n8n pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
n8n (n8n.io) is a automation platform. Cloud plans are priced by monthly workflow executions (a whole run counts once, regardless of steps), with unlimited users and workflows; prices are in EUR.. No free plan.
What n8n costs
- 1,000 runs: $27.84/mo (1,000 runs = 1,000 executions. Starter is EUR 24/mo billed monthly (2.5k executions, unlimited active workflows), converted at about 1.16 USD/EUR = $27.84. No permanent free cloud plan (trial only); the free Community Edition is self-hosted and excluded.)
- 10,000 runs: $69.60/mo (10,000 executions fits Pro 10k exactly: EUR 60/mo billed monthly x 1.16 = $69.60. Workflows are unlimited.)
- 25 customer accounts: no public price (n8n Embed (white-label/embedded use) is only available through sales, so this is null.)
Plan compared: Starter (2,500 executions). Prices are USD per month on monthly billing (annual-only plans divided by 12). Workflow platforms are priced at 1,000 and 10,000 runs a month of a four-step workflow (one trigger plus three app actions), converted into each vendor's own unit (tasks, operations, credits or executions); embedded and unified integration APIs are priced at 25 connected customer accounts.
What n8n does
Core: Schedules & event triggers, Prebuilt app integrations, Custom tools & MCP, Open source & self-hosting, Multi-step workflows, Logic and data tools, Custom code steps, AI agents, Self-hosting and open source.
Important: Custom AI assistants, Multi-agent orchestration, Human approval steps, Deploy via API & channels, Team workspace & sharing, Agent templates & gallery, Prebuilt app connectors (partly), Webhooks and HTTP requests, Custom connector builder, Built-in AI steps (partly), Built-in tables and forms, Team collaboration and governance, Security and compliance.
Also has: Autonomous multi-step tasks (partly), AI browser agent (partly), Code & file workspace (partly), Deep research reports (partly), Docs, slides & sites output (partly), Company knowledge grounding (partly), AI long-term memory (partly), Multi-lab model choice (partly), SSO & compliance, AI workflow builder, Tools for external agents (partly), Mobile and device triggers (partly), Embedded integrations for SaaS (partly).
n8n price hikes
- n8n cut AI Assistant credits about 30% on Starter and Pro · Oct 5, 2026
n8n renamed AI credits to Assistant credits and cut the monthly allowance by about 30%: Starter from 2,300 to 1,600 and Pro from up to 13,700 to up to 9,600, at unchanged prices.
Cheaper alternatives to n8n
At 1,000 workflow runs a month, n8n costs $27.84/mo. 1 automation platform costs less:
- Make: $10.59/mo (Core, 10,000 credits/mo), covers 85% of n8n; missing or partial: Open source & self-hosting, Self-hosting and open source (partly), Multi-agent orchestration (partly), Human approval steps (partly), Deploy via API & channels (partly)
n8n alternatives: 2 automation platforms compared, at every size.
Other kinds of products that cover part of n8n
- Copy.ai (AI writing): covers 39% of n8n; missing or partial: Logic and data tools (partly), Custom code steps, AI agents (partly), Self-hosting and open source, Human approval steps (partly)
Every change we logged
- Oct 5, 2026 · Limits cut: n8n renamed AI credits to Assistant credits and cut the monthly allowance by about 30%: Starter from 2,300 to 1,600 and Pro from up to 13,700 to up to 9,600, at unchanged prices. Pro's concurrency cap rose from 20 to up to 50 at the same time.
Sources
Pricing page: n8n.io/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Prices come from the n8n pricing page payload, which lists EUR only (monthly 24/60/145/800; annual totals 240/600/1,450/8,000), converted at about 1.16 USD/EUR. Third-party trackers (ComparEdge, CostBench) report 2026 'increases' such as $24 to $25.92 that look like currency-conversion artifacts or new tiers, so they were not recorded as hikes.