How to build a no-code AI agent pipeline in 8 steps: spec, input cleaning, structured classification, read-only tools, human approval gates, logging and testing, with costs for n8n, Make and Zapier.
A six-step guide to AI automation for small business: choose the right tasks, build a tested inquiry workflow with a human checkpoint, and check costs and privacy.
Zapier vs Make vs n8n cost compared on one workflow at 10K, 50K and 500K tasks: per-action, per-module and per-run billing, and the step count where the ranking changes.
Make.com charges per module action, n8n charges per workflow run. The real cost at 5,000, 25,000 and 100,000 operations a month, plus the crossover point.