- Jan 2025 Rung 3 · Hard allotment
- Now Rung 3 · Hard allotment
Held one rung all window — pattern: Credit burn-rate reprice.
The short version The sticker barely moved — but the meter did. The same work costs more than it used to.
The verdict
Make was and remains a hard-allotment automation product — buy a monthly bucket of operations, and scenarios stop when it empties. The dollar price held flat; the credit burn rate moved. On August 27, 2025 Make renamed "operations" to "credits" at 1:1, but the new unit consumes at variable, model-driven rates for AI-native modules, so an AI-heavy workflow now drains the same allowance faster — the classic stealth reprice. Make softened it on November 6, 2025 (bring-your-own-API-key on all paid plans, lifted ceilings, a unified 25% extra-credit surcharge) — and that BYO-key escape hatch is the tell: Make knows its own AI rates burn fast.
Current pricing snapshot
As published on Make's own pages · captured Sep 21, 2026. Unit: credit.
| Plan | Price / mo | Included | At zero | Top-up vs plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 1,000 | Hard stop | None |
| Core | $10.59 | 10,000 | Hard stop | Yes · price hidden |
| Pro | $18.82 | 10,000 | Hard stop | Yes · price hidden |
| Teams | $34.12 | 10,000 | Hard stop | Yes · price hidden |
- Credit ↔ dollar
- Not pegged — a credit is not a fixed $
- Credit burn rate
- Varies by model / action
- Model choice
- You pick the model
- Free tier
- 1,000 credits, per month
- Billing
- Monthly or annual · 15% off annual
- Included credits
- Expire each cycle
- Purchased credits
- Expire each cycle
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What changed
- Sep 21, 2026 · Credit burn-rate repricing · Seen at the 21 September 2026 capture: Make's help page (updated 21 September 2026) publishes per-model tokens-per-credit rates (gpt-5-nano 18,080 input / 2,260 output; gpt-5-mini 3,616 / 452) in place of June's flat 5,000 / 1,500. (archive)
- Sep 21, 2026 · Price change · Seen at the 21 September 2026 capture: Make's Core / Pro / Teams ladder returned (10,000 credits at $10.59 / $18.82 / $34.12 month-to-month; $9 / $16 / $29 annual) in place of June's single 'Make Plan' at $9 for 5,000 credits; the credit slider's floor rose from 5,000 to 10,000. (archive)
- Nov 6, 2025 · Price change · Per official help center: as of Nov 6, 2025 extra credits carry a 25% surcharge vs in-plan credits (previously manual extra purchases had no surcharge; auto-purchase was +30%). Separately, operations were replaced by credits as the billing unit ('As of August 27'; 1 op = 1 credit, prices unchanged).
- Aug 27, 2025 · Credit burn-rate repricing · Make replaced 'operations' with 'credits' as the billing unit at a 1:1 conversion with no change to plan price; standard modules stayed 1 credit/run, but AI-native modules and code execution now consume credits at variable rates (Make Code = 2 credits/sec; Make AI Provider tiers e.g. 5,000 tokens/credit small, 3,500 medium, 1,500 large) — same dollar price, higher credit burn for AI/code work.
Where it's headed
Sourced from Make's official pricing pages and archived snapshots. Primary: pricing page. Method & limits: Methodology & data.