Workflow automation / AI agents (self-hostable) · n8n

n8n

Workflow automation platform for building multi-step workflows and AI agents visually, with optional code. It is available as a managed cloud service or self-hosted, and the self-hosted Community Edition is free.

OperationsVerified 16 Oct 2026n8n.io

Autonomy level: Autonomous within policy; Executes end-to-end within configured rules; humans handle exceptions.
Typical human approval: Approval gates on tool calls that send messages, modify or delete records, or make purchases.
Pricing: Self-hosted Community Edition free. Cloud Starter €20/mo and Pro €50/mo, billed annually; Business €667/mo billed annually; Enterprise contact sales.; Checked 16 Oct 2026 · vendor pricing page

Human roles affected

What it replaces or reduces

Operations / admin assistant
Integration engineer (glue code)

Why this autonomy level: Workflows run unattended on triggers. Per the human-in-the-loop docs, operators can require approval on all of an agent's tools or only selected ones, recommended for risky or irreversible actions, so execution is autonomous within gates the operator sets.

Supported workflows

What it can execute

Run triggered workflows across 500+ integrations plus custom API calls
Run AI Agent nodes that choose and call tools
Require human approval of selected agent tool calls via Slack, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, Gmail, WhatsApp and other channels
Self-host on own infrastructure, including Docker, on-prem or air-gapped deployments

Observed in the dataset

Companies observed using n8n

No company in the dataset has a sourced reference to n8n yet. We do not list users without a source.

Sources

[1]
n8n. n8n pricing
Company website · Published undated · Checked 16 Oct 2026
Prices shown in EUR, billed annually; monthly-billing prices not extracted. Execution limits: Starter 2.5K/mo, Pro 10K/mo, Business 40K/mo.
[2]
n8n. n8n homepage
Company website · Published undated · Checked 16 Oct 2026
'over 500 integrations'; 'Keep humans in the loop'; self-host or hosted. License linked as fair-code; license terms not reviewed here.
[3]
n8n Docs. Human-in-the-loop for AI tool calls
Company website · Published undated · Checked 16 Oct 2026
Reviewer can approve or deny an AI Agent's tool call; review can apply to all or selected tools.
[4]
n8n Docs. Community edition features
Company website · Published undated · Checked 16 Oct 2026
'the free edition. This is what n8n runs without a license key.' Excludes SSO, projects, environments, Git version control, among others.