Hard facts side by side: free tiers, prices, limits, SDKs and privacy. Every value links to the official page it came from and is re-checked every week.
| Fact |  n8nBuilding block |  ZapierBuilding block |  MakeBuilding block |
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| Free tier | Free trial + free self-host Cloud free trial, no card required; Community Edition is free to self-host. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | Yes 100 tasks/month, two-step Zaps only, 15-minute polling. |
| Yes Up to 1,000 credits/month and 2 active scenarios. Source, Nov 15, 2026 |
| Starting price | €20/month Starter, billed annually: 2.5K executions/month, 5 concurrent executions, unlimited workflows. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | $19.99/month Professional, billed annually ($29.99 monthly): 750 tasks, multi-step Zaps, premium apps. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | $9/month Core plan: 10k credits/month, unlimited active scenarios, 1-minute scheduling, API access. Source, Nov 15, 2026 |
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| Rate limit | 2.5K executions/month Starter cloud plan, with 5 concurrent executions. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | 20,000 requests per 5 min (instant) Per user, 429 over that. Polling Zaps on Free/trial are held past 200 requests per 10 min per Zap. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | 60 requests/min (Core) API calls per minute: Core 60, Pro 120, Teams 240, Enterprise 1,000. Source, Nov 15, 2026 |
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| Size limit | Not listed | 30 s per code step Professional/Team code steps; Free is 1 s; paid plans can extend to 10 min. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | 5 MB per file (Free) Core 100 MB, Pro 250 MB, Teams 500 MB, Enterprise 1,000 MB per file. Source, Nov 15, 2026 |
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| Storage | Logs kept 7 days Starter plan max execution log retention; Pro keeps 30 days. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | Not listed | Logs kept 7 days Free plan execution logs; Core, Pro and Teams keep 30 days. Source, Nov 10, 2026 |
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| Official SDKs | JavaScript / TypeScriptPythonSource, Nov 15, 2026 | JavaScript / TypeScriptPython | JavaScript / TypeScript Make TypeScript SDK (@makehq/sdk) for JavaScript and TypeScript. Source, Nov 15, 2026 |
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| Open source | Partly Fair-code, Sustainable Use License; self-hostable Source, Nov 15, 2026 | Not listed | Not listed |
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| Trains on your data | No AI terms say customer content is not used to train ML models. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | No Workflow data is not used for training on any plan; learning from how workflows are built can be opted out. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | No Make AI Toolkit docs say your data is not stored or used to train the AI. Source, Nov 15, 2026 |
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| EU hosting | Yes n8n Cloud data is hosted in the EU (Frankfurt, Germany). Source, Nov 15, 2026 | No Hosted on AWS in the United States. Source, Nov 15, 2026 | Yes EU zones (eu1, eu2) are available alongside US zones. Source, Nov 15, 2026 |
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| Compliance | SOC 2GDPRSource, Nov 15, 2026 | SOC 2GDPRSource, Nov 15, 2026 | SOC 2ISO 27001GDPRSource, Nov 15, 2026 |
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