Productivity · Head-to-head

Make vs Cofounder 2

Make (freemium, AI Score 8.7/10) vs Cofounder 2 (free, AI Score 7.2/10). Side-by-side pricing, features, pros and cons, and which to pick.

The verdict

Pick Make if…

→overall capability matters more than price (AI Score 8.7 vs 7.2)
→you want our editor's pick for this category
→your primary use case is teams building multi-step, branching automations who want to see the whole flow on a canvas rather than describe it as a list of steps.

Try Make →

Pick Cofounder 2 if…

→budget is the constraint
→your primary use case is solo founders and two-to-five-person startups who want one system covering sales, marketing and engineering busywork and can tolerate a beta whose reliability and final price are both still unknown.

Try Cofounder 2 →

Spec	Make	Cofounder 2
Category	Productivity	Productivity
Pricing model	freemium	free
Headline pricing	Free tier with 1,000 credits/mo; paid from $9/mo for 10,000 credits	Open beta — check website for current pricing
Free tier	Yes, and it runs real scenarios: 1,000 credits a month across 2 active scenarios, with a 15-minute minimum run interval. Annual billing is advertised at 15%+ savings on the paid tiers.	Free during open beta. The company has not published a pricing page or announced what the product will cost at general availability.
AI Score	8.7/10	7.2/10
Best for	Teams building multi-step, branching automations who want to see the whole flow on a canvas rather than describe it as a list of steps.	Solo founders and two-to-five-person startups who want one system covering sales, marketing and engineering busywork and can tolerate a beta whose reliability and final price are both still unknown.
Editor's pick	✓ Yes	—
Use cases	productivity agents marketing	agents productivity marketing
Date added	2026-08-02	2026-05-07

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Productivity · freemium

✓Visual canvas makes branching and conditional automations readable in a way a linear step list does not
✓Routers and error handler modules cost zero credits, so defensive structure does not inflate the bill
✓3,000+ connectors including 400+ AI integrations, which covers most of what a small team needs to wire together
✓Free tier runs genuine scenarios on a schedule rather than expiring like a trial
✓Entry pricing starts at $9/mo, well below what comparable platforms charge for a first paid tier

×Credits are consumed per module action, so a multi-step scenario burns the allowance far faster than the plan names suggest
×The advertised $9, $16 and $29 prices are only the 10,000-credit rung of a slider, and real costs climb from there
×Free tier caps scheduling at a 15-minute minimum interval and execution at 5 minutes, which rules out anything time-sensitive
×The canvas is harder to learn than a form-based builder, which is a real cost for occasional users
×Full-text log search sits on Pro, so debugging on the cheaper tiers is more painful than it should be

Productivity · free

✓Handoff-based design targets the actual gap in agent tooling — passing context between roles rather than running isolated assistants
✓One platform covers five business functions that would otherwise be five separate subscriptions
✓Free to evaluate during the beta, so testing costs time rather than budget
✓Department framing maps onto how small teams already divide work, which shortens the setup conversation

×No published benchmarks, error rates, or production case studies — reliability claims are entirely unverified
×Pricing has stayed unannounced since the May 2026 beta opened, meaning unknown cost at general availability
×Each department agent competes with a mature specialist tool, and the depth comparison is undocumented
×Chained agents compound errors, the failure mode that has sunk most products in this category

Updated 2026-08-10. Spec data sourced from official product pages and tracked in our public directory at /tools.