What automation actually costs once you read the meter. Tasks, operations, credits, seats and premium connectors, with the arithmetic shown.
Make's pricing page now states the conversion outright: one module action equals one credit. Here is the full USD price ladder at…
A Zapier task is one successful action step, so a five-step Zap with a trigger, a filter and a Formatter step bills 2 tasks per…
A 20 to 50 person company should budget roughly $140 to $270 a month in automation software across the three stacks priced here…
Self-hosting n8n runs about $29 to $46 a month in servers at prices re-read on 28 October 2026, and n8n Cloud Pro costs €50, about…
An agent triaging 500 support emails a month runs between about 56 cents and $56 in tokens, a hundred-fold spread for identical…
Hours saved times an hourly rate overstates automation ROI by more than two times, because it assumes full coverage, no oversight…
Using June 2026 federal employer cost data, a workflow costing about $2,600 to build and run for a year breaks even at roughly 1…
Free tiers on the major automation platforms are sized for one or two low-frequency workflows, and the wall is usually structural…
Zapier bills successful actions, Make bills every module run including trigger checks, and n8n bills whole workflow runs. The same…
For a five-person company running three modest automations, the software runs about $45 to $110 a month at September 2026 list…