prices verified june 2026 · 3 workflows · monthly billing

Make vs Activepieces — which costs less?

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Activepieces

Both start at $0 for light usage — at 1,000 ops/mo it's a dead heat; above that, Activepieces stays free while Make starts charging — though never much ($9 to ~$45/mo). The trade: Activepieces is open-source and self-hostable but free only up to 10 active flows (we price 3); Make has the bigger catalog (1,500+ integrations vs 747+) and the more mature cloud. Pick by catalog coverage first — at these prices, money is the tiebreaker, not the decider.

Price by volume

What you'd pay per month

Cheapest qualifying plan for each tool, including overage, at four typical volumes.

ops / month	Make	Activepieces
1,000	$0Free	$0Cloud Free
5,000	$9Core	$0 ✓Cloud Free
20,000	$18Core +ops	$0 ✓Cloud Free
100,000	~$45Enterprise (estimate)	$0 ✓Cloud Free

~ = estimated custom-tier pricing (vendor quotes individually; calibrated against public list prices). Assumes 3 workflows, monthly billing, cheapest qualifying plan. Prices verified June 2026 — see the price changelog.

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Where they differ

Feature differences that matter

Only the rows where Make and Activepieces actually differ — identical capabilities are left out.

Feature	Make	Activepieces
Integrations	1,500+	747+
Free tier	1,000/mo · Unlimited	Unlimited runs · 10 active flows (cloud)
Overage model	+$9 per 10,000 ops	none — upgrade only
Execution timeout	40 min	No limit*
Log history	30 days	7 days (cloud)
Self-hosting	✗	✓
License	Proprietary (cloud)	MIT

Same on both: steps per workflow · gdpr-friendly · ai features · multi-user · api access · webhooks · code steps.

Trade-offs

Pros & cons

Make

Best price per op in cloud
30-day log history on free
Visual drag-and-drop

No self-hosting
No native code steps

Activepieces

True MIT license — no restrictions
No-code UI like Zapier
Self-hostable

Fewer integrations than Zapier (747+)
Smaller community than n8n
No code steps

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FAQ

Common questions

It depends on volume — the cheaper pick flips: 5,000 ops: Activepieces · 20,000 ops: Activepieces · 100,000 ops: Activepieces. Check the table above for your usage level.

In Make, one operation = one module execution, counted per module across the scenario. Activepieces doesn't meter runs at all — pricing is per active flow, with unlimited executions.

Activepieces yes — self-hosting makes it nearly free at any volume. Make is cloud-only.

Because Make's costs are modest and predictable while its platform is the more mature one — a bigger integration catalog (1,500+ vs 747+), a more polished scenario builder, and a larger template and community pool. Activepieces' $0 also has a ceiling: 10 active flows, then $5 per flow. A growing team can outgrow it — and at $9–~$45/mo, Make was never a budget risk to begin with.

Taken from official pricing pages and verified June 2026. Values marked ~ are estimates for custom enterprise tiers. Every change we record lands in the price changelog.

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Activepieces

10 active flows free with unlimited runs — a real pilot costs nothing.

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Make

1,000 free ops a month, unlimited scenarios — enough to run a real pilot before paying anything.

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