9 Best n8n Alternatives of 2026

Activepieces is the closest match to what most teams like about n8n, without the license questions. Its Community Edition is released under the MIT license, so you can run it on your own servers and build products on top of it, which n8n's Sustainable Use License restricts to internal business use. Billing works much like n8n's execution model: a run costs 1 credit however many steps it has, and only AI steps cost more, at 2, 10 or 20 credits depending on the model, or 1 credit if you connect your own provider keys on Plus and above. The Free plan includes 1,000 credits a month, unlimited flows and up to 5 users. Plus is $20 flat per month with 10,000 credits, and overage is $0.007 per credit. The limits show up as teams grow: Plus still caps you at 5 users, and SSO only arrives on the $200 Team plan.

Make is the strongest cloud option for n8n users who are tired of running servers and want a canvas that business staff can follow. Its pricing page says it offers integrations with more than 1,000 third party apps out of the box, plus Custom Apps for any service with a public API and more than 300 REST API endpoints for managing the platform itself. The tradeoff against n8n is the billing unit. n8n charges per full workflow execution, while Make counts credits for each module action, so reading a record, transforming it and writing it elsewhere is three credits per run. Router and error handler modules are free, which keeps branching cheap. When credits run out, scenarios pause but incoming webhooks queue up to your storage limit. Credits expire at the end of the term, and the page did not show plan prices to us, so the starting price is pending.

Zapier is where many teams started before n8n, and it remains the easiest tool here for people who do not write code. Its pricing page lists more than 9,000 apps, and Zaps, Tables and Forms come together on every plan. The Free plan includes 100 tasks a month but limits you to two-step Zaps. Professional starts at $19.99 a month and adds multi-step Zaps, unlimited premium apps, webhooks and AI fields. Team starts at $69 a month for 25 users with shared Zaps, shared app connections and SAML SSO. For n8n users, the catch is cost on long workflows: Zapier bills by task, while n8n bills a whole execution once however many steps it has. There is also no self-hosted edition, so teams that moved to n8n for data control will not get that back. Zapier also sells agents and an MCP server for AI assistants.

Windmill suits teams whose n8n workflows have turned into code nodes with a little canvas around them. Every step is a script, written in Python, TypeScript, Go, Bash, SQL, Rust or other supported languages, and those scripts compose into flows, data pipelines, AI agents or full React and Svelte apps. The free self-hosted Community Edition has unlimited executions, up to 50 users, 3 workspaces and SSO for 10 users, and the repository is published under AGPLv3 and Apache 2.0. Paid Enterprise starts from $120 a month and is priced on seats and compute: the page lists $20 a month per builder, $10 per non-builder and $50 per standard worker, with a calculator to model your setup. Enterprise adds audit logs, SAML, Kafka and SQS triggers, a commercial license and 24/7 support. Business users will find it less approachable than a drag and drop tool.

Latenode takes a different route to the same goal as n8n's execution pricing: it charges for runtime, not for steps. The first 10,000 CPU seconds each month are free, and after that the rate starts at $0.00012 per CPU second and falls in brackets as volume grows. Its own example puts 100,000 short workflows of about 1 second each at $10.80 a month. There is no base fee, and you can set a spending limit before paid usage starts. The canvas allows JavaScript in any node, which will feel familiar to n8n users, and the platform adds a headless browser, access to 335+ LLM models, tables and RAG. The Free plan is tight, with 5 active workflows, 1 parallel worker and 3 minutes per run, and paid usage raises that to unlimited scenarios, 5 workers and 10 minutes. Workflows that wait on slow APIs cost more under this model.

Kestra is the pick when n8n has turned into a scheduler for data jobs and infrastructure tasks. Workflows, triggers and dependencies are defined declaratively as code, so they can be versioned, reviewed and promoted across environments, and the same flows can be edited in a no-code editor. Kestra lists 2,600+ plugins covering SQL, Python, shell, APIs, Terraform, dbt and Spark, plus an MCP server for AI agents. The open source edition is published under the Apache 2.0 license with unlimited flows and executions and a queue on PostgreSQL or MySQL. Enterprise Edition is an annual subscription per instance, again with unlimited flows, tasks and executions, and adds SSO, LDAP, SCIM, RBAC, audit logs, worker groups and secrets management. Kestra Cloud is a managed version for teams that do not want to run it. Paid prices are by quote, and the tool is built for engineers rather than business staff.

Gumloop is a fit for teams whose n8n usage has shifted from moving data between apps to running AI agents. Pro starts at $37 a month after a 14-day free trial and includes unlimited agents, 35+ models with custom proxy support, 20,000 credits a month and unlimited seats and teams with shared credentials. You can bring your own API keys, and Pro carries an 8% orchestration fee, with discounts available. Developers get the Gumloop MCP and a CLI, and Enterprise adds SCIM and SAML, audit logs, a virtual private cloud option and AI model access controls. For n8n users the main shift is that Gumloop is agent-first: its pricing page now lists Workflows as legacy, with 5 concurrent workflow runs on Pro, so deterministic, high volume automations are a weaker match. There is no self-hosted edition and no permanent free plan.

Power Automate is the n8n alternative for organizations that already pay for Microsoft 365 and need more than API automation. Power Automate Premium costs $15.00 per user per month paid yearly and includes cloud flows, attended desktop flows, process and task mining with 50 MB of data, and Dataverse storage. Unattended automation moves to the Process plan at $150 per bot per month, or $215 for Hosted Process, which runs on a virtual machine managed by Microsoft on Azure. That pricing is per user or per bot rather than per execution, which can be cheaper than n8n for a few heavy users and more expensive for a large team of occasional ones. The 30-day trial covers cloud flows with standard connectors. There is no self-hosted server, though desktop flows do run on your own Windows machines.

Tray.ai is for companies where n8n has spread across departments and IT now needs to govern it. Tray positions itself as a governed runtime: teams build integrations and apps, including ones written with AI coding assistants, and Helix takes them to production with managed credentials, a managed runtime and an owner for every app. You can start on the Tray AI Orchestration Platform for $50 a month with Tray Helix Builder Edition, and a free trial lets you measure usage before you commit. Billing is based on Tasks and Helix Compute Units, with no per-user or per-connection fees, and annual plans are settled with a true-up for usage above the plan. Enterprise adds unlimited workspaces, regional hosting, log streaming and on-premise connectivity. For a single team moving off n8n, the usage units and the governance focus are more than most will need, and there is no self-hosted edition.