n8n (AI agent flows)
Open-source workflow automation platform with first-class AI Agent / LangChain / Memory / Tool nodes — fastest-growing workflow tool in the AI era.
Active · Verified 2026-10-27 · fresh as of 2026-10-27 · 23 cited facts, 3 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Workflow automation + AI nodes vendor fix
- Tier
- T1
- Latest release
- v2.45.4 (2026-10-26) registry fix
- License
- Sustainable Use License (semi-OSS) vendor fix
- GitHub
- n8n-io/n8n — ~209k stars, last commit 2026-10 repo fix
- Pricing
- Cloud Starter EUR 20/mo and Pro EUR 50/mo (billed annually); Business EUR 667/mo (self-hosted, billed annually); Enterprise custom; Community Edition self-hosted from GitHub vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-27 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Protocols
- mcp-client, mcp-server vendor fix
- Compliance
- gdpr, soc3 vendor fix
- Developer activity
- OpenRank 165.47 (12-mo avg 211.38) · 477 participants — 2026-09 third-party fix
When to use
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Pros & cons
Pros
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Cons
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Claims & capabilities
$60M Series B 2025 (Highland Europe led) at $270M val.
Technical surface
- API surface
- searched not found
- Backend storage
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Deployment
- Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — n8n Cloud (Starter/Pro/Enterprise) or self-hosted Community/Business editions
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- searched not found
- MCP
- yes — built-in instance-level MCP server (Settings, Instance-level MCP) plus MCP Server Trigger node to expose a workflow's tools
- A2A
- searched not found
- OpenTelemetry
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- LangChain (framework) T1
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- OpenAI Agents SDK T1
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- LangGraph (orchestration) T1
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Sources (22 cited facts, 3 third-party)
Each fact links to the page it came from; the badge says who published it (how to read sources).
- What it is Workflow automation + AI nodes vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Open-source workflow automation platform with first-class AI Agent / LangChain / Memory … vendor
- Claims / benefits $60M Series B 2025 (Highland Europe led) at $270M val. vendor
- Created 2019 vendor
- Latest release v2.45.4 (2026-10-26) registry
- License Sustainable Use License (semi-OSS) vendor
- GitHub n8n-io/n8n — ~209k stars, last commit 2026-10 repo
- Funding $72M total raised through Series B 2024-12 ($60M, Highland Europe led). vendor
- Customers / scale Delivery Hero, Cisco, Skroutz, Reverb.com, OpenAI (internal automation); 200k+ self-host… vendor
- Pricing Cloud Starter EUR 20/mo and Pro EUR 50/mo (billed annually); Business EUR 667/mo (self-h… vendor
- Deployment Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — n8n Cloud (Starter/Pro/Enterprise) or self-hosted C… vendor
- HQ Berlin, Germany. third-party
- Founders / pedigree Jan Oberhauser (CEO); founded 2019. vendor
- MCP support yes — built-in instance-level MCP server (Settings, Instance-level MCP) plus MCP Server … vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus hybrid vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product platform vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- developer-activity-opendigger {"activity":1677.48,"as_of":"2026-09","openrank_12mo":211.38,"openrank_current":165.47,"… third-party
- compliance-certifications gdpr,soc3 vendor
- sdk-languages rest vendor
- protocol-support mcp-client,mcp-server vendor
- maturity ga third-party
What changed
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- 2026-10-27
- Latest release first recorded as “v2.45.4 (2026-10-26)” source
- Pricing first recorded as “Cloud Starter EUR 20/mo and Pro EUR 50/mo (billed annually); Business EUR 667/mo (self-hosted, billed annually); Enterprise custom; Community Edition self-hosted from GitHub” source
- Deployment first recorded as “Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — n8n Cloud (Starter/Pro/Enterprise) or self-hosted Community/Business editions” source
- MCP support first recorded as “yes — built-in instance-level MCP server (Settings, Instance-level MCP) plus MCP Server Trigger node to expose a workflow's tools” source
Related systems
References (23)
- Anthropic Claude (foundation models) integrates with — n8n built-in AI cluster node: Anthropic Chat Model node. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Chroma integrates with — n8n built-in AI cluster node: Chroma Vector Store node. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Cohere Command R+ / Command A integrates with — n8n built-in AI cluster node: Cohere Chat Model node. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Cohere Embed integrates with — n8n built-in AI cluster node: Embeddings Cohere node. (verified 2026-10-29)
