Make vs Microsoft Power Automate

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

Microsoft Power Automate

• Organizations already licensed for Microsoft 365 or Dynamics 365
• Automating older Windows applications that have no API
• Approval processes that run through Teams and SharePoint

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.

Microsoft Power Automate

• The free license and Microsoft 365 licenses cover standard connectors only; premium and custom connectors need Premium at $15 per user / month.
• Unattended desktop flows need a Process license at $150 per bot / month, and the machine must be registered by a Premium user.
• The desktop app runs only on Windows 10, Windows 11 and Windows Server, and devices with ARM processors are not supported.
• The standalone iOS and Android app reached end of support on August 31, 2026; Microsoft points mobile users to the browser portal and Teams.

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.

Microsoft Power Automate

Cloud flows

Automated, scheduled and instant flows connect cloud apps, and on-premises services through a data gateway. Microsoft cites more than 1,400 prebuilt, certified connectors, and custom connectors can be built.

Desktop flows (RPA)

Power Automate for desktop builds or records flows that operate Windows and web applications through their interfaces. Attended runs happen with a person present; unattended runs need a Process license.

Copilot authoring

Copilot in Power Automate creates, edits and extends flows from a natural-language description, in both the cloud designer and the desktop app.

Process and task mining

Analyzes how a process actually runs to find steps worth automating. Premium includes 50 MB of mining data per user, and a tenant-wide add-on provides 100 GB.

Microsoft 365 integration

Flows can be built and run from inside Teams, Excel, SharePoint and OneDrive. Microsoft 365 licenses include the right to create and run cloud flows with standard connectors.

Governance and hosted machines

Managed Environments and data loss prevention policies give admins control over flows. Hosted Process runs unattended bots on virtual machines that Microsoft manages.

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.

Microsoft Power Automate

• Power Automate Free$0

  Free license described in Microsoft's licensing docs: cloud flows with standard connectors only, no sharing, and desktop flows run locally in attended mode.

• Power Automate Premium$15

  per user / month, paid yearly

  Cloud flows with standard, premium and custom connectors, attended desktop flows, process and task mining with 50 MB of data, and 250 MB of Dataverse database capacity.

• Power Automate Process$150

  per bot / month, paid yearly

  One bot for unattended desktop flows, or a license for a cloud flow that any number of users can run, with up to 250,000 actions a day.

• Power Automate Hosted Process$215

  per bot / month, paid yearly

  Unattended desktop flows on a virtual machine that Microsoft manages and hosts on Azure, so there is no machine of your own to maintain.

• Process Mining add-on$5,000

  per tenant / month, paid yearly

  Add-on for the Premium plan only: 100 GB of process mining data, with 2 GB of Dataverse database and 1 TB of file capacity.

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.

Microsoft Power Automate

No public discounts listed.