Integration Platforms — Zapier, n8n, and Make Compared
Automation platforms compared: triggers, actions, data transformation, pricing, and when each platform fits best.
Every business runs on dozens of SaaS tools. Your CRM talks to your email platform. Your form tool feeds your spreadsheet. Your e-commerce store updates your accounting software. Each of these connections is an integration, and building them from scratch — writing the API calls, handling authentication, managing errors, scheduling jobs — is tedious work.
Integration platforms (sometimes called iPaaS — Integration Platform as a Service) solve this by providing pre-built connectors between popular tools, a visual workflow builder, and the infrastructure to run automations reliably. But they're not all the same. Zapier, Make, and n8n each take a different approach, and the choice between them has real implications for cost, flexibility, and maintainability.
The Core Concepts
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