A side-by-side look at n8n and Make built only from the 14 real use cases on this site that use them. We don't test tools, rate them or list prices. Every result is what the linked source reports.
| n8n | Make | |
|---|---|---|
| Use cases on this site | 12 | 2 |
| Top business types | real estate (5), restaurants & cafés (4) and salons & spas (3) | contractors & home services (2) |
| Top jobs | scheduling & bookings (5), lead follow-up (5) and marketing & social (3) | answering calls (2), scheduling & bookings (2) and lead follow-up (1) |
| Where the stories come from | 1 owner's own story, 5 company case studies and 6 builder posts | 2 company case studies |
| With a reported result | 3 of 12 | 2 of 2 |
Both are used for scheduling & bookings (n8n 5, Make 2), lead follow-up (n8n 5, Make 1) and answering calls (n8n 2, Make 2).
A Connecticut venue owner used Claude Code to build 80+ n8n workflows in 28 days: POS sales reports, food cost tracking, staff tools, an event CRM and demand forecasts, with no new monthly software fees.
Leads from portals, forms and social go into HubSpot, get an instant AI qualifying reply, and go to the best-fit agent with a briefing. First-contact time dropped from about 6 hours to under 30 minutes.
A Bangkok bookkeeping firm with six bookkeepers and 30 small business clients had n8n and an AI read every receipt and invoice, suggest the account, and queue it for a quick check before it goes into Xero. Time per client fell from 12 hours a month to about 2.5.
A Jacksonville plumbing company's AI phone line picks up every call, books into ServiceTitan, and sends urgent calls to the on-call tech, cutting about 18 missed calls a week.
Monkeyman Tree Service's crews were climbing trees and running chainsaws, so they missed many calls and followed up too late. A voice AI receptionist now answers every call, trained on their services, prices and scheduling rules. Each lead is added to GoHighLevel automatically, the customer gets a text confirmation, and the job goes into the crew's dispatch list.
It depends on the job and the business. On this site, n8n is used most for scheduling & bookings and Make most for answering calls, and the business type that uses each most is real estate for n8n and contractors & home services for Make. Read the examples from businesses like yours, then try the one that fits. We don't rate tools.
12 use cases use n8n and 2 use cases use Make. Each one links to its source.
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