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n8n vs Make
Written by Wanna AI. Checked on 17 Oct 2026, refreshed every 30 days. Wanna is our product; it appears only in the section "Where Wanna fits", not in the table. We ran neither tool. Prices change, so open each link first.
Short answer. Both draw a flow between your apps and both now have AI agents. n8n bills one execution for each complete run, whatever the number of steps, and can run on your own server. Make bills credits, and its AI Agent app adds credits on top of each operation unless you bring your own AI connection. Pick n8n if a technical person wants control and a server of their own. Pick Make if you want a hosted canvas and can price a flow by its modules.
How we compared
- Rows are the same for both tools; a figure we could not read is printed as "not found".
- n8n: n8n's home page, its pricing page and its GitHub page, read on 17 Oct 2026.
- Make: its help center, including credit usage for AI agents, Make AI Agents and changing your subscription. Make's own price list and comparison pages blocked our reader, so we print no Make plan price except the one worked example in the help center.
- Both vendors sell what they describe, and we found no outside review we could read, so the minuses are our reading of their pages.
Side by side
| n8n | Make | |
|---|---|---|
| What it does | A canvas for workflows and AI agents. Its home page says "over 500 integrations" and its GitHub page says "1500+"; we report both. Custom API connections cover the rest. | A visual builder for automations plus a Make AI Agent app, where an agent has instructions, knowledge and tools. |
| Free start | Free trial, no card, on Starter and Pro. A self-hosted Community Edition is on GitHub. | A Free plan exists: its help center says Make's built-in AI provider is open to "all plans". The credit amount we did not find. |
| Paid price and limits | Billed annually: Starter €20, 2.5K executions. Pro €50, 10K executions, 3 shared projects. Business €667, 40K executions, self-hosted only. Enterprise: contact sales. | Help-center example: the Core plan costs 113.85 US dollars for 150,000 credits a month. Other plan prices: not found. |
| What a unit of usage is | A complete workflow execution, whatever its steps. Every plan lists unlimited users and workflows. | A credit. Operations are the activities in a scenario; credits are what you pay for them. |
| How AI is counted | Agents, MCP and AI nodes are listed on Starter. Starter lists 1,600 Assistant credits a month and "AI models without API keys". | Running an agent with Make's AI provider costs 1 credit per operation plus credits based on AI tokens. With your own AI connection (paid plans), 1 credit per operation. Knowledge uploads add embedding tokens. |
| Where it runs | n8n's cloud or your own server. | Make's cloud; we found no self-hosted option. |
| Honest minuses | You maintain what you self-host. The license is "fair-code", not plain open source. Starter and Pro list forum support. Business costs €667 against €50 for Pro. | A bill is harder to guess because each tool call, chat turn and knowledge file uses credits in its own way. Its price pages were not readable to us. |
A worked example, not a measurement
An agent run calls two tools. On Make with its built-in AI provider, the credit page counts 1 credit for the run, 1 for each called tool, and AI tokens on top, so at least 3 credits and an amount we cannot compute. With your own AI connection, it is 3. On n8n it is one execution, whatever the steps. These come from the counting rules, not a test.
Criteria that decide it
- Who maintains it? n8n self-hosted means you own uptime, upgrades and backups. Make is hosted.
- How do you want to count AI? n8n counts the run; Make counts operations plus tokens, unless you bring your own connection.
- Do you need your own server? Only n8n lists that option, including a self-hosted-only Business tier.
- How predictable is a month? An n8n flow that runs 2,500 times is one number. Make needs the module count and the AI choice.
Where Wanna fits
Wanna is a third kind of tool. It builds no flows. It reads your site, proposes the week's growth tasks and drafts letters, posts and ads. Posts and ads always wait for your OK; letters go out only after you turn sending on (Trust). Paid tiers read on 17 Oct 2026: Starter $20 a month (1 company, 200 credits), Growth $49 (5,000 credits), Scale $149 (up to 5 companies). Honest minuses: it is early, with 3 companies of people and 0 paying on the live page at 15:28 UTC on 17 Oct 2026, and it does not move data between your tools. See also Wanna vs n8n, workflow automation tools and start free.
What neither replaces
Neither replaces the person who knows what a flow should do; a flow that sends a wrong email sends it faster. Neither replaces a reviewer who checks where your data goes. Read the limits of an autonomous company.
FAQ
Is n8n cheaper than Make? We cannot say. n8n lists €20 for 2.5K executions on annual billing; we could not read Make's plan prices, only a 113.85 US dollars example for 150,000 credits. The units differ, so price one real week of your flows in each.
Is n8n free? It offers a free trial with no card on Starter and Pro, and a self-hosted Community Edition on GitHub, described as fair-code.
Does Make have a free plan? Its help center implies one, since built-in AI is open to all plans. We did not find the credit amount.
How does Make count AI agent runs? With its AI provider, 1 credit per operation plus AI tokens. With your own connection on a paid plan, 1 credit per operation, per its credit page.
Can I self-host Make? We found no self-hosted option on the pages we read. n8n lists one.
Which is easier for a non-developer? We did not test either, and we found no outside source to cite.
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