MAKE vs N8N vs ZAPIER

Vi kör alla tre i kundprojekt, och varje verktyg tjänar en annan målgrupp: Make for ops, n8n for engineering, Zapier for everyone else.

Make is my personal favorite. The visual builder is genuinely powerful - routers, iterators, aggregators, and error handlers give you programming-level control without writing code. Our data enrichment pipeline that processes 30+ sources runs on Make, and the operations-based pricing means a complex scenario with 50 steps costs the same as 50 simple ones. That's a massive advantage över Zapier's task-based model.

n8n is what our dev team uses. Self-hosted on our infra, zero per-execution cost, and the ability to write JavaScript directly in nodes makes it perfect for data transformation workflows. If you're a developer who finds Zapier limiting, n8n is the answer. The community is also fantastic - growing fast with quality contributors.

Zapier is what we give to non-technical team members. The template library and simple trigger-action model means our sales team can build their own automations without bothering engineering. But the pricing scales terribly - once you're doing serious volume, the cost per task makes Make or n8n 10-20x cheaper.

If I could only pick one: Make. It hits the sweet spot of power and accessibility. But the real answer is that automation tools are cheap enough to run multiples - pick the right one for each use case.