Zapier annual vs monthly: how much you save at each tier
2,500 runs a month, 4 billable actions each (10,000 tasks), billed monthly.
- This workload is 10,000 Zapier tasks, 12,500 Make credits or 2,500 n8n executions a month.
- Cheapest verified option: Make (Core 20,000 credits) at $18.82/month, $451.68 over 24 months.
- The priciest ranked option is Zapier at $193.50/month: $2,096.16 more per year than the cheapest.
- n8n Cloud (Starter) has no exact verified price here (TODO-verify), so it is not ranked.
- 750 tasks: $19.99/mo annual vs $29.99/mo monthly — annual saves $120.00 a year.
- 2,000 tasks: $49.00/mo annual vs $73.50/mo monthly — annual saves $294.00 a year.
- 5,000 tasks: $89.00/mo annual vs $133.50/mo monthly — annual saves $534.00 a year.
- 10,000 tasks: $129.00/mo annual vs $193.50/mo monthly — annual saves $774.00 a year.
- 50,000 tasks: $289.00/mo annual vs $433.50/mo monthly — annual saves $1,734.00 a year.
- 100,000 tasks: $489.00/mo annual vs $733.50/mo monthly — annual saves $2,934.00 a year.
Cheapest
Make Core 20,000 credits: $18.82/mo
Your workload in each vendor's unit: 10,000 Zapier tasks · 12,500 Make credits · 2,500 n8n executions per month (monthly billing).
| # | Option | Plan | Per month | Per year | 24-mo TCO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Make cheapest | Core 20,000 credits | $18.82 | $225.84 | $451.68 |
| 2 | Zapier | Professional 10,000 tasks | $193.50 | $2,322.00 | $4,644.00 |
Prices exclude VAT/sales tax.
Not ranked (no exact verified price)
- n8n Cloud — Starter TODO-verify Starter price on monthly billing is TODO-verify (only annual is published).
Self-hosted n8n Community shown, never ranked
The software is free with no execution cap. Infrastructure cost is TODO-verify (only a single secondary source so far). Self-hosting is cheaper than the cheapest ranked option (Make, $18.82/mo) only if your server plus your time costs less than that.
The catch, per option
- Zapier — Professional 10,000 tasksOverage: Pay-per-task overage (opt-in) is about $0.0484 per task (2.5x the base rate on monthly billing); Zaps pause at 30,000 tasks (3x the plan).
- Every successful billable action is a task; triggers and built-in steps (Filter/Formatter/Path) cost 0 tasks.
- Free is two-step only (trigger + 1 action, no built-in steps, no webhooks).
- Make — Core 20,000 creditsOverage: Scenarios stop at the credit limit; upgrade, buy credit packs or go Enterprise. No overage dollar amount is modeled.
- 1 credit per module action including the trigger read; Router and error handlers are free and are not entered (1 trigger + 4 billable actions per run).
- When credits run out, scenarios stop; unused credits expire.
- Monthly price is Make's published monthly price (about annual / 0.85).
- Same volume on Pro: $34.12/mo; Teams: $62.35/mo.
- n8n Cloud — Starter
- One execution = one whole workflow run, so step count does not change the price.
- No auto-overage on Starter/Pro-1: upgrade or one-time reset.
- Priced in EUR; converted with the exchange rate you set.