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Open coreWorkflow engine

AI workflow automation platform for technical teams

Scanned 15 Oct 2026 · Schema v5 · features v21

From
€20/mo

Hosted subscription with monthly full-workflow execution allowances; unlimited steps per execution

Free tier
No

No card required.

Isolation
Not disclosed

the public docs do not say

Regions
1

Frankfurt, Germany — n8n Cloud on Microsoft Azure

Capabilities
18 / 61

10 partial · 12 fail · 0 not assessed

Agent readiness
11/11 · 10/11

read · drive, pre-login surface

Advertised for

Workflow automation · AI agents · Data integration · ETL · API orchestration · Scheduled tasks & cron · Webhooks · Rag · Chatbots · Internal tools

Built for

Technical, then developers

  • · https://n8n.io/ — explicit technical-teams positioning with visual node workflow authoring and code escape hatches.
  • · https://n8n.io/pricing/ — full-workflow execution pricing and unlimited steps frame business automation, not raw compute.

01 Pricing Hosted subscription with monthly full-workflow execution allowances; unlimited steps per execution

Tier EntryStarterProTopEnterprise
Price €20/month, billed annually€50/month, billed annuallyCustom; contact sales
Includes 2500 executions/month; 5 concurrent; 1 shared project; 1600 Assistant credits/month; unlimited steps10000 executions/month; 3 shared projects; up to 50 concurrent; up to 9600 Assistant credits/month; history and metric-based evaluationsCustom executions; 200+ concurrent; unlimited projects; external secrets; log streaming; SLA; Cloud or self-hosted

Workflow executions; separate Assistant credits and prepaid Gateway credits·Card required: No·n8n.io

02 Website design Desktop public website · assessed 15 Oct 2026

Complete assessment.

The desktop landing and pricing pages pair a nearly black violet canvas, light rounded sans-serif typography, glowing imagery and gradient calls to action. The docs index switches to a white, navigation-heavy layout with coral links and workflow-diagram thumbnail cards. All three public roles were captured; cookie banners obscure the lower marketing viewports.

  • Corporate
  • Technical illustration
  • Landing page: captured
  • Pricing: captured
  • Docs: captured

03 Runtime Each fact carries its source; dots show confidence. Open a row for the evidence.

Isolation & lifecycle

Isolation primitive
Not disclosedthe public docs do not say
Persistence
database-backed workflow state
Snapshots / forks
No

Resources & limits

Storage
Native Data Tables; execution storage; binary-data storage
Limits & quotas
Cloud Starter: 2500 executions/month, 5 concurrent, 5-minute execution maximum; Pro: 10000/month, 20 / up to 50 concurrent, 40-minute maximum; Enterprise: custom executions, 200+ concurrent, displayed 40-minute maximum.
GPU
No

Access

Deploy interface
dashboardapiclisdkmcptemplate
SDK languages
TypeScriptJavaScript

Network & secrets

Egress controls
Not documented
Secrets
Yes
Bring your own cloud
No

Placement & use

Jurisdiction
EU; Frankfurt, Germany for hosted plans
Advertised workloads
Workflow automationAI agentsData integrationETLAPI orchestrationScheduled tasks & cronWebhooksRagChatbotsInternal tools

