Move your team from Make to n8n.
Each person gets a short interview, then a personalized step-by-step guide showing exactly where their saved work, prompts, and projects land in n8n — 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.
Both platforms let you build autonomous AI agents on the same canvas you use for regular automations. In Make, agents live under the AI Automation section and are constructed with the module-based canvas; each agent module chains calls to LLMs (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek) with data-fetch and action modules. In n8n, agents are discrete cluster nodes (Conversational, ReAct, Plan-and-Execute, SQL, Tools, OpenAI Functions) wired into standard workflows. To migrate from Make to n8n: export your scenario as a template and use it as the map; re-create each LLM call using n8n's OpenAI or Anthropic nodes; wire in memory backends (Redis, Postgres) via n8n's native memory nodes; replace Make's file-processing modules with n8n's binary-data or read-file nodes. To migrate from n8n to Make: identify which agent architecture you used and map it to Make's adaptive reasoning module; replicate tool calls using Make's 400+ AI-app integrations; note that Make uses credits per operation rather than n8n's per-seat pricing. Keep reasoning traces available in both: Make exposes step-by-step agent logs on the canvas; n8n shows inline node output after each step.
- Warning: Make agents require Core plan or above; n8n agents are available on all paid plans including Starter. If you are on Make's free tier you cannot use agents at all.
- Warning: n8n ships six named agent architectures (including SQL Agent and Plan-and-Execute) as selectable node types; Make does not expose named architectures — the agent reasons adaptively without the user choosing a pattern. Workflows designed around a specific architecture (e.g., ReAct) may behave differently after migration.
- Warning: n8n's memory backends (Redis, MongoDB, Postgres, Zep) and vector stores (Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate) are native nodes; Make relies on connected external tools for equivalent state persistence. You will need to provision these backends separately when moving from Make to n8n.
Make ships 3,500+ connectors; n8n ships 1,866 native nodes. Most business-critical integrations (Google Sheets, Gmail, Slack, HubSpot, Salesforce, Airtable, Stripe, Shopify, Notion, GitHub) are native on both sides, so the majority of scenarios can be migrated without custom API work. Migration steps: audit your Make scenario for every app module in use; check each app against n8n.io/integrations; for any app not in n8n's library use the HTTP Request node with the same credentials and REST endpoints Make was calling. In the opposite direction, any n8n HTTP Request node that calls a REST API can be replaced by Make's built-in HTTP module. Both platforms access all connectors on all paid tiers — there are no tier-gated integrations on either side. Re-enter OAuth credentials on the destination platform after migration (credentials are not portable between platforms).
- Warning: Make has roughly 1,600 more pre-built connectors than n8n (3,500+ vs 1,866). Niche apps (some marketing platforms, regional ERPs, specialty SaaS tools) present in Make's library may require a manual HTTP Request workaround in n8n.
- Warning: Make integrations expose trigger, action, and search module types; n8n nodes may expose only action and trigger types for the same service, requiring a Lookup/Search step to be replaced with a filtered List node or an HTTP call to the service's search endpoint.
- Warning: OAuth tokens and API keys stored in Make's connection vault must be re-authorized in n8n's credential store. There is no credential export/import format shared between the platforms.
Both platforms maintain execution history that shows which step ran, what data it received, and whether it errored. Make surfaces logs directly on the scenario canvas; n8n shows inline node-by-node output in the workflow editor. Migrating from Make to n8n: enable execution history in n8n Settings; configure an Error Trigger workflow in n8n to handle failures (equivalent to Make's error handlers); optionally wire the Error Trigger to a Slack or email node for alerting — something Make does via scenario error-notification settings. Migrating from n8n to Make: replace n8n's Code node error-handling logic with Make's built-in error-handler routes on each module. For AI agent runs specifically, Make's reasoning traces show step-by-step agent decisions; n8n shows the same data as inline node output after each agent-cluster node runs.
- Warning: Make's full-text log search (query across historical runs by keyword) requires the Pro plan ($21/month); n8n's searchable execution history requires Pro (7-day window), Business (30 days), or Enterprise (365 days). Free/Starter tiers on both platforms provide no historical log search.
- Warning: n8n's Starter plan has no execution history window beyond the live run — you cannot review a failed run after it completes. Make's Free plan also shows only basic run results without searchable logs. Migrating to n8n Starter is a downgrade in log visibility versus Make Core or above.
