n8n

About n8n

n8n is a Berlin-based software company founded by Jan Oberhauser in 2019. The company develops the n8n workflow automation platform, which combines a visual node-based builder with code, APIs, webhooks, integrations and AI capabilities. n8n GmbH is registered in Berlin, Germany, and its current legal imprint lists Jan Oberhauser as Managing Director. The company has grown from a self-hosted automation project into a larger enterprise automation vendor. In October 2025, n8n announced a $180 million Series C round led by Accel, bringing total funding at that point to $240 million and valuing the company at $2.5 billion. In May 2026, SAP made a strategic investment that n8n said valued the company at $5.2 billion. n8n reported 1.7 million monthly active builders and more than 1,400 enterprise customers when announcing that investment. These figures are company-reported scale indicators rather than independent audited usage metrics. n8n's business model combines a free self-hosted Community Edition with paid hosted and self-hosted plans. The company uses a fair-code licensing model for its core platform rather than presenting the entire product as conventional open-source software. Paid plans add hosted infrastructure, collaboration, administration, governance, support and enterprise capabilities, while pricing is primarily based on workflow executions rather than charging for every individual workflow step. A major part of n8n's current strategy is positioning workflow automation as orchestration infrastructure for AI. The company has added AI workflow tooling, model integrations, evaluation features, Chat Hub, Model Context Protocol support and newer agent capabilities while retaining deterministic workflow logic and human-controlled steps. In April 2026, n8n expanded its native MCP server so compatible AI clients could create, update, validate and test workflows directly in an n8n instance. In August 2026, it also expanded one-click connections to dozens of MCP servers and continued previewing newer agent experiences. The company's deployment flexibility is a material differentiator for buyers. Customers can use n8n Cloud or run n8n on their own infrastructure. Self-hosting can provide more control over network architecture, data location, custom nodes, environment variables and infrastructure settings, but it also moves responsibility for operations, upgrades, backups, scaling and hardening toward the customer. Hosted plans reduce that operational burden but expose a different set of configuration limits. Security and governance are significant procurement considerations because n8n workflows can hold credentials and take actions across many connected systems. n8n maintains a Trust Center with SOC 2 Type 2 and SOC 3 materials, security policies and penetration-testing documentation. Its product documentation also provides security-audit tooling for identifying credential, database, file-system, node and instance risks. Organizations using community or custom nodes should review them carefully because such code can have broad access to the host and workflow data. For long-term buyers, the main company-level question is whether n8n's flexible automation model fits the organization's technical operating model. The platform is particularly relevant to teams that want visual workflow development without giving up code, APIs or self-hosting. Organizations seeking a fully managed, business-user-first automation environment with minimal infrastructure responsibility may prefer a more prescriptive SaaS platform. Product capabilities, plan limits and current pricing are kept on the n8n brand and n8n Cloud product pages rather than repeated here.

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