Make alternative

Workflows without the 15-minute polling cap or a separate bill for every tool.

Make's free tier caps polling at every 15 minutes, so hot leads cool off before you see them. And every tool a scenario connects is its own subscription. TinyCommand schedules can run every minute on every plan, and one credit pool covers each workflow step plus the forms + DB + agents + email those workflows need.

No credit card · 1,000 free credits a month · 1-minute schedules on every plan

1-min schedules
No 15-min cap on free
One credit pool
Forms, DB, agents, email on one bill
458 apps
+ native forms / DB / email
$49 / mo
Whole stack vs $18+ Make Pro alone
If you like Make, you'll love this. It takes Make's approach and layers in AI assistance to help you build and complete workflows. There's some manual setup, but that's expected with tools like this. It's not magic; it's infrastructure.
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Why teams switch

Three things Make structurally can’t do.

No 15-minute cap on Free

Make's Free plan sets a 15-minute minimum between scheduled runs. TinyCommand schedules can run as often as every minute on every plan, and a TinyForms submission runs its workflow when the form is submitted.

One bill, not one per tool

A Make scenario burns operations, and the form tool, database and email sender it connects are separate subscriptions. In TinyCommand each workflow step uses 1 credit, from the same pool that covers forms, tables, agents and email.

Your data is already in the workflow

Make connects to your forms, DB, and email. Every one is a connection to set up. TinyCommand IS them. The workflow just reads and writes; no field-mapping wizards.

Side-by-side

TinyWorkflows vs Make

Honest feature parity where it exists. Concrete gaps where it doesn’t.

TinyWorkflows

You
Free
1 user
1,000 credits / mo, schedules as often as every minute
$0/mo
Professional
Team
Whole stack: workflows + native forms, DB, agents, email
$49/mo

Make

Free
1 user
1,000 ops / mo · 15-min minimum interval
$0/mo
Core
1 user
10,000 ops / mo · most teams land here
$10.59/mo
Pro
1 user
10,000 ops + advanced features
$18.82/mo
Teams
Team
10,000 ops + team management
$34.12/mo
TinyWorkflows compared to Make, feature by feature
FeatureTinyWorkflowsMake
Visual scenario / workflow builder
TinyWorkflows
Make
Connects to a broad app catalog
TinyWorkflows
458 integrations
Make
1,500+ apps
Conditional logic, filters, routers
TinyWorkflows
Make
1-minute schedules on the free plan
Make's Free plan sets a 15-minute minimum between scheduled runs. TinyCommand schedules can run as often as every minute on every plan, Free included.
TinyWorkflows
1-min minimum on every plan
Make
15-min minimum on free, 1-min on paid
Native forms, DB, agents, email
Same product. No 'connect Typeform' wizard, no 'connect Airtable' wizard.
TinyWorkflows
Built-in
Make
Every app is a connection
AI step as first-class
TinyWorkflows
TinyAgents inline
Make
OpenAI add-on, eats operations
One credit pool across the stack
Make counts each module action as an 'operation', and the tools a scenario connects bill separately. In TinyCommand each workflow step uses 1 credit, from the same pool that covers forms, tables, agents and email.
TinyWorkflows
Credits, one bill
Make
Ops meter automation; other tools bill separately
Templates / pre-built scenarios
TinyWorkflows
Curated by use case
Make
8,000+ templates (volume over curation)
Free tier
TinyWorkflows
1,000 credits a month, 1-min schedules
Make
1k ops / mo, 15-min minimum interval
Price for serious automation needs
TinyWorkflows
$49 / mo (whole stack)
Make
$18+ Make Pro + Airtable + Mailchimp + AI ≈ $100+

Where it fits

Make is the glue. TinyCommand is what's being glued.

When the data layer is part of the same product, the workflow gets shorter, faster, and cheaper.

TinyForms
Capture
TinyTables
Store + enrich
TinyWorkflows
Route
TinyAgents
Think
TinyEmails
Act

Real flows

What you can actually build.

Lead capture without the 15-minute wait

The form submission runs its own lookup and Slack alert as part of the same flow. On Make's Free plan, scheduled and polling scenarios run at most every 15 minutes.

TinyFormsEnrichmentTinyWorkflowsSlack

Multi-step workflow on one bill

A 5-step workflow running 100 times a day uses about 15,000 credits a month, inside Professional's 50,000, and the form, table and email it touches are on the same plan instead of separate subscriptions.

TriggerLookupBranchAI stepSend(one credit pool)

Document generation pipeline

New deal closes → workflow generates SOW from a template, signs via DocuSign API, emails the customer, logs to your table.

CRM webhookTinyAgents (draft SOW)DocuSign APITinyWorkflows (email customer)TinyTables (log)

Stripe + accounting + Slack

Every payment in Stripe creates an invoice line in your accounting tool, updates the customer table, and posts to a Slack channel.

StripeAccounting APITinyTablesSlack

Switching from Make

We’ll migrate your setup for you.

Email us your Make account and our team rebuilds your setup in TinyCommand, preserves the logic and design, and helps you wire up the workflows. Live within a week.

Start the migration

FAQ

Questions worth asking before you switch.

How is TinyWorkflows different from Make?

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Three concrete differences: (1) workflows here share a data layer with forms, tables, agents, email: no 'connect to Typeform' wizard for every scenario; (2) one credit pool covers the forms, tables, agents and email your workflows touch, instead of a separate bill for each tool; (3) no plan-based schedule cap: TinyCommand schedules can run every minute on Free, while Make's Free plan sets a 15-minute minimum between scheduled runs.

What about Make's app catalog; they have more integrations.

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Honest: Make has ~1,500 integrations, we have 458. For the high-traffic apps (Slack, Stripe, HubSpot, Salesforce, Notion, Airtable, all major email/CRM/payment platforms) we both cover. For long-tail or obscure apps, Make has more. Worth checking our integrations directory for your specific stack before deciding.

Can I import Make scenarios?

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There is no automatic Make importer. Our team rebuilds your scenarios for you as workflows: steps that touch forms, tables or email use TinyCommand's own steps, and third-party steps use our integrations. Live within a week.

Does TinyCommand have routers (parallel branching) like Make?

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Workflows branch with If Else steps. If your scenarios lean on many parallel routes or custom error handling, check those in the workflow builder before switching, or have our team rebuild them for you.

What's the deal with the 15-minute interval cap?

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Make's Free plan sets a 15-minute minimum between scheduled scenario runs, so a scenario that checks for new rows looks at most every 15 minutes. Fine for batch work, slow for anything time-sensitive (lead alerts, customer support, payment recovery). TinyCommand has no plan-based cap: a schedule can run as often as every minute on Free, and a TinyForms submission runs its workflow when the form is submitted.

How do credits compare to Make operations?

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Every workflow step in TinyCommand uses 1 credit, and a few data-heavy steps (SEO, scraping, AI agents, enrichment) use more, with the price shown before you run. A 5-step workflow running 100 times a day uses about 15,000 credits a month, which fits in Professional's 50,000. The difference from Make is what the bill covers: the forms, tables, agents and email your workflows touch are on the same plan, and collecting form responses never uses a credit.

Is TinyCommand self-hostable?

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No. Hosted only, so setups that require self-hosting (compliance, air-gapped) aren't a fit. Make is also hosted-only, so this isn't a delta vs Make.

Templates / starter scenarios?

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We curate starter templates by use case, fewer than Make's 8,000 but each is a real, working flow with the bundle's native steps. Volume isn't the metric; usefulness is.

Replace Make. Stop waiting 15 minutes.

1-minute schedules on every plan, one credit pool, and the data layer built in. $49/mo for the whole stack.

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