- Pick it if you are:
- Automation agencies and freelancers; Ops and marketing teams with multi-step workflows
- Top complaint:
- Why does Make use so many credits?
- Price:
- Free plan, paid from $10.59/mo
- Pick it if you are:
- Microsoft 365 organizations; Teams automating approvals and notifications
- Top complaint:
- Power Automate flow not triggering
- Price:
- Free plan
Score Comparison
Signals Comparison
Make
- Why does Make use so many credits?(8/10)
- Make switched from operations to credits (AI modules cost more)(6/10)
- Make extra credits now cost 25% more, Core capped at 300k credits(6/10)
Microsoft Power Automate
- Power Automate licensing is confusing and hard to predict(8/10)
- Premium connectors need a paid license(8/10)
- Why is Power Automate so expensive for small teams?(7/10)
Make
- Make webhook not triggering the scenario(8/10)
- Make scenarios turn off automatically after errors(8/10)
- Make outages disabled scenarios and dropped webhooks(8/10)
Microsoft Power Automate
- Flows turn off or get suspended without warning(8/10)
- Power Automate flow not triggering(9/10)
- Excel 'table not found' and Add a row errors(6/10)
- Desktop flows fail unattended(8/10)
Make
- Make connections keep expiring (invalid refresh token)(7/10)
Microsoft Power Automate
- Non-Microsoft integrations need more work(6/10)
- HTTP trigger URLs changed in the architecture move(6/10)
Make
- Make support is slow and billing refunds are hard(7/10)
Microsoft Power Automate
No signals
Make
- Make has a steep learning curve (bundles, iterators, aggregators)(5/10)
Microsoft Power Automate
No signals
Make
- Make errors are hard to diagnose(6/10)
Microsoft Power Automate
- Error messages are unclear and debugging is hard(7/10)
- Large flows get hard to edit and maintain(6/10)
Make
- Make scenarios time out after 40 minutes(6/10)
- Make hits rate limits (429) on busy scenarios(5/10)
- Make editor is slow with large scenarios(4/10)
Microsoft Power Automate
- Flows are slow or throttled with 429 errors(8/10)
Make
No signals
Microsoft Power Automate
- DLP policy changes silently break flows(7/10)
Pricing Comparison
Make
Storage: 1 MB data storage
Limits: 5-minute max execution time, 5 MB file size, 7-day log retention.
Limits: $9/month billed annually ($108/year). 100 MB file size, 30-day logs. Unused credits expire at end of term.
Limits: $16/month billed annually ($192/year).
Limits: $29/month billed annually ($348/year).
Limits: Custom pricing via sales.
Microsoft Power Automate
Users: 1 flow owner per license
Limits: Standard connectors only, 15-minute polling on the Free plan (5 minutes on Microsoft 365 plans), Low performance profile with 5,000 apply-to-each items and 5-second minimum postpone interval, no premium connectors, no desktop RPA unattended
Users: 1 user
Limits: Time limited; Microsoft's support docs mention a 90-day per-user trial in places
Users: Per user
Storage: 250 MB Dataverse database and 2 GB file
Limits: Per user, so large audiences get expensive
Users: Per bot
Storage: 50 MB Dataverse database and 200 MB file
Limits: Per bot or per flow pricing is expensive for a single small flow
Users: Per bot
Storage: 50 MB Dataverse database and 200 MB file
Limits: Per bot pricing
Users: Per tenant
Storage: 100 GB data storage
Limits: Add-on to Premium only
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Make | Microsoft Power Automate |
|---|---|---|
| Automation | ||
| Visual scenario builder Routers, iterators, aggregators, filters | ||
| Cloud flows Automated, scheduled and instant flows | ||
| Desktop flows (RPA) Attended with Premium, unattended with Process | ||
| Approvals | ||
| Triggers | ||
| Instant webhooks Queue size scales with plan credits (667 per 10k, max 10,000) | ||
| Integrations | ||
| Premium connectors Needs Premium or Process license | ||
| Reliability | ||
| Error handlers Resume, Skip, Break, Rollback, Commit; don't consume credits | ||
| Incomplete executions storage | ||
| AI | ||
| Custom AI provider connections All paid plans since Nov 2025 | ||
| Copilot in designer New designer | ||
| Deployment | ||
| Self-hosting Cloud only | ||
| Monitoring | ||
| Run history 28-day run history; runs retained 30 days | ||
| Developer | ||
| Custom code in modules Limited compared with n8n Code nodes | ||
| Governance | ||
| Data loss prevention policies Admin controlled | ||
| Analytics | ||
| Process mining Add-on for Premium | ||
| Pricing | ||
| Unlimited free tier Free tier is limited to standard connectors | ||
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