# Knime review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Open-source visual workflows for data analysis and automation Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. KNIME is a platform for building visual, low-code data workflows for data preparation, analysis and machine learning. KNIME Analytics Platform is a free open-source desktop application. A hosted Team plan adds private spaces, scheduled runs and data apps, and KNIME Business Hub serves larger organizations on a quote basis. - **Category:** Automation - **Made by:** KNIME - **Website:** https://www.knime.com - **Runs on:** Windows, macOS, Linux, Web - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you want hosted execution, billed per started minute on top of €99. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Knime has a free plan, and paid plans start at €99 per month for 3 seats and 120 execution credits. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** KNIME Analytics Platform is free and open source for Windows, macOS and Linux; the paid plans add hosted collaboration and execution. - **Free trial:** 1-month free trial of the Team plan with 1,000 execution credits. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Analytics Platform | $0 | Free open-source desktop software for building workflows; runs on your own machine. | | Team plan | €99 per month for 3 seats, with 120 execution credits | Private spaces, scheduled runs and data apps. Extra execution is billed at €0.025 per credit. | | Business Hub | Custom | Private environment for larger organizations with governance and the K-AI assistant; sold by quote. | Read from https://www.knime.com/knime-team-plan on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Knime before buying. ## Key features - **Visual workflows:** Analyses are built in a low-code, no-code interface for data prep, analysis, machine learning and LLM work. - **K-AI assistant:** KNIME's AI assistant, K-AI, helps build workflows, generate scripts and create visualizations. - **Scheduled runs:** Team plan workflows can be run ad hoc or on a schedule, from every minute to monthly, in the vendor's hosted cloud. - **Data apps and REST APIs:** Workflows can be deployed as browser-based data apps or REST APIs that others use without installing the desktop software. - **Version control and sharing:** Spaces on KNIME Hub store workflows privately, with a team, or publicly, and track changes. - **Credential handling:** The Team plan page describes central, encrypted handling of credentials for automated runs. ## Good for - Analysts who want a free visual tool for data cleaning and reporting - Teams automating recurring data jobs without IT setup ## Worth knowing - The Team plan is priced in euros; execution is billed on top at €0.025 per credit, per started minute. - Executors use 2, 4 or 8 credits per minute for the small, medium and large sizes. - Business Hub has no published price; the pricing page offers a quote form with no per-seat licensing. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 3.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. KNIME Analytics Platform is a free, open-source visual tool for data cleaning and reporting on Windows, macOS and Linux. The paid hosted plans start at €99 a month for 3 seats with execution billed on top in euros, and Business Hub has no published price. - **Value for money: A.** The Analytics Platform is free to download and run. The Team plan is €99 a month for 3 seats, with execution at €0.025 per credit per started minute on top. - **Free plan and trial: A.** Free open-source desktop program with no cap, plus a 1-month trial of the Team plan with 1,000 credits. - **Features: B.** Visual workflows for data cleaning and reporting, with Snowflake, Amazon S3, Azure, Google Cloud and Power BI connections. The listing names no gap in the core job. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You build workflows node by node, so there's a learning curve. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Windows, macOS, Linux and web, with cloud and Power BI connections. No phone apps. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from KNIME's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among automation tools - Knime's GPA of 3.2 is higher than 134 of the 134 other automation tools we grade. - It stands best on free plan and trial (A, above 124 of 134) and worst on ease of use (C, above 27). - Its paid plans start at about $110.60 a month, against a middle price of $22.17 for the category: 56 of the 65 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 3 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/automation ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Knime you would be making connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 3.2 is higher than 134 of the 134 other automation tools we grade. It costs $1,327.23 a year. Knime is open source, so there is a third way: take its code and run it yourself. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. - You could not: A builder that other people can use without writing code. - You could not: Apps for macOS, Windows and Linux that stay in step with each other. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Snowflake, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Power BI **Tags:** Workflow automation, No-code, Open source, AI features ## Alternatives - [FME](https://toolgpa.com/tools/fme): No-code data integration platform with spatial data support. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fme-vs-knime) - [Apache NiFi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/apache-nifi): Open-source system for routing and processing data flows. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/apache-nifi-vs-knime) - [Parabola](https://toolgpa.com/tools/parabola): Agent builder for finance and operations teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/knime-vs-parabola) - [n8n](https://toolgpa.com/tools/n8n): Workflow automation and AI agents you can self-host. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/knime-vs-n8n) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.knime.com/knime-team-plan - https://www.knime.com/pricing - https://www.knime.com/downloads - https://www.knime.com/software-overview - https://www.knime.com/knime-business-hub Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/knime Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).