- Warning: n8n supports single-step execution (pause at a specific node and inspect state) during workflow building; Make requires a full scenario run and then inspecting the post-run log. This difference affects how developers debug complex logic after migration.
Both platforms gate enterprise security features (SSO, advanced compliance controls) behind higher-tier plans. Migrating from Make to n8n for security reasons: if your requirement is data residency or full infrastructure control, n8n's self-hosted Business or Enterprise tier (run on your own Docker/Kubernetes) eliminates data leaving your environment — Make offers no self-hosted option. If your requirement is SSO, both platforms support it on enterprise tiers; n8n adds SAML and LDAP on its Business plan. To switch: export Make scenario templates and credentials references; stand up n8n on your infrastructure or sign up for n8n Business cloud; re-import workflows; configure your IdP against n8n's SSO settings. Migrating from n8n to Make for security: Make Enterprise provides SSO and domain claim; contact Make sales for compliance documentation since Make does not publish a SOC 2 certification page, whereas n8n publishes SOC 2 compliance for its cloud service.
- Warning: n8n cloud is SOC 2 certified; Make does not prominently publish a SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification. Organizations in regulated industries (healthcare, finance) should request Make's security documentation before migrating onto the platform.
- Warning: Make has no self-hosted deployment option — all execution happens on Make's cloud infrastructure. If data residency is a hard requirement, n8n self-hosted is the only path on either platform.
- Warning: SSO on Make requires the Enterprise plan (custom pricing); SSO on n8n requires the Business plan (€667/month billed annually). The entry price for SSO is substantially different — verify current plan costs with each vendor before using this as a migration driver.
Make calls its unit a scenario; n8n calls it a workflow — both are drag-and-drop node/module graphs. Migrating from Make to n8n: list every module in your scenario (trigger, actions, searches, filters, routers); find the matching n8n node in the integrations library (n8n.io/integrations); recreate branching with n8n's Switch or IF nodes (Make's Router and Filter have direct equivalents); insert a Code node for any logic that was in a Make function. Migrating from n8n to Make: import credentials into Make's connection vault; map each n8n node to a Make module; replace JavaScript Code nodes with Make's built-in functions or a custom HTTP module call. Both canvases support loops, filters, and error-handling branches, so structural complexity translates 1-to-1, but syntax for expressions differs (Make uses double-curly notation; n8n uses its own expression editor with dollar-sign variables).
- Warning: Make's canvas supports natural-language scenario creation ('build this for me'); n8n's canvas does not have a built-in NL-to-workflow generator as of mid-2026 — you build manually or via the n8n API.
- Warning: n8n's canvas lets you test individual nodes in isolation with immediate output feedback; Make requires running the full scenario or using the scenario-run history to inspect intermediate data. This affects debugging workflow during migration.
- Warning: Expression syntax is incompatible: Make uses {{module.value}} style; n8n uses {{ $node['NodeName'].json.field }} style. All expressions must be rewritten when switching platforms.
Both platforms support scheduled runs and real-time webhook triggers. Migrating scheduled scenarios from Make to n8n: open the workflow in n8n and add a Schedule Trigger node; set the cron expression to match the Make interval; note the minimum interval on each plan (see gotchas). Migrating webhook-triggered scenarios: in Make, copy the webhook URL from the trigger module; in n8n, add a Webhook node, copy its URL, and update the sending service to POST to the new URL; deactivate the old Make scenario after confirming n8n is receiving events. Migrating from n8n to Make: add a Scheduler or Webhook module as the first module in a new scenario; replicate the interval or webhook endpoint; update the sending service. Both platforms also support app-event triggers (e.g., new Gmail email, new Airtable row) — these are the respective native trigger modules and should be re-authenticated on the destination platform.
- Warning: Make Free plan enforces a 15-minute minimum scheduling interval; Make Core and above allow 1-minute intervals. n8n does not publish a per-plan minimum interval — concurrent execution slots (5 on Starter, 20 on Pro, 200+ on Enterprise) are the binding constraint for high-frequency schedules.
- Warning: Make caps simultaneous active scenarios at 2 on the Free plan (unlimited on paid); n8n limits concurrent executions rather than active workflow count, which changes how resource pressure manifests under load. A team used to Make's scenario-count limit should model n8n capacity in terms of concurrent slots instead.
- Warning: n8n supports sub-workflow triggers (calling a workflow from another workflow as a node); Make's equivalent is chaining scenarios via webhooks or the Scenario Runner module, which adds latency. Designs that rely heavily on sub-workflow fan-out will need adaptation.