04 Capabilities 18 pass · 10 partial · 12 fail · 61 of 61 assessed

  • Supported
  • Partially supported
  • Not supported
  • Not assessed

Compute & storage 0/4

Persistent diskStorage that survives restart/stop (not ephemeral-only).
Not applicable
Object storageManaged S3-compatible / blob object store the platform PROVIDES to a user's workloads (buckets, presigned URLs). DISTINCT from persistent-disk (block/volume attached to an instance) and from a self-host dependency (source.self_host.deps[]=["object-storage"] is an infra dep to RUN an OSS tool — the opposite direction). SCOPE varies and matters: native first-class (Railway Buckets, Cloudflare R2) vs a sibling SKU / extension (Fly Tigris, Bunny Storage, DigitalOcean Spaces) — record which in the evidence quote / note. Admitted v15.
Not supported
Snapshots / forkingSnapshot or copy-on-write fork of a running instance (filesystem-only counts). Whether the snapshot also restores memory + running processes is recorded separately by memory-snapshot (v19).
Not supported
Live-state (memory) snapshotsA snapshot / checkpoint / pause captures a running instance's MEMORY and PROCESS state and restores it, so running processes continue where they left off instead of a freshly booted instance with the same files. Counts whether user-triggered (snapshot, checkpoint, pause-to-storage) or used to restore pre-initialised state (memory snapshots for fast cold starts). Distinct from snapshots-forks (any snapshot or fork, including filesystem-only; a product passing that key may still fail this one) and from scale-to-zero (an idle-cost property; suspension may or may not keep memory). Actor multiplexing (see scale-to-zero) records its live-state half here — only when the suspended actor's MEMORY/process state is what comes back, not a freshly booted worker with the actor's files.
Not applicable
Scale to zeroIdle instances suspend at no / negligible cost. ACTOR MULTIPLEXING (many suspended stateful actors sharing a small pool of pre-warmed workers, woken on request — Agent Substrate, AX, kagent; Rivet's hibernating actors) has NO key of its own (proposal REJECTED v20) — score the idle-cost half HERE and the live-state half under memory-snapshot; the oversubscription ratio / density is a performance characteristic the registry does not key.
Not applicable
GPU computeGPU-backed instances available.
Not supported
Multi-regionCompute placeable in more than one geographic region.
Not supported
Sandbox templates / custom imagesBuild reusable sandbox/VM images from an OCI image or Dockerfile (a base you fork instances from).
Not applicable
Cloud-init / ignition configCustomise a VM / microVM / instance at boot via cloud-init (or ignition) user-data — the same boot-metadata interface as AWS/Azure/GCP. Inject packages, users, SSH keys, files, and run-commands declaratively at launch. Distinct from sandbox-templates (a PREBUILT image you fork instances from) — this is PER-LAUNCH declarative customisation, not a baked image.
Not applicable
Desktop / computer-use sandboxA virtual desktop (GUI) for LLM computer-use — browser + desktop automation, often via noVNC/VNC.
Not applicable
Selectable isolation runtimeThe user chooses the isolation runtime per workload / environment / sandbox from more than one option (e.g. microVM vs gVisor vs plain container, native namespaces vs gVisor, gVisor vs VM). Records the CHOICE; the isolation_primitive facet still records the best-evidenced primary. A platform that switches runtime automatically without a user choice (e.g. gVisor forced for GPU) does not pass on that alone.
Not applicable

Networking & delivery 1/4

Automatic HTTPSTLS endpoints provisioned automatically per workload.
Not applicable
Built-in reverse proxyPlatform routes external traffic to workload services.
Not applicable
Custom domainsBring-your-own domain via CNAME/DNS.
Not applicable
Public preview URLsShareable per-deploy / per-branch URLs.
Not supported
Direct public IPv6Per-instance stable public IPv6 for raw TCP/UDP (beyond a managed HTTPS proxy) — e.g. mosh / raw sockets.
Not applicable
Egress controlsConfigurable OUTBOUND network policy — egress firewall / allowlist / egress proxy on traffic LEAVING a workload. Scoped to OUTBOUND only (v15): private-network REACHABILITY between a user's own services is private-networking, not this. Static-egress-IP belongs here (an outbound concept).
Partially supported
Private networkingA platform-internal private network between a user's OWN services — service-to-service connectivity, VPC, service mesh, and/or service discovery, not exposed to the public internet. DISTINCT from egress-controls (OUTBOUND firewall/allowlist), reverse-proxy (PUBLIC inbound ingress), and direct-ipv6 (per-instance PUBLIC addressing). Admitted v15.
Not supported
Email send / receiveSend and/or receive email from the workload.
Supported
Edge KV storeA globally-replicated key-value store read from WITHIN an edge runtime at the PoP (low-latency, eventually-consistent) — Cloudflare Workers KV, Deno KV, Fastly KV Store, Akamai EdgeKV, Vercel Edge Config. Distinct from first-party-db (a managed DATABASE service you provision and connect to) and from http-query-api (HTTP access to an external store) — edge-kv is colocated with the edge compute and read at the edge.
Not applicable

