Automation Anywhere vs Make
A side-by-side comparison of capabilities, autonomy, integrations, and pricing to help you choose.
Short answer: choose Automation Anywhere if you want goal-driven ai agents that orchestrate rpa bots, apis, and people (Supervised agent, enterprise); choose Make if you want visual automation platform that added reasoning ai agents to workflows (Supervised agent, freemium).
| Automation Anywhere | Make | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Goal-driven AI agents that orchestrate RPA bots, APIs, and people | Visual automation platform that added reasoning AI agents to workflows |
| Type | product-with-agents | product-with-agents |
| Autonomy | Supervised agent | Supervised agent |
| Pricing | enterprise | freemium · Free tier (1,000 credits/mo); Core from $12/mo (annual) |
| Best for | enterprise, mid-market | smb, mid-market, enterprise, developers |
| Deployment | saas, self-hosted, api | saas, api |
| Modalities | text, browser, api, code | text, api |
| Models | model-agnostic, gpt, claude, gemini | model-agnostic, gpt, claude |
| Protocols | mcp, function-calling, rest-api | mcp, rest-api, function-calling |
| Integrations | Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Automation 360, Bot Store connectors | Slack, Google Workspace, OpenAI, Anthropic, HubSpot, Salesforce |
| Capabilities | 4 documented | 4 documented |
Automation Anywhere
- +Governance-first with broad compliance coverage (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, GDPR, RBAC, AI Guardrails)
- +Genuinely model-agnostic across Bedrock, Vertex, and Azure OpenAI
- +Hybrid agents plus deterministic RPA extends existing bot investments
- -Marketing autonomy claims (agents that "self-heal without manual direction") overstate real supervised deployments
- -MCP support is inbound-only today: it can be called as a server but cannot yet call external MCP servers as a client
Make
- +Mature visual builder with thousands of app integrations, now extended with reasoning AI Agents
- +AI Agents are built no-code in the same canvas and can be reused across workflows with attached tools and knowledge
- +Credit-based pricing with a free tier makes entry cheap; MCP support for extending tool access
- -Classic scenarios are deterministic, not agents; only the newer AI Agent module reasons and decides
- -Credit-based metering can get hard to predict as agent and scenario usage scales
Which should you choose?
Automation Anywhere is goal-driven ai agents that orchestrate rpa bots, apis, and people, best for enterprise, mid-market. Make is visual automation platform that added reasoning ai agents to workflows, best for smb, mid-market, enterprise, developers. The right choice depends on the autonomy level you want, your existing integrations, and your budget, all compared above.
This comparison is generated from the sourced Automation Anywhere and Make profiles. Open either profile to review its evidence and last-reviewed date.