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What will your automation cost?

Every platform counts a "run" differently. Describe your workflow and see what each one charges for it.

Cheapest: Make at $10.59 a month. The most expensive, Zapier, costs $133.50.

1. Make$10.59/mo4,000 credits: Core plan, 10,000-credit tier
2. Pabbly Connect$19/mo3,000 tasks: Standard plan, 10,000-task tier
3. Activepieces$20/mo1,000 runs: Plus plan, 10,000-run tier
4. n8n Cloud$24/mo1,000 executions: Starter plan, 2,500-execution tier
5. Integrately$49/mo3,000 tasks: Professional plan, 10,000-task tier
6. Zapier$133.50/mo3,000 tasks: Professional plan, 5,000-task tier

Prices are each platform's cheapest published plan that covers the volume, per month. Action steps are steps that do something in another app; built-in filters and formatters are free on Zapier and Pabbly.

Why the totals differ so much

• Zapier and Pabbly Connect charge for every action step. A 5-step workflow costs five times a 1-step one.
• Make charges for every module, the trigger included, and a polling trigger uses a credit on every check even when nothing happened.
• n8n and Activepieces charge once per run, however many steps it has.
• Integrately also counts conditions, searches and data edits, so real use is often higher than shown here.

The exact rules, in each platform's own words, are on what counts as a task. For worked examples, see Zapier vs Make vs n8n.

Prices checked against each platform's official pricing page on 5 October 2026.