SEARCH INTEREST
Make gets 98% of Google searches between the two.
Maken8n
- Make
- +10% 3 mo
- n8n
- steady
Google Trends, 12 months, searches for “Make” and “n8n”.
Make vs n8n
PickDuel generated this matchup from public website evidence · Updated 22 Sept 2026
Too close to call.
Both platforms sell the same pitch, differently targeted
COMMUNITY PICK
Community verdict is still open. The first back decides the Community Pick.
One tap, no signup. Your back moves that company up the community board; more backers make it the Community Pick. The score doesn't change.
WHICH SHOULD YOU CHOOSE?
Both are defensible: it depends on which of these you actually care about.
Choose Make if…
- you care most about flexibility11 of 78 reviewers praise it
- you can't afford problems with customer support9 reviewers raise it about n8n
Choose n8n if…
- you care most about self-hosting9 of 49 reviewers praise it
- you can't afford problems with ease of use23 reviewers raise it about Make
Worked out from prices read on each company's own site and what reviewers repeatedly say, both linked below. We don't pick a winner: the right answer depends on which of these you care about.
AT A GLANCE
WHY IT'S CLOSE
Make wins on breadth and trust signals, plopping '400,000 organizations' and named clients like Teleclinic across every page. n8n wins on specificity, telling technical teams exactly what they can build, but leans harder on GitHub stars than company substance. The scores are basically a coin flip.
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Who each site is actually talking to
EDGE N8NMake's homepage spreads across IT, marketing, sales, finance and HR with a tile for each department. n8n picks a lane on its homepage, calling out IT Ops onboarding new employees and SecOps enriching security incident tickets, aimed squarely at technical builders who want code fallback.
- 2
Trust proof: scale versus depth
EDGE MAKEMake leads with '400,000+ organizations,' SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and a Celonis parent company mention that signals stability. n8n counters with harder numbers, a Vodafone case citing £2.2 million saved and Huel saving 1,000 hours, plus 205.6k GitHub stars, but skips leadership or company background entirely.
- 3
Pricing pages both dodge the dollar sign
EVENMake lists five tiers (Free, Core, Pro, Teams, Enterprise) with a credit slider but no visible per-tier price in the scraped text. n8n does the same with Starter through Enterprise, only surfacing one hard number: a 4,000 EUR overage fee for extra execution buckets.
HEAD TO HEAD
| Measure | Make | n8n |
|---|---|---|
| PickDuel score | 79/100 | 78/100 |
| Rating | 4.0 | 3.9 |
| Positioning | 20/25 | 22/25 |
| Product clarity | 16/20 | 16/20 |
| Trust | 16/20 | 14/20 |
| Conversion | 16/20 | 16/20 |
| Pricing clarity | 11/15 | 10/15 |
| Web popularity rank | #8,858 | #6,000 |
| Share of Google searches | 98% | 2% |
| Community backers | 0 | 0 |
Make
GOOD AT
Casting a wide net across departments with concrete use cases like quote-to-cash and incident response, backed by a scale claim and named customers.
COSTING THEM
The pricing page makes visitors slide a credit counter without ever showing what a plan actually costs, which is a strange thing to hide on a page called Pricing.
n8n
GOOD AT
Speaking directly to technical builders with lines like 'code when you need it, UI when you don't' and real workflow examples down to WhatsApp bots and SQL generation.
COSTING THEM
Trust section leans on GitHub stars and a G2 rating instead of any sense of who runs the company or how big it is, which reads thinner next to Make's 'part of Celonis' framing.
THE OVERTAKE MOVE
n8n should put a founders or 'about us' section on its homepage, the way Make does with its 2015-founding, 350-person, Celonis-backed story: right now a visitor has stars and quotes but no idea who is behind the product.
Fix it, then rescan in a week to see if the result flips.
QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK
Which is better, Make or n8n?
Make scores 79/100 to n8n's 78/100 on PickDuel. Make wins on breadth and trust signals, plopping '400,000 organizations' and named clients like Teleclinic across every page. The score rates how clearly each public website explains the product, earns trust, shows pricing and asks for the next step. It is not a judgement of product quality.
What does Make do?
Visual no-code platform to build, manage, and scale AI workflows and app automations. (Based on make.com.)
What does n8n do?
Workflow and AI agent automation platform combining visual node building with custom code flexibility. (Based on n8n.io.)
How do Make and n8n compare on pricing?
Make: Pricing tiers (Free, Core, Pro, Teams, Enterprise) and credit sliders are listed, but specific dollar amounts per tier are omitted in the scraped text. n8n: Plans (Starter, Pro, Business, Enterprise) and execution-based billing rules are explained, but exact currency price figures per tier were omitted from the visible text snippets except for an overage fee (4,000 EUR).
Who does the community back, Make or n8n?
Nobody has backed either side yet. Anyone can back one side, once, with no signup. Backing never changes the PickDuel score.
How is the PickDuel score calculated?
PickDuel reads up to three public pages per website and runs one web search. A language model rates 11 specific signals from 0 to 5, and fixed code turns them into a 0-100 score: positioning 25, product clarity 20, trust 20, conversion 20, pricing clarity 15.
SOURCES
- Make
- www.make.com/en
- www.make.com/en/pricing
- www.make.com/en/product
- Analysed 22 Sept 2026
- n8n
- n8n.io/
- n8n.io/pricing/
- n8n.io/features/
- Analysed 22 Sept 2026
PickDuel scores public website communication, not product quality. Backers never change the score. How scoring works
THE SHORTLIST
Almost nobody decides between two. These are the businesses the public puts next to Make, with the reason each one comes up — checked against their own sites and their public reviews, not our opinion.
- Praised for integrations · 4 of 79 public reviews
- Already compared head to head
- Same market · Workflow Automation & AI Orchestration
- n8n78
Workflow and AI agent automation platform combining visual node building with custom code flexibility.
- Praised for self-hosting · 9 of 49 public reviews
- Already compared head to head
- Same market · Workflow Automation Platform
- Pipedream71
Integration infrastructure providing managed auth, MCP servers, and 10,000+ tools for AI agents.
- Same market · Integration & API Automation Platform
The same rules run in both directions: Make is on 3 other shortlists for the same reasons. Nothing here rates anyone's product, and no business can pay to be added or removed. Something wrong? Tell us
YOUR TURN
Who beats your business?
Your score, your closest rival and the one fix that would flip it. About a minute.