// 10 comparisons in Automation
Claude is an AI assistant and platform: Free at $0, Pro at $17 a month with an annual subscription ($200 billed up front) or $20 billed monthly, Max from $100 a month with 5x or 20x the Pro usage and up to $200 a month in API credits, and Enterprise at $20 per seat plus usage at API rates. n8n is workflow automation: Starter at €20 a month billed annually for 2.5K executions, Pro at €50 for 10K, and Enterprise at €667 for 40K, with a self-hosted option. Claude answers and builds; n8n connects and runs. They overlap where an n8n workflow calls a Claude model.
HubSpot automates what happens inside its own records: free tools at $0 for two users, Starter at $20 per seat per month ($7 per seat for new customers billed annually), Professional at $90 per seat billed annually on Sales Hub or $800 per month for Marketing Hub, Enterprise at $150 per seat. Zapier automates across other companies' apps: Free forever with 100 tasks a month, Professional from $19.99 per month billed annually, Team from $69, Enterprise quoted, all metered by task volume. Buy HubSpot when the workflow should live where the contacts are; buy Zapier when the workflow spans tools HubSpot does not own.
Claude and Zapier are not rivals: Claude is an AI assistant sold as a subscription, and Zapier is an automation platform sold by task volume. Claude's Free plan costs $0 and Pro is $17 per month billed annually ($20 monthly), with Max from $100 per seat/month. Zapier's Free plan covers 100 tasks and Professional starts at $19.99 per month. Buy Claude to think and write, Zapier to move data between apps, and expect to pay for both if you need each.
Notion and Zapier are not substitutes, which is why the comparison usually ends with both invoices. Notion is the place work lives: Free for individuals, Plus at $10 per member a month, Business at $20 per member a month with Notion Agent, AI meeting notes and enterprise search, and Enterprise quoted. Zapier is the thing that moves work between systems: Free covers 100 tasks a month with unlimited Zaps, Tables and Forms, Professional starts at $19.99 a month, Team at $69 a month with 25 users and SAML-based SSO, and Enterprise is quoted. Notion's own automation and its Agent handle what happens inside Notion; Zapier handles triggers and actions across more than 9,000 other apps. Buy Notion for the workspace and Zapier for the wiring.
These tools are rarely doing the same job, which is why the price gap is so wide. IFTTT is built for consumer and device automation: Free gives 2 Applets and unlimited runs, Pro is $2.99 a month ($35.88 a year) for 20 Applets plus multi-action Applets, webhooks and faster speeds, and Pro+ is $8.99 a month for unlimited Applets, AI services, filter code and multiple accounts per service. Zapier is built for business workflows: Free covers 100 tasks a month with unlimited Zaps, Tables and Forms in two steps, Professional starts at $19.99 a month, Team at $69 a month, and Enterprise is quoted, across 9,000+ apps and 66,000+ triggers and actions. IFTTT connects your things; Zapier runs your operations.
Make bills credits and n8n bills executions, and that single difference drives most of the price gap. Make's Free plan allows up to 1,000 credits a month, Core is $9 a month for 10,000 credits, Pro is $16, Teams is $29 and Enterprise is custom; every module action in a scenario, such as adding a row to a sheet, costs one credit. n8n Cloud is 20€ a month billed annually for 2,500 executions with unlimited steps and unlimited users, Pro is 50€ for 10,000 executions and 20 concurrent runs, Business is 667€ for 40,000 executions on self-hosted only, and Enterprise is quoted; the Community Edition is free to self-host from GitHub. A workflow with fifty steps costs Make fifty credits and n8n one execution.
Zapier prices by tasks and by tier: Free covers 100 tasks a month, Professional starts at $19.99 a month for multi-step Zaps and webhooks, Team starts at $69 a month for 25 users with SAML SSO, and task allowances run from 100 up to millions with a 33% saving for paying yearly. n8n prices by workflow executions instead: Starter is 20€ a month billed annually for 2.5K executions with unlimited users, Pro is 50€ a month for 10K executions, Business is 667€ a month for 40K executions on self-hosted, and Enterprise is quoted. The structural difference is that n8n includes unlimited users on every cloud plan and bills a whole workflow run, while Zapier bills tasks and charges for collaboration at the Team tier.
Both platforms now sell a free tier and then meter usage, but they meter different things. Make prices plans by credits: Free handles up to 1,000 credits a month with no time limit, Core is $9 per month priced for 10k credits, Pro is $16 and Teams is $29, all at the 10k-credit level, and its page states that a single action such as fetching a Gmail row counts as one credit. Zapier prices plans by tasks: Free includes 100 tasks a month with unlimited Zaps, Tables and Forms, Professional starts from $19.99 per month and Team from $69 per month, and its separate AI products are priced on their own, Agents Pro at $400 billed annually and Chatbots Pro at $160 billed annually. Make is cheaper per unit of automation volume; Zapier has 9,000 plus app integrations to Make's 3,000 plus.
Integromat is Make's former name, so this is really Make vs Zapier. The billing units differ: Make counts credits consumed per action and gives a free plan with 1,000 credits and 2 active scenarios, then $12/month for 10,000 credits on Core. Zapier counts tasks and its free plan allows 100 a month, with Professional from $19.99/month, Team from $69/month for 25 users, and annual billing saving around a third. Make is cheaper per unit and stronger on visual branching; Zapier has the broader app catalogue, deeper enterprise governance and the simpler mental model. Pick Make when cost per automation is the deciding factor, Zapier when your workflows span unusual apps or need enterprise controls.
Integromat and Make are the same product - the platform rebranded and now lives at make.com, which is why the name keeps appearing in searches. Make prices in monthly credits: Free gives 1,000 credits with 2 active scenarios, Core is $12/month for 10,000 credits, Pro $21/month and Teams $38/month. n8n prices in workflow executions and leans technical: Starter is EUR 20/month billed annually for 2,500 executions with unlimited users, Pro is EUR 50/month for 10,000, and the community edition can be self-hosted from its public source. Pick Make for a visual builder with 3,000+ apps and a generous free tier; pick n8n if you want to write JavaScript or Python inside the workflow, or run it on your own infrastructure.