n8n Cloud Plans Breakdown: Starter, Pro, Business & Enterprise (2026)
The Short Version
n8n overhauled its pricing in 2025. Active workflow limits are gone. Every paid plan now includes unlimited workflows, unlimited users, and every integration. The only variable that scales your cost is how many times your workflows run each month: executions. That single change makes n8n dramatically more predictable to budget for, and dramatically cheaper than Zapier or Make for anyone building complex automations.
Here is the full breakdown of what each plan actually includes, what the limits mean in practice, and how to figure out which one fits your situation.
One execution = one complete workflow run, from trigger to final node, regardless of how many steps it contains. A 3-node workflow and a 50-node workflow both cost exactly one execution. That is the key difference from Zapier (per task/step) and Make (per operation).
Plans at a Glance
Annual billing saves ~17% vs monthly. All cloud plans include a free trial, no credit card required. Prices shown in EUR/USD; n8n bills in EUR.
Starter Plan — €24/month
The entry point for n8n Cloud. Starter is hosted entirely by n8n, so there is nothing to install, configure, or maintain. You get a live n8n instance in minutes.
What 2,500 executions actually means: That works out to roughly 83 runs per day. A single scheduled workflow polling every 5 minutes burns through ~8,640 executions per month on its own. Starter is built for event-driven workflows triggered by webhooks, form submissions, or manual runs, not for high-frequency polling. If you have a handful of workflows that fire a few dozen times a day, Starter is plenty. If you are running anything on a tight schedule, you will hit the ceiling fast.
Concurrency matters more than most people realise: With only 5 concurrent executions, if 6 workflows trigger at the same moment, the 6th queues. For most solo builders this is fine. For anything with burst traffic like a webhook that fires 20 times in a second, it becomes a bottleneck.
Who it is for: Solo builders, freelancers, and indie hackers validating n8n in a light production setting. Also a solid starting point before committing to a higher tier. The free trial requires no credit card.
Pro Plan — €60/month
Pro is where most small teams and serious solo builders should land. It is a meaningful step up in every dimension that matters for production use.
Pro-1 vs Pro-2: n8n offers two Pro tiers. Pro-1 starts at 10,000 executions/month. Pro-2 scales to 50,000. Both share the same feature set, the only difference is execution volume. Monthly subscribers can add more executions directly from the Admin panel without contacting support.
What 10,000 executions actually means: Roughly 333 runs per day, or a workflow firing every 4 to 5 minutes around the clock. This comfortably handles most small-to-medium production workloads: CRM syncs, lead routing, internal reporting, Slack notifications, and similar event-driven automations. The risk area is unpredictable volume. Chatbots and AI agent workflows can spike hard and fast.
Who it is for: Small teams running production workflows, agencies managing client automations, and technical teams centralising their automation stack. The workflow history and admin roles become essential once more than one person is editing workflows.
Business Plan — €800/month
Business is a fundamentally different category. The price jump from Pro is steep, roughly 13x, but so is the feature set. This is the plan for companies where automation is a core operational function, not a side project.
Business is Self-Hosted
Unlike Starter and Pro, the Business plan runs on your own infrastructure. You pay n8n for the license key, and you pay separately for your servers. This gives you full data control and the ability to deploy on-premises or in your own cloud, which is often a hard requirement for regulated industries like healthcare, fintech, and legal.
Startup discount: If your company has fewer than 20 employees, n8n's Startup Program gives you 50% off the Business plan, bringing it down to roughly €333/month billed annually. That is a significant unlock for smaller teams that need SSO or multi-environment support before they have grown into the full price.
Who it is for: Companies with under 100 employees that need SSO, version control, and environment management. If your IT team requires single sign-on for compliance, or your engineering team needs a proper dev/staging/prod workflow, Business is the minimum viable plan.
Enterprise Plan — Custom Pricing
Enterprise is for large organisations and companies in regulated industries where compliance, governance, and dedicated support are non-negotiable. Pricing is custom: you contact n8n's sales team and negotiate based on your execution volume, hosting model, and support requirements.
What Enterprise pricing looks like in practice: n8n does not publish Enterprise pricing publicly. Community discussions suggest contracts typically start at $1,000+/year and scale significantly with execution volume and support tier. The best approach is to contact sales directly with your expected monthly execution count, team size, and compliance requirements.
Questions worth asking sales before signing:
- How are executions counted and billed for self-hosted Enterprise?
- Is there a base fee plus per-execution charges, or purely per-execution?
- What happens if you exceed your execution quota mid-month?
- Are upgrades and downgrades possible without long-term contract lock-in?
- What does the dedicated SLA actually guarantee (uptime, response time)?
- Does the contract include a dedicated customer success manager?
Who it is for: Organisations with 100+ employees, strict compliance requirements (HIPAA, SOC 2, data residency), or those migrating from large Zapier/Make deployments at scale. Also the right tier if you need log streaming into your existing observability stack or external secret store integration.
Enquire About Enterprise
If Enterprise is the right fit for your organisation, the form below goes directly to n8n's team. Fill it out with your use case, execution estimates, and compliance requirements. They will come back with a tailored quote.
What Cloud Plans Cannot Do
All n8n Cloud plans (Starter, Pro, and Enterprise Cloud) share a set of restrictions that only self-hosted deployments can bypass. These are not bugs or oversights; they are architectural constraints of a managed hosting environment.
Execution Reality Check
The execution numbers on the pricing page look generous until you map them to real workflows. Here is what common automation patterns actually consume:
What happens when you run out: On n8n Cloud, exhausting your monthly execution allowance stops all workflows. Cron jobs, webhooks, scheduled automations, everything. They resume when your billing period resets on the 1st of the month, or immediately if you upgrade. There is no grace period or soft limit.
n8n vs Zapier vs Make: The Cost Reality
The execution model is what makes n8n pricing genuinely different. Zapier charges per task (each individual step in a workflow). Make charges per operation (each action). n8n charges per execution (the entire workflow run, regardless of steps).
The gap widens with every additional step and every additional run. At 5,000 runs of a 10-step workflow per month, n8n stays at $60. Zapier climbs to $299+. Make reaches $79+. Over a year, that difference compounds into thousands of dollars.
The one scenario where n8n is not the cheapest: very simple, low-volume automations with 2 to 3 steps running a few hundred times per month. Make's $9/month entry point wins there. The n8n cost advantage kicks in as soon as workflows get complex, which is exactly when automation delivers the most business value.
Which Plan Should You Pick?
What About the Community Edition?
The Community Edition is free, self-hosted, and has no execution limits. You can run unlimited workflows, unlimited executions, and use every integration commercially. The only cost is your own server infrastructure, typically €5 to €30/month for a basic VPS, plus the time to manage it.
What it does not include: SSO, Git version control, multi-environment support, advanced insights, or dedicated support. For solo developers and small technical teams comfortable with Docker and server management, it is the most cost-effective option at any execution volume. For teams that need the governance features, it is not a substitute for a paid plan.