Microsoft Power Automate vs Make.com

Detailed side-by-side comparison to help you choose the right tool

Microsoft Power Automate

automation

A cloud-based process automation platform that enables users to create automated workflows between applications and services to streamline business processes.

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Custom

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Make.com

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automation

Make.com: Visual automation platform with AI integration and workflow orchestration

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Free

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Feature Comparison

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Feature	Microsoft Power Automate	Make.com
Category	automation	automation
Pricing Plans	8 tiers	4 tiers
Starting Price		Free
Key Features	• Cloud flows for app-to-app automation • Attended and unattended desktop flows (RPA) • Copilot in Power Automate (natural language flow authoring)	• Workflow Runtime • Tool and API Connectivity • State and Context Handling

💡 Our Take

Choose Power Automate when your automations must touch legacy Windows apps, SAP, or Dynamics 365 and you need enterprise governance, Entra ID security, and $15/user/month Premium licensing bundled with Microsoft 365. Choose Make if you want a highly visual scenario builder with more generous free tiers and cheaper ops-based pricing for cross-cloud SaaS automation.

Microsoft Power Automate - Pros & Cons

Pros

✓Tight, native integration with Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, SharePoint, Teams, and Azure makes it the default choice inside Microsoft-standardized enterprises
✓Combines cloud automation, attended and unattended RPA, AI Builder, and process mining in a single licensed platform instead of forcing separate vendors
✓Generative AI via Copilot in Power Automate has delivered up to 60% time savings and 50% cost savings in published customer stories such as Nsure
✓Proven at scale with enterprise references — Uber reports 3,400 hours and $30M saved annually, CoreLogic reports 50,000 hours saved and a 5x cost reduction
✓Premium plan at $15.00/user/month (annual) is competitive against standalone iPaaS and RPA vendors that frequently charge $20–$50+ per user
✓Large Microsoft partner ecosystem and mature governance tooling (Dataverse, DLP policies, environments) suit regulated industries

Cons

✗Licensing is notoriously complex — Premium user licenses, per-bot Process licenses at $150.00/bot/month, AI Builder credits, and premium connector fees can stack up quickly
✗Unattended RPA (Power Automate Process) starts at $150.00 per bot per month, making large RPA fleets expensive compared to open-source alternatives
✗Strongest value is realized only inside the Microsoft ecosystem; teams on Google Workspace or AWS-first stacks get less out of the native integrations
✗Learning curve for desktop flows, Dataverse, and environment/ALM governance is steep for non-IT business users despite the low-code marketing
✗Some premium connectors and AI Builder features require add-on capacity purchases beyond the base per-user license

Make.com - Pros & Cons

Pros

✓Visual workflow builder
✓3,000+ app integrations
✓Make AI integration
✓Make Grid orchestration

Cons

✗Learning curve
✗Pricing consideration
✗Technical requirements

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🔒 Security & Compliance Comparison

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Security Feature	Microsoft Power Automate	Make.com
SOC2	—	✅ Yes
GDPR	—	✅ Yes
HIPAA	—	✅ Yes
SSO	—	✅ Yes
Self-Hosted	—	❌ No
On-Prem	—	❌ No
RBAC	—	✅ Yes
Audit Log	—	✅ Yes
Open Source	—	❌ No
API Key Auth	—	✅ Yes
Encryption at Rest	—	✅ Yes
Encryption in Transit	—	✅ Yes
Data Residency	—	US, EU
Data Retention	—	configurable

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