Move your team from Make to Bardeen.
Each person gets a short interview, then a personalized step-by-step guide showing exactly where their saved work, prompts, and projects land in Bardeen — and the few things that need a manual step, walked through. You send one invite; nobody becomes the help desk, and nothing in Make is changed or cancelled. Want to see where you’re paying for both first? Run the free audit.
Bardeen's AI Qualifier step scores and ranks leads against a described ideal-customer profile, then the AI Text Generation step drafts personalized outreach per row. In Make, the equivalent is an AI agent scenario connecting an OpenAI or Anthropic Claude module to your lead data source: configure a trigger on your CRM or Google Sheet, pass each lead record to the AI module with a prompt that describes your ICP and asks for a qualification score and personalized email draft, then route the output back to your CRM or outreach tool (HubSpot, Salesloft, Lemlist). To migrate: copy your Bardeen ICP description text and use it as the system prompt in Make's OpenAI/Claude module; map the same lead fields (company, title, industry) as inputs. The data flow is nearly identical — the difference is you wire the AI module explicitly on Make's canvas instead of selecting a built-in 'AI Qualifier' step.
- Warning: Bardeen bills AI qualification at 1 credit per row as a flat action; Make's AI modules consume operations per API call AND you pay your own OpenAI/Anthropic API costs separately — total cost depends on model choice and prompt length and may exceed Bardeen's credit cost for high volumes.
- Warning: Bardeen's built-in AI Qualifier provides a pre-tuned ICP ranking prompt; Make gives you a blank AI module with no lead-qualification template, so you must write and test the qualification prompt yourself, which requires more setup time.
Both tools connect to CRM, productivity, and outreach apps and can push workflow output into the user's stack. Bardeen integrates with Google Sheets, Airtable, Notion, Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Apollo.io, Outreach, Salesloft, Lemlist, Monday.com, ClickUp, SmartSuite, and Zoho via a fixed connector library. Make offers 3,500+ connectors covering all of the above apps plus thousands more; any unlisted app can be connected via Make's HTTP module to its REST API. To migrate: for each Bardeen workflow that exports to a CRM or spreadsheet, find the equivalent app module in Make's connector library (all major Bardeen targets are available), replicate the field mappings in Make's module configuration, and connect the module after the data-processing steps. Make's CSV handling works via a dedicated CSV module rather than Bardeen's free CSV export, but the end result is identical structured data output.
- Warning: Bardeen's CSV export is always free (no credit cost); in Make, writing to Google Drive or emailing a CSV file consumes operations like any other module — factor this into operation budgets on lower-tier plans.
- Warning: Bardeen integrations are invoked as steps inside a workflow and support the same apps across all plans; Make gates no connectors by tier, but complex multi-app scenarios may hit operation limits faster on the Free plan (1,000 ops/month).
Bardeen's Enrichment action appends validated phone numbers and emails to each lead row inside a workflow, billed at 3 credits per row. Make does not have a native enrichment engine; instead, connect a third-party enrichment service (Hunter.io, Apollo.io, Clearbit, or Snov.io) via its Make module or HTTP module, and call it once per lead record inside your scenario. Use a Make AI agent scenario to also qualify or score enriched contacts in the same flow. To migrate: export your enriched lead list from Bardeen as a CSV (free), load it into Google Sheets, then build a Make scenario that reads each row, calls your chosen enrichment API, writes the result back to Sheets or directly to your CRM. This replaces the per-row Enrichment step with an explicit API call to the same underlying data providers.
- Warning: Bardeen's Enrichment step is pre-integrated and costs 3 credits per row (roughly $0.03 on the Pro plan); Make requires a separate subscription to an enrichment service (Hunter.io Free tier covers 25 searches/month; paid tiers start at ~$34/month), so total cost depends on volume and provider choice.
- Warning: Bardeen validates both phone and email in a single step; in Make you may need two separate API calls (one for email, one for phone) depending on which enrichment provider you use, doubling operation counts for that step.
Bardeen's no-code scraper runs in the browser extension to extract structured data from web pages — describe what to extract and the AI builds the scraper template, with support for pagination and form interaction. Make does not have a native browser-based web scraper; instead, use Make's HTTP module to fetch publicly accessible pages (HTML) and then use a Text Parser or AI module to extract the fields you need. For pages requiring login or JavaScript rendering, use a third-party scraping service (e.g. Apify, Browserless) connected via Make's HTTP module. To migrate a Bardeen scraper: identify each field being extracted, map it to an HTTP GET or the scraping service's API call in Make, parse the response, and route the structured rows to your Google Sheet or CRM module downstream. AI agent scenarios in Make can then enrich or qualify those rows automatically in the same flow.
- Warning: Bardeen's scraper runs from the user's own machine and browser session, bypassing many bot-detection measures; Make's server-side HTTP requests are more likely to be rate-limited or blocked by anti-scraping defenses, so a proxy or third-party scraping service is often necessary and adds cost.
- Warning: Bardeen charges 1 credit per scraped row; Make bills operations per module execution, and adding a scraping service adds its own per-request cost — budget accordingly for large lists.
- Warning: Bardeen supports on-click and on-hover element interaction during scraping; Make's HTTP module cannot simulate user interaction and cannot handle JavaScript-heavy single-page apps without a headless browser service.
Both tools let non-technical users build multi-step automations without hand-coding logic. In Bardeen, type a plain-English goal into the Magic Box field, click 'Let our AI assistant build it for you', review the generated workflow steps, and save. In Make, the equivalent is the visual canvas where you drag-and-drop modules and connect them — Make also supports building via natural language prompts on the canvas. To migrate from Bardeen: export your Bardeen workflow's steps as a reference (screenshot or notes on which apps are triggered in which order), then recreate it in Make by adding the equivalent app modules and connecting them. Bardeen's AI-generated templates map directly to Make's scenario structure: each step becomes a module, each data mapping becomes a field reference between modules. Run a single test execution in Make to verify the data flow before cutting over.
- Warning: Bardeen's Magic Box generates workflows that run in the browser extension context (on-page data from the active tab); Make scenarios run server-side in the cloud, so any step that requires reading a live browser page cannot be replicated 1-to-1 — you must replace those steps with HTTP or scraper modules that fetch data remotely.
- Warning: Bardeen workflow templates are triggered manually or on a schedule from the browser extension; Make can run on webhooks and 1-minute intervals (Core plan+), but the Free tier is limited to 15-minute minimum intervals, which may not suit time-sensitive automations.