n8n Cloud pricing, reviewed

• Companyn8n
• CategoryWorkflow automation
• AudienceBusiness
• PatternMigrate
• Last observedJun 2026
• Confidencehigh

The short version It walked its existing product rightward, from access pricing toward usage pricing.

The verdict

n8n Cloud walked one rung rightward during 2025. In January 2025 it sat at a hard allotment: tiers were gated by both a monthly execution count and an active-workflow ceiling (Starter, Pro, Enterprise; no Business plan), and exceeding the cap meant upgrading — no overage. On August 7, 2025 n8n announced a platform-wide repricing that scrapped the workflow, step, and user limits, repriced purely on executions, added a Business plan, and introduced auto-billed overage; the August 31 snapshot and the live page confirm it — workflows keep running and overage is automatically invoiced 45 days later. A separate AI Workflow Builder credit (launched October 2025) is its own hard-allotment sub-meter, but the headline execution meter governs: hard to metered overage.

Current pricing snapshot

As published on n8n Cloud's own pages · captured Jun 12, 2026. Unit: execution.

Credit ↔ dollar

Not pegged — a credit is not a fixed $

Credit burn rate

Flat per action

Billing

Monthly or annual · 17% off annual

Included credits

Unstated

Purchased credits

Unstated

What changed

• Aug 7, 2025 · Policy change · Official 'new pricing' announcement: removed active-workflow/step/user limits ('unlimited workflows, steps, and users'), repriced the entire platform purely on workflow executions, and introduced the Business plan — shifting the gate from a workflow-count ceiling to a pure execution meter.

Where it's headed

• The story

  AI pricing is just COGS finally showing up

  Seats-to-credits is software gaining a real cost of goods sold for the first time — what it means for margins, software budgets, and old SaaS rules of thumb.

• The benchmark

  The AI Credit Index

  All 51 products, read from their own pricing pages and archived to the date.

Sourced from n8n Cloud's official pricing pages and archived snapshots. Primary: pricing page. Method & limits: Methodology & data.