The Make alternative you describe instead of drawing
Switch if your scenarios have become the business and the canvas is hard to keep up with: Cheqq builds the records, the steps and the page from one description, as steps you can read. Stay with Make if automation alone is the job: it costs less, includes unlimited users, and connects to more than 3,000 apps.
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What Make is forA visual automation platform: scenarios drawn module by module on a canvas, more than 3,000 apps, AI agents, and Maia, an AI co-worker that builds scenarios from a prompt, in public beta on paid plans since August 2026.
A workspace that builds the whole process from a description: the records it works on, the steps that run it and the page your customers use, written as steps you can read rather than a diagram you maintain.
Why people move from Make
Nothing here is a knock on Make. These are the points at which a tool stops being the right shape for the job, whichever tool it is.
Every item is a credit
Make counts each module each time it runs, once for every item it handles, and a polling trigger spends credits on every check, even when nothing is new: every 5 minutes is 288 credits a day.
“…I realized how operations work and that my Scenario eats up 30 Operations per execution. Thats nearly 9000 if I want to update my whole contact List. This sadly renders my Scenario too expensive…”
Make Community, The canvas gets hard to read
Iterators, aggregators and routers pile up, and a scenario that grew for a year is hard for anyone but its author to follow.
“In this example, I’m only using 3 aggregators, but in some other use cases I would be using 10 or more which makes the whole scenario quite messy”
Make Community, Error handling module by module
Keeping a long scenario reliable means attaching error handlers to the modules that can fail, one at a time.
“I am building complex scenarios with many modules. Currently, to ensure reliability, I have to manually attach an error handler route to every single module individually.”
Make Community, The records live elsewhere
Make's data stores hold 10 MB for every 10,000 credits. Customers and orders beyond that live in another app, with its own bill.
Cheqq vs Make, row by row
In plain terms. Where Make is the stronger answer, the row says so.
| Capability | Cheqq | Make |
|---|---|---|
| Apps it connectsMake | Cheqq Fewer ready-made connections. Any REST API or MCP server can be connected by hand. | Make More than 3,000 standard apps and 350 AI apps, plus custom apps. |
| PriceMake | Cheqq Pro is $16 a seat a month, billed yearly, with 20,000 step-runs a seat. Each editor takes a seat. | Make Core from $9 a month billed yearly, for 10,000 credits, with unlimited users on every plan. |
| Building itEven | Cheqq Describe the process and Cheqq builds the records, the steps and the page together, as steps you can read. | Make Draw it module by module on the canvas, or ask Maia to build it from a prompt (public beta on paid plans). |
| What a run countsEven | Cheqq Every step in the workflow is a step-run each time it runs. | Make Each module run is a credit, once for every item it handles. Routers and error handlers are free; a polling trigger spends credits on every check. |
| Where the records liveCheqq | Cheqq Records with relations, views and AI columns, in the same workspace: 50,000 a seat on Pro. | Make Data stores: 10 MB of storage for every 10,000 credits. |
| Run historyCheqq | Cheqq Every step of every run, kept 90 days on Pro and a year on Business. | Make Execution logs: 30 days on Core, Pro and Teams, 60 on Enterprise. |
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What the same work costs
One person runs order intake: about 2,000 form entries a month. Each is saved, the owner told and the customer emailed. No step uses AI.
| Make Core, 10,000 credits4 credits an entry (the trigger and three modules): 8,000 a month; billed yearly | $9 |
|---|---|
| A month | $9 |
| A year | $108 |
| Cheqq Pro, 1 seat$16 × 1, billed yearly | $16 |
|---|---|
| Step-runs for 2,000 runs3 steps a run: 6,000 of the 20,000 included | $0 |
| A month | $16 |
| A year | $192 |
- Both billed yearly. For automation alone, Make costs less.
- Make includes unlimited users on every plan, so the gap grows with the team: each Cheqq editor takes a seat.
- Make's figure keeps the entries in its data stores; Cheqq's includes 50,000 records and the page the entries come from.
- Prices as each company published them on , in US dollars before tax. The sources are at the foot of the page.
What you would build instead
Sentences you could type on your first afternoon, and what comes back.
Say what it does, and read it back as steps.
The scenario with forty modules becomes a workflow written as steps in order: what starts it, what each step does and where it goes next. Every run is recorded step by step.
Keep the records where the work happens.
Customers, orders and stock become records with relations and views, in the same place as the steps that change them. There is no other app to sync and no second bill for the data.
status = "open"Take the entries on your own page.
The form that fed the scenario becomes a page at its own address that writes straight into your records and starts the workflow. It can touch only the fields you list.
Moving from Make
Export the scenario
In Make's scenario builder, open the three-dot menu and choose Export blueprint. The .blueprint.json holds the modules and their settings, not your connections.
Describe it to Cheqq
Say what the scenario does, or attach its blueprint to the chat for Cheqq to read. You read the steps before you switch them on.
Connect the services again
Connections aren't in a blueprint, so you connect the services the steps use, once.
Run both while you move
A Make scenario can call a Cheqq workflow's webhook, so you can move one scenario at a time.
Once Cheqq has built it, you can ask someone on our team to check it.
When to stay with Make
Automation alone, for less
If the job is moving data between apps you'll keep, Make does it for less, with unlimited users on every plan.
You think on the canvas
If you like seeing and wiring every module yourself, the canvas is built for exactly that.
You need its apps
More than 3,000 standard apps and 350 AI apps is a library we can't match.
Switching from Make
Can Cheqq import a Make scenario?
Not as a file import. Attach the scenario's blueprint to a chat or say what it does, and Cheqq builds it as steps you review before they run. Connections aren't in a blueprint, so you connect the services again.
Is Cheqq cheaper than Make?
For automation alone, usually not: Make starts at $9 a month for 10,000 credits and includes unlimited users. Cheqq's price covers the records, the steps and the pages in one place, and each editor takes a seat.
How is a step-run different from a credit?
Make counts each module each time it runs, once for every item it handles, and polling triggers count every check. Cheqq counts each step in a workflow each time the workflow runs.
What does Cheqq cost?
Pro is $16 a seat a month billed yearly, or $20 monthly. Each seat includes 20,000 step-runs and 7,500 AI credits a month. Viewers are free, and people using a page you publish never take a seat.
Sources
- Make — Pricing — checked
- Make Help — Credits as the new billing unit — checked
- Make Help — Operations — checked
- Make Help — Scheduling a scenario — checked
- Make Help — Extra credits — checked
- Make Help — Meet Maia — checked
- Make Help — Blueprints — checked
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vs ManusSay what it does. Read it back as steps.
Describe your busiest scenario, read the steps Cheqq writes, and switch them on when they're right. Free to start.