Stackbone vs Make
Make builds automations as visual scenarios of app modules and runs them in Make's cloud, in a US or EU data center. Stackbone builds agents and workflows from a description of the process and delivers a TypeScript repository that IT maintains through pull requests, on Stackbone Cloud or in your own infrastructure. Make fits teams that want to build and edit flows on a canvas themselves. Stackbone fits companies whose IT has to own the automation as code.
Last updated · September 28, 2026
Side by side
| Stackbone | Make | |
|---|---|---|
| Who builds it | The person who knows the process describes it, and Stackbone builds it. Developers can write the same code directly with the CLI and their own coding agent. | You chain app modules into a scenario in a visual builder. Make also lets you build automations and AI agents in code or from a prompt. make.com |
| What you end up with | A TypeScript repository: agents and durable workflows, versioned in Git like the rest of your software. | A scenario stored in Make. You can export it as a blueprint, a JSON file with its modules, settings and mapped values. help.make.com |
| When the process changes | IT opens the repository with its coding agent, changes the step that moved and ships it through a pull request. Prompts and configuration are versioned in Studio: publish a version or roll back to an earlier one without a redeploy. | You edit the scenario in the builder and save it. Make keeps saved versions for up to 60 days, and you can restore any of them. help.make.com |
| Where it runs | Stackbone Cloud, or your own AWS, Azure or GCP account, self-hosted, on-prem or air-gapped. The same code runs on all of them. Pick any model from any provider, and use the built-in Postgres, object storage and RAG or point Stackbone at your own. | Make's cloud, in a US or EU data center that you choose when you create an organization. help.make.com |
| Integrations | 700+ connectors with 6,000+ actions and 1,500 triggers, authorized once in Studio and reused by every automation, plus any service with an OpenAPI spec. | More than 3,000 app integrations, plus an HTTP app that connects to any service with an API. make.com |
| Approvals and audit | Irreversible steps wait in an approvals inbox. Every run is recorded step by step with the workflow and prompt version it used. Finance, Legal, Sales and Operations each read those runs in their own dashboards, and a new one is built by describing it. | The Human in the Loop app, on the Enterprise plan, adds human approval steps to a scenario. apps.make.com |
| Best fit | Companies that want their teams to automate their own processes without losing control: the business builds, IT owns the code, and everyone sees the results. | Teams in IT, operations, marketing, sales, finance and HR that want to build and manage automations and AI agents visually. make.com |
Feature by feature
✓ means the product’s own documentation shows it. “✓ on” a plan means only that plan has it. ✗ means their documentation says it is not supported. “Not documented” (“No info” in the matrix) means we found nothing either way, and we do not read silence as a no.
| Stackbone | Make | |
|---|---|---|
| Build by describing the process in plain language | ✓ | ✓ Maia help.make.com |
| The result is code in your Git repository | ✓ | Not documented |
| Changes reviewed as pull requests | ✓ | Not documented |
| Prompt and configuration versions with rollback | ✓ | ✓ Versions kept 60 days help.make.com |
| Visual graph of every step | ✓ | ✓ make.com |
| Managed cloud | ✓ | ✓ help.make.com |
| Your own cloud or self-hosted | ✓ | Not documented |
| On-prem or air-gapped | ✓ | Not documented |
| Human approval before irreversible steps | ✓ | ✓ on Enterprise apps.make.com |
| Audit record of every run | ✓ | ✓ Scenario run history help.make.com |
| Evals and guardrails | ✓ | Not documented |
| Dashboards per team: Finance, Legal, Sales, Operations | ✓ | Not documented |
| Custom dashboards, built by describing them | ✓ | Not documented |
| Any model and provider | ✓ | ✓ on Paid plans help.make.com |
| Your own database, storage and vector store | ✓ | ✓ apps.make.com |
| Open source | ✗ | Not documented |
When to choose Make
- The people who run the process want to build and adjust scenarios themselves on a visual canvas.
- Your automations move data between SaaS apps that Make already covers among its 3,000+ integrations.
- You want a hosted platform with a choice of US or EU data center and nothing to deploy.
When to choose Stackbone
- You need the automation inside your own AWS, Azure or GCP account, on-prem or air-gapped.
- Your scenarios have outgrown what one person can follow on a canvas, and IT wants them as TypeScript reviewed in pull requests.
- You want every change kept in Git history. Make keeps saved scenario versions for up to 60 days.
Sources
Every statement about Make links to Celonis's own documentation, read on September 28, 2026. Products change: if a row is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
- https://www.make.com/en
- https://help.make.com/blueprints
- https://help.make.com/restore-a-previous-scenario-version
- https://help.make.com/organizations
- https://www.make.com/en/integrations
- https://apps.make.com/human-in-the-loop-enterprise
- https://help.make.com/introduction-to-maia-by-make
- https://help.make.com/scenario-history
- https://help.make.com/make-ai-agent-new-app
- https://apps.make.com/postgres
See it on your own process.
Describe one process you run today. We build it with you and hand IT the repository.