n8n pricing: plans, execution quotas, and what is actually free

How to read the n8n price list

The price list mixes three things you need to pull apart.

1. Two plans hosted by n8n. Starter costs €24 per month for 2,500 executions. Pro starts at €60 per month for 10,000 executions and has a second level at 50,000, priced in the volume levels above.
2. One paid plan you host yourself. Business starts at €800 per month for 40,000 executions. It is aimed at companies with fewer than 100 employees that want SSO, environments or Git version control on their own server.
3. One plan with custom pricing. Enterprise, hosted by n8n or self-hosted, with dedicated support.

Outside the price list, the Community edition is free. Prices are recorded in euros, the currency shown in the table.

Between Starter and Pro, the quota is not the only difference. Starter caps each execution at 5 minutes and allows 5 executions at once; Pro goes up to 40 minutes and 20 concurrent executions at the 10,000 level. Logs are kept for 7 days on Starter, 30 days on Pro.

On annual billing, the pricing page shows a 17% discount: Starter comes to €20 per month, Pro to €50 per month.

Is n8n free?

Yes if you host it yourself, no on Cloud.

The Community edition is free and needs no license key. Free does not mean no cost: you need a server, and time to install it, update it and back it up. The vendor reserves self-hosting for experienced users. Three guides go deeper: Is n8n free and open source?, n8n Cloud vs self-hosted and how to self-host n8n.

On n8n Cloud, the only free option is the trial: 14 days, the features of the Pro plan, up to 1,000 executions and 5 concurrent executions, no credit card required. If you do not move to a paid plan, the instance is deleted; your workflows stay downloadable for 90 days.

Three scenarios, counted in executions

The rule fits on one line: one execution each time a workflow fires, however many steps it has. To estimate your volume, count how often each workflow fires over a 30-day month, then add them up.

Scenario	Math	Executions per month	Cloud plan that covers it
Solo business: a contact form (150 submissions) and a daily invoice reminder	150 + 30	180	Starter
Online store: 1,200 orders, an hourly inventory sync, a daily report	1,200 + 24 × 30 + 30	1,950	Starter
The same store, inventory synced every 15 minutes	1,200 + 96 × 30 + 30	4,110	Pro, 10,000 level
A single monitoring workflow that runs every minute	1,440 × 30	43,200	Pro, 50,000 level

Two takeaways. The order workflow can have two steps or twenty: it weighs 1,200 executions either way. And frequency is what moves you up a plan: going from one sync an hour to one every 15 minutes takes that single workflow from 720 to 2,880 executions, and the store from Starter to Pro.

The cost calculator reruns this math with your numbers and compares it with other tools.

What uses executions when you don’t expect it

• A schedule counts every time it fires, even when the workflow has nothing to process. Every 5 minutes, that is 12 × 24 × 30 = 8,640 executions a month.
• A webhook counts one execution per incoming request, even an empty one. A webhook is an address other apps call to tell n8n that something happened: every call counts.
• AI is paid separately. The AI Agent node is included, but model calls are paid with your own provider keys or with prepaid Gateway credits (Cloud Starter and Pro only). That cost is not in the price list.

On the other side, three things do not count: executions you start by hand from the editor, sub-workflows and error workflows. The rule is spelled out in the n8n documentation on executions (accessed November 11, 2026).

Beyond the quota

On Starter and Pro, the “Overage fees” row of the grid says “Capped”. According to the tooltip, workflows keep running and these two plans have no overage fees. Nothing more precise was recorded about that cap: if you expect to go past your quota regularly, read that row on the pricing page before you subscribe.

On Business, workflows keep running too, but overage fees may apply per block of 300,000 extra executions. The amount is in the box at the top of this page. For Enterprise, fees are set in the order form.

One point stays unclear for Business: the vendor’s pages contradict each other. The grid shows executions per month, while the FAQ on the same page refers to an annual quota for annual subscribers. The quotas shown here are those of the grid.

How it compares with Make and Zapier

The three tools do not count the same thing: executions at n8n, credits per module run at Make, tasks per successful action at Zapier. A long workflow that runs rarely favors n8n’s way of counting; a short one that runs very often does not. The head-to-heads do the math side by side: n8n vs Make, n8n vs Zapier and, if you are still deciding between the other two, Make vs Zapier.

For everything else (hosting, AI, license), see the n8n profile.