8 GDPR-Compliant Make.com Alternatives for Business in 2026

Looking for a Make.com alternative that is truly GDPR compliant? You are not alone. Make (formerly Integromat) sits between Zapier and n8n: a visual canvas where scenarios branch, loop and route data between apps, now part of the Celonis group². For a lot of teams it was the first automation tool that felt like building something rather than wiring switches. The limit shows up the day the data protection officer looks at the AI steps: Make lets you pick an EU data zone, but Maia, Make AI Web Search and all OpenAI models in Make’s AI Provider are always processed in the United States regardless of the zone, and even in EU zones certain Anthropic models route to the US³. This comparison gives you honest pros and cons, with a focus on what counts for teams in Germany and the EU: processing in Europe, a data processing agreement (DPA), no training on your data and no “unknown-apps” surprise.

Every entry is checked against the vendor’s own pages, as of October 2026. Where a vendor does not say, we write “check with vendor”.

What is a GDPR-compliant Make.com alternative?

A GDPR-compliant Make.com alternative is a tool that moves data between your programs the way Make does, but with every processing step inside Europe, a signed data processing agreement and no training on your company data. Some alternatives are classic workflow builders with an EU data centre or self-hosting. Others replace the workflow with an AI employee that does the task when you ask for it in plain words.

Why you need a Make.com alternative

Make offers a strong visual canvas, a free plan with 1,000 credits per month, an EU data zone and a listed DPA¹². Teams in Germany and the EU still look for alternatives, for these reasons:

• AI steps leave the EU - Make states that Maia, Make AI Web Search and all OpenAI models in Make’s AI Provider are always processed in the US, regardless of your data zone³. Custom AI provider connections do not guarantee EU processing either³.
• Some Anthropic models route to the US in EU zones - in Make’s EU zones, Claude Fable 5, Fable 5.1 and Opus 4.5 are processed in the US, not the EU³.
• Credits burn fast on real scenarios - most actions use one credit, but AI features can use more, iterators count each loop separately, and the Free plan covers only 1,000 credits per month¹⁴.
• “Unknown apps” risk - Make’s catalogue includes community-built apps, and if your admin does not vet them per scenario, customer data can flow to third parties nobody signed a DPA with. Your record of processing activities has to list every one.
• US corporate group - Make is operated under Celonis, and sub-processors in non-adequate countries are covered by Standard Contractual Clauses². For regulated industries that line keeps the data protection officer on the phone.
• You build and maintain every scenario - a Make scenario does exactly what you built it to do. An approval step exists, but you add it to each scenario, and when the person who built it leaves, nobody knows what the branches do.
• One canvas per task - scenarios run on triggers and schedules. A business change (“send the quote through sales ops first”) is a change to the canvas, not a sentence to the system.

None of this makes Make a bad tool. Whether it fits your data protection requirements depends on the data zone, the AI features you use and your vetting of the app catalogue.

GDPR compliant is more than an EU data zone

An EU zone is a good start, but your data protection officer asks more questions. Check these six points for every tool on this list:

• DPA - is there a data processing agreement for the plan you actually buy, and how do you get it (in the terms, download, on request)?
• AI steps - where do the AI features run? Make, for example, sends a long list of AI features to the US regardless of the selected EU zone³.
• Training - is your content excluded from model training by default, or only after someone opts out?
• Who sees what - roles and permissions decide whether the trainee can read the payroll scenario or the complaints inbox.
• Approval - does a person check before a reminder, a booking or an order confirmation goes out?
• Retention and deletion - how long do run logs with customer data stay, and who deletes them?

For a deeper look at the costs behind the credit model, see our Make.com pricing 2026 article.

The 8 GDPR-compliant Make.com alternatives compared

Hosting and data protection are shown as each vendor documents them on its own pages. Prices are as of October 2026, excl. VAT.

The 8 GDPR-compliant Make.com alternatives in detail

Superkind comes first; the other seven are described as their vendors document them.

1. Superkind: Best Overall Choice for Teams in Germany and the EU

Superkind is an AI employee for your team. Instead of building scenarios in Make, you write to Superkind in Outlook or any email inbox, Microsoft Teams, Slack or the Superkind web app like you would to a colleague. It does the task in your programs and asks you before anything goes out. It is hosted in Europe, GDPR compliant and works through 1,500+ integrations, including Outlook, SAP Business One, DATEV, HubSpot, Excel and Google Sheets.

