If you’ve been around n8n for a while, you know we like sharing openly what we’re working on and involving our community along the way. So, when we decided to review our pricing earlier this year, we followed that same approach.

We spent months talking with builders across our community — solo developers automating side projects, fast-growing startups, and enterprise teams deploying complex workflows at scale.

The feedback was clear: most automation tools have pricing that gets in the way of building.

Limits on workflows, charges per step, or billing based on processing time force users into trade-offs, restrict experimentation, and make scaling across teams difficult.

We knew we had to address this pain point.

How we approached it

We went back to the drawing board with three goals in mind:

  • Foster adoption of n8n by everyone.
    Solo builders, small teams, startups, enterprises — we want everyone to build more efficiently with n8n. Pricing shouldn’t get in the way, it should support the work.
  • Align pricing with the value people get from n8n.
    Users should only see costs grow when their automations are delivering value. You shouldn’t be charged for how many workflows you build or how complex they are, only when they run and create impact.
  • Keeping our Community Edition unchanged while closing the gap between plans.
    n8n’s success is deeply rooted in our self-hosted Community Edition. But many of those users wanted access to advanced features without jumping straight to Enterprise. That gap made scaling harder than it should be.

After months of conversations, experiments, and feedback from our product and sales teams, here’s what we landed on:

  • We’re removing the limit on active workflows from all plans, so every plan comes with unlimited workflows, steps, and users.
  • We’re introducing a new Business Plan, built for growing teams and SMBs.
  • Enterprise pricing now scales with executions, not workflow count.
  • Nothing changes for community edition.

Here’s what that means for you, and why it matters.

1. Every plan now comes with unlimited workflows, steps, and users

This is the biggest change to how n8n is priced. From the free Starter plan to Enterprise, there are now no limits on:

  • The number of workflows you create
  • How many steps or nodes each workflow includes
  • How many users you invite to your instance

This means you can:

  • Experiment freely. Test new ideas without worrying about extra costs.
  • Build complex automations. Connect multiple systems, process large datasets, or chain long-running workflows without worrying that pricing will get in the way.
  • Scale across teams. Onboard teammates and roll out automation company-wide without per-user fees.

2. The new self-hosted Business Plan for growing teams

When we looked at how teams were scaling with n8n, we saw a clear gap. The Community Edition and Pro plan worked well for smaller teams, but once automation became critical, some users needed more — but weren’t ready for the Enterprise plan yet.

That’s why we built the Business Plan. It’s available for self-hosted deployment and is designed for mid-sized companies that need enterprise-grade features, without the overhead of a full Enterprise setup.

With the Business Plan, you get:

  • Advanced collaboration tools like environments and Git-based version control, following DevOps best practices
  • Enterprise-grade security with SSO, LDAP, and access control options
  • Performance scaling options to prevent latency and failures as your automations grow.

3. Enterprise pricing now scales with executions

For larger organizations, we’ve replaced the old workflow-based pricing with a model that scales based on executions.

Why? Because workflow-based pricing discouraged enterprise builders from creating and experimenting, and was getting in the way of cross-department adoption. Instead, we use executions because they show the real value you get from n8n.

An execution is a single run of an entire workflow:

  • It does not matter how many nodes or steps the workflow has
  • It does not matter how much data it processes or how long it runs
  • It still counts as one execution as long as it is part of a single run

This shift also brings predictability to your budget. You can easily forecast costs and measure ROI based on how often your automations run.

Why this matters

These changes make it easier for every type of builder to adopt automation and AI, and to scale it without friction.

  • For solo builders: You can now build and test as much as you want, even complex workflows, without worrying about hitting limits.
  • For growing teams: The new Business Plan gives you the tools to move automation into production securely and at scale, without the overhead of full Enterprise.
  • For enterprises: You can build freely, scale automation across departments, and align your costs with the actual value your automations deliver.

Explore the new plans

These changes are designed to remove the friction from building, testing, and scaling automations. Whether you’re just starting out or automating at enterprise scale, you can now build without limits and only pay as your automations deliver real value.

Check out the full details here: https://n8n.io/pricing/

To ensure these changes apply to you, make sure you update your n8n instance to the latest version.

We can’t wait to see what you build next.