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Automation

n8n

Self-hosted workflow automation — connect apps and APIs without recurring per-task fees.

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Activity score (0-100) — weighted from the 4 sub-scores below. Calculated automatically from the GitHub API, refreshed weekly.
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Community
100
Development
100
Maintenance
20
Risk
197,110 GitHub stars Last commit: 1 days ago Last release: 4 days ago Open issues: 1401 License: NOASSERTION

Hardware

RAM minimum2048 MB
RAM recommended4096 MB
CPU idle0.1 cores
CPU recommended2 cores
ARM supportFull

Access & auth

Needs reverse proxy✓ Yes
OIDC support✓ Yes
LDAP support✗ No
Multi-user✓ Yes
Mobile appNone

Operations

MaturityStable
Maintenance burdenMedium
Setup difficultyMedium
Backup methodDB dump (workflows) + credentials export

Leaving the cloud

Migration difficultyHard

Replaces

Make (Integromat)Zapier

Relationships

Install via

Docker Composenpm

Requires

Postgres

Works well with

Redis

Recommended backup

Native/Manual

Our notes

RAM needs scale hard with what your workflows actually do — API-to-API automation is fine on 4GB, but file/image/CSV-heavy workflows want 16GB+. Migration difficulty is "hard" not because of n8n itself, but because Zapier/Make workflows do not export; you rebuild the logic by hand.