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Requirement	Tray.ai	n8n
Pricing	Quote only Compare all 3 plans	From €24/mo Compare all 5 plans
Who it is for	One governed platform (Tray iPaaS) for integration, automation, MCP services and AI agents, sold by quote. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Tray.ai iPaaS pricing page: plans, add-ons and FAQ	Workflow automation priced by monthly workflow executions, regardless of complexity. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · n8n pricing page with annual billing and FAQ
Coverage limits	Pro allows 3 workspaces, Team 20 and Enterprise unlimited; regional hosting, log streaming and on-premise connectivity are Enterprise features. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Tray.ai iPaaS pricing page: plans, add-ons and FAQ	The Business plan is available only for self-hosted n8n, not on n8n Cloud. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · n8n pricing page with annual billing and FAQ
Usage definition	Every step that runs is a task, including the webhook trigger; Loop and boolean steps count each time they run, once per list item, plus the loop's final check; Example: a webhook delivering 2 records through Clearbit, a loop, a boolean and Slack used 9 tasks in one run Tray describes a task as roughly one workflow step each time it runs; a connector that makes several API calls in one step counts once. Retries are not charged. Each Connectivity API Call Connector request is 1 task. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Tray.ai docs: usage and billing, what a task is	One execution is one run of a whole workflow, however many steps it has or how much data it processes. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · n8n pricing page with annual billing and FAQ
Included volume	Task volume is a contracted entitlement, shown as an allowance line in the usage dashboard. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Tray.ai docs: usage and billing, what a task is Pro 3 workspaces; 7-day insights and 7-day log retention Team 20 workspaces; 30-day insights; 7-day log retention that can be extended Enterprise Unlimited workspaces; 180-day insights	The n8n Cloud free trial includes 1,000 executions, 5 concurrent executions, a 180-second execution timeout and 1 team project. No credit card is required for the Cloud trial. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · n8n pricing page with annual billing and FAQ Starter 2,500 executions per month Pro 10,000 executions per month Business 40,000 executions per month
Trigger polling	Not verified	Each scheduled run is an execution: a daily schedule is 30 or 31 executions a month, and a 5-minute schedule about 8,600 to 8,900. No minimum schedule interval is stated. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · n8n pricing page with annual billing and FAQ
Premium integrations	700+ connectors and connector development are included in all plans. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Tray.ai iPaaS pricing page: plans, add-ons and FAQ	Every plan includes every integration, unlimited users and unlimited workflows. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · n8n pricing page with annual billing and FAQ
Hosting responsibility	Enterprise Regional hosting, Advanced on-premise connectivity, SSO and HIPAA	On n8n Cloud, n8n hosts and maintains the service; self-hosting means you provide and manage the infrastructure and maintenance. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · n8n docs: choose n8n Cloud or self-hosted Starter Hosted by n8n Pro Hosted by n8n Business Self-hosted only Community Edition Self-hosted; without a licence key n8n runs as the free Community edition, and a Business or Enterprise key enables those editions.
AI charges	AI connectors convert input and output tokens into tasks at a token-to-task ratio set in your contract, available from support. Merlin Text Generation, Merlin Text Analysis and AI-Agent-Utils generate token usage; document processing (Merlin IDP) counts pages. Agent Development (Agent Gateway for MCP and Merlin Agent Builder) is an add-on. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Tray.ai docs: usage and billing, what a task is	Assistant credits for AI-assisted building: 1,600 a month on Starter, 4,000 or 9,600 on Pro, none on Enterprise; Free trials include 800 Assistant credits; Credits refresh monthly, do not roll over, and extra credits can be bought; On self-hosted n8n you bring your own AI key and no credit limit applies Assistant is in preview. The price of extra credits is not stated. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · n8n pricing page with annual billing and FAQ
Overage charges	Admins can cap monthly tasks per workspace, for example for sandbox or development workspaces; Retries are not charged Usage alerts go out at 80% and 100% of the task entitlement, which includes AI token tasks. No overage rate is published. Verified Oct 11, 2026 · Tray.ai docs: usage and billing, what a task is	Business Workflows keep running over quota; overage is EUR 4,000 per extra 300,000 executions, invoiced 45 days later if you do not upgrade.
Coverage note		n8n Cloud stores data in the EU, on servers in Frankfurt, Germany.