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Step-by-step builds for service businesses you can copy.
Build guides walk through a complete project step by step: the requirements, the prompts or settings we used, the screenshots from our own account, the defects we hit and what each fix cost. They are written for owners of coaching, consulting, clinic and local-service businesses who want to build it themselves.
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Make.com Core vs Pro: $16 Buys 20,000 or 10,000 Credits
Up to 40,000 credits, Make.com Pro costs what Core costs at double the credits. What Pro adds, who needs it, and how the yearly credit pool works.
Make.com AI Agents Pricing: Credits Per Agent Run
Make.com AI Agents run on every plan, Free included: 1 credit per run plus about 0.16 credits of tokens on Medium. Booking math for Free and Core.
Make.com Free Plan: What Happens at 1,000 Credits
We ran Make Free to zero: a 15-minute trigger used 998 of 1,000 credits in 10 days, and Make still said Active. What stays free, and when Core pays.
Make.com Pricing: When Free Runs Out and What Core Costs
Make Core is $10.59 a month for 10,000 credits. We measured 4 credits per booking: 2,500 bookings a month at 0.42 cents each, vs 250 on Free.
Build a Booking App Without Code: Our $0 Base44 Build
We built a real booking app on Base44 Free and logged every credit, then tested free Make and Systeme.io for the jobs the app could not do.
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