Make cost calculator
How many Make credits will your automations use in a month, and is the Free plan enough? Pick what you run, type a realistic volume, and get an estimate built from the actual blueprint files — not a guess per scenario.
An estimate, not a quote. Plans and prices as listed on Make’s pricing page, checked on .
371 credits/moFree ↓Make’s plans, as listed
| Plan | Listed price | Credits / month | Active scenarios | Fastest schedule |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 1,000 | 2 | Every 15 min |
| Core | $12/mo | 10,000 | Unlimited | Every 1 min |
| Pro | $21/mo | 10,000 | Unlimited | Every 1 min |
| Teams | $38/mo | 10,000 | Unlimited | Every 1 min |
Paid prices are Make’s “price for 10k credits/mo”. The paid plans scale up to 8M+ credits on a slider, and annual billing is discounted; we do not quote those figures. Pro and Teams include the same credits as Core at this tier and differ in features, so volume alone never points to them.
How the estimate works
Every number comes from the blueprint file you would import. We count the modules in each scenario and read how it starts, then apply Make’s rule that each module run costs one credit:
- Webhook automations run every module once per event: a 3-module lead alert costs 3 credits per lead.
- Gmail-watching automations cost 1 credit per check, found or not, plus the other modules once per email.
- Scheduled automations that act per row cost 1 credit per run for the search, plus the other modules once per row found.
- Scheduled summaries (a search, an aggregator, one message) cost every module once per run, whatever the volume.
- Schedules are sized for the longest month: 31 daily runs, 5 weekly runs, 1 monthly run. The plan suggestion adds 20% for test runs and retries.
- A search that finds one match is counted once. Error handlers, re-runs you start by hand, and scenarios you build yourself are not included.
Questions
What is a Make operation?
One module doing one thing once: adding a sheet row, sending an email, searching a list. Make now bills in credits, and a standard module action costs one credit, so for the automations here one operation = one credit. A module that runs once per row runs, and costs, once per row. Make's built-in AI features can use more than one credit per action; none of our blueprints uses them.
Does the Make free plan suffice?
Often, for one business with a couple of instant automations. Free includes 1,000 credits a month and 2 active scenarios, and runs at most every 15 minutes. The scenario limit usually bites first: a third automation means a paid plan even at low volume. A Gmail-watching automation checking every 15 minutes uses about 2,976 credits a month on checks alone, more than Free includes.
Why does a quiet inbox still cost credits?
A "watch" trigger has to ask Gmail whether anything is new, and Make charges one credit per check whether or not it finds something. Checking once an hour instead of every 15 minutes cuts that cost by four; a webhook trigger avoids it entirely.
How current are the prices?
We read them off Make's pricing page on 28 September 2026 and show them with the date. Make changes plans and prices from time to time, sells larger credit tiers on a slider, and discounts annual billing. The figure on Make's own page is the one you will pay.
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