n8n versus Tray.ai

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)
• Tray.ai Quote only
  • Pro: Vendor quotation required
  • Team: Vendor quotation required
  • Enterprise: Vendor quotation required

A complete like-for-like price comparison is not established; the next checks say what is missing.

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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.

Tray.ai 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

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

Tray.ai Task volume is a contracted entitlement, shown as an allowance line in the usage dashboard.Pro: 3 workspaces; 7-day insights and 7-day log retentionTeam: 20 workspaces; 30-day insights; 7-day log retention that can be extendedEnterprise: Unlimited workspaces; 180-day insights

Premium integrations

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

Tray.ai 700+ connectors and connector development are included in all plans.

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.

Tray.ai Enterprise: Regional hosting, Advanced on-premise connectivity, SSO and HIPAA

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

Tray.ai AI connectors convert input and output tokens into tasks at a token-to-task ratio set in your contract, available from support.

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.

Tray.ai Admins can cap monthly tasks per workspace, for example for sandbox or development workspaces; Retries are not charged

Limits to check

• n8n The Business plan is available only for self-hosted n8n, not on n8n Cloud.
• Tray.ai Pro allows 3 workspaces, Team 20 and Enterprise unlimited; regional hosting, log streaming and on-premise connectivity are Enterprise features.

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

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Next steps

• Request a written quote from Tray.ai for your seats, usage and term.
• Ask Tray.ai about trigger polling; our sources do not establish it yet.

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