Task Machine vs Make

When recurring work has to move across your tools, a visual automation platform is a natural place to start. Make is one of the best: you draw the flow on a canvas and watch data move through it. Task Machine takes a different seat: you direct the work and approve the consequential steps, and agents do the reading and drafting in between.

What Make does well

Make shows the whole data flow on one canvas. You build scenarios from triggers, modules, routers, and data mappings across 3,000+ pre-built apps, see where each record went and what each module changed, and rerun a scenario to find the step that broke. Make AI Agents show each decision an agent makes step by step, and Maia builds automations through conversation.

There is a free plan with no time limit, and paid plans priced by usage. For predictable data flow between apps, it is hard to beat.

Prices and features were checked against each vendor's own pages on 6 October 2026.

Directing the work, or wiring a canvas

In Make, the canvas is the product. Every exception, approval, and edge case needs its own route, and a sign-off before an action runs is something you build into each scenario yourself.

In Task Machine, you decide in Chat what each job should produce, and the workflow carries the structure: branch conditions, agent steps, Human approval and Ask human steps, and verifier checks. Every decision from every workflow arrives in one Inbox, and Tasks show where each job stands.

What you get with Task Machine

Judgment inside the workflow. Agents read, draft, and decide in the steps where a fixed route would treat every case the same way.

Approvals in one place. Approvals, questions, failed checks, and exceptions from every workflow arrive in one Inbox.

A record of every run. Each run keeps a step-by-step history of what each step did and produced.

A starting point for each job. A catalog of 140 playbooks, each with a guide, installs the agents, workflows, and documents for jobs such as outreach, reporting, and support. Pricing starts at $99 a month. You keep 100% of your revenue, Task Machine takes no cut, and it never custodies your accounts.

When each fits

Choose Make if you want to design automations visually and your work is predictable data movement between many apps.

Choose Task Machine if the work needs an agent's judgment and a person's approval, and you want every decision in one Inbox instead of routes on a canvas.

Common questions

Does Task Machine replace Make's canvas? No. Make's visual builder and app catalog are its strengths. Task Machine centers the decisions in the work.

Can Make do AI workflows now? Yes. Make AI Agents work inside scenarios and show their decisions step by step. Approval before an action runs is a route you build per scenario.

Who is Task Machine for compared with Make? Operators and agencies who want recurring business work run as repeatable systems, with approvals in one Inbox.