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n8n
Workflow automation platform for technical teams, with native AI agent building. Visual editor plus JavaScript/Python code nodes, 500+ integrations, self-hostable under a fair-code license.
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n8n is the workflow automation platform developers reach for when Zapier-style tools feel too constrained. You build workflows visually but can drop into JavaScript or Python in any node, and the AI capabilities are first-class: agent nodes, multi-agent setups, RAG pipelines, human-in-the-loop approvals, and native AI evaluation for testing workflows before they ship. It connects to 500+ integrations with custom API support beyond that, and ships 9,500+ workflow templates to start from. The fair-code license means you can self-host the full platform with Docker, or use n8n Cloud. With 190,000+ GitHub stars it is one of the largest automation communities anywhere, and it has quietly become the default glue layer for wiring AI agents into real business processes.
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- Pricing
- Community Edition - free, self-hosted, fair-code under the Sustainable Use License
- Starter - $20/mo billed annually, hosted by n8n, 2.5K workflow executions/mo
- Pro - $50/mo billed annually, hosted by n8n, 10K workflow executions/mo
- Business - 667€/mo billed annually, self-hosted only, 40K workflow executions/mo
- Enterprise - contact sales, hosted by n8n or self-hosted, custom executions
- Install
curl -fsSL https://get.n8n.io | shdocker volume create n8n_datadocker run -it --rm --name n8n -p 5678:5678 -v n8n_data:/home/node/.n8n docker.n8n.io/n8nio/n8n- Models
- AI agent workflows connect to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or open-source models through chat model nodes, including Azure AI Foundry, Databricks and MiniMax. You pick the chat model node for each agent and can switch providers without changing the workflow.
- Recent changes
- n8n 2.43 adds a deployment dropdown to the Azure OpenAI Chat Model node, replaces severity with impact categories in the migration report, and adds keyboard controls to the n8n Assistant panel.
- n8n 2.42 adds prompt caching to the Anthropic node's Message operation and renames the Azure OpenAI Chat Model node to Azure AI Foundry Chat Model.
- n8n 2.41 shows the Databricks Chat Model node in the node picker, has the MiniMax node fetch available models from the API, and adds timestamp dividers to the agent preview chat.
Sources: n8n pricing, n8n-io/n8n README, n8n LICENSE, n8n release notes
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