Automate the boring work between your apps.

You do, directly under n8n’s own Sustainable Use License, and for running your own instance for your own internal business purposes it costs nothing. We are not reselling n8n and you are not paying us for access to it: the image adds ₹0, and your money buys the server it runs on. If you later want features that need a paid n8n plan, you buy that from n8n.

Not quite, and the difference matters. n8n is "fair-code": the source is public and you can read, run and modify it, but the licence limits you to your own internal business use and forbids selling access to it as a service. For running your own automations it behaves like free software. It is not OSI open source, and we would rather say so than let you find out later.

n8n Cloud is n8n’s own hosted product, billed by execution volume. Here you run the free Community Edition on your own server: a flat price for the machine, no execution metering from n8n, and your data on your instance. The trade is that some features need a paid n8n plan: sharing workflows or credentials between users, Projects, SSO (SAML/LDAP), environments, external secrets, log streaming, Git version control and the AI workflow builder. In practice a Community instance is effectively single-user for collaboration, and multi-main clustering is enterprise-only, so we do not claim high availability on it. If you need those features, tell us and we will talk about what you would buy from n8n.

Not to get started; the image deploys with n8n already running, so there is nothing to install. To own it over time, some comfort with a server helps: this is a self-managed VPS, and updates, TLS on your own domain and general housekeeping are in your hands. If that is not where you want to spend your evenings, add a Server Management tier at checkout.

You decide when it lands, so a release never reaches your workflows until you are ready. On a self-managed instance updating is your call and your job; with n8n shipping as often as it does, a good routine is to back up first, then update. If you would rather hand the server side to us, Server Management tiers are at checkout, and an engineer can tell you what they cover before you buy.

A daily full-disk backup of the VM is, taken on a best-effort basis, and it is what we use to bring the whole server back if something goes badly wrong. Backups and restores of individual files, workflows and n8n’s database are yours on a self-managed box, so export your workflows and keep copies of anything you cannot lose. The “Offsite Backups for Data” option at checkout adds offsite copies.

Yes: it is your server with a public address, so point a subdomain you own at it and configure n8n behind whatever TLS setup you prefer. Bring a domain you already have, or register one with us.

Nothing. The n8n image adds ₹0 to the plan price, so you are paying for the server, never for n8n.

Add a Server Management tier at checkout and our engineers look after the box for you. If what you actually want is more than that, talk to an engineer first: tell us what you are automating and we will tell you honestly what we can take off your plate.