Why it is our overall pick - the criteria you can check:

• Works where you already work - Outlook, Gmail, Teams, Slack and the web app, with the same knowledge and rules everywhere.
• Does the task in your programs - through 1,500+ integrations, not just a draft in a chat window.
• Asks for approval - before it sends, books or changes anything, you click Approve or Reject.
• Keeps your company knowledge - the Company Brain stores customers, prices and processes, even when people leave.
• EU-first - hosted and processed in Europe, GDPR compliant, aligned with the EU AI Act, no training on your data, DPA through the Trust Center. AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral and Google, processed in Europe.
• Unlimited users from EUR 50 per month - no price per seat, one credit budget for the whole company; EUR 100 covers up to 1,000 tasks (as of October 2026).
• Grows into your own apps - when it gets more complex, you build custom solutions on the platform instead of starting over.

Best for

• Teams whose Make credits run out mid-month
• Back office, accounting, sales and customer service
• Companies on Outlook, Teams or Slack with systems like SAP Business One, DATEV or HubSpot
• Companies without an in-house automation expert

How to use Superkind as your Make.com alternative

Take a classic Make scenario: an invoice arrives by email, the AP clerk opens it, enters it into DATEV, matches it to the purchase order and asks the department head to approve payment. With Superkind it takes four steps, and the last one runs on its own. More on this use case: back-office work with an AI employee.

1. 1

   You write to Superkind

   In Outlook, Teams, Slack or the web app, in plain words. Forward the invoice and say what should happen.

2. 2

   Superkind does it in your systems

   It reads the invoice, takes the vendor, cost centre and account from the Company Brain, enters the booking in DATEV and attaches the PDF, all processed in Europe.

3. 3

   Superkind asks for approval

   Before the payment proposal goes out, you see it and click Approve or Reject, in Teams, Slack or your inbox. Invoices over EUR 10,000 go to the head of finance first.

4. 4

   Done, and next time it is a routine

   Say it once and it keeps running: “Every invoice from this vendor gets booked on account 3400 and shown to me before payment.”

From the first task to your own app

For a team that used to run its invoice intake through Make scenarios, the path to its own AI team has four stages.

1. 1

   Ready in minutes

   Sign up for free, forward the first invoice by email or in Teams and watch it get booked.

2. 2

   Tasks become routines

   What you explained once keeps running: every new invoice gets booked and matched, and Superkind asks for approval before payment. No scenario to maintain and no credits to top up.

3. 3

   Learns from day one

   Every invoice adds to your Company Brain: which vendor goes on which cost centre, which approver signs off at which amount. Unlike the logic hidden inside one scenario, this knowledge is never lost.

4. 4

   Your own Super App

   When it gets more complex, you do not start over: you build your own AP desk with its own interface on the Superkind platform, on top of what Superkind already knows, yourself or with the Superkind team. It all belongs to you.

Data protection and EU hosting

Safe by default

Your data stays in Europe, under a DPA, with no training on your data.

• Hosted and processed in Europe
• GDPR compliant
• Aligned with the EU AI Act
• No training on your data
• DPA through the Trust Center

For a Make alternative this means: the invoice PDFs, vendor names, bank data and employee data that used to pass through scenarios are processed in Europe, under one DPA for the whole company, with a person approving before anything leaves the team. The AI models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Google) are processed in Europe too, not routed to the US for certain steps.

2. n8n

n8n is a workflow builder from a Berlin company that you can run as a cloud service or on your own servers. For hosted plans, data is stored in the EU on servers in Frankfurt⁵, and n8n offers a pre-signed data processing agreement to download and countersign⁶.

Features

• Billed per execution - you pay when a workflow runs, not per step. Starter costs EUR 20 per month for 2,500 executions, Pro EUR 50 for 10,000, billed annually⁵.
• Unlimited users - all plans list unlimited users⁵.
• Self-hosting - without a licence key, n8n runs as the free Community edition on your own infrastructure.
• AI nodes - AI steps and agents inside workflows, built by you.

Best for

• Teams with developers or a technical admin
• Companies that want data on their own servers
• High volumes with many steps per run

A deeper look is in GDPR-compliant n8n alternatives.

