and an n8n execution directly?
A task is one successful action step and an execution is one whole run. A workflow with a trigger and four actions that runs once uses four Zapier tasks, five Make credits and one n8n execution.
Does Make have one price list?
Not on 2 November 2026. Make’s pricing page asks its pricing service for a list by country code, and the service returned different lists for different countries. Open make.com/pricing from your own country to see yours.
Are the prices in the same currency?
No. Zapier prices are in US dollars and n8n prices in euros, as each vendor publishes them. The calculator does not convert between them.
How are these prices checked?
A weekly script reads Zapier’s and n8n’s pricing pages, compares them with the figures here and flags any difference for review. The date shown on each page is the date the figures were last read.
Primary sources and evidence
- Zapier: plans and pricing, with its pricing FAQ 2026-11-02
- n8n: plans and pricing, with its pricing FAQ 2026-11-02
- Make: pricing page 2026-11-02
- Make help: Credits 2026-11-02
- Make help: Operations 2026-11-02
- Prices as read, JSON 2026-11-02