Make connects thousands of apps with visual scenarios and now includes AI agents. Orkeste is a smaller, agent-first platform: you brief agents in plain language and a person approves the actions that matter.
Side by side
What it is: Orkeste: No-code platform for AI agents that work in your tools, with human approval. Make: Visual automation platform with AI agents.
Who builds the agents: Orkeste: Ops, sales or support leads, in plain language, from 29 role templates or a blank briefing. Make: Operations users, in a visual scenario builder.
Multiple agents: Orkeste: Swarms of agents run in sequence, in parallel, on conditions, or led by a manager agent that plans, delegates and writes the final answer (from the Starter plan). Make: AI agents that can delegate to specialist agents.
Human approval: Orkeste: Validations queue: for each agent, you choose which actions wait for a person. Make: Approval steps designed into the scenario.
How agents start: Orkeste: Manual runs, schedules, events (a signed webhook or a Stripe event at once; a new Gmail or Outlook email or a new Zendesk or Jira ticket, checked every 5 minutes), or the API (Pro plan and above). Make: Instant webhooks, app events and schedules.
Integrations: Orkeste: 26 native connectors (Gmail, Outlook, HubSpot, Salesforce, Zendesk, Jira, Slack...), an outgoing webhook, and remote MCP servers in agentic mode (5 on Pro, unlimited on Business). Make: Thousands of app modules.
Hosting: Orkeste: Managed cloud hosted in the EU; not self-hostable. An EU-only setting keeps every model call on EU-hosted models. Make: Managed cloud.
Pricing: Orkeste: Monthly credits: Free (500), Starter €9.99 (5,000), Pro €39.99 (25,000), Business on quote. Make: Credit-based; free plan with 1,000 credits a month.
Where Orkeste is different
Agents first
An Orkeste agent is a briefing, connectors and approval rules. You change the behaviour by editing the briefing, not by rewiring modules.
Approval built in
Pending emails, CRM updates and posts wait in the Validations queue with the full draft, ready to edit, approve or reject.
EU hosting
Data is hosted in the EU, with connector tokens encrypted and isolated per workspace.
The longer answer
What is Make?
Make is a visual automation platform: you build scenarios that move data between thousands of apps, triggered instantly or on a schedule. It has added AI agents, including agents that delegate tasks to specialist agents, inside the same builder.
Where Make is stronger
Reach. Far more apps, instant webhooks on each of them and a mature builder for the plumbing between systems. If the job is moving data from A to B, Make is efficient and well proven.
Where Orkeste is different
Orkeste is smaller and agent-first. A support lead briefs an agent in plain language, connects Zendesk and Confluence, and keeps every public reply behind approval. Runs, pending actions and budgets are visible in one place, and data is hosted in the EU.
Honest bottom line
Use Make for broad automation across many apps. Use Orkeste when the value is in the agent's judgement on text, in your business tools, with a person approving what goes out.
When to choose which
Choose Orkeste if
The work needs judgement on text: emails, tickets, notes
You want approvals without designing them in every scenario
The people who own the process will maintain the agents
Your tools are among Orkeste's 26 connectors
Choose Make if
You need app-to-app automation across many apps
Your stack includes apps outside Orkeste's 26 connectors
Your team already maintains Make scenarios
Most of the work is moving data, not judging it
Frequently asked questions
Is Orkeste an alternative to Make?
For agent work that needs judgement and approval in mainstream B2B tools, yes. For broad app-to-app automation, Make covers far more ground.
Can I use both?
Yes. Make can call an Orkeste agent through the API (Pro plan and above), and an Orkeste agent can send each run's result to a Make webhook.
How does pricing compare?
Orkeste plans include a monthly credit allowance: Free with 500 credits, Starter at €9.99 with 5,000, Pro at €39.99 with 25,000 and Business on quote. A run uses from 2 credits with Claude Haiku 5.5 to 235 with Claude Fable 5.1. Make prices by credits, with a free plan of 1,000 credits a month; check make.com for current paid tiers.
Does Orkeste recover from errors on its own?
No. A failed run is shown in the history with its error, and you fix the cause, for example by reconnecting a tool. Orkeste does not retry or repair runs automatically.