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Audited 2026-07-05 · RXed table v1.0

n8n

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“AI workflow automation platform” — the vendor’s own words

The deepest AI-native automation harness you can run on your own hardware — the fair-code license and steep cloud tiers are the fine print worth reading.

Best for: Technical SMBs and builders who want frontier-grade AI workflow depth — agents, RAG, evals, MCP — with full data control and near-zero license cost, and can spare the DevOps hours self-hosting demands.
Scope17/20
Quality7/10
Where the quality sits
7Reactive
7Retrieval & Memory
8Orchestration
8Validation
7Models
Open sourceAutomation & AgentsCodingProductivityFreemium
Vendor
n8n GmbH · n8n.io
Origin
DE — Berlin
Pricing
Community Edition Free · Starter €20/mo · Pro €50/mo · Business €667/mo · Enterprise Custom
Users (official only)
1.7M monthly active builders; 1,400+ enterprise customers (source, 2026-05-12)

PRICING

Community EditionFreeself-hosted, source-available
Starter€20/mobilled annually; 2.5K executions
Pro€50/mobilled annually; 10K executions
Business€667/mobilled annually; 40K executions, self-hosted
EnterpriseCustomcustom execution volume

n8n prices its cloud plans in euros worldwide — there is no USD figure anywhere on the page, so these are the vendor's own numbers, not our conversion. Per-execution billing regardless of workflow complexity; all plans include unlimited users and workflows. Prices shown are the annual-commitment rate; monthly commitment costs more but is not published. Overages on Business are 4,000 EUR per extra 300K executions. Startups under 20 employees get 50% off Business.

checked 2026-07-25 · vendor pricing page

Element scores

Reactive
Retrieval & Memory
Orchestration
Validation
Models
Primitives
Pr7
Prompts
Em7
Embeddings
Cx7
Context
Tr8
Tracing
Lg8
LLM
Compositions
Fc9
Function calling
Vx7
Vector store
Rg8
RAG
Gr8
Guardrails
Mm6
Multimodal
Deployment
Ag8
Agents
Ft—
Fine-tuning
Fw9
Frameworks & harnesses
Ev8
Evaluations
Sm7
Small models
Emerging
Ma6
Multi-agent
Sy—
Synthetic data
Pc8
Protocols
In—
Interpretability
Th7
Thinking models
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Strengths

AI-native to the core: agent, RAG, guardrails, evaluations and MCP (both client and server) are built into one canvas that also accepts real JavaScript and Python. Execution-based pricing is predictable (a 50-step run costs one execution), the free self-hosted Community edition has no feature ceiling for internal use, and native OpenTelemetry tracing gives production-grade observability. Validation is loud: SAP invested at a $5.2bn valuation (12/05/2026) and is embedding n8n into Joule Studio.

Honest dings

Fair-code is not open source — the Sustainable Use License restricts use to internal business purposes and blocks reselling, which some legal teams will reject. Cloud tiers jump steeply (€50 Pro to €667 Business), the v2.0 migration dropped MySQL and rewrote the Python node (real upgrade pain for self-hosters), the learning curve is measured in hours not minutes, and 'free self-hosted' carries genuine VPS-plus-maintenance costs.

Prices and details change — this passport is re-verified at least quarterly.
Sources (12) — every claim traceable

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