Developer access 5/6

Public APIDocumented programmatic API.
Supported
OpenAPI specMachine-readable OpenAPI / Swagger spec published.
Supported
CLIOfficial command-line tool.
Supported
SDKOfficial client library/libraries.
Supported
SSH accessDirect SSH into workloads.
Not applicable
Filesystem APIRemote file operations over the API (list/read/write/watch/copy/upload) without SSH.
Not applicable
Git deployDeploy from a Git repo / push-to-deploy.
Partially supported
Private container registryHosted private image registry.
Not applicable
E2B-compatible APIDrop-in compatibility with the E2B sandbox API/SDKs — existing E2B client code runs against this product by changing the endpoint/domain + key, with no business-code changes. E2B itself passes as the reference implementation. Distinct from public-api / sdk (the product has its own API — this key says it also speaks another vendor's) and from self-host-oss (a self-hosted E2B-compatible server is scored on both).
Not applicable
HTTP data APIQuery / read / write the stored DATA over plain HTTP/REST (or GraphQL) WITHOUT the native protocol driver (Postgres wire / Redis RESP) — agent- and edge-friendly data access via fetch(). The DATA plane; distinct from public-api (a control-plane / management API). Auto-generated-from-schema REST/GraphQL (PostgREST, pg_graphql) is a flavour of this.
Supported

AI & agents 4/11

Built-in coding agentShips a first-party AI coding agent in the product.
Partially supported
Agent skillsInstallable / declarable agent skills or tools.
Supported
AI app builderPrompt-to-app / vibe-coding generation surface.
Partially supported
MCP serverExposes a Model Context Protocol server for agents.
Supported
MCP clientActs as an MCP client / consumes MCP tools.
Supported
MCP-server hostingRun/host MCP servers as a workload on the platform (distinct from exposing a first-party MCP control server — that is mcp-server).
Partially supported
LLM gatewayRoutes LLM API calls through the platform (multi-provider).
Partially supported
BYOK for LLMsBring-your-own LLM provider keys.
Supported
Model inference API (first-party)A FIRST-PARTY hosted LLM/model inference API — the provider serves its OWN catalogue of (usually open-weight) models behind a (typically OpenAI-compatible) endpoint, billed per token. Distinct from llm-gateway (a multi-PROVIDER proxy/router for YOUR calls to external providers like OpenAI/Anthropic) and from byok-llm (bring your own provider keys) — here the platform IS the inference provider, serving its own models.
Not supported
Autonomous QA agentA first-party AUTONOMOUS AI agent that QA-TESTS a running app / implementation — exercising it like a real user (clicking through flows, checking behaviour) and reporting bugs/defects (often back to a coding agent, or before a human review). Distinct from built-in-agent (a code-AUTHORING agent — this one VERIFIES the result, it does not write the feature; a product can ship both), from ai-guided-code-review (organises a diff for a HUMAN to review — not an autonomous tester), and from observability (runtime metrics/logs, not active testing).
Not supported
Credential-injection proxyThe platform holds real secrets OUTSIDE the workload and injects them on the wire (an egress / broker proxy swaps a placeholder or phantom token for the real credential on matching outbound requests), so code running in the sandbox — e.g. an untrusted agent — never sees or can exfiltrate the real key. Distinct from secrets-management (storage + injection INTO the workload as env vars/files — the workload holds the secret) and from egress-controls (outbound allow/deny POLICY; a product can have an allowlist without injecting credentials, and vice versa).
Not supported
Preinstalled coding agentThe platform installs and launches a THIRD-PARTY coding agent (a harnesses.yml entry — Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi ...) inside a workspace/sandbox it provisions, with the agent's auth wired in (your own account or API key), so you start an agent session rather than an empty box. Distinct from built-in-agent (a FIRST-PARTY agent the vendor ships) and from harnesses[] (which records that a harness CAN target the product, not that the product runs it for you).
Not applicable

Data 0/2

First-party databasePlatform-provided managed database.
Partially supported
Database branchingCopy-on-write branch of a DATABASE (schema + data) as a dev-lifecycle primitive — branch your data like code, usually instant via a metadata operation. Distinct from snapshots-forks (forks a running compute INSTANCE / VM state) and from preview-environments (a full per-PR environment that may USE a DB branch). For a data product a CoW branch maps HERE, not to snapshots-forks.
Not applicable
Vector searchFirst-class storage, indexing, and similarity search of vector embeddings — a native vector type/index or a managed vector DB. The data-layer primitive for RAG / semantic retrieval.
Partially supported
Ephemeral instant DB (no-signup)Provision a working, usable instance via a single command / HTTP call with NO account, signup, or card — typically time-boxed (expires unless claimed). A zero-onboarding path an agent can hit directly.
Not applicable