3. Workato

Workato is an integration and automation platform for larger IT teams. It runs an EU data centre in Frankfurt: if you sign up in the EU region, all your data is processed and stored there, with no replication or backup to US data centres⁷.

Features

• Region by sign-up - you choose the data location by signing up in that region⁷.
• Enterprise connectors - connectors for systems like Salesforce, NetSuite, SAP and ServiceNow.
• Recipes - Workato’s name for workflows, built and governed by IT.
• AI steps - built-in agents and prompt-driven actions for IT-governed scenarios.

Best for

• Companies with an integration team
• Many systems and strict governance
• Projects that need EU data locality

4. Celigo

Celigo’s integrator.io is an iPaaS with ready-made integrations for NetSuite, Salesforce, Shopify, HubSpot and others. The EU domain at eu.integrator.io runs an isolated production environment with data in Germany; you choose the region at account creation and cannot move it afterwards without rebuilding⁸.

Features

• Pre-built integration apps - templates that cover standard flows like NetSuite to Salesforce.
• Free Starter tier - a limited plan to test; paid tiers on request.
• EU domain - the EU environment is isolated from the US environment⁸.
• DPA on request - Celigo is a US-based company, so cross-border transfers may still apply for support⁸.

Best for

• Teams running NetSuite, Salesforce or Shopify
• Companies that want templates over blank canvases
• EU data residency without self-hosting

5. Boomi

Boomi is an enterprise iPaaS and in March 2026 launched a dedicated European platform instance that keeps customer data, metadata and runtime execution inside Europe under GDPR¹⁰. For large organisations with strict data residency rules, it moves the whole platform plane, not only the runtime, into the region.

Features

• European platform instance - regionally independent, aimed at GDPR and sovereign-cloud requirements¹⁰.
• Atom runtime - the integration runtime runs in Boomi’s cloud, your cloud or on premise.
• Enterprise connectors - deep coverage for SAP, Oracle, Workday and other enterprise systems.
• Governance and monitoring - roles, audit logs and process reporting built in.

Best for

• Large enterprises
• Regulated industries with EU data residency rules
• IT teams with a dedicated integration function

6. Tray.ai

Tray.ai is an AI integration platform for enterprises. An instance can be hosted in the US, EU or APAC data region; regional hosting is an add-on on Team and standard on Enterprise⁹.

Features

• Data regions - business data stays in the region where it originated⁹.
• EU endpoints - separate EU endpoints for API and embedded integrations⁹.
• Merlin AI - built-in agents and prompt-driven actions on top of the integration platform.
• Embedded integrations - partners can embed Tray flows in their own product.

Best for

• Enterprises with several regions
• Integration teams
• Embedded integrations in your own product

7. Zapier

Zapier is the alternative most teams know. It is not an EU option by default: data sits on AWS in the United States, region-specific data residency is only available by separate agreement, and the DPA is part of the Terms of Service¹¹. For a GDPR-first setup it belongs on this list as the honest comparison point, not as an EU replacement.

Features

• Broadest catalogue - more than 9,000 apps, more than any other tool on this list¹².
• Price per task - every successful action counts; Pro from $19.99/month for 750 tasks on annual billing¹².
• Zapier Agents and Tables - lightweight agents and a data layer alongside Zaps.
• Human in the Loop - an approval step you add per Zap.

Best for

• Processes that need a very niche app only Zapier connects
• Teams whose data protection stance does not require EU-only
• Teams already running on Zapier that want to compare EU options

If you only need the EU replacement for Zapier itself, see GDPR-compliant Zapier alternatives.

8. Pipedream

Pipedream is a workflow and agent platform aimed at developers, with code steps in Node.js, Python, Go and Bash between pre-built app actions. Default hosting is in the US; EU hosting is not advertised at self-service tiers, so if that matters, check with Pipedream before you sign up¹³.

Features

• Code and no-code steps - mix pre-built actions with your own code.
• Billed per credit - a credit is a 30-second slice of a workflow run¹³.
• MCP and agents - built-in support for the Model Context Protocol and agent flows.
• Large app catalogue - over 2,500 integrated apps.

Best for

• Developers who want to write code between apps
• Prototypes and internal tooling
• Teams whose data protection does not require EU-only hosting

For a broader map across Zapier, Make, n8n and agent platforms, see The Best AI Automation Platforms in 2026.

