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.