n8n Pricing 2026: What Does n8n Cost for Business?

n8n pricing turns into a real question the day someone on your team says: “Let’s just automate it in n8n.” The marketing page is calm (“Community is free, Starter is EUR 20”), until you look closer and see executions per plan, concurrency limits, a self-hosted Business plan at EUR 667, Enterprise “contact sales”, plus the server you need for the free edition. This article puts every official n8n price in one place, as of October 2026, works out what a team of 10 and a team of 50 actually pay, and shows what Community really costs when you include the server and the time to run it.

What is n8n pricing?

n8n pricing is the mix of a free self-hosted edition and paid plans that the Berlin-based company n8n GmbH charges to run its workflow-automation platform: Community (self-hosted, free), Starter and Pro on n8n Cloud with servers in Frankfurt (hosted SaaS, billed by workflow executions and concurrent runs), Business as a self-hosted licence with extra enterprise features, and Enterprise with a custom contract¹. All paid plans include unlimited users and unlimited active workflows, so cost scales with usage, not seats. Prices are shown in euros, billed annually (monthly billing is about 17 percent more).

Tasks for the whole team with Superkind

n8n is a workflow builder: someone draws each step in a canvas, maps every field, writes JavaScript for edge cases and keeps it running. If your team does not want to build and maintain workflows, there is a second route. Superkind is the AI employee for your team: you write to Superkind in Outlook or any email, Microsoft Teams, Slack or the Superkind web app like you would to a colleague, and it does the task in your programs through 1,500+ integrations such as DATEV, SAP Business One, HubSpot and SharePoint. Superkind is hosted in Europe, GDPR compliant, aligned with the EU AI Act and never trains models on your data. It is priced per company, not per workflow run.

1. 1

   You write the task

   In Outlook, Teams, Slack or the web app, in plain words: “Book the Möller invoice.” No canvas, no nodes, no JavaScript.

2. 2

   Superkind does it in your systems

   It reads the invoice PDF, picks the vendor from DATEV, suggests the account and cost centre from your company knowledge, and follows your rules, such as “Invoices over EUR 5,000 need sign-off from accounting”.

3. 3

   Superkind asks before anything goes out

   You get the booking proposal with Approve or Reject. Nothing is booked, sent or changed without your OK, and a colleague can approve in Teams or Slack, wherever they work.

4. 4

   Next time it runs as a routine

   What you explain once keeps running, for example “Book incoming vendor invoices every day at 9am”. Every task adds to your Company Brain, and that knowledge stays when people leave.

More on this use case: the AI invoice clerk. The companion piece to this one: n8n alternatives in a niche.

From the first task to your own app

With Superkind, the cost grows with the work, not with the number of executions. Four stages, on the invoice example:

1. 1

   Ready in minutes

   Sign up for free with up to EUR 150 in credits, forward the first vendor invoice from Outlook and watch it get booked.

2. 2

   Tasks become routines

   What you explain once keeps running as a routine, for example the daily booking round at 9am. Before anything goes out, Superkind asks for approval.

3. 3

   Learns from day one

   Every task makes Superkind smarter. Your vendors, accounts, cost centres and sign-off rules end up in your Company Brain, and that knowledge is never lost.

4. 4

   Your own app, without starting over

   When accounting gets more complex, you build custom solutions, apps and integrations on the platform, on top of what Superkind already knows, for example your own month-end-close app with approval steps: your Super App. Built yourself or together with us. It all belongs to you.

How n8n pricing works

n8n sells four products with different logic. Most teams start on Community or Starter and bump into the next tier when limits bite.

1. Community - free source-available software (Sustainable Use License), self-hosted on your own server with Docker, Docker Compose, Node.js or a cloud provider such as AWS, Azure, Hetzner or DigitalOcean. No execution limit beyond your machine, support is the community forum³⁷.
2. Starter (n8n Cloud) - EUR 20 per month billed annually, 2,500 workflow executions per month, up to 5 concurrent executions, 1 shared project, 2.5 GB execution storage, 7-day execution log retention, forum support¹.
3. Pro (n8n Cloud) - EUR 50 per month billed annually, 10,000 executions, up to 50 concurrent executions, 3 shared projects, 25 GB execution storage, 30-day log retention, admin roles and workflow history¹.
4. Business (self-hosted) - EUR 667 per month billed annually, 40,000 executions, SSO/LDAP, queue mode, multiple environments, Git version control. Overage is EUR 4,000 per extra 300,000 executions. Not yet on n8n Cloud; a waitlist is open¹.
5. Enterprise - custom price, hosted by n8n or self-hosted, 200+ concurrent executions, unlimited shared projects, dedicated SLA email support, external secret store, log streaming, extended data retention¹.

