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ILuminance vs Make
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Luminance if…
- you're in its core audience: in-house legal teams, procurement teams
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Choose Make if…
- you want a free plan to start with
- you need an API to build on
- you're in its core audience: operations teams, marketers
Side by side
Feature Luminance Make
Pricing modelContact for pricingFreemium
Starting price—$9/mo
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
Data retention—Log data stored 30 days by default; longer on Enterprise
Security and complianceISO 27001, SOC 2 Type IIGDPR, SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3, ISO 27001
Custom playbooks—
Contract repository—
PlatformsWebWeb, API
CategoryLegalWorkflow Automation
CompanyLuminanceCelonis, Inc.
Based in—United States
Founded—2015
Part of——
Key features
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- Playbook and precedent-based contract review
- AI-assisted contract negotiation
- Portfolio-wide search of risk, obligations and renewals
- Contract repository
- Connected workflows from intake to signature
- Document search engine for contracts
- Luna assistant for contract questions
- Detection of auto-renewals and commercial opportunities
M Make
- Visual drag-and-drop workflow builder
- 3,500+ app integrations plus custom apps
- Build automations by prompting with Maia
- MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini
- AI agents with visible reasoning
- Custom JavaScript or Python code execution
- Make Grid observability across workflows
- 300+ Make API endpoints
Plans and prices
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Luminance
Contact for pricing. Plan details aren't published.
Make
Free$0/mo
Core$9/mo (annual billing, 10,000 credits)
Pro$16/mo (annual billing, 10,000 credits)
Teams$29/mo (annual billing, 10,000 credits)
EnterpriseCustom
Strengths and limitations
Luminance
- ISO 27001 certified and SOC 2 Type II examined
- Built for use across many departments, not only legal
- Covers negotiation, repository and workflows in one platform
- Says it is trusted by more than 1,000 enterprises
- No public pricing; demo request required
- No free plan or trial listed
- Aimed at enterprises rather than individuals or small teams
Make
- Free plan with no time limit and no card required
- 3,500+ integrations plus custom apps for any API
- Paid plans start at $9/mo with annual billing
- GDPR compliant, SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 certified
- Free plan limited to 2 active scenarios and 15-minute run intervals
- Code app and Make API not available on the Free plan
- Custom functions and on-prem agent are Enterprise-only
- AI Agents and AI Web Search are still in beta
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