The 60-second summary
Make.com has 5 pricing tiers, all priced per workspace (not per user). The Free plan covers 1,000 operations/month. Most SMBs land on the Core plan at $10.59/month for 10,000 operations. Heavy users move to Pro or Teams at $18.82-$34.12/month for advanced features. Enterprise pricing is custom.
The hardest part of estimating your bill is understanding "operations" — Make's pricing unit. The calculator below makes it simple.
Estimate your monthly Make.com bill
Drag the slider to your expected operations volume.
What is an "operation"?
An operation is one module run. If your scenario has 5 modules and processes 1 record, that's 5 operations consumed.
Some examples:
- A form submission triggers a 3-step scenario (form → Sheet → Slack) → 3 operations
- A scheduler runs every hour for 24 hours, with 4 modules each → 96 operations/day (~2,880/month)
- An iterator processing 100 line items through 2 modules → 200 operations
Operations consume on every successful or failed module run. Filters that block bundles still count as 1 operation. Routers count as 1 operation regardless of how many routes activate.
The 5 plans in detail
Free plan ($0)
- 1,000 operations/month
- 2 active scenarios
- Minimum interval: 15 minutes
- All apps available
- Community support only
Best for: testing the platform, personal automations, small side projects.
Core plan ($10.59/month or $9/month annual)
- 10,000 operations/month
- Unlimited active scenarios
- Minimum interval: 15 minutes
- Webhooks supported
- Email support
Best for: most SMBs, solo founders, freelancers building production automations.
Pro plan ($18.82/month or $16/month annual)
- 10,000 operations/month (more available)
- Minimum interval: 1 minute
- Custom variables
- Full execution log retention
- Priority support
- Make AI features
Best for: production businesses, anyone needing real-time triggers, AI-heavy workflows.
Teams plan ($34.12/month or $29/month annual)
- 10,000+ operations/month
- Team management and roles
- Templates sharing across team
- Audit logs
- Phone support
Best for: agencies, teams of 3+ builders, businesses with multiple departments.
Enterprise plan (custom pricing)
- Custom operations volume
- SSO/SAML
- HIPAA compliance available
- Dedicated account manager
- SLA guarantees
- Advanced governance
Best for: 500+ employee organizations, regulated industries, mission-critical automations.
Annual vs monthly billing
Annual billing saves roughly 16% across all plans. The savings are real, but lock you in for 12 months. Our recommendation: start monthly while you validate your needs, switch to annual after 2-3 months of stable usage.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual (per month) | Annual savings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core | $10.59 | $9.00 | $19/year |
| Pro | $18.82 | $16.00 | $34/year |
| Teams | $34.12 | $29.00 | $61/year |
Hidden costs to watch out for
Extra operations
If you exceed your plan's operations, scenarios stop running until next month. You can buy extra ops at $9 per 10,000 — useful for occasional spikes but expensive if it's a recurring pattern. Better to upgrade plans.
Premium apps
Unlike Power Automate, Make doesn't charge extra for "premium connectors" — all apps are included on all paid plans. This is one of Make's best pricing decisions.
Data Transfer (large files)
If your scenarios move large files (videos, datasets), data transfer is included up to reasonable limits. Heavy file processing on the free or Core plan can occasionally hit soft limits.
AI module costs (third-party)
OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI providers charge their own API fees on top of Make's operations. A scenario calling GPT-4o costs both 1 Make operation and the OpenAI API cost (~$0.0025-$0.015 per call depending on tokens). Budget separately.
How to estimate your operations consumption
The most accurate method: build a test scenario, run it once, and check the operations consumed in the execution log.
The fastest method: count modules and triggers per hour.
Formula: (modules per scenario) × (executions per day) × 30 × (number of scenarios)
Examples:
- A 5-module scenario triggered by webhook, ~50 times/day → 5 × 50 × 30 = 7,500 ops/month
- A 4-module scheduled scenario running every 15 min → 4 × 96 × 30 = 11,520 ops/month
- A 3-module form-handling scenario, 200 submissions/month → 3 × 200 = 600 ops/month
How to reduce your operations consumption
Five tactics that save real money:
- Increase scheduling intervals — A scenario running every 15 min uses 4x more ops than one running hourly. Most "real-time" use cases work fine at 1-hour intervals.
- Use Search modules instead of List + Filter — A Search returns only matching results (1 operation). Listing 100 records and filtering them = 100 operations.
- Combine modules with Tools modules — Set Variable, Compose String, etc. They count as 1 operation but save on downstream processing.
- Use Data Stores for caching — Avoid hitting the same API repeatedly for the same data within a single hour.
- Add filters early — Place filters as close to the trigger as possible to skip unnecessary downstream operations.
Make.com vs Zapier pricing
For the same workflow volume, Make is typically 3-5x cheaper than Zapier. The reason: Zapier counts every action step as a "task" (Make counts these too), but Zapier's plan tiers cap tasks at much lower numbers per dollar.
For a precise comparison at your specific volume, use our Make vs Zapier cost calculator.
Should you upgrade or buy extra ops?
Quick rule of thumb:
- If you're consistently exceeding by less than 30% → buy extra ops occasionally
- If you're regularly exceeding by 30%+ → upgrade to the next tier
- If you're only exceeding 1-2 months a year (seasonal) → buy extra ops
Bottom line
Make.com's pricing is among the cleanest in the no-code automation market: per-workspace, all apps included, transparent operations metering, generous free tier. The only real "gotcha" is understanding operations consumption — which the calculator above solves.
If you're unsure which plan to start on, the answer is almost always Core ($10.59/month). You can upgrade or downgrade any time.