n8n review

n8n earns second place for teams that are comfortable with a technical builder and want to own their agents. Every cloud plan includes agents, the AI Agent node, MCP support and every integration, and n8n charges per workflow execution regardless of how many steps it runs, so a long agent workflow costs the same as a short one. Starter covers 2,500 executions a month and Pro 10,000, with metric-based evaluations, admin roles and workflow history added on Pro. The Business plan is self-hosted only and adds SSO, LDAP, Git version control, multiple environments and queue mode for scaling. The free Community Edition on GitHub lets a team run n8n on its own servers at no license cost. The downsides are the learning curve, since you build agents as node graphs and often add code steps, and that the cloud pricing page showed euros from our location, so we have not confirmed a USD figure.

Who it is for

Technical teams that want full control, self-hosting and pricing that does not grow with steps or users.

Price

See vendor pricing (USD check pending); free self-hosted Community Edition.

US price check pending. See the vendor pricing page.

Key features

• AI Agent node, AI steps and agents on every cloud plan
• MCP Server Trigger for exposing workflows to AI tools
• Unlimited users, workflows and integrations on all plans
• Code steps in JavaScript or Python and custom HTTP and GraphQL requests
• Light evaluations on all plans and unlimited metric-based evaluations from Pro

Strengths and weaknesses

• Strength: Self-hosted Community Edition available on GitHub
• Strength: Billing counts full workflow executions, not individual steps
• Strength: Business plan adds Git version control, multiple environments and queue mode
• Weakness: Cloud prices were shown in euros from our location, so the USD price is pending
• Weakness: The Business plan is self-hosted only
• Weakness: Building reliable agents takes more technical skill than the no-code tools here

Key facts

• Free option: Self-hosted Community Edition
• Starter plan: 2,500 workflow executions per month, 5 concurrent executions
• Pro plan: 10,000 workflow executions per month, up to 50 concurrent executions
• Startup discount: 50% off Business for companies under 20 employees that qualify

Where it ranks

n8n is No. 2 in our Best AI Agent Builders verdict.