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n8n pricing calculator — Cloud vs self-hosted cost
Compare your current n8n Cloud price or quote with a transparent self-hosted cost scenario. The result is directional: it shows what your inputs imply without inventing a universal break-even point or product winner.
Build your cost scenario
Values marked as assumptions are editable starting points. Replace them with your own bills, quotes, and measured team time.
Directional estimate
Estimated result
Add your current Cloud price to complete the comparison.
Cloud input
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Your current price or quote
Self-host scenario
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Infrastructure + services + labor
Modeled difference
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Arithmetic difference under these inputs
Decision explanation
Enter a Cloud price to compare
The self-host subtotal remains visible so you can inspect its assumptions first.
Directional estimate, not a quote or full deployment recommendation. Costs left at zero are treated as zero. Feature fit, reliability, recovery, security, data locality, migration, and operational ownership still require a separate decision.
Official / verified facts
n8n Cloud tiers used in this estimate
Last verified
No fixed tier price drives the result. The current official pricing model bills paid plans by workflow executions and states that paid plans include unlimited users and workflows. The tier context below is reference-only; enter your current localized price or quote above.
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| Tier context | Executions / month | Paid workflows + users | Price used |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | 2,500 | Unlimited | Your input |
| Pro | 10,000 | Unlimited | Your input |
| Pro 50k | 50,000 | Unlimited | Your input |
| Custom terms | Current quote | Confirm current terms | Your input |
Sources: n8n pricing, Cloud subscription features, and August 2025 pricing-model update.
Self-host hidden costs you should not skip
- Database and execution mode — choose storage and worker architecture for your actual workload, concurrency, retention, and recovery needs.
- Backups — include storage, retention, and restore testing rather than assuming snapshots are sufficient.
- Upgrades — enter the time your team expects to spend reading release notes, testing, deploying, and recovering from failed changes.
- Observability — include uptime checks, metrics, logs, alerting, and any network or storage charges they create.
- Secrets and support — account for encryption-key ownership, security controls, paid edition needs, and support where relevant.
FAQ
How does this calculator work?
It compares the current n8n Cloud monthly price or quote you enter with explicit self-hosting and operations assumptions. It does not infer a vendor tier, a universal break-even volume, or a product winner.
Are these prices exact?
Only the values you enter are used in the arithmetic. Check your current n8n price, currency, billing cadence, infrastructure, supporting services, licence or support needs, and team time before acting on the result.
Why include ops time?
Self-hosting transfers upgrades, backups, monitoring, recovery, and incident ownership to your team. The calculator makes your editable monthly hours and labor rate visible instead of treating that work as free.
What VPS should I use?
There is no universal VPS size or price for an execution count. Capacity depends on workload shape, concurrency, memory, database, queue mode, retention, binary data, and external systems. Use your measured or quoted infrastructure cost and see the hosting guide for deployment choices.