AnythingMCP vs Make MCP server: which fits your AI?
Make exposes on-demand scenarios as MCP tools through its hosted MCP server and MCP Toolboxes. AnythingMCP is a self-hostable MCP gateway with ready connectors, skills, memory and file search. Pricing, hosting and governance compared.
Make (make.com) is a visual no-code automation platform. Its hosted Make MCP server turns active, on-demand scenarios into tools that Claude, ChatGPT and other clients can call, and MCP Toolboxes give a team a dedicated MCP endpoint that exposes only chosen scenarios. AnythingMCP is an MCP gateway that turns your systems themselves into tools, with skills, memory and file search on top.
The key difference: in Make, you build a scenario for every tool. In AnythingMCP, tools come from the API, database or file server directly.
TL;DR
- Pick Make if your team already builds scenarios, wants a cheap no-code start, and needs a handful of well-defined automations callable from an AI client.
- Pick AnythingMCP if you want the AI to work directly with your systems (ERP, CRM, databases, SOAP services, file servers) without building a scenario per action, need self-hosting, want flat pricing instead of credits, or want a company brain: AI skills, a knowledge graph, company memory and File Search.
Side by side
| AnythingMCP | Make | |
|---|---|---|
| What becomes a tool | Each API operation or query, automatically | Each on-demand scenario you build |
| Hosting | Cloud in Frankfurt, or self-hosted | SaaS on AWS, US and EU data zones |
| Self-hosted | ✅ Free Community edition, or Enterprise | ❌ (on-prem agent on Enterprise) |
| Open source | ✅ AGPL-3.0 | ❌ |
| Catalog | 713 connectors, 12,000+ tools | 3,000+ apps for scenarios |
| SOAP / WSDL, OData | ✅ Built in | HTTP module, manual |
| Databases as tools | ✅ Schema and query tools, 8 engines | Database modules inside scenarios |
| Long-running work | Code Mode program in one call | Scenario keeps running up to 40 minutes, result fetched later |
| Endpoint scoping | MCP servers with chosen connectors, plus roles | MCP Toolboxes with chosen scenarios and own keys |
| Roles and per-tool permissions | ✅ | Per toolbox |
| Per-tool rate limits per user | ✅ Per minute and hour | Not documented |
| Audit log | ✅ Every call, input and output | Scenario logs, 30 days by default |
| SSO | Enterprise (OIDC) | Custom SSO on Enterprise |
| AI skills, knowledge graph | ✅ | ❌ |
| Company memory, File Search | ✅ (memory: Enterprise) | ❌ |
| Pricing | Community free; Cloud €19 or €49/month flat (VAT incl.); Enterprise quoted | Credits: Free plan 1,000 credits/month; paid plans by credit volume; Enterprise quoted |
Make facts from Make MCP server docs, MCP Toolboxes, make.com/en/mcp, AI providers and data zones and pricing, November 2026.
Where Make wins
- Visual multi-step automation. Branches, routers, iterators and error handlers in a canvas that non-developers can use. A scenario can do far more than one API call.
- Low entry price. A Free plan with 1,000 credits a month, and low-cost paid plans.
- A large app library. 3,000+ apps for scenarios.
- EU data zones. Make runs EU1 and EU2 zones, though Make itself notes that some AI features are processed outside the EU.
- MCP Toolboxes. A clean way to give one team a dedicated endpoint with only the scenarios it needs.
- Certifications. SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3 and ISO 27001.
Where AnythingMCP wins
1. No scenario per tool
With Make, an AI that should read customers, open orders and stock levels needs three scenarios, each built, tested and maintained. AnythingMCP installs a ready connector or imports an OpenAPI spec and every operation becomes a tool, with names and descriptions written for the model. 713 connectors are in the marketplace.
2. Questions you did not anticipate
Scenarios answer the questions someone designed them for. AnythingMCP's database connectors give the model schema and read-only query tools for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle, SAP HANA, SQLite and MongoDB, so it can answer new questions within the tables you allow.
3. Legacy and on-prem systems
SOAP/WSDL, OData services from SAP Gateway or Dynamics, and databases behind your VPN become tools without code, especially when AnythingMCP runs inside your network. See Legacy systems.
4. Flat price, no credits
Every Make scenario run uses credits. AnythingMCP Cloud costs €19 or €49 a month with no per-call fee, and self-hosting costs only your server. See pricing.
5. A company brain
- AI skills learned automatically from real tool calls and fixed errors, approved by an admin
- Knowledge graph of how your systems link
- Company memory (Enterprise) shared by Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot
- File Search over PDFs, Excel, Word and Outlook files on SFTP, WebDAV, S3 or a NAS
- Code Mode: the model writes one short program that calls many tools in an isolated runner, in one step
See Enterprise.
Decision guide
| If you need… | Pick |
|---|---|
| A few designed automations, triggered by AI, built by a no-code team | Make |
| The AI working directly with ERP, CRM, shop and database | AnythingMCP |
| Self-hosting, SOAP, OData or on-prem databases | AnythingMCP |
| Skills, memory and file search across AI clients | AnythingMCP Enterprise |
| Both: scheduled automations and AI access | Make plus AnythingMCP, with Make's MCP endpoint served through AnythingMCP's MCP bridge |
FAQ
Does Make have an MCP server? Yes. Make hosts an MCP server that exposes active, on-demand scenarios as tools, and MCP Toolboxes that give a team its own endpoint with chosen scenarios.
Can I self-host Make? No. Make is SaaS. An on-prem agent on the Enterprise plan connects it to local systems. AnythingMCP can run entirely on your servers.
Is Make's MCP server free? It works on all plans, including Free with 1,000 credits a month. Scenario runs use credits, and some management tools need a paid plan.
Where does Make store data? In US or EU data zones on AWS. Make states that some AI features are processed outside the EU even in EU zones.
Which is cheaper for heavy AI use? AnythingMCP Cloud has flat monthly prices with no per-call fee. Make bills scenario runs in credits, so cost grows with use.
Try AnythingMCP
git clone https://github.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp.git
cd anythingmcp && ./setup.sh
Or start the Cloud free trial: 7 days, hosted in Frankfurt.