Key findings
- Polling costs credits even when it finds nothing. GILD calculates about 2,880 credits per 30-day month at 15-minute intervals and 43,200 at one-minute intervals.
- At 10,000 monthly credits billed annually, US buyers pay US$1.20 per 1,000 credits on Core, US$2.10 on Pro, and US$3.80 on Teams. Pro's rate falls to about US$0.78 at 8 million.
- The monthly premium holds at every tier checked. Core's smallest tier costs US$16 billed monthly against US$12 billed annually for US buyers.
- A small overflow is cheaper as extra credits. GILD calculates 6,000 extra credits at about US$8 on Core's 20,000 tier, against US$17 more a month to move up to the 40,000 tier.
Budget a Make scenario by its module runs, then buy annual credits on the cheapest plan that carries the controls you need. Every bundle a module processes and every trigger check costs a credit, plus AI tokens when Make's AI Provider runs the model. Monthly billing costs about a third more than annual, and extra credits cost 25% more than plan credits, so recurring overflow belongs on a higher tier.
How Pro's credit price falls with volume
Pro's price per credit falls at every tier in the table, which lists Pro's monthly list prices for US buyers in US dollars. Core costs about 43% less than Pro at the same tier and stops at 300,000 credits a month. Teams costs about 81% more than Pro at the entry tier, and it adds teams, team roles, and shared scenario templates.
| Monthly credits | Annual billing, per month | Monthly billing, per month | US$ per 1,000 credits, annual billing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10,000 | US$21 | US$28 | |
| 20,000 | US$38 | US$51 | |
| 40,000 | US$69 | US$94 | |
| 80,000 | US$118 | US$161 | |
| 150,000 | US$199 | US$271 | |
| 300,000 | US$349 | US$474 | |
| 1,000,000 | US$973 | US$1,321 | |
| 8,000,000 | US$6,255 | US$8,491 |
Make pricing page, Pro plan list prices for US buyers as its pricing widget loads them, checked Oct 28, 2026.
What one run counts
One operation means one module run per bundle. Non-AI apps charge one credit per operation. Triggers consume one per data check. Routers and error handlers consume none. The Code app costs 2 credits per second.
Take a lead-routing scenario with a webhook, a router, a CRM search, a CRM update, and a Slack message. The router is free, so GILD calculates 4 credits per lead, or 20,000 credits for 5,000 monthly leads. That fits Core's 20,000 tier, at US$21 a month billed annually or US$28 monthly for US buyers.
- The same scenario on a 15-minute polling trigger: about 2,880 more credits a month for the checks alone.
- A module after an iterator over 100 rows: 100 credits per run for that module.
- A Code app step that runs for 3 seconds: 6 credits per run.
Annual, monthly, and extra credits
Annual billing saves about 25% at every tier checked for US buyers, so monthly billing costs about a third more than annual. Annual Pro and Teams allocate the full year's credits up front, so seasonal peaks can draw on the whole year's allowance. Core still allocates monthly.
Scenarios stop when plan credits run out. Extra credits cost 25% more in manual units of 1,000 or automatic batches of 10,000. Auto-purchase stops at the plan's credit count. GILD calculates 6,000 extra credits at about US$8 on Core's 20,000 tier. The 40,000 tier costs US$17 more monthly.
AI steps and agents
Make's AI Provider charges 1 credit per operation plus token credits. Since August 25, 2026, Small and Medium allow 18,080 input or 2,260 output tokens per credit. Large allows 3,616 input or 452 output tokens. Make prices 2,000 input and 100 output tokens on Medium at about 0.16 token credits, down from 0.6.
GILD calculates about 5.16 credits per lead after adding that AI step, or 25,800 credits for 5,000 monthly leads. A paid-plan custom provider connection costs 1 credit for the step, plus the provider's token bill. Agents also bill embedding tokens once per knowledge-file upload. Each tool call in chat adds operations.
Methodology
GILD read Make's pricing page in a browser, because it returns 403 to scripts, on October 12, 2026. It also read Make's Help Center pages on credits, operations, extra credits, subscriptions, and the November 2025 plan adjustments that day. Other pages covered the August 2026 AI Provider token model and agent credit usage. Prices per 1,000 credits are as Make displays them. Every scenario cost labeled calculated is GILD's arithmetic from Make's published prices and counting rules. Figures from users come from the linked public accounts, including bills their authors paid, such as an agency spending about US$150 a month in extra credits for five clients.
Products in this piece
Sources
- Official documentation
- 8
- Public source
- 3
- Make pricing
- Make Help Center: Credits
- Make Help Center: Operations
- Make Help Center: Extra credits
- Make Help Center: Monthly and annual subscriptions
- Make Help Center: Adjustments to plans and pricing (Nov 6, 2025)
- Make Help Center: Updated Make's AI Provider token pricing model (Aug 25, 2026)
- Make Help Center: Credit usage for AI agents
- Make Community: Asana usage running when there's no new activity (Mar 4, 2026)
- René Zander: Migrate Zapier to Make, a practitioner's guide (Apr 8, 2026)
- Make Community: Victor Blanco on the move to credits (Aug 28, 2025)