Developer tools

n8n

Per-task pricing on automations that run all day, every day.

Replaces

Zapier Professional$29.99/mo

Prices are quoted from the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-08-23 and link to it. Vendors change pricing; check before you decide.

source: n8n GmbH
licence: Sustainable Use License (fair-code, not OSI-approved)
verified: 2026-08-23
link: https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n

Workflow automation you host yourself. R21 moved its client automations onto a self-hosted n8n box in August 2026 and retired the Make.com account behind them.

The reason was pricing shape rather than features. Hosted automation is billed per task or per operation, so a workflow that polls a mailbox every fifteen minutes costs money on every poll, including the empty ones. Self-hosted, the same workflow costs whatever the server costs, and R21 measured its Make usage at 161 operations a day against a 283 ceiling it was paying to keep.

Read the licence before you assume this is open source. n8n is fair-code under the Sustainable Use License: the source is public and you may self-host it for internal use, but it is not OSI-approved and it restricts reselling n8n itself as a service. GitHub reports the licence as NOASSERTION, which is what "Other" looks like through an API and is exactly why the field here names the licence in full instead of copying a badge.

Verified against the GitHub API on 2026-08-23: 201,969 stars, licence NOASSERTION ("Other").