Cost to Build a Zapier, Make or n8n Integration (2026)

In 2026, agencies that publish their prices charge about $1,200 for a small private Zapier app and $3,400 to $6,800 for a public launch. A Make app runs about $1,200 to $8,000 (or €3,000 to €15,000, depending on the agency), and an n8n node or Activepieces piece starts at $500. Zapier charges nothing to publish. Your real costs are the build, a few weeks of platform review, and maintenance every time your API changes.

This guide collects the prices agencies actually publish, what each platform requires before it will list you, and the costs that quotes tend to leave out. Every figure below is the agency's own published price at the time we checked (October 2026). Where a vendor doesn't publish a price, we say so instead of guessing.

Cost at a glance

Platform	Published agency prices	Typical build time	Platform review	Platform fee
Zapier	$1,200 private app; $3,400 public launch; $6,800 larger program (DeveloperLook)	3–5 weeks private; 6–10 weeks to public submission (DeveloperLook)	Zapier replies within a week, then 90 days in public beta	None for sharing or publishing
Make	$1,200–$3,000 private app; $3,000–$8,000 full customer-facing app (Nex Automations); €3,000–€15,000 (Inovaflow)	1–6 weeks (Nex Automations, Inovaflow)	Not published by Make; Inovaflow estimates 4–6 weeks	Not stated in Make's developer docs
n8n	From $500 plus $350 to publish (n8nhackers); $798–$1,998 (AI Adoption Agency)	5–10 business days (AI Adoption Agency)	Not published by n8n	Not stated; nodes ship as public npm packages
Activepieces	$500–$5,000 per project, custom pieces included (Worksflow.ai)	5–14 days (Worksflow.ai)	None for your own npm package; PRs to the main repo are auto-closed unless the team keeps them open	None; you publish your piece as your own npm package
All four, multi-platform agency	$55,000–$90,000 multi-platform; $30,000–$50,000 basic Zapier or Make (ZTABS)	Not stated	Each platform's own process	—
NativeShip	$149 or $349 one-time, all four platforms included	Generated from your OpenAPI spec	Each platform's own process	—

Prices vary this much because the work does. A four-action private app and a 20-operation public integration with dropdowns, webhooks and a support plan are different projects.

Zapier integration cost

Zapier's publishing docs say there are no fees for sharing or publishing an integration. You pay for building, testing and upkeep.

What agencies charge. DeveloperLook publishes three fixed packages (their published prices, in USD, one-time):

• Private Zapier app, $1,200: up to four triggers and actions, with 30 days of support.
• Public launch, $3,400: up to 10 operations, the App Directory listing, five Zap templates and review submission, with 60 days of support.
• Integration program, $6,800: up to 20 operations, including migrating a Platform UI app to the CLI, with 90 days of support.

They quote three to five weeks for a private app and six to ten weeks to public submission. Makeitfuture doesn't publish prices, but it does publish timelines: two days to four weeks to build, and two to seven weeks to an App Directory listing.

What drives Zapier cost:

• The checks. Zapier's integration checks require a static sample for every trigger, search and action, dynamic dropdowns for ID fields, and HTTPS throughout.
• Real users before launch. Check S001 needs at least three users with a live Zap, and S002 needs a live Zap for every visible trigger, search and action. Agencies can't do that part for you.
• A test account. Zapier's publishing requirements ask for a non-expiring account using integration-testing@zapier.com.
• No OpenAPI import. Every trigger and action is built by hand, or with a partial generator. See generating a Zapier integration from your OpenAPI spec.

Make custom app cost

What agencies charge.

• Nex Automations, their published prices: $1,200–$3,000 for a private core app (one to three weeks), $3,000–$8,000 for a full app for your customers (three to six weeks), and from $8,000 plus a retainer for an app with scenarios built on top.
• Inovaflow puts a Make app at €3,000–€15,000, including build, testing and certification. They estimate one to four weeks of engineering plus four to six weeks of Make review.
• StartAutomate lists the build as "Contact us," with a build-and-maintenance plan from $350 a month and a minimum of three months.