Pricing is based on workflow executions, regardless of complexity: a one-node Zap-style flow and a 40-node data pipeline each count as one execution. Monthly billing is offered on all plans; annual saves 17 percent, and the public page lists only annual prices¹.

n8n plans compared

Every n8n plan with a published price, with Superkind in the first row for comparison. n8n Cloud prices are per company, billed annually; Superkind is per company with unlimited users. All prices excl. VAT.

As of October 2026. n8n source: the n8n pricing page in euros¹. Superkind: its own published prices.

The headline price on n8n Cloud is just the start. Starter at 2,500 executions means every single run of every flow (including retries after an error) counts; a flow that polls a mailbox every 5 minutes burns ~8,640 executions a month on its own. Pro raises the ceiling to 10,000, and Business to 40,000, with extra buckets at EUR 4,000 per 300,000¹.

Community vs n8n Cloud: what Community really costs

Community looks free on paper. For most Mittelstand teams, this is what you add in practice.

• Server - a small cloud VM (2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM) at Hetzner starts around EUR 7 per month in Falkenstein or Nuremberg; a production-grade setup with a database and backups is more like EUR 20 to 50³⁸.
• Setup - installing Docker Compose, Postgres, a reverse proxy, HTTPS, SMTP, basic auth or OAuth takes a developer half a day to two days.
• Maintenance - updates roughly every two weeks, security patches, log rotation, backups, monitoring. Figure one to two hours a month in steady state, more after an upgrade.
• Debugging - when a workflow silently fails at 3am, someone needs to be able to open the server, read the logs and restart a stuck queue.
• Credentials and audit - OAuth tokens for Google, Microsoft and HubSpot, rotation when a colleague leaves, who sees which credentials.
• No official support - Community support is the forum and GitHub issues. For paid support you need Business or Enterprise¹.
• Data processing agreement - as the operator of your Community install, you are the data controller and the technical processor. n8n does not sign a DPA for Community because it does not process your data².

n8n Cloud at EUR 20 to 50 per month hides all of this: n8n updates the software, runs the servers in Frankfurt, keeps logs for 7 or 30 days and signs the DPA as your processor. In exchange, you get fewer executions and no SSO until Business.

Examples: what teams pay for n8n

Five realistic set-ups. All figures from n8n’s own pricing page, excl. VAT, as of October 2026.

1. The whole team gets tasks done through Superkind

Daniel in accounting forwards an invoice to Superkind from Outlook. Superkind reads it, suggests the DATEV booking, asks Daniel to approve, and his colleague Nadine sees the result in Teams. Nobody builds a workflow, nobody runs a server. As of October 2026 you start for free with a one-off up to EUR 150 in credits, and Business costs from EUR 50 per month for the whole company with unlimited users.

2. One developer, Community on a small server

A small company runs n8n Community on a Hetzner cloud VM (~EUR 10 per month), with a developer who built the first 8 flows and keeps them running. Direct cost: ~EUR 10 per month. Real cost: that developer’s time, especially after upgrades³.

3. Starter on n8n Cloud for a side-project team

A marketing team on Starter at EUR 20 per month billed annually (EUR 240 a year): forum support, 2,500 executions per month, 1 shared project, 5 concurrent runs¹. One Zap-style flow that moves HubSpot deals into a Google Sheet nightly, plus a few webhooks, fits inside this.

4. Pro on n8n Cloud for a department

An operations team on Pro at EUR 50 per month annually (EUR 600 a year): 10,000 executions, 50 concurrent, 3 shared projects, 25 GB storage, 30-day logs, admin roles, workflow history. Enough for one department, as long as nobody schedules a 1-minute polling flow¹.