Feature comparison: What Superkind does that Make.com does not

✓ = yes, ~ = partly, ✗ = no, as documented by the vendor. Where the vendor page does not say, we write “check with vendor”.

Where Make is better: the visual canvas with branches and iterators is still one of the clearest ways to draw a flow by hand. If a visual canvas is the point, Make keeps its place.

Who benefits most

Three groups gain the most from moving their Make work to an EU setup:

Accounting with customer and employee data

Invoices, bank payments and payroll data are personal data. If your Make scenarios move them between Outlook, DATEV and lexoffice, processing in Europe and an approval before booking matter more than the shape of the canvas.

Sales and customer service with CRM data

Leads, quotes and tickets carry names, emails and phone numbers. A Make alternative that works in HubSpot, Salesforce or Zendesk with EU hosting and an approval before every outgoing email keeps the CRM clean and the data protection officer calm.

Teams whose Make credits run out mid-month

Order entry, delivery updates and weekly reports run every day, and every iterator loop is a credit. Operations and back-office teams save most when one budget covers the whole company and a multi-step task is not billed step by step.

Switching from Make.com to Superkind

You do not have to switch everything on day one. Most teams run both for a few weeks and move one scenario at a time.

• Notice period - Make charges per billing cycle; you downgrade or cancel from the subscription settings and the change takes effect at the end of the current cycle. Credits in the current cycle are not refunded.
• Export the scenarios - before you downgrade, write down every active scenario: trigger, modules, filters and who gets notified. That list is your migration plan and your record of processing activities.
• What to take over - the logic inside your scenarios (“invoices over EUR 10,000 to the head of finance”, “complaints to customer service”) becomes rules in Superkind’s Company Brain, so it belongs to the company, not to one canvas.

The first three steps

1. 1

   Pick the scenario that burns the most credits

   Invoice booking, order entry, lead routing. Make’s usage view shows which one runs most.

2. 2

   Sign up and connect the same systems

   Start free at app.superkind.ai and connect Outlook, Teams or Slack plus the systems the scenario used, for example DATEV, SAP Business One, HubSpot or Google Sheets.

3. 3

   Write the task once and make it a routine

   Write it to Superkind like a colleague, approve the first result, then say “do this every time”. Switch the scenario off when the routine runs.

6 tips for choosing a GDPR-compliant Make.com alternative

List your scenarios and their data

Write down which scenarios move personal data: customer names, invoices, applicant files. These need EU processing first, including the AI steps.

Get the DPA and check the AI steps

Sign the data processing agreement before real customer data flows, and ask where the AI features run, not just the workflows. Make lists several AI features that always process in the US regardless of the data zone³. With Superkind you get the DPA through the Trust Center. Also plan AI training for the team: Article 4 of the EU AI Act requires companies that use AI to ensure sufficient AI literacy among their staff.

Calculate with your real volume

Price last month’s Make credit usage in each model: per credit, per execution, per task or per company. Scenarios with iterators and AI steps show the biggest difference.

Decide who builds and who maintains

n8n, Workato, Celigo, Boomi and Tray.ai need someone who builds and fixes flows. If you do not have that person, pick a tool your team can use by writing to it.

Put an approval where it counts

Payment proposals, outgoing invoices and order confirmations should not go out unchecked. Make approval part of the process, not of one scenario.

Test with last month’s real cases

Run ten real invoices or orders from last month through the new tool. Demo data never shows your exceptions.

Conclusion

Make.com’s visual canvas is still one of the clearest ways to draw a workflow, and its EU data zones go further than Zapier’s default US setup. But several AI features always run in the US regardless of the zone³, scenarios still have to be built and maintained, and credits can run out mid-month. If you want to keep building scenarios in the EU, n8n, Workato, Celigo, Boomi and Tray.ai are honest options. If you would rather hand over the task than build the flow, Superkind does it in Outlook, Teams and Slack, works in your programs through 1,500+ integrations such as DATEV, SAP Business One and HubSpot, and asks before anything goes out. Your next step: take the Make scenario that burns the most credits and send that task to Superkind today.

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Henri Jung

Co-founder of Superkind, the AI employee teams write to in Outlook, Teams and Slack. Henri helps companies, from small teams to the Mittelstand, hand their routine work to AI - without new tools, consultants or an in-house AI team.