Productivity · Head-to-head
Make vs OpenYabby
Make (freemium, AI Score 8.7/10) vs OpenYabby (free, AI Score 7.4/10). 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 7.4)
- →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
Pick OpenYabby if…
- →budget is the constraint
- →your primary use case is mac developers and terminal-native power users who want self-hosted, voice-driven agent automation running on their real machine rather than a rented computer-use agent in a vendor sandbox.
- →you need: development
Side-by-side specs
| Spec | Make | OpenYabby |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Productivity | Productivity |
| Pricing model | freemium | free |
| Headline pricing | Free tier with 1,000 credits/mo; paid from $9/mo for 10,000 credits | Free — open-source, self-hosted (bring your own model API keys) |
| 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 — the project launched free and open-source with no paid tier. The practical cost is the model API usage you route through it plus your own hardware. Terms have not been re-verified since launch; check the repository. |
| AI Score | 8.7/10 | 7.4/10 |
| 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. | Mac developers and terminal-native power users who want self-hosted, voice-driven agent automation running on their real machine rather than a rented computer-use agent in a vendor sandbox. |
| Editor's pick | ✓ Yes | — |
| Use cases | productivity agents marketing | agents productivity development |
| Date added | 2026-08-02 | 2026-06-29 |
Pros and cons
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Make
Productivity · freemium
Pros
- ✓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
Cons
- ×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
OpenYabby
Productivity · free
Pros
- ✓Genuinely open-source and self-hosted — workflows and data stay on your own machine, and the agent logic is readable and forkable
- ✓Voice-first interface enables hands-free, conversational control of multi-step tasks
- ✓Coordinates multiple agents in parallel rather than serializing everything through one assistant
- ✓Acts on your real environment — terminal, browser, and native apps — instead of a walled-off sandbox
- ✓No subscription or per-seat fee; the only recurring cost is the model API usage you choose to route through it
Cons
- ×macOS-only — no Windows or Linux support, which rules out a large share of potential users
- ×Self-hosted setup plus bring-your-own API keys is a real technical barrier; this is not plug-and-play
- ×Launched June 2026 with no independent reliability or benchmark record as of August 2026, and autonomous agents holding live terminal and browser access carry genuine blast-radius risk
- ×The voice-plus-agents pitch is less distinctive than it was at launch, now that agentic CLIs and vendor computer-use agents cover much of the same ground
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Updated 2026-08-10. Spec data sourced from official product pages and tracked in our public directory at /tools.