Activepieces versus n8n

Price

• Activepieces From $20/mo
  • Free: no subscription charge
  • Plus: $20.00 monthly
  • Plus: $192.00 annual ($16/mo equivalent)
  • Team: $200.00 monthly
  • Team: $1,992.00 annual ($166/mo equivalent)
  • Ultimate: Vendor quotation required
• n8n From €24/mo
  • Starter: €24.00 monthly
  • Starter: €240.00 annual (€20/mo equivalent)
  • Pro: €60.00 monthly
  • Pro: €600.00 annual (€50/mo equivalent)
  • Business: €800.00 monthly
  • Business: €8,004.00 annual (€667/mo equivalent)

These prices use different currencies. Read each with its own unit and conditions; they do not add up to one total or a cheaper product.

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Usage definition

Activepieces One flow run uses one credit, however many steps it has.

n8n One execution is one run of a whole workflow, however many steps it has or how much data it processes.

Included volume

Activepieces Free: 1,000 creditsPlus: 10,000 credits per monthTeam: 50,000 credits per monthUltimate: Credits sized with you, reset yearly

n8n The n8n Cloud free trial includes 1,000 executions, 5 concurrent executions, a 180-second execution timeout and 1 team project.Starter: 2,500 executions per monthPro: 10,000 executions per monthBusiness: 40,000 executions per month

Premium integrations

Activepieces Apps without a ready-made piece can be reached through the HTTP piece or a webhook; pieces are open-source TypeScript.Embed: 760+ integrations, a flow builder and AI agents inside your own product under your own brand

n8n Every plan includes every integration, unlimited users and unlimited workflows.

Hosting responsibility

Activepieces Activepieces EU cloud in Frankfurt by default; Another region on request; Or your own servers; SOC 2 is in progress, not certifiedCommunity Edition: Self-hosted automation core

n8n On n8n Cloud, n8n hosts and maintains the service; self-hosting means you provide and manage the infrastructure and maintenance.Starter: Hosted by n8nPro: Hosted by n8nBusiness: Self-hosted onlyCommunity 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

Activepieces AI steps add credits on top of the run: 2 on a fast model, 10 on a smart model, 20 on a frontier model; Agentic actions are 1 credit each; On Plus and higher, your own AI provider keys make every AI step 1 credit, with the model cost billed by your provider

n8n 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

Overage charges

Activepieces Plus and Team keep running past the allowance at USD 0.007 per extra credit; on Free, runs past the quota wait until credits refresh; Ultimate uses a yearly pool.

n8n 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.

Limits to check

• Activepieces Users: up to 5 on Free and Plus, 25 on Team, unlimited on Ultimate; Credits: 1,000 on Free, 10,000 a month on Plus, 50,000 a month on Team; Over the allowance, Free runs wait for tomorrow; Plus and Team pay USD 0.007 per credit
• n8n The Business plan is available only for self-hosted n8n, not on n8n Cloud.

Not verified yet

Every compared requirement has evidence for at least one.

Documented for one product only, shown in the table below: n8n: trigger polling.

Not verified means our reviewed sources do not establish it. It does not mean a product lacks the capability or that it costs nothing.

Next steps

• Ask Activepieces about trigger polling; our sources do not establish it yet.

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