n8n versus Zapier

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)
• Zapier From $29.99/mo
  • Free: no subscription charge
  • Professional: $29.99 monthly
  • Professional: $239.88 annual ($19.99/mo equivalent)
  • Team: $103.50 monthly
  • Team: $828.00 annual ($69/mo equivalent)
  • Enterprise: Vendor quotation required

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

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

Zapier Trigger steps, Filter and Paths steps, failed or halted actions and skipped steps use no tasks; Tables, Forms, Formatter, Delay, Looping, Sub-Zap, Digest, Zapier Manager and Storage steps use no tasks; Zapier Agents use a separate activity quota, not tasks; Example: a Zap with two actions that runs ten times uses 20 tasks

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

Zapier Task tiers from 100 to 2M tasks a month, plus a custom task limit.Free: 100 tasks per monthProfessional: The help center's billing example is a Professional 750 plan: 750 tasks a month, with up to 1,500 more on pay-per-task.

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.

Zapier Polling checks never use tasks; only successful actions do.Free: Every 15 minutesProfessional: Every 2 minutesTeam: Every minuteEnterprise: Every minute

Premium integrations

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

Zapier Premium apps are available only on paid plans.Free: Two-step Zaps only (a trigger and one action)Professional: Multi-step Zaps, Unlimited premium apps, Webhooks

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

Zapier AI by Zapier steps and their tool calls use 1 task on standard models or with your own model provider (you also pay the provider), 3 tasks on advanced models and 5 on premium models.Agents Free: 400 agent activities per monthAgents Pro: 1,500 agent activities per month

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.

Zapier Tasks beyond the plan limit are charged separately through pay-per-task billing; Pay-per-task stops at three times the plan task limit; further runs are held until the billing cycle ends; Without pay-per-task, new Zap runs are held at the task limit until the billing cycle resets

Limits to check

• n8n The Business plan is available only for self-hosted n8n, not on n8n Cloud.
• Zapier Every successful action uses its own task, so the monthly need is actions per run multiplied by runs per month.

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