5. Business, self-hosted, with SSO

A Mittelstand company that needs SSO/LDAP, Git version control, multiple environments and queue mode runs Business self-hosted at EUR 667 per month billed annually (EUR 8,004 a year), on their own server with the IT team maintaining it. Overage is EUR 4,000 per extra 300,000 executions¹.

n8n for a team of 10 and 50 users

Plain arithmetic on the list prices in this article, per month, excl. VAT. n8n is not billed per user, so the only variable is executions and plan features; the headcounts here mean the people who use the automated outcomes.

The two products buy different things. n8n gives your developer a canvas to build flows that call APIs. Superkind credits pay for questions and tasks done in your programs, for any number of people, without a flow builder; EUR 100 covers up to 1,000 tasks or 5,000 questions. Some teams use both: n8n for background pipelines a developer owns, Superkind for everyday tasks the whole team wants done through 1,500+ integrations.

What n8n costs in practice (and what else you need)

Before you pick a plan, check these points.

• Count your executions honestly - a flow that polls every 5 minutes burns ~8,640 runs a month; a webhook that fires on every HubSpot update can add thousands more. Measure a week before you commit¹.
• Annual vs monthly - annual saves ~17 percent, monthly keeps you flexible. The public page shows annual only¹.
• No SSO below Business - if your IT requires SSO or LDAP, you jump from EUR 50 (Pro) to EUR 667 (Business) in one step¹.
• Server for Community - add the VM, the backups and the person who keeps it up to date; most teams underprice this³.
• Who owns the flows - when the one person who built them leaves, somebody has to be able to read, debug and run them.
• DPA - n8n pre-signs its DPA; you countersign and return it before any production data goes through n8n Cloud².

What Superkind costs

As of October 2026. Prices excl. VAT, for the whole company with unlimited users.

• Free - EUR 0 with a one-off up to EUR 150 in credits to start. No credit card, no sales call, every feature and every connection, in Slack, Teams, email and the app.
• Business - from EUR 50 per month for 25,000 credits. EUR 100 for 50,000 credits is the popular step, then EUR 200 and EUR 500. No price per seat, unused credits carry over one month, top up when needed, custom apps included, cancel monthly.
• Enterprise - custom price for your volume, dedicated support with SLA, SSO/SCIM and audit log, a DPA and help with the security review, payment by invoice.
• What credits buy - a question uses 10-50 credits, a task 50-500 credits and a run of your own agent 1,000-5,000 credits. EUR 100 covers up to 1,000 tasks or 5,000 questions.

Data protection and EU hosting

Safe by default

Your data stays in Europe, under a DPA, with no training on your data.

• Hosted and processed in Europe
• GDPR compliant
• Aligned with the EU AI Act
• No training on your data
• DPA through the Trust Center

Invoices with personal data, customer records in a CRM and vendor contracts all count as personal data under the GDPR, so wherever you process them, check where the servers are, who sees what, and that a DPA is in place. For n8n Cloud, n8n hosts in Frankfurt and signs the DPA as processor²⁶; for Community you are the operator and controller. For a wider look at automation choices, see the AI automation platforms guide.

How to start

You can decide this in one afternoon. Three steps:

Conclusion

n8n has clear list prices: Community free as a self-hosted install (plus your server and your time), Starter at EUR 20 per month for 2,500 executions, Pro at EUR 50 for 10,000, Business at EUR 667 self-hosted for 40,000 and Enterprise custom. The sticker price for Pro at 10 or 50 users is the same EUR 50, because n8n bills executions not seats. n8n is a great fit if you have a developer who wants to build and own workflows. If your team wants work done without a canvas, Superkind costs EUR 0 to start and from EUR 50 per month for the whole company with unlimited users, works through 1,500+ integrations such as DATEV, SAP Business One and HubSpot, is hosted in Europe and has no server to maintain (as of October 2026). Send Superkind one real task this week and put the result next to your n8n quote.

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Henri Jung

Co-founder of Superkind, the AI employee teams write to in Outlook, Teams and Slack. Henri helps companies, from small teams to the Mittelstand, hand their routine work to AI - without new tools, consultants or an in-house AI team.