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David K.Validated Reviewer

CTO · SaaS · 11–50 employees

5.0

July 27, 2026

“Our automation bill became a fixed cost”

Used daily for 1–2 years

We were running about 1.4 million operations a month and the cloud quotes were eye-watering. Self-hosted n8n on a modest VM handles it for the price of the VM. Six months in, the only cost has been my time on two upgrades.

Pros

No per-execution fees. Code nodes mean we never hit a ceiling. Data never leaves our VPC.

Cons

You are the operator. Upgrades occasionally break a community node and you fix it.

Problems it solves

Turned a five-figure annual automation bill into a server we already had.

Ethan K.

Account Executive · SaaS · 11–50 employees

4.0

May 1, 2026

“Underestimated the ops work”

Used weekly for 6–12 months

Self-hosted it to save money, then spent a weekend on a failed upgrade and another on queue mode. Genuinely good software; I just was not the right operator for it. Moved to their cloud tier and stopped worrying.

Pros

Excellent builder. Cloud tier removes the problem entirely if you let it.

Cons

Free only if your time is free. The community edition assumes competence you may not have.