Observed arrival · 2026-10-07
Workflow Math makes automation billing legible
A calculator estimates monthly costs across six automation platforms from run frequency, action steps, trigger style, and each service’s billing rules.
- For
- People comparing no-code automation platform costs
- Worth noticing
- It models polling intervals as recurring Make credits, even when no workflow event occurs.
Field notes
Users enter monthly workflow runs, action steps per run, and whether the trigger is instant or polls every one, five, or 15 minutes; the page then compares monthly and yearly billing. The displayed example lists six services and the cheapest published plan said to cover the modeled volume. The methodology notes that prices were checked against official pricing pages on 5 October 2026, and says figures are computed from cited pricing data with AI-assisted page writing.
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