Make alternatives

12 tools that do a similar job, and what makes each one different.

What Make is

Make is a visual automation platform for connecting apps, data sources and AI models into scenarios, its name for a workflow drawn on a canvas. Alongside scenarios, Make AI Agents can act and orchestrate workflows across the connected app catalogue. A scenario is assembled from modules and control blocks: routers for branching, iterators for stepping through lists, error handlers for when a call fails, and notes for documenting the canvas in place. HTTP and webhook modules let a scenario call any API and be triggered by an external system, so a missing connector is not a dead end. Make Code runs custom JavaScript or Python inside a scenario, AI Mapping transforms and maps data between apps, and custom apps can be built to reach proprietary in house systems. A templates library provides prebuilt scenarios to start from, and an analytics dashboard tracks scenario performance and provides observability. More than 3,000 verified prebuilt integrations are available, grouped into categories including AI and automation, commerce, communication, CRM and sales, marketing, HR and operations, and finance and accounting. More than 300 of those are generative AI apps. Maia builds automations and agents from a natural language conversation, and the Make MCP Server exposes existing scenarios as callable actions to AI clients, which turns work already built into tools an AI client can invoke. Make Grid gives a single view across an organisation's whole automation estate. Billing runs on credits, and each module action, adding a row to a Google Sheet for instance, counts as one credit. The Free plan costs 0 USD a month and includes up to 1,000 credits, but holds a team to 2 active scenarios, a minimum interval of 15 minutes between runs, 5 minutes of execution per run and 5 MB file transfers. The Make plan starts at 9 USD a month for 5,000 credits and lifts all four: unlimited active scenarios, a 1 minute minimum interval, 40 minutes of execution per run and 500 MB file transfers. The Company tier is custom priced and raises the file transfer cap to 1,000 MB. Annual billing saves 15 percent or more against monthly. Credits are the number to watch, because scenarios stop running once a team's credits are exhausted and stay stopped until more are added. Account owners are notified at 75 percent and 90 percent of consumption, and credits can be topped up automatically. Make holds SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 attestations, supports GDPR obligations, and offers single sign on, encryption and role based access control.

Zapier

Connects applications that were never going to integrate on their own, with the largest catalogue of connectors of anything in this category. A trigger in one app runs steps in others, with filters, paths and formatting in between. The breadth is unmatched; per-task pricing is what pushes high-volume workflows toward self-hosted alternatives.

Freemium

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Open source, unlike Make

Open source

Pipedream

Workflows where every step can just be code. Connect a trigger, then write Node, Python, Go or Bash with managed authentication for the services you call, no credential handling of your own. Pre-built components cover the common cases. Suits developers who want the plumbing solved and the logic left alone.

Freemium

Trigger.dev

Long-running background jobs written in your own codebase, in TypeScript, with retries, concurrency control and observability that actually work. No timeouts to design around, which is the constraint serverless functions impose on this kind of work. Open source and self-hostable. Aimed at AI pipelines, video processing and anything else measured in minutes.

Freemium

Spline

3D scenes designed in a browser and embedded like an image. Modelling, materials, lighting, physics and interaction are all in one editor, and the export runs on the web without a game engine. It is how a lot of marketing sites get a 3D hero without hiring a 3D artist. Watch the file size on mobile.

Freemium

Canva

Design for people who do not design for a living. Templates cover presentations, social posts, documents, video and print, and Brand Kits keep colours, fonts and logos consistent across a team. The generative tools handle background removal and image editing. Designers tend to be sceptical of it, and it is nonetheless how most non-designers ship something acceptable.

Freemium

Framer

Design a site and publish it, with no handoff step in between. The canvas works like a design tool and the output is a real responsive site with a CMS, forms, SEO controls and hosting. It suits marketing sites and landing pages where the design is the product; it is a poor fit for anything that needs custom backend logic.

Freemium

LottieFiles

The ecosystem around Lottie, the format that ships vector animation as JSON. Animations stay sharp at any size, weigh a fraction of a GIF or video, and can be recoloured or controlled at runtime. The platform hosts a large library, converts from After Effects, and provides players for web and mobile.

Freemium

Warp

A terminal that treats each command and its output as a block you can navigate, copy and share, rather than an endless scroll. Input behaves like a text editor, history is searchable, and an assistant can read a failing command and suggest the fix. Workflows save parameterised commands for a team. Some of it requires an account, which is the objection people raise most.

Freemium

Glide

Generates mobile and web apps from a table your team already maintains. Rows become screens, columns become fields, and the result is installable and works offline. Best for internal tools (inventory, inspections, field data, directories), where the alternative is a spreadsheet somebody edits on a phone.

Freemium

Open-Launch

Daily product launches with a badge and a backlink, run transparently, the ranking rules and the code are public, which is unusual in this category. Free and premium submission paths, with the paid one skipping the queue. Positioned as an open alternative to the closed boards, and worth watching for that reason as much as the traffic.

Freemium

Bubble

Full web applications without writing code: a database, workflow logic, an editor for the interface, and a plugin ecosystem for the rest. Genuinely capable (real businesses run on it), and it is a platform commitment rather than a prototype tool. Performance and cost at scale are the recurring criticisms.

Freemium