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Guide~12 min

What a 5-Person Team Really Pays for No-Code AI Agents in 2026: Zapier, Make, n8n, Lindy, Gumloop

A five-person team's no-code AI bill depends on the unit: seats, credits or executions. Here is what Zapier, Make, n8n, Lindy and Gumloop cost in practice.

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n8n Pricing Explained (2026): Plans, Executions, and Self-Hosting

Understand n8n pricing in 2026: what counts as an execution, what each cloud plan holds, and when self-hosted licensing changes the cost math for your team.

Comparison~16 min

Retool vs Budibase vs Appsmith: Internal Tool Pricing and Lock-In in 2026

Retool, Budibase and Appsmith meter different units: builders and users, creators and actions, or flat seats. Here is what each tier costs and what it gates.

Review~12 min

Zapier AI Steps Cost 1, 3, or 5 Tasks: The 2026 Cost Math Before You Build

Zapier bills each AI step at 1, 3, or 5 tasks by model tier, and Make's pricing FAQ gives no AI credit multiplier, so run the per-run math before you build.

Guide~14 min

No-Code AI for Education: Lesson Planning, Grading and Student Support โ€” What It Costs and Where Lock-In Bites

What Khanmigo, Gemini for Education and n8n publish on lesson planning, feedback, prices and licence lock-in โ€” quoted exactly, gaps flagged.

Guide~15 min

Supabase โ†” AI: Vector Search and Embeddings for No-Code Builders (2026)

Supabase's vector search is sold as AI-ready, but PostgREST can't run pgvector operators: every documented route needs SQL and an rpc() call.

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โšก Automation Cost Calculator

Per-task and per-op metering is where automation budgets blow up. Drag the slider, see how n8n's documented Business-tier pricing scales against self-hosting your own compute.

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Metering models differ: Zapier charges per task, Make charges per operation, n8n charges per workflow execution. That's why we compare at the execution level and link you to the per-unit breakdowns.

n8n Business (cloud)
$667/mo
documented Business-plan rate (community.n8n.io pricing feedback, r/n8n)
n8n Business at 1M executions
$10,400/mo
documented rate reported by self-hosters (r/n8n)
n8n self-hosted (your VPS)
$0 software
fair-code license: free to self-host; you pay only for compute. See our Docker/VPS walkthrough.
Zapier & Make per-unit rates
pay-per-task model (help.zapier.com); Make ops metering confusion is a top community complaint (community.make.com) โ€” rates change by plan, so we track them in our pricing posts.

Anchor rates are the only documented figures we cite; intermediate values are interpolated linearly between them and labeled as estimates. Full breakdowns: /compare/ ยท licensing context: is no-code dead?

Exit plans & self-hosting

Own your stack: migration and self-host guides, newest first. Scroll sideways for more.

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