n8n
Open, flexible workflow automation with AI agent nodes; self-host for free.
Free self-hosted Community Edition; Cloud Starter €20/mo billed annually. Checked 2026-10-14.
Quick start
Start with a template, add an AI Agent node, and test with pinned sample data before going live.
Good and not so good
- Self-host free
- Pay per workflow run, not per step
- Steeper learning curve
Use cases with n8n
Run an automated AI video factory from ideas to clips
An agent pipeline generates video ideas with ChatGPT and renders the scenes with Veo 3 through the FAL API, with no manual editing.
Automate brain-rot style short videos with n8n
Shares an n8n workflow that produces the fast brain-rot video format used on TikTok and YouTube Shorts.
Find conversations you forgot to follow up on
An 8-node n8n workflow scans calendar, inbox and tasks overnight to find stalled conversations.
Automate a real estate agent's follow-ups and scheduling
One n8n workflow runs seven operations for a real estate assistant, covering lead intake, follow-ups, scheduling and data entry.
Write cold emails with a workflow, not by hand
Wrote a cold email by hand in 20 minutes, then ran the same brief through an n8n AI workflow.
Build a cold email campaign dashboard
Replaced Excel tracking with his own dashboard for reporting, lead management and CSV tracking, built with Claude Code, n8n and Supabase.
Classify inbound leads and alert on hot ones
Typeform leads go to Google Sheets, an AI agent classifies them, hot ones hit Slack and cold ones get monthly nurture emails.
Use three AIs in one workflow, each for what it is best at
An n8n workflow where Claude Code works with Obsidian, Gemini classifies and ChatGPT summarizes emails from Google Drive.
Call website leads back in seconds with a voice agent
An n8n outbound voice agent calls new website leads back within seconds, qualifies them, logs to Sheets and triggers follow-up emails.
Give your automation a real app interface
Put a simple Streamlit UI on top of an n8n workflow so people can interact with it like an app.