Alternatives
Self-hosted alternatives to Make
Projects in the registry that can run on your own hardware and serve at least one of the same use cases as Make.
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01How this list was built
- Compared against
- Make
- Delivery
- SaaS products
- Shared use cases
- Invoice processing automation, Marketing workflow, Document classification
- Selection rule
- open source, or self-hostable, and shares a use case
- Candidates found
- 8
02Alternatives
ComfyUI
Self-hosted projects
Node-based interface for image and video generation models, where a pipeline is an explicit graph that can be saved, versioned and re-run. Runs locally on your own GPU.
- Repository
- comfyanonymous/ComfyUI
- Stars
- 133,870
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
- In stacks
- 0
Shares: Marketing workflow
Dify
Hybrid — hosted or self-hosted
Platform for building LLM applications: visual workflow editor, retrieval pipelines, agent tools, prompt management and an API layer. Available self-hosted or as a managed cloud service.
- Repository
- langgenius/dify
- Stars
- 153,448
- Licence
- Other
- In stacks
- 1
Shares: Marketing workflow
n8n
Hybrid — hosted or self-hosted
Workflow automation tool with several hundred integrations, branching logic, code steps and AI nodes. Can be self-hosted, which is why it appears in on-premise automation stacks.
- Repository
- n8n-io/n8n
- Stars
- 202,375
- Licence
- Other
- In stacks
- 4
Shares: Invoice processing · Marketing workflow · Document classification
PaddleOCR
Libraries
OCR toolkit with detection, recognition and layout models, including Chinese and other East Asian scripts, plus table and formula recognition. Runs offline on CPU or GPU.
- Repository
- PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR
- Stars
- 88,941
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- In stacks
- 0
Shares: Document classification
paperless-ngx
Self-hosted projects
Self-hosted document management system that OCRs incoming scans and email, applies tags and correspondents through trainable rules, and keeps a searchable archive.
- Repository
- paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx
- Stars
- 44,585
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
- In stacks
- 2
Shares: Document classification
PostgreSQL
Self-hosted projects
Relational database used here as the system of record for documents, metadata and job queues, and — with pgvector — for embeddings as well.
- Repository
- none linked
- Stars
- —
- Licence
- unknown
- In stacks
- 4
Shares: Invoice processing
scikit-learn
Libraries
The standard Python library for classical machine learning: regression, classification, clustering, preprocessing pipelines and model evaluation on tabular data.
- Repository
- scikit-learn/scikit-learn
- Stars
- 67,301
- Licence
- BSD-3-Clause
- In stacks
- 1
Shares: Document classification
Tesseract OCR
Libraries
Long-established open-source OCR engine with trained data for many languages and scripts, usable offline and embedded in most self-hosted document pipelines.
- Repository
- tesseract-ocr/tesseract
- Stars
- 76,569
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- In stacks
- 0
Shares: Document classification
03Repository facts
| Repository | Stars | Health |
|---|---|---|
| comfyanonymous/ComfyUIThe most powerful and modular diffusion model GUI, api and backend with a graph/nodes interface. | 134k | Maintenance 80%, Releases 60%, Contributors 50%, Issues 63%, Community 100%75 |
| langgenius/difyBuild Agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, with rich AI model and tool support on one collaborative workspace. Deploy on cloud, VPC, or self-hosted, so teams move from prototype to production without rebuilding the stack. | 153k | Maintenance 60%, Releases 60%, Contributors 50%, Issues 94%, Community 100%72 |
| n8n-io/n8nFair-code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities. Combine visual building with custom code, self-host or cloud, 400+ integrations. | 202k | Maintenance 60%, Releases 60%, Contributors 50%, Issues 95%, Community 100%72 |
| PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCRTurn any PDF or image document into structured data for your AI. A powerful, lightweight OCR toolkit that bridges the gap between images/PDFs and LLMs. Supports 100+ languages. | 89k | Maintenance 60%, Releases 40%, Contributors 50%, Issues 97%, Community 99%68 |
| paperless-ngx/paperless-ngxA community-supported supercharged document management system: scan, index and archive all your documents | 45k | Maintenance 60%, Releases 60%, Contributors 50%, Issues 100%, Community 93%71 |
| scikit-learn/scikit-learnscikit-learn: machine learning in Python | 67k | Maintenance 80%, Releases 60%, Contributors 50%, Issues 68%, Community 97%74 |
| tesseract-ocr/tesseractTesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository) | 77k | Maintenance 60%, Releases 60%, Contributors 50%, Issues 94%, Community 98%71 |
04Ask about your own case
Which alternative is right depends on how many people will use it, what the data is and what you can operate. Ask and the answer is researched for your organisation.