Productivity · Head-to-head

Make vs Hey Noah

Make (freemium, AI Score 8.7/10) vs Hey Noah (freemium, AI Score 7.5/10). 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 7.5)
→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.
→you need: marketing

Try Make →

Pick Hey Noah if…

→your primary use case is solo founders and small-team operators who lose deals and hires to unanswered threads across email and sms, and who want an assistant that chases follow-ups on its own rather than one they have to remember to prompt.

Try Hey Noah →

Spec	Make	Hey Noah
Category	Productivity	Productivity
Pricing model	freemium	freemium
Headline pricing	Free tier with 1,000 credits/mo; paid from $9/mo for 10,000 credits	Free tier + paid plans — 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.	Yes — a free tier is available, though its specific limits aren't documented publicly
AI Score	8.7/10	7.5/10
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 small-team operators who lose deals and hires to unanswered threads across email and SMS, and who want an assistant that chases follow-ups on its own rather than one they have to remember to prompt.
Editor's pick	✓ Yes	—
Use cases	productivity agents marketing	productivity agents
Date added	2026-08-02	2026-08-07

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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 · freemium

✓Proactive by design — acts on what it sees rather than waiting for a prompt, which is the actual gap in the AI-assistant category
✓Covers SMS as well as email and calendar, where most competitors stop at the inbox
✓Relationship memory makes follow-ups specific to a real conversation instead of a generic reminder
✓Free tier lets you evaluate its judgment before granting deeper account access

×Launched 4 August 2026 — effectively no track record, and no independent long-run reviews of how the autonomy behaves under real inbox load
×Requires broad read access to email, calendar and text messages, the largest privacy surface in this category, with no publicly documented retention policy
×Paid tier names, prices and usage limits are not published — you have to sign up to find out what you'd pay
×An agent that sends messages on your behalf fails loudly when it misjudges; a bad follow-up damages a relationship, it isn't an output you can delete

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