Automation cost calculator: Make credits and n8n executions
Model monthly jobs, billable actions and full reruns. Calculate Make credits separately from n8n workflow executions, with monthly and annual plan costs.
Make credits and n8n executions are different units. We show both formulas because actions and rerun behaviour affect usage differently. Plans in different currencies are not ranked by price.
Your estimate
estimated per month
Make Core 10k · monthly billing
- Required usage
- 5,500 credits
- Monthly included allowance
- 10,000 credits
- Unused allowance
- 4,500 credits
- Above allowance
- 0 credits
- Base cost
- USD 10.59
- Extra cost for this month
- USD 0.00
Full reruns: ceil(1,000 × 10 ÷ 100) = 100
n8n: 1,000 + 100 = 1,100 executions
Make: ceil((1,000 + 100) × 5 × 1 + 0) = 5,500 credits
Make extras assume manual purchases in 1,000-credit blocks at 25% above the base unit rate. Auto-purchase uses different, 10,000-credit blocks.
Usage and blocks round up; money estimates round up to two decimal places. Taxes, FX conversion, external APIs and maintenance/editing labour are excluded. Annual plans add only this month’s extras, not twelve months of extra purchases.
How to use this estimate
Separate jobs from billable actions
For 1,000 monthly jobs, five actions per job and ten full reruns per hundred jobs, there are 100 reruns and 1,100 workflow executions. Assuming one Make credit per action gives 5,500 credits; n8n uses 1,100 workflow executions. Five steps do not multiply n8n executions by five.
Check branches, polling and retry behaviour
For Make, enter the average actions that actually run and consume credits, including bundles and loops. Do not automatically count free routers or error handlers. Add polling credits that are not already in your jobs. For n8n, distinguish a node retry inside one execution from a separately restarted workflow.
Match the billing period and extra-purchase block
Make Core annual billing prepays twelve months of base cost while its credits reset monthly. Our extra-cost model uses the documented manual 1,000-credit blocks and 25% surcharge. It does not model 10,000-credit auto-purchases, annual credit pools on other plans or purchases triggered by data-transfer limits. n8n extra-execution pricing is unverified here, so an over-limit result asks you to check a larger plan or enter your own quote.
What is outside the estimate
This is an estimate from your inputs. Check plan availability, features, commercial-use conditions, concurrency, storage, taxes and currency fees separately. External LLMs/APIs, servers and editing or operations labour are excluded. Inputs are calculated in this browser; this tool does not purchase or subscribe to a service.
Published rates and official sources
Checked: 2026-10-28 · Regular prices; introductory promotions are excluded.
| Plan | Monthly base | Billing | Monthly allowance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make Free | USD 0.00 | Monthly billing | 1,000 credits |
| Make Core 10k | USD 10.59 | Monthly billing | 10,000 credits |
| Make Core 10k | USD 9.00 | Annual billing, monthly equivalent | 10,000 credits |
| n8n Cloud Starter | EUR 24.00 | Monthly billing | 2,500 executions |
| n8n Cloud Starter | EUR 20.00 | Annual billing, monthly equivalent | 2,500 executions |
| n8n Cloud Pro | EUR 60.00 | Monthly billing | 10,000 executions |
| n8n Cloud Pro | EUR 50.00 | Annual billing, monthly equivalent | 10,000 executions |