Make pricing: what it really costs per year (2026)

Tracker data last verified 2026-08-15. LemDeals is an independent tracker, not the seller.

• Make starts at $9.00/month on its Core plan — $108 a year, $324 over three years for a single seat.
• That puts it in the 17th percentile of the 24 tool prices we track: 20 tracked tools cost more per month, the rest cost less.
• Against the median automation tool we track ($19.99/month), Make is 55% cheaper.
• The median lifetime deal we currently track costs $49.99 — the equivalent of 6 months of Make.
• Make has a free tier, so for low-volume use the honest comparison is free versus one-time, not subscription versus one-time.

Total spend on Make, year by year

At $9.00 a month, Make sits low enough that the annual figure rarely triggers a procurement conversation — which is precisely why its lifetime total goes unexamined. Five years of a small recurring charge is $540, and nobody signs off on that number because nobody ever sees it written down. Annual Core billing is about $9/month for 10,000 operations.

The break-even column is a ceiling, not a recommendation. It assumes uninterrupted use across the whole horizon and a perpetual licence that keeps working. Neither assumption is free: churn on your side and vendor shutdown on theirs both destroy the payback.

Cost as headcount changes

Even at a low unit price, seat multiplication is what turns Make into a line item worth reviewing. Assuming linear per-seat pricing on the Core plan:

Real invoices deviate from linear at both ends — volume tiers and annual commitments compress the top, and a free tier can absorb the first seat entirely at the bottom. Treat this as the ceiling estimate.

How Make prices against the market

We hold published entry prices for 24 software tools, which lets us place Make on a distribution instead of calling it affordable or premium with nothing behind the word. Make sits at the 17th percentile. The median tracked tool costs $15.00 per month. Make is among the cheapest tools we price — 20 of the 24 we track cost more per month.

The tracked tools priced closest to Make are Slack at $8.75/month, Miro at $8.00/month, Asana at $10.99/month. If any of those already sit in your stack, the overlap question comes before the pricing question: two tools at this price point cost $213 a year together, and consolidation is usually the larger saving than any discount on either one.

Make prices on operations per month with a visual scenario builder. Because operations rather than seats drive cost, a lifetime automation tool with a hard monthly operations cap can be a genuine substitute for low-volume workflows.

Against its own category

Comparing across all software is a blunt instrument, so we also hold the 1 other automation tool we price. Their median entry price is $19.99 per month, which puts Make 55% below it. Undercutting a category by that margin usually signals either a narrower feature set or a deliberate land-grab on price. Both are fine reasons to buy; they are different reasons to expect price rises later.

What the free tier is worth

Because Make keeps a permanent free plan, the $108 annual figure is not the price of the software — it is the price of whichever ceiling the free plan imposes on you. Identify that ceiling before you value anything else. Work out which cap forces the upgrade — seats, records, exports, storage — then judge the annual figure against that one constraint rather than against the full feature list.

Try this before upgrading: stay on free for one full month and log each blocked action. A short log means the $324 you would spend over three years buys comfort, not ability.

Converting one-time prices into Make months

Make has not run a lifetime deal. Its predecessor Integromat also never sold one. These are the cheapest one-time-payment tools our crawler currently observes across the marketplaces we track, each converted into the number of Make months it equals.

Read the right-hand column as a wager: buying that licence is betting the software stays useful for at least that many months. Priced this way, most one-time offers are shorter bets than they look.

Does Make itself have a lifetime deal?

The live answer, with the list of marketplaces checked and the date they were checked, sits on its own page. See Does Make have a lifetime deal? The page updates automatically if that changes.

How this page is maintained

Pricing comes from Make's own published pricing page and is re-checked each review cycle; the comparison distribution is recomputed from our first-party tracker on every run. Last computed 2026-08-15.