Make pricing and credits explained

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Each row is a Make credit tier from the pricing table. Free, Core, Pro, and Teams are separate ladders. The monthly column is the price billed month to month. The annual column is the monthly price when billed annually. Cost per credit divides that stored price by the credit allowance. It is not a separate vendor price.

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How credits are counted

The rules below are stated on Make's help pages. Each rule links to the page it comes from. This section does not add run counts or benchmarks.

What a credit is

Credits replaced operations as Make's billing unit. The price of a credit depends on the plan. For non-AI apps, 1 operation equals 1 credit. How features use credits says apps other than the built-in AI apps use a fixed rate of 1 credit per operation. Credits says that default rate does not change with input size or the amount of data transferred, and that most apps use it.

Operations and bundles

Operations defines an operation as one module run that processes data or checks for new data. A trigger runs once per check, however many bundles it returns. An action runs once per bundle, so bundles from an earlier module multiply the operations in later modules.

Credits by module

• Trigger modules use 1 credit per run, including a check that finds no new data. How features use credits
• A polling trigger checks for new data on the scenario's schedule. A scheduled run that returns no data is a check run. Types of modules That check still uses 1 credit, because a trigger uses 1 credit even when it finds nothing. How features use credits
• Search modules use 1 credit per run, even when they return more than one bundle. How features use credits
• Action modules use 1 credit per input bundle. How features use credits
• Aggregator modules use 1 credit for each aggregation. Iterator modules use 1 credit to split an array, and the next modules use 1 credit for each bundle that split produces. How features use credits
• These modules use no credits: router modules and filters; error handlers Rollback, Break, Resume, Commit, and Ignore; the scenario modules Call a subscenario, Start a scenario, Return output, and Customize run name; and Make Functions modules. How features use credits

When one operation is not one credit

• The Make Code app uses 2 credits per second of execution time. How features use credits
• Some Make AI Content Extractor modules use a fixed amount above 1 credit per operation. Make marks those modules. Credits
• Built-in AI apps can add credits for tokens, file size, pages, or run time. The amount depends on the connection: Make's AI Provider bills tokens and operations; a custom AI provider bills operations while the provider bills tokens; an automatic AI provider bills tokens, operations, and other usage. Credits How features use credits
• Third-party AI apps such as OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, and Gemini use 1 credit per operation. Modules on an automatic AI provider connection also include token usage. Credits

Worked example

The calculator default is 5,000 runs a month and 5 action steps per run. For Make it counts 5,000 × 6 = 30,000 credits. That is runs × (steps + 1), the formula on the methodology page: one credit for the trigger and one credit for each action step, when each of those modules processes one bundle. It is not a measured Make scenario. Extra bundles, a polling check that finds nothing, Make Code, and AI usage can use a different number of credits, as the help pages above describe.

The Core tier that covers 30,000 credits is 40,000 credits at $51.00 billed monthly, or $38.00 per month billed annually. On these stored prices, the calculator's cheapest Make plan for this workload is that Core tier.

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