Stop Overpaying for AI Agents: Make.com vs. AIBuildr Cost Guide
Why pay per operation when you can have unlimited orchestration? We break down the math of running AI Agent loops on Make vs. AIBuildr.
The Hidden Cost of AI Autonomy
If you’ve built an autonomous AI agent in Make.com (formerly Integromat), you’ve likely had a “billing heart attack.”
The problem is simple: Agents are talkative. They think, they iterate, and they loop. In Make.com, every “thought” is an operation. Every operation is a tick on your monthly bill.
The Pay-Per-Operation Tax
When you build a standard n8n or Make workflow for a simple data sync, you know exactly what it costs. But when you build an AI Agent Swarm:
- The Orchestrator thinks. (1 Op)
- Delegates to a Researcher. (1 Op)
- Researcher finds 5 links. (5 Ops)
- Researcher summarizes. (1 Op)
- Orchestrator dislikes the result and loops back. (Repeat items 1-4)
A single request can easily consume 20 to 100 operations. If you have 10,000 requests a month, you are looking at enterprise-level pricing for a startup-level workflow.
AIBuildr: The Flat-Rate Revolution
At AIBuildr, we believe the infrastructure should facilitate experimentation, not penalize it. Because we provide dedicated, isolated servers (Micro-PaaS), your costs are fixed.
| Feature | Make.com | AIBuildr.tech |
|---|---|---|
| Billing Model | Pay-per-Operation | Fixed Monthly Fee |
| Execution Limits | Hard Cap (based on plan) | UNLIMITED (Hardware limited) |
| Data Residency | Shared Cloud (Global) | Dedicated EU (Germany/Finland) |
| AI Stack | Just Orchestration | n8n + Flowise + Qdrant |
| Model Connectivity | API Only | API + Local Tunnel (BYOM) |
The Math that Wins Agencies
Let’s look at a “Lead Gen Agent” that runs 1,000 times a day for a client.
- Make.com Cost: To get 100k operations (enough for a complex agent), you’re paying roughly 100€ to 200€/month. And if the agent gets popular? That cost scales infinitely.
- AIBuildr Cost: On our Builder Plan (€39/mo), you can run that agent 1,000 times or 10,000 times. Your bill stays exactly the same.
Why This Matters for EU Agencies
Beyond the costs, there’s the GDPR factor. If you are a European agency serving EU clients, sending every single “agent thought” to a US-based multi-tenant SaaS is a privacy headache.
With AIBuildr:
- Your server is in Germany/Finland.
- Your vector data (Qdrant) is on your private SSD.
- Your agents are compliant by design.
Better Logic, Less Friction
By removing the “operation tax,” you can build better agents. You don’t have to optimize for “minimum operations”; you can optimize for the highest quality output.
Ready to migrate your “talkative” agents to a place where they can think freely?