Huginn vs n8n
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Where they differ
- Huginn is free. n8n starts at €20 / month, billed annually, for 2,500 executions (n8n Cloud Starter).
- Only Huginn lists a Linux app.
- Huginn is open source, according to its own site.
At a glance
| Huginn | n8n | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free | Free plan |
| Starts at | Free | €20 / month, billed annually, for 2,500 executions (n8n Cloud Starter) |
| Free plan | Free and open source under the MIT License, with no paid edition. You install and run it yourself, so the only cost is the server or hosting plan it runs on. | The self-hosted Community Edition is free with almost the complete feature set, but without SSO, projects, environments, Git version control or workflow sharing. n8n Cloud has no free plan, only a trial. |
| Free trial | None listed | 14-day n8n Cloud trial of Pro features, capped at 1,000 executions, no credit card required |
| Web | ||
| Linux | ||
| Made by | Andrew Cantino and contributors | n8n |
| Price read from | github.com | n8n.io |
| Checked | Oct 5, 2026 | Oct 4, 2026 |
Who each one suits
Huginn
- Developers who want their automation data kept on a server they control
- Watching websites, feeds and search terms and getting alerts by email or SMS
- People comfortable with Docker or a Ruby on Rails deployment
n8n
- Technical teams that want to host their automation on their own servers
- Developers who mix visual workflows with JavaScript or Python
- Building AI agents where every step can be inspected
Worth knowing
Huginn
- There is no hosted version: you install, update and back up Huginn yourself, with MySQL or PostgreSQL alongside it.
- Huginn does not run on Windows; the docs suggest a virtual machine. The manual install guide supports Ubuntu and Debian.
- The requirements page recommends 2 GB of RAM and a dual-core server.
- Agents are configured in the web interface with options and Liquid templates, and writing a new agent means writing Ruby.
n8n
- n8n Cloud has no free plan; the free option is self-hosting the Community Edition, which you run and maintain yourself.
- The Community Edition leaves out SSO, projects, environments, Git version control and workflow sharing.
- The Business plan is self-hosted only and starts at €667 a month, billed annually.
- The pricing page showed prices in euros when checked; no US dollar price list was found on n8n's site.
Key features
Huginn
- Agents and events
- Each agent does one job, such as checking a site or sending a message, and emits events that other agents consume. Chaining them forms a directed graph.
- Website monitoring
- Agents can scrape websites and email you when a page changes, or watch for travel and shopping deals. The wiki covers browser emulation for pages that need JavaScript.
- Digests and spike alerts
- Huginn can send a digest email at set times of day, and count high-frequency events so that an SMS goes out within moments of a spike.
- Webhooks and custom JavaScript
- Agents send and receive webhooks and can run custom JavaScript functions, so services without a built-in agent can still be wired in.
- Agent gems
- New agents can be written as external Ruby gems and loaded through the ADDITIONAL_GEMS environment variable, without changing the core repository.
- Several ways to deploy
- There is an official Docker image, a manual installation guide for Ubuntu and Debian, OpenShift templates and a Heroku deploy button, which needs a paid Heroku plan.
n8n
- Visual builder with code steps
- Workflows are built on a canvas, and JavaScript or Python can be written anywhere in them. Single steps can be re-run and earlier data replayed while debugging.
- AI agents
- Agents are assembled from AI nodes on the same canvas, with each step of their reasoning open to inspection and the option to require human approval.
- Self-hosting
- n8n can run on your own infrastructure with Docker, including air-gapped setups. The Community Edition is free; Business and Enterprise add SSO, environments and Git version control.
- Execution-based pricing
- One run of a whole workflow counts as a single execution, however many steps it has. Going over the plan quota does not stop workflows, but overage charges may apply.
- Integrations and custom APIs
- The homepage cites 500+ integrations, including Google Sheets, Slack and OpenAI, and other services can be reached through custom API connections.
- Shared projects
- Shared projects group workflows for a team: 1 on Starter, 3 on Pro, 6 on Business and unlimited on Enterprise. Pro adds admin roles and workflow history.
Plans
Huginn
Huginn$0
The whole project under the MIT License: the web interface, the built-in agents and support for agents added as Ruby gems.
n8n
Community Edition€0
Self-hosted from GitHub. Almost the complete feature set, without SSO, projects, environments, Git version control or workflow sharing.
Starter€20
per month, billed annually, for 2,500 executions
Hosted by n8n. Unlimited steps per workflow, 1 shared project, 5 concurrent executions, and agents, MCP and AI nodes.
Pro€50
per month, billed annually, for 10,000 executions
Hosted by n8n. 3 shared projects, up to 50 concurrent executions, 7 days of insights, admin roles and workflow history.
Business€667
per month, billed annually, for 40,000 executions
Self-hosted only. 6 shared projects, SSO with SAML and LDAP, multiple environments, Git version control, queue mode and 30 days of insights.
EnterpriseCustom
Hosted or self-hosted. Custom executions, unlimited shared projects, 200+ concurrent executions, external secret store, log streaming and SLA support.
Ways to pay less
Huginn
No public discounts listed.
n8n
- Annual discount
Save 17% with annual billing
n8n's pricing page shows a 17% saving when a plan is billed annually instead of monthly. The prices listed here are the annual rates.
- Startups
Start-up Plan: 50% off Business
Companies with fewer than 20 employees can check whether they qualify for the Start-up Plan, which takes 50% off the Business plan.
