Head-to-Head Pricing Audit
Zapier vs Make (Integromat)
Which tool offers lower real-world costs and fewer overage traps? Here is the unvarnished 2026 breakdown.
Zapier
Very High RiskThe market leader in no-code app integrations with 7,000+ supported apps
Starting Price $0 Free (100 tasks/mo) | $29.99/mo Starter (750 tasks/mo) Tiered task count (billed annually or 33% monthly premium)
Free Tier Allowance 100 tasks/month, 5 single-step Zaps only
⚠️ Top Trap Risk "Every single step in a multi-step Zap consumes 1 task (a 5-step automation with 200 runs consumes 1,000 tasks and triggers high overage fees)"
Make (Integromat)
Low RiskVisual automation platform with drag-and-drop data manipulation at 1/5th Zapier's price
Starting Price $0 Free (1,000 ops/mo) | $9/mo Core (10,000 ops/mo) Operations volume (1 operation = 1 module execution)
Free Tier Allowance 1,000 operations/month, 2 active scenarios
⚠️ Top Trap Risk "Data iteration loops (e.g. processing 100 rows in a sheet) execute 100 individual operations in seconds"
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