n8n versus Power Automate

Price

• 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)
• Power Automate From $180/yr per user
  • Premium: $180.00 annual per seat ($15/mo equivalent)
  • Process: $1,800.00 annual per unknown ($150/mo equivalent)
  • Hosted Process: $2,580.00 annual per unknown ($215/mo equivalent)

These prices use different currencies, different billing periods and different billing units. 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

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

Power Automate Power Platform requests: every connector call, HTTP action and built-in action (even initialising a variable or a compose step) counts, successful or failed, including retries and pagination.

Included volume

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

Power Automate Premium: 40,000 Power Platform requests per user per 24 hoursProcess: 250,000 Power Platform requests per flow per 24 hours, independent of the users' licences; Up to 10 Process licences can be stacked on one flow, each adding 250,000 requests; Or one licence can be shared by up to 25 solution-aware flows in a flow group, without stacking

Trigger polling

n8n 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.

Power Automate Scheduled (recurrence) flows can run as often as every 60 seconds.

Premium integrations

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

Power Automate The 30-day free trial covers UI-based cloud flows and standard connectors.

Hosting responsibility

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.

Power Automate Process: A bot runs one unattended desktop flow at a time on its assigned machine; concurrent runs need more bots.Hosted Process: Unattended automation on a Microsoft-managed virtual machine hosted on Azure.

AI charges

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

Power Automate AI-powered runtime such as agents is outside the request limits and consumes Copilot Credits.

Overage charges

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.

Power Automate No per-request charge is listed; Microsoft may enforce limits by throttling; Capacity is added to the user or flow that exceeds its limit; Each Power Platform requests add-on raises a limit by 50,000 requests per 24 hours, and several can be assigned

Limits to check

• n8n The Business plan is available only for self-hosted n8n, not on n8n Cloud.
• Power Automate A cloud flow uses its owner's licence; if the owner leaves the organisation, the flow falls back to the Low performance profile.

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Next steps

• n8n profile and plans · View n8n pricing
• Power Automate profile and plans · View Power Automate pricing