- DeepSeek R1 / V3 family integrates with — n8n built-in AI cluster node: DeepSeek Chat Model node. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Google Gemini 3 family integrates with — n8n built-in AI cluster node: Google Gemini Chat Model node. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Hugging Face Inference API (Embeddings) integrates with — n8n built-in AI cluster node: Embeddings Hugging Face Inference node. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LangChain (framework) integrates with — n8n docs: n8n's advanced-AI nodes are its implementation of LangChain. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Milvus integrates with — n8n built-in AI cluster node: Milvus Vector Store node. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Mistral Embed integrates with — n8n built-in AI cluster node: Embeddings Mistral Cloud node. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Mistral Large 2 / Mixtral family integrates with — n8n built-in AI cluster node: Mistral Cloud Chat Model node. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Model Context Protocol (MCP spec) integrates with — n8n built-in AI cluster node: MCP Client Tool node. (verified 2026-10-29)
- MongoDB Atlas Vector Search integrates with — n8n built-in AI cluster node: MongoDB Atlas Vector Store node. (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenAI Embeddings integrates with — n8n built-in AI cluster node: Embeddings OpenAI node. (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenAI GPT family (GPT-5 / GPT-4o / o3 / o4) integrates with — n8n built-in AI cluster node: OpenAI Chat Model node. (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenRouter integrates with — n8n built-in AI cluster node: OpenRouter Chat Model node. (verified 2026-10-29)
- pgvector integrates with — n8n built-in AI cluster node: PGVector Vector Store node. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Pinecone integrates with — n8n built-in AI cluster node: Pinecone Vector Store node. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Qdrant integrates with — n8n built-in AI cluster node: Qdrant Vector Store node. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Supabase Vector integrates with — n8n built-in AI cluster node: Supabase Vector Store node. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Weaviate integrates with — n8n built-in AI cluster node: Weaviate Vector Store node. (verified 2026-10-29)
- xAI Grok 4 integrates with — n8n built-in AI cluster node: xAI Grok Chat Model node. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Zep & Graphiti integrates with — n8n built-in AI cluster node: Zep Vector Store node. (verified 2026-10-29)
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- Browserbase integrates with — Browserbase docs have a n8n (AI agent flows) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Comet ML integrates with — Comet's Opik docs have a n8n (AI agent flows) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) integrates with — ADK integrations catalog has a "n8n MCP tool for ADK" page (Trigger automated workflows, connect apps, and process data). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Helicone integrates with — Helicone docs have a n8n (AI agent flows) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- HoneyHive integrates with — HoneyHive integrations docs have a n8n tracing/integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Langfuse integrates with — Langfuse's integrations directory has a n8n (AI agent flows) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LangSmith integrates with — LangSmith docs have a tracing integration page for n8n (AI agent flows). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Mem0 integrates with — Mem0 docs have a n8n Integration integration page (Add long-term memory to n8n workflows and AI Agents with the Mem0 community node, no code required). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Milvus integrates with — Milvus's integrations overview lists a Milvus + n8n (AI agent flows) integration tutorial. (verified 2026-10-29)
- MongoDB Atlas Vector Search integrates with — MongoDB's Atlas AI Integrations page lists n8n (AI agent flows) as an integration (some entries are marked community-maintained). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Pinecone integrates with — Pinecone's integrations directory has a n8n (AI agent flows) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Portkey AI integrates with — Portkey docs have a n8n app/library integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Pydantic Logfire integrates with — Pydantic Logfire integrations docs have a n8n page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Qdrant integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a n8n (AI agent flows) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- TrueFoundry AI Gateway integrates with — TrueFoundry AI Gateway ecosystem lists a n8n integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Vapi integrates with — Vapi docs list n8n (AI agent flows) as a provider/integration. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Weaviate integrates with — Weaviate's integrations / model-provider docs list n8n (AI agent flows) as an integration. (verified 2026-10-29)