n8n Pricing Calculator
See what your workflow volume costs on n8n Cloud, and what the same workload costs on Rills. Enter your volume and average steps per workflow below.
n8n Cloud bills per execution, not per step.
One run is one execution no matter how much happens inside it, so step-heavy workflows that rack up tasks on Zapier or operations on Make stay cheap here.
02. What it costs
- n8n CloudCheapest$20.00/mo
- Rills
Includes $7.50 overage (5,000 workflow credits over plan allowance)
Approvals and logic never consume credits. Workflows cost $0 while paused awaiting approval.
$26.50/mo
Rills isn't the cheapest at this volume — what you'd buy is supervision: free approvals, free logic, and $0 paused workflows. Start your trial →
03. Cheapest by volume
- Rills StarterUnder 5,663 tasks
- n8n Cloud Starter5,663–12,501
- Rills Starter12,501–25,663
- n8n Cloud Pro 10k25,663–50,001
- Rills Starter50,001–72,329
- n8n Cloud Pro 50k72,329–250,001
- Rills Professional250,001–370,001
- Rills Business370,001+ tasks
Methodology
How volumes are normalized
Each platform bills a different unit, so the calculator converts your task volume before it picks a plan.
- Per stepZapier and Make bill every step.A task (Zapier) or operation (Make) is any executed step; both equal your task volume one-for-one.
- Per runn8n bills per workflow execution.Steps inside a run are free, so your volume is divided by your average steps per workflow.
- Per actionRills bills only action steps.Each billable action is 2 workflow credits; triggers, logic, and human approvals are free, so only your billable-action share converts.
Assumptions
- Prices are published list prices for annual billing; the monthly toggle uses each vendor's published monthly price where one exists (annual-only plans are flagged).
- AI features, add-ons, promotional pricing, and trials are excluded.
- n8n self-hosted (free software, user-specific server and ops costs) is not modeled.
- Per-seat value (e.g. plans bundling many user seats) is noted but not priced.
- Where a vendor publishes EUR pricing, amounts are converted to USD and noted.
- Rills plans include a monthly spending cap you control; the calculator shows uncapped metered overage.
Tier tables
n8n Cloud
| Plan | $/mo (annual) | $/mo (monthly) | Included executions/mo | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $20 | $24 | 2,500 | |
| Pro 10k | $50 | $60 | 10,000 | |
| Pro 50k | $120 | $144 | 50,000 | |
| Business 40k | $800 | $960 | 40,000 | Business plan is self-hosted |
| Business 50k | $985 | $1182 | 50,000 | Business plan is self-hosted |
| Business 75k | $1456 | $1747 | 75,000 | Business plan is self-hosted |
| Business 100k | $ | $2071 | 100,000 | Business plan is self-hosted |
| Business 150k | $ | $2627 | 150,000 | Business plan is self-hosted |
| Business 200k | $ | $3167 | 200,000 | Business plan is self-hosted |
| Business 300k | $ | $4214 | 300,000 | Business plan is self-hosted |
| Business 400k | $ | $5257 | 400,000 | Business plan is self-hosted |
| Business 500k | $ | $6294 | 500,000 | Business plan is self-hosted |
| Contact sales | Custom | — | 500,000+ |
Rills
| Plan | $/mo (annual) | $/mo (monthly) | Included workflow credits/mo | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $19 | $19 | 5,000 | |
| Professional | $99 | $99 | 50,000 | |
| Business | $349 | $349 | 250,000 | |
| Contact sales | Custom | — | Custom |
n8n pricing questions
How does n8n Cloud bill per execution?
n8n Cloud charges per workflow execution, not per step. A ten-step workflow and a two-step workflow cost the same to fire once. That rewards consolidating logic into fewer, richer workflows instead of splitting work across many — the opposite incentive from per-task tools like Zapier.
Is self-hosted n8n really free?
The Community edition is free software with unlimited executions, but you run the server, so you own uptime, upgrades, and security, and any AI steps bill to your own LLM keys. For a technically comfortable operator that can be the cheapest serious option; for everyone else the hours spent keeping it alive are a real cost this calculator doesn't model.
When is n8n cheaper than Zapier or Make?
When your workflows have many steps per run. Because n8n bills per execution, a step-heavy workflow that would burn several tasks on Zapier or several operations on Make counts as a single execution on n8n. The more plumbing per run, the bigger the gap — enter your average steps per workflow above to see it.
What does the same volume cost on Rills instead of n8n?
Rills bills only billable action steps, with triggers, logic, and approvals free and paused workflows at $0 — and unlike self-hosted n8n there's no server to run. The trade is a managed phone-first approval queue and confidence scoring versus owning your own stack. Set your billable-action share above for the comparison.
How accurate are these n8n prices?
The tier table shows a last-verified date and links to n8n's pricing page. Cloud prices are snapshots of published list prices and change often, so confirm on n8n.io before buying. Self-hosted infrastructure cost is not modeled, and AI features are excluded because they price too differently to compare fairly.
Run this volume on Rills.
Approvals, logic, and paused workflows never cost a credit — and there's no server to run.