AgentsPick an agent for business automation
Match the platform to the apps you already use and who will maintain the agent.
Suite platforms from the labs
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Choose it if: Your company runs on Microsoft 365 and needs tenant governance.
Microsoft 365 Copilot $30/user/mo (annual) on top of a qualifying Microsoft 365 plan. Long-running agentic features use usage-based billing.
Microsoft Copilot Studio
Choose it if: You want to build and publish your own agents on Microsoft 365 and Teams.
Copilot Credit packs: 25,000 credits for $200/mo (tenant-wide), or pay-as-you-go. Prepaying with Commit Units saves up to 20%. Microsoft 365 Copilot users can build agents for internal use, but publishing to outside channels needs a standalone Copilot Studio plan.
Gemini, Jules & Gemini Enterprise
Choose it if: Your company runs on Google Workspace (Gemini Enterprise).
Google AI Pro $19.99/mo; Ultra $99.99/mo (5x Pro usage) or $199.99/mo (20x). Gemini Enterprise Business $14/user/mo, Standard from $21/user/mo.
Automation platforms
Zapier Agents
Choose it if: Non-technical team, many SaaS apps.
Zapier has a free plan. Agents are billed by activity; see the official pricing page.
n8n
Choose it if: You want self-hosting, control and code steps.
Self-hosted Community Edition free. Cloud plans priced by workflow executions; see the official pricing page.
Make
Choose it if: You want visual branching scenarios with AI agents on a tight budget.
Free $0 (1,000 credits/mo). At 10,000 credits/mo: Core $12/mo monthly (from $9/mo billed annually), Pro $21/mo monthly (from $16/mo billed annually), Teams $38/mo monthly (from $29/mo billed annually). Enterprise custom. Checked against make.com/pricing.
Lindy
Choose it if: Inbox, meetings and sales follow-up out of the box.
Paid usage from $49.99 per user per month for 5,000 credits; top-ups $10 per 1,000 credits.
More business platforms
Windows 365 for Agents
Choose it if: IT teams that need agents to use Windows apps under company policy
Pay as you go: $0.40 per Cloud PC hour in the US, $0.52 in Europe and the UK, and $0.80 in South America. An always-available Cloud PC adds $5/month in the US. Billed through Azure, with 50 free hours to start through Copilot Studio. Autopilot uses usage-based billing with no separate published price.
Local and private option
Self-hosted n8n plus a local model keeps data on your own hardware. Open the model picker →
For builders: add a decision model
Most steps in an automation are small decisions: which queue, is this spam, is the agent confident enough to act? Decision models like TypeSafe's Jev return a typed choice with a confidence score, so your code can act, escalate to a bigger model or hand off to a human. They complement the LLM rather than replace it. Read the Jev profile →
Guardrails
- Start with read-only permissions.
- Measure cost per completed task, not per seat.