Zapier Team vs Make Teams for a 5-person team
5 seats with SSO, 1,000 runs a month, 4 billable actions each.
- This workload is 4,000 Zapier tasks, 5,000 Make credits or 1,000 n8n executions a month.
- Cheapest verified option: Zapier (Team 5,000 tasks) at $119.00/month, $2,856.00 over 24 months.
- The priciest ranked option is n8n Business (self-hosted licence) at $747.57/month: $7,542.84 more per year than the cheapest.
- Make (Enterprise) has no exact verified price here (custom), so it is not ranked.
- n8n Cloud (Cloud with SSO) has no exact verified price here (TODO-verify), so it is not ranked.
- Without SSO, Make Teams at 5,000 credits would be Teams 10,000 credits at $29.00/mo; with SSO Make requires Enterprise (custom pricing).
Cheapest
Zapier Team 5,000 tasks: $119.00/mo
Your workload in each vendor's unit: 4,000 Zapier tasks · 5,000 Make credits · 1,000 n8n executions per month (annual billing).
| # | Option | Plan | Per month | Per year | 24-mo TCO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zapier cheapest | Team 5,000 tasks | $119.00 | $1,428.00 | $2,856.00 |
| 2 | n8n Business (self-hosted licence) | Businesslist €667.00 | $747.57 | $8,970.88 | $17,941.77 |
Prices exclude VAT/sales tax.
Not ranked (no exact verified price)
- Make — Enterprise custom pricing Enterprise only (custom pricing).
- n8n Cloud — Cloud with SSO TODO-verify Whether n8n Cloud Starter/Pro include SSO is not verified (the pricing page lists SSO under Business, which is self-hosted).
Self-hosted n8n Community shown, never ranked
Excluded: Community Edition has no SSO.
The catch, per option
- Zapier — Team 5,000 tasksOverage: Pay-per-task overage (opt-in) is about $0.0298 per task (1.25x the base rate on annual billing); Zaps pause at 15,000 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).
- SSO needs Team (max 25 seats).
- Make — EnterpriseOverage: 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.
- n8n Cloud — Cloud with SSO
- 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.
- n8n Business (self-hosted licence) — Business
- Self-hosted, not n8n Cloud: you run the infrastructure (not included). No affiliate link.
- Includes 40,000 executions, then €4,000 per started 300,000.