What drives Make cost:

• Strict review prerequisites. Make's prerequisites include sanitization, error handling, a universal module, limit parameters and pagination on searches, triggers and RPCs, and a test scenario for every module.
• Every change is reviewed again. Once your app is approved, new or changed modules, connections, RPCs and webhooks all need Make's approval. That makes maintenance a recurring cost, not a one-off.
• No OpenAPI import. See whether you can import an OpenAPI spec into a Make custom app.

n8n node cost

What agencies charge.

• n8nhackers, their published prices: community node development from $500 (two resources with two operations each, authentication, testing and docs), $350 to publish it, and $500 a month for ongoing support.
• AI Adoption Agency lists a custom n8n node at $798–$1,998: one node with up to 10 operations, delivered in five to ten business days. The listing showed "Sold Out" when we checked.

What drives n8n cost. Verification is the hard part. Verified nodes can't have runtime dependencies, must pass n8n's linter and package scanner, and since May 1, 2026 must be published from GitHub Actions with npm provenance. n8n doesn't publish a review timeline. Our n8n verified community node checklist covers every requirement.

Activepieces piece cost

What agencies charge. Worksflow.ai prices Activepieces projects at $500–$5,000 (their published price), covering deployment, custom piece development and workflows. They quote five to fourteen days for custom pieces and multi-flow projects. We didn't find another agency that publishes a price for building a piece specifically.

What drives Activepieces cost. Activepieces' docs list three ways to share a piece: contribute it to the main repo, publish it to npm as a community piece, or keep it private. In practice, contributing is closed to most new makers. A GitHub workflow auto-closes pull requests from outside contributors unless the team adds a "keep-open" label, which it saves for existing customers it has already talked to. The realistic route is to publish the piece as your own npm package and install it as a custom piece from Settings → My Pieces. There's no platform review on that route, so your cost is the build and keeping the package current. NativeShip publishes it under your own npm account.

Multi-platform builds

If you want all four platforms, most agencies quote each one separately. ZTABS publishes a range for SaaS integration programs (their published prices): $30,000–$50,000 for a basic Zapier or Make integration, $55,000–$90,000 multi-platform, $90,000–$120,000 for enterprise and embedded work, and $1,500–$5,000 a month for ongoing support.

If you hire the single-platform agencies above instead, the published prices add up like this: $3,400 for a public Zapier launch, $1,200–$8,000 for Make, $850–$1,998 for n8n (including n8nhackers' publish add-on) and $500–$5,000 for Activepieces. That comes to roughly $6,000–$18,400 before maintenance. It's simple arithmetic on the agencies' published prices, not a quote.

Costs quotes often leave out

• Maintenance. APIs change. Published support plans run from $350 a month (StartAutomate, Make) and $500 a month (n8nhackers) to $1,500–$5,000 a month (ZTABS).
• Re-review. Every update to an approved Make app goes back through review. Breaking changes on Zapier mean new versions and migrating users.
• Your team's time. You still need to write API docs, provide test accounts, answer reviewer questions, and find beta users. Zapier's S001 check needs at least three users with live Zaps. The Zapier App Directory listing guide lists every step that needs your team.
• Spec quality. A spec with missing examples or vague operation names adds hours on every platform. It's worth cleaning up your OpenAPI spec first.
• Rejection risk. Every platform can say no. Zapier says it can reject publishing requests at its discretion.

How NativeShip pricing compares

NativeShip builds official, branded integrations for Zapier, Make, n8n and Activepieces from your OpenAPI spec. They're published under your own accounts, with your logo, your company and your support email, and you review each release before anything goes public. Every build is checked with the platform's own tooling.

	Developer	Startup	Done for you
Price	$149 one-time	$349 one-time	Contact us
Projects	1	1	Scoped with you
Build credits	10	30	Scoped with you
Platforms	All four	All four	All four
Publishing	You download the packages and publish them yourself	Published from NativeShip to GitHub, npm, Zapier and Make, with help through review	Our team does the work

One build of one platform package uses one credit, so a first launch on all four platforms uses four. Credits never expire, and there's no subscription. Updates pick up new endpoints from your spec without breaking users' existing workflows. Approval is always each platform's decision, so we can't guarantee it.

See full details on the pricing page, or browse integrations we've already shipped.