n8n vs Make.com for AI Agent Workflows: A Practical Comparison

This article was originally published on do-nothing.ai . The canonical version is there. n8n vs Make.com for AI Agent Workflows If you are building AI agent workflows as a solopreneur, two platforms come up in nearly every conversation: n8n and Make.com. Both are visual workflow builders. Both connect to hundreds of services. Both handle webhooks and run automations on a schedule. But they are built on fundamentally different assumptions about who runs them and how. Choosing the wrong one adds friction at exactly the wrong moments. This guide cuts through the overlap and tells you which one to use for which situation. Pricing: What You Actually Pay n8n Tier Price What You Get Community (self-hosted) Free Unlimited workflows, unlimited executions, all features Cloud Starter $20/month 2,500 workflow executions/month, 5 active workflows Cloud Pro $50/month 10,000 executions/month, unlimited active workflows Enterprise Custom SSO, advanced permissions, SLA The free self-hosted tier is real