airSlate vs Make

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airSlate is built around documents: forms, generation, signature and filing. Make is a visual builder that links thousands of apps with branching logic. Make suits most small teams, airSlate suits document-heavy processes.

The verdict

For a small team that wants to connect its CRM, forms, chat and spreadsheets, pick Make. It handles routers, loops and error handling, and the free plan lets you test your most complex scenario first. Pricing is by credits, not seats, so adding a colleague costs nothing extra.

If your process is a document that has to be generated, negotiated, signed and filed the same way every time, pick airSlate. I would also pick it when the people building the flow are in operations or legal and not technical. If you only need one signature now and then, neither is the right buy.

What the data says
  • Make covers more of the features we compared: 3 of 5, against 2.
  • Only Make has an MCP server, so an AI employee can work in it directly.
  • In our Automation ranking, Make places 3 and airSlate 8 of 11.

Side by side

airSlate and Make compared
9 points compared
Starts atNot known yet$9/mo
Free planNot known yetYes
APIYesYes
MCP serverNoYes
Built-in AIYesYes
Custom code stepsNoYes
Open sourceNoNo
Self-hostingNoNo
Visual builderYesYes
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Plans and pricing

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airSlate

Pricing not in our catalogue yet.

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Make

  • FreeFree with no time limit and up to 1,000 credits a month.Free
  • Core10,000 credits a month with unlimited active scenarios; annual billing saves 15 percent or more.$9/mo
  • Pro10,000 credits a month with custom variables and priority execution; annual billing saves 15 percent or more.$16/mo
  • Teams10,000 credits a month with team management and template sharing; annual billing saves 15 percent or more.$29/mo

Prices as the vendors list them. They change often; the final price is on their sites.

Who each is for

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Choose airSlate if…

Pick Make when your problem is moving data between tools. A lead arrives in a form, lands in the CRM, is announced in chat and is added to a sheet. Make runs that in one scenario, and a visual canvas shows the logic better than a list of steps does.

It connects more than 3,000 apps and has a webhook and API option for the rest. Expect a steeper learning curve than Zapier. Credits are harder to predict, so run a real scenario a few times before you choose a plan.

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Choose Make if…

Pick airSlate when documents drive the work. A typical case is a client onboarding where the agreement is generated from deal data, the client fills a form online, both sides sign and the file is stored without anyone attaching it by hand.

It suits operations, HR, legal and finance teams in small and mid-sized companies. It has no per-user limit, and plans are by quote. Check that you are comparing altaFlow and not the older airSlate pages, since the products have changed.

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