Platform & operations 4/5

Scheduled tasksCron / scheduled job primitive.
Supported
Durable workflowsDurable execution / long-running workflow primitive.
Supported
Preview environmentsA full EPHEMERAL environment spun up per PR / branch — compute + addons + (often) a DB branch — torn down on merge. More than preview-urls (which is just a shareable URL for one deploy).
Not supported
Built-in observabilityFirst-party metrics / logs / tracing / APM / profiling included in the platform (no third-party stack required to see what a workload is doing).
Supported
Managed CI/CD runnersPlatform-hosted, drop-in CI/CD runner VMs (GitHub Actions / GitLab), typically faster and cheaper than the CI vendor's own hosted runners, billed per runner-minute; isolated + ephemeral per job. Distinct from git-deploy (push-to-deploy of an APP) and scheduled-tasks (cron) — this is managed CI COMPUTE you point your existing pipelines at.
Not applicable
Project template marketplaceA marketplace / gallery of prebuilt PROJECT STARTER templates (apps or websites) a user clones or launches a new project from and then customises — the "start from a template" surface of a builder / PaaS. Distinct from sandbox-templates (a COMPUTE base IMAGE you fork runtime INSTANCES from — Dockerfile / OCI), from app-builder (the prompt-to-app GENERATION surface — a product can have both), and from one-click OSS-app catalogues / helm-addon-marketplace (deploy a FINISHED app as-is, not a starter you build on).
Supported

Organisation & security 4/8

Built-in authPlatform-provided authentication / IAM for workloads.
Partially supported
SSO / SAMLEnterprise single sign-on.
Partially supported
Secrets managementFirst-class secrets storage / injection.
Supported
TeamsMulti-user team accounts.
Supported
SharingShare a running workload/resource via link (optionally gated).
Supported
BYOCRuns inside the customer's own cloud account.
Not supported
Deploy into customers' VPCsA SaaS vendor uses the platform to deploy and operate ITS software inside ITS CUSTOMERS' cloud accounts / VPCs (nested or "customer BYOC"), managed from the vendor's control plane. Distinct from byoc (your own workloads in your own cloud account).
Not applicable
Workload identityThe platform gives each workload its own verifiable identity (OIDC token, SPIFFE SVID, cloud IAM federation) that it exchanges for short-lived credentials, so no long-lived static secret is stored or injected. Distinct from secrets-management (stores / injects static secrets) and credential-injection-proxy (swaps real secrets in on the wire).
Not supported
Self-host / OSS coreOpen-source core that can be self-hosted.
Supported

Proposed, not verified

Capabilities the scan saw but the registry does not track yet. A key is admitted only once two distinct products exhibit it. These are not scored.

  • Visual node-graph workflow authoring with code escape hatchvisual-workflow-builder

    “Fair-code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities. Combine visual building with custom code, self-host or cloud, 400+ integrations.” github.com

  • AI workflow evaluationsai-evaluations

    “Use n8n evaluations to build reliable AI workflows. Build confidence in your LLM-powered workflows by comparing the output from known test cases.” docs.n8n.io

  • Prebuilt app/node integration catalogueintegration-catalog

    “400+ integrations.” github.com

05 Agent readiness Pre-login surface · counts, not a grade

Can an agent read it?

parse-ability · docs, metadata, machine-readable surfaces

11/11

8 full · 3 partial · 100% of applicable checks

  • llms.txt
    Supported
  • llms-full.txt
    Supported
  • robots.txt AI policy
    Partially supported
  • JSON-LD
    Partially supported
  • Sitemap
    Supported
  • Meta tags
    Supported
  • Markdown negotiation
    Supported
  • Content efficiency
    Partially supported
  • Docs discoverable
    Supported
  • Machine-readable pricing
    Supported
  • No anti-bot wall
    Supported

Can an agent drive it?

act-ability · APIs, SDKs, MCP, credentials, webhooks

10/11

8 full · 2 partial · 91% of applicable checks

  • Public API
    Supported
  • OpenAPI spec
    Supported
  • MCP server
    Supported
  • SDK packages
    Partially supported
  • Auth documented
    Supported
  • Self-serve credentials
    Partially supported
  • Webhooks
    Supported
  • CLI tool
    Supported
  • Error model
    Supported
  • Rate limits documented
    Not supported
  • Agent config files
    Supported

06 Coding harnesses Which agents and IDEs are documented to run here

Advertised integrations 6

  • Claude Code Anthropic
    Supported

    Documented external MCP client, not a coding harness hosted inside n8n.

  • Codex CLI OpenAI
    Supported

    Documented external MCP client, not a coding harness hosted inside n8n.

  • Gemini CLI Google
    Supported

    Documented external MCP client, not a coding harness hosted inside n8n.

