Automation & Workflow Software
n8n's Community Edition is free to self-host if you run the server yourself, Make's Free plan gives 1,000 credits a month for two active scenarios, and Zapier Free allows 100 tasks a month in two-step Zaps.
Best for technical teams that want to self-host automations or run long, code-heavy workflows
n8n is a workflow automation tool for technical teams, with a visual builder, code nodes and AI agent nodes, run on n8n Cloud or self-hosted for free. Cloud plans are priced by monthly executions, and one execution is a full workflow run however many steps it has.
Free plan
paid from €20/mo
Best for teams that need branching, multi-step automations without writing code
Make is a no-code automation platform where teams build multi-step scenarios on a visual canvas, with routers, iterators and error handlers. Plans are priced by monthly credits, and each module action in a scenario, such as adding a Google Sheets row, uses one credit.
Free plan
paid from $9/mo
Best for non-technical teams linking many SaaS apps with short, simple automations
Zapier is an automation platform that connects business apps through Zaps, a trigger followed by actions, across what Zapier says are more than 9,000 apps. Plans are priced by monthly tasks: each successful action step uses one, while triggers and filters use none.
Free plan
paid from $19.99/mo
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Automation & Workflow Software by the numbers
$19.99/mo
Median starting price
67%
Offer a free trial
100%
Have a free plan
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Computed from the published pricing of the 3 Automation & Workflow Software products in this list. Pricing last checked against vendor pages October 5, 2026.
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