Make alternative
Make's free tier caps polling at every 15 minutes — hot leads cool off before you see them. And every step in a scenario burns operations. TinyCommand bills per run, triggers instantly, and bundles the forms + DB + agents + email those workflows need.
No credit card · Per-run pricing · No artificial polling delay
“If you like Make, you'll love this. It takes Make's approach and layers in AI assistance to help you build and complete workflows. There's some manual setup, but that's expected with tools like this. It's not magic — it's infrastructure.”
Why teams switch
Make's free tier polls at 15-minute minimum intervals. Lead form submitted? You see it 14 minutes later. TinyCommand triggers immediately on free.
A 5-step scenario in Make burns 5 ops per execution. The same workflow in TinyCommand counts as 1 run. You hit Make's free ceiling in week 2; in TinyCommand you stay free much longer.
Make connects to your forms, DB, and email — every one is a connection to set up. TinyCommand IS them. The workflow just reads and writes; no field-mapping wizards.
Side-by-side
Honest feature parity where it exists. Concrete gaps where it doesn’t.
Where it fits
When the data layer is part of the same product, the workflow gets shorter, faster, and cheaper.
Real flows
Form submission triggers instant lookup + Slack alert. Make's free tier polls every 15 minutes — your hot leads cool off before you see them.
5-step scenario in Make = 5 operations per run × 100 runs/day = 15,000 ops/mo = paid tier. Same workflow in TinyCommand = 1 run × 100/day = comfortable on free.
New deal closes → workflow generates SOW from a template, signs via DocuSign API, emails the customer, logs to your table.
Every payment in Stripe creates an invoice line in your accounting tool, updates the customer table, and posts to a Slack channel.
Switching from Make
Email us your Make account and our team rebuilds your setup in TinyCommand, preserves the logic and design, and helps you wire up the workflows. Live within a week.
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Three concrete differences: (1) workflows here share a data layer with forms, tables, agents, email — no 'connect to Typeform' wizard for every scenario; (2) we bill per completed run, not per operation, so a 5-step workflow doesn't burn 5x the budget; (3) no minimum polling interval cap on the free tier — Make limits free to every-15-minutes triggers, which kills real-time use cases.
Honest: Make has ~1,500 integrations, we have 458. For the high-traffic apps (Slack, Stripe, HubSpot, Salesforce, Notion, Airtable, all major email/CRM/payment platforms) we both cover. For long-tail or obscure apps, Make has more. Worth checking our integrations directory for your specific stack before deciding.
Yes — connect your Make account and we import the scenario structure, triggers, routers, and module configs. Steps that use TinyCommand products map natively; third-party app steps continue to use our integrations. Anything we can't auto-translate, our team rebuilds in your first week.
Yes — conditional branching, parallel paths, loops, error handlers, sub-workflows. The visual builder handles the same shape of automations Make's Pro tier does.
Make's free tier limits how often a scenario can run to every 15 minutes minimum. So a 'when row added, do X' scenario polls every 15 minutes — fine for batch work, terrible for anything time-sensitive (lead alerts, customer support, payment recovery). TinyCommand's free tier triggers immediately.
A workflow with 5 steps (trigger + filter + 3 actions) costs 5 operations per execution in Make. In TinyCommand, it's 1 run. If you run that workflow 100 times a day, Make charges you 15,000 operations/month (well into paid). We charge 3,000 runs/month — still on free.
Not yet — hosted only. If you need self-host (compliance, air-gapped), n8n is the right call. Make is also hosted-only, so this isn't a delta vs Make.
We curate starter templates by use case — fewer than Make's 8,000 but each is a real, working flow with the bundle's native steps. Volume isn't the metric; usefulness is.
Per-run pricing, instant triggers, and the data layer built in. $49/mo for the whole stack.
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