  • Cursor Anysphere
    Supported

    Documented external MCP client, not a coding harness hosted inside n8n.

  • Windsurf Codeium
    Supported

    Documented external MCP client, not a coding harness hosted inside n8n.

  • OpenCode opencode
    Supported

    Official n8n skills supports OpenCode CLI and Desktop; no harness-registry edit needed.

Plausible compatibility 0

Derived, not stored: the product passes SSH access, so any CLI coding agent is installable inside it. This is plausible compatibility, not a supported integration.

No general shell access documented, so nothing is derived. Absence is not unsupported.

07 Compliance & regions Standards held, with ordinal rigor; never a score

Certifications held 3

  • SOC 2 Type II
    certifiedhostedRendered public held-compliance list; report access gated. Vendor-published attainment, not an independently reviewed audit. Does not cover customer self-hosted infrastructure.
  • SOC 3
    certifiedhostedRendered held-compliance and Reports sections; no customer self-host coverage implied.
  • GDPR
    self-attestedhostedVendor GDPR claim, not an independently issued certification.

Regions 1

  • Frankfurt, Germany — n8n Cloud on Microsoft AzureEU (Frankfurt)

Pricing FAQ explicitly says hosted-plan data resides on Frankfurt servers in the EU; security identifies Azure. No additional selectable Cloud region disclosed. Operator-chosen self-host placement is not Cloud multi-region capability.

08 Open source NOASSERTION · fetched by machine, not quoted from marketing

Licence & repository

Licence
NOASSERTION
Primary language
TypeScript
Stars
207,400
Forks
61,118
Created
22 Jun 2019
Archived
No

Activity

Last commit
14 Oct 2026
Latest release
[email protected] · 14 Oct 2026
Issues open / closed
351 / 10159 · 97% closed

Newest by creation time: [email protected] maintenance, 2026-10-14. Current 2.x stable: [email protected], 2026-10-14; [email protected] is beta/prerelease. Eight fetched rows span Oct 12–14: four stable versioned packages, two beta packages and rolling stable/beta aliases. Do not confuse the newest maintenance release with current stable 2.x.

Fetched via gh on 15 Oct 2026.

Self-hosting

Methods
dockercomposepackage-manager
You operate
—

Community Edition has no license charge for permitted internal-business, personal and non-commercial use, plus operator infrastructure. Sustainable Use License restricts commercial redistribution/hosting and is not OSI open source. Default single-instance storage uses bundled SQLite; PostgreSQL is supported; scalable queue mode requires Redis and PostgreSQL. External services are conditional rather than universal dependencies. Docker/Compose and npm install are documented. Business is self-host-only (€667/month annual billing for 40K executions); Enterprise can be Cloud or self-hosted. Community excludes SSO, source control/environments, external secrets, log streaming and multi-main. Gateway credits are Cloud Starter/Pro only; Assistant self-host uses separately configured provider access. Self-hostability is not vendor-managed BYOC.

Documentation signals 8/8

  • SupportedQuickstart
  • SupportedAPI reference
  • SupportedSelf-host guide
  • SupportedChangelog
  • SupportedExamples
  • SupportedOpenAPI
  • Supportedllms.txt
  • SupportedArchitecture doc

09 Company & presence Facts only, not scored

Company

Headquarters
Berlin, Germany
Founded
2019
Team size
Not disclosed

Funding

  • 2020-03Seed · $1500000
  • 2021-04Series A · $12000000
  • 2025-03Series B · $60000000
  • 2025-10Series C · $180000000
  • 2026-05Strategic investment

Notable people

  • Jan Oberhauser (Founder and CEO)

Activity

Last release
2026-10-14: [email protected] maintenance; [email protected] current stable; [email protected] beta github.com
Last blog post
2026-10-13 — Build n8n workflows with Gemini 4 blog.n8n.io

Presence 7

Links found on the public surface scanned; not an exhaustive search.

10 Sources & method How this entry was produced

Public surface only

Everything here was read from n8n.io's unauthenticated pages, docs, pricing and repository on 15 Oct 2026. Nothing behind a login was used.

Statuses, not scores

Capabilities are pass, partial or fail against a written rubric (features v21). “Not assessed” means the scan predates the key.

Confidence is separate

Each fact carries its own confidence. Low-confidence facts are shown, never hidden, so you can weigh them.

Schema
scan v5
Features registry
v21
Keys tracked today
61
Assessed on this entry
61
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