Move your team from Zapier Agents to Make.
Each person gets a short interview, then a personalized step-by-step guide showing exactly where their saved work, prompts, and projects land in Make — and the few things that need a manual step, walked through. You send one invite; nobody becomes the help desk, and nothing in Zapier Agents is changed or cancelled. Want to see where you’re paying for both first? Run the free audit.
Both platforms let non-technical users build autonomous AI agents without code. In Make, agents live on the same canvas as regular scenarios — add AI modules, connect them to app triggers, and set goals and reasoning steps visually. In Zapier Agents, open the Agents web app, describe what the agent should do, and Zapier Copilot scaffolds the configuration (instructions, tools, knowledge base). To migrate from Make to Zapier Agents: export or document each Make AI scenario's goal, the apps it touches, and the decision logic; recreate the agent in Zapier Agents by pasting the goal as instructions, granting access to the same apps, and configuring the equivalent tool actions. Going the other direction (Zapier Agents to Make): note the agent's instructions and tool list, then build a Make scenario using the corresponding app modules and an AI module (e.g. OpenAI or Claude) to handle reasoning steps.
- Warning: Make AI agents integrate with 400+ AI providers including Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Google Gemini, and DeepSeek; Zapier Agents does not expose the choice of underlying LLM to the user — the model is selected by Zapier.
- Warning: Make AI agents are available on the Core plan ($10.59/month) and above; Zapier Agents pricing is separate from Zapier's core automation plans, so teams may face an additional subscription cost.
- Warning: Make agents produce step-by-step reasoning traces visible on the canvas; Zapier Agents surfaces activity logs per run but does not expose intermediate reasoning steps in the same granular way.
Make and Zapier Agents both rely on their respective connector libraries — Make offers 3,500+ verified connectors while Zapier Agents draws on Zapier's 9,000+ app integrations. Both use OAuth-based authentication stored once per account. To migrate from Make to Zapier Agents: list all apps used in your Make scenarios (visible in the integrations panel), re-authenticate each app in Zapier Agents under Settings > Connected Accounts, then grant each agent access to the relevant apps. Going from Zapier Agents to Make: check which apps the agent has tool access to, find each in Make's app library (make.com/en/integrations), and connect them using Make's standard module connection flow. Any app missing from Make's library can be reached via Make's HTTP module using the app's REST API.
- Warning: Make's library is smaller (3,500+ connectors) than Zapier's (9,000+); niche apps supported by Zapier may not have a verified Make connector and would require the HTTP module as a fallback.
- Warning: In Make, all integrations are available on every plan including Free; in Zapier Agents, the number of connected apps an agent can use may be subject to plan limits not currently documented per-tier.
- Warning: Zapier Agents inherits OAuth tokens from the Zapier platform account; if a team member authorized an app in Zapier core, that authorization is reusable in Agents — Make connections are separate and must be re-established independently.
Both tools can run automations on a schedule or in response to real-time app events. In Make, a scenario trigger is either a schedule (set interval) or a webhook (event-based); in Zapier Agents, an agent operates in autonomous mode when given a trigger such as a new Zendesk ticket, an incoming email, or a scheduled time. To migrate a scheduled Make scenario to Zapier Agents: identify the scenario's trigger interval and the actions it performs, create a Zapier Agent with the equivalent instructions, set an event trigger from the same source app (e.g. 'new row in Google Sheets'), and configure the agent to perform the same downstream actions as tools. Going from Zapier Agents to Make: note the agent's trigger app and event, add a matching trigger module in Make, then connect the action modules that replicate the agent's tool calls.
- Warning: Make Free plan enforces a 15-minute minimum run interval; Core and above allow 1-minute intervals. Zapier Agents does not publish equivalent polling frequency limits in its public documentation.
- Warning: Make supports webhook-triggered scenarios that fire in true real-time; Zapier Agents autonomous triggers rely on Zapier's underlying polling frequency for the connected app, which varies by plan and app.
- Warning: Make scenarios cap execution time at 40 minutes on Core+ plans; long-running Zapier Agent tasks may face different (undocumented) timeouts for autonomous runs.
Both products provide run-by-run visibility into what an agent or scenario did. In Make, execution logs are accessible directly from the scenario canvas — each run shows step-by-step results, input/output data per module, and for AI agents, reasoning traces. In Zapier Agents, the activity monitoring surface in the web app shows per-step logs: which apps were called, what inputs were passed, and what outputs were received. When switching from Make to Zapier Agents: review and export any relevant Make execution history before cutover (Make does not expose a bulk log export, so take screenshots or notes for compliance purposes); after switching, use Zapier Agents' activity log to validate the agent behaves as expected. Going from Zapier Agents to Make: no data migration is needed for logs — logs are product-native and non-portable; rebuild the scenario in Make and verify new runs against expected behavior.
- Warning: Make's full-text execution log search (querying across historical runs by keyword or data value) requires the Pro plan ($21/month); Zapier Agents does not advertise equivalent searchable log history.
- Warning: Make AI agent runs include step-by-step reasoning traces showing the model's decision path; Zapier Agents activity logs show tool calls and outputs but do not expose the model's intermediate reasoning.
- Warning: Neither platform provides a structured log export API for compliance purposes at documented standard tiers; organizations with audit requirements should verify this with each vendor before migration.
Both platforms accelerate setup with pre-built starting points — Make through its visual canvas and a library of scenario templates, Zapier Agents through 10+ pre-configured agent blueprints. In Make, templates are scenario configurations you can clone onto the canvas and customize by swapping apps and adjusting module settings. In Zapier Agents, templates pre-populate an agent's instructions, tools, and behaviors; after selecting a template (e.g. 'Zendesk ticket auto-response' or 'enterprise lead qualification'), users connect their own apps and refine instructions. To migrate a Make scenario template to Zapier Agents: identify the closest Zapier Agents template matching the scenario's use case, instantiate it, then adapt instructions and tool grants to match your Make scenario logic. Going from Zapier Agents to Make: the visual canvas lets you rebuild the same workflow by adding trigger, action, and AI modules; Make's template library may also have a close match for common use cases like lead enrichment or content generation.
- Warning: Make's canvas builder supports complex branching, looping, and error-handling paths that Zapier Agents' instruction-based model does not replicate directly — agents use AI judgment rather than explicit routing logic.
- Warning: Zapier Agents templates cover ~10 documented use cases; Make's template library is substantially larger and covers a wider range of non-AI workflow patterns that have no agent equivalent.
- Warning: Make templates are scenario-based (deterministic steps); Zapier Agents templates are instruction-based (the agent decides how to execute), so the same business outcome may be reached via different execution paths and results are less predictable.