Make
Make is the visual automation tool for people who outgrow Zapier's straight lines and want routers, iterators and error handling on a canvas without running their own n8n. The credit model is the thing to understand before committing: most steps cost one credit, AI steps cost more and purchased top-ups expire, so a chatty scenario can burn a month's allowance in days. The MCP server and agents make it a reasonable home for assistant-driven automations, but they draw from the same credit pool.
Pros
- Branching, iteration and error handling on a visual canvas, with routers and error handlers free of credits
- 3,000+ native apps plus custom integrations for any API
- AI agents with goals, tools, limits and visible reasoning, plus an MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini
- Free plan with 1,000 credits a month and SOC 2 Type II, SSO and audit logs on paid tiers
Cons
- Plan prices are not readable without a browser session; the pricing page shows credits, not dollars, to fetchers
- Credits expire at the end of the term and purchased extras expire sooner
- AI-provider steps consume more than one credit, making agent-heavy scenarios hard to budget
- No self-hosted option