Google Workspace Studio vs Make

Google Workspace Studio

• Organizations that already pay for Google Workspace
• Automating routine work in Gmail, Chat, Drive and Sheets without code
• People who want Gemini to draft an automation from a description

Make

• Building multi-step, branching automations on a visual canvas
• Individuals and small teams that want unlimited scenarios at a low entry price
• Trying automation on a free plan with no time limit

Google Workspace Studio

• Studio is not sold on its own: it comes with Workspace Business Starter, Standard and Plus, Enterprise Standard and Plus, and some Education editions.
• A user can create at most 25 flows, a flow can have at most 20 steps, and flows stop once a daily run limit is reached until it resets.
• Flows have to be created on a computer in a supported web browser; once turned on, they can run on any device.
• Third-party integration steps are in beta, and personal Google accounts need Google Workspace Experiments to use Studio.

Make

• The Free plan allows only 2 active scenarios and 1,000 credits a month, with at least 15 minutes between scheduled runs.
• Credits expire at the end of each term, and extra credits cost 25% more than those included in the plan.
• Teams and roles, custom variables and enterprise apps are not part of the Free plan.
• The $9 price applies to annual billing; the pricing page says annual billing saves 15% or more over monthly.

Google Workspace Studio

Flows created with Gemini

Describe what you want automated in plain language and Gemini builds a flow for it. Flows can also be started from a template or built from scratch.

Starters and steps

A starter launches the flow from an event, a schedule or a manual trigger. Steps then carry out actions or send notifications, with conditional steps and variables to pass data along.

AI steps

Steps that use Gemini can analyze new emails, write summaries, pick out action items or draft replies as part of a flow.

Managed from Workspace apps

Flows can be changed and their activity tracked from inside Gmail, Chat and Drive, as well as in Studio itself, and a test run tries a flow before it is turned on.

Third-party integrations

Integration steps, in beta, act in services such as Asana, Mailchimp and Salesforce and are connected through the Google Workspace Marketplace. Webhooks reach other services.

Sharing and approvals

Flows can be shared with other people. Depending on the policies an administrator sets, some steps wait for user approval before they run.

Make

Visual scenario builder

Scenarios are built by placing app modules on a canvas and linking them with routers and filters, so branching logic is visible at a glance.

3,000+ pre-built apps

Make lists more than 3,000 app integrations, among them OpenAI, HubSpot, Salesforce and Slack. Access to enterprise apps comes with the paid plan.

Credit-based billing

Most module actions use 1 credit. The paid plan starts at 5,000 credits a month, and extra credits are sold in bundles of 1,000 or 10,000 at 25% more than plan credits.

AI agents, Maia and MCP

AI agents can be built to orchestrate workflows, Maia builds automations from a conversation, and the Make MCP server lets outside AI assistants trigger scenarios.

Make Grid

Make Grid gives a map of an organization's scenarios and how they connect, to keep a large automation setup under control.

Teams, variables and API

The paid plan adds teams and team roles, custom variables, full-text search of execution logs and access to more than 300 Make API endpoints.

Google Workspace Studio

• Business Starter$7

  per user / month, 1-year commitment ($8.40 flexible)

  Google Workspace suite plan that includes Workspace Studio, with 30 GB of pooled storage per user. Business editions cover up to 300 users.

• Business Standard$14

  per user / month, 1-year commitment ($16.80 flexible)

  Google Workspace suite plan that includes Workspace Studio, with 2 TB of pooled storage per user.

• Business Plus$22

  per user / month, 1-year commitment ($26.40 flexible)

  Google Workspace suite plan that includes Workspace Studio, with 5 TB of pooled storage per user.

• Enterprise Standard and PlusCustom

  Enterprise editions of Google Workspace that include Workspace Studio. Pricing is available through Google sales and resellers.

Make

• Free$0

  Up to 1,000 credits a month, 2 active scenarios, a 15-minute minimum interval between runs and 7 days of execution logs.

• Make Plan$9

  per month, billed annually, for 5,000 credits

  Unlimited active scenarios, 1-minute minimum interval, teams and roles, custom variables, high-priority execution and Make API access. Credit tiers go up to 8 million and beyond.

• Company (Enterprise)Custom

  Custom functions, 24/7 enterprise support, overage protection, advanced security and 60 days of execution logs.

Google Workspace Studio

• Annual discount

  Lower rate with a 1-year commitment

  Business Starter costs $7 per user per month on the Annual/Fixed-Term Plan versus $8.40 on the Flexible Plan. Standard is $14 versus $16.80 and Plus $22 versus $26.40.

Make

• Annual discount

  Save 15% or more with annual billing

  Make's pricing page says annual billing saves 15% or more compared with paying monthly. The $9 starting price is the annual rate.

• Nonprofit

  Support for non-profit organizations

  The pricing page says Make supports non-profits and asks NGOs and NPOs to contact it for details. No discount figure is published.