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Activepieces vs n8n

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by Activepieces

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Pricing: Free plan with 1,000 credits a month; Plus $20/mo and Team $200/mo billed monthly, less billed yearly; Ultimate by quote; Embed from $36k a year.

Activepieces is an open-source AI agent and workflow automation builder for business and technical teams, run in its cloud or self-hosted on your own servers.

13 /18 features Full profile

n8n

by n8n

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Pricing: Free self-hosted Community edition. Billed monthly: Starter $24/mo, Pro $60/mo, Business (self-hosted) $960/mo; 17% less billed annually. Enterprise by quote.

n8n is a workflow automation and AI agent builder for technical teams, run in n8n's cloud or self-hosted, and priced by workflow executions rather than seats.

16 /18 features Full profile

Feature Comparison

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Feature	Activepieces 13/18 features	n8n 16/18 features
Visual agent workflow canvas Assemble the agent's steps on a canvas.	Yes	Yes
Custom tool and function definitions Give the agent your own callable functions.	Yes	Yes
Model provider choice per agent Point different agents at different models.	Yes	Yes
Retrieval-augmented knowledge bases Attach documents the agent retrieves from at run time.	Yes	Yes
Multi-agent handoff and delegation One agent passes work to another.	Yes	Yes
Conversation state and checkpointing Resume a long run instead of restarting it.	Yes	Yes
Structured output schema validation Force replies into a schema and reject the rest.	Yes	Yes
Input and output guardrails Filter unsafe or off-policy content on both sides.	No	Yes
Human-in-the-loop approval steps Pause a workflow for a person to approve.	Yes	Yes
Built-in execution tracing See every step, tool call and token inside the builder.	Yes	No
Prompt versioning in the builder Change a prompt without redeploying, and roll it back.	No	Yes
Agent evaluation and test suites Score an agent against fixed cases before release.	No	Yes
MCP server support Connect tools over the Model Context Protocol.	Yes	Yes
Webhook and event triggers Start an agent from an external event.	Yes	Yes
Code-first SDK Define the agent in code as well as in the interface.	No	No
Deploy an agent as an API endpoint Call the finished agent over HTTP.	Yes	Yes
Embeddable agent chat widget Drop the agent into a site or app as a chat surface.	No	Yes
Self-hosted agent runtime Run the built agents on your own infrastructure.	Yes	Yes
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Activepieces 13/18 features

Visual agent workflow canvas: Yes
Custom tool and function definitions: Yes
Model provider choice per agent: Yes
Retrieval-augmented knowledge bases: Yes
Multi-agent handoff and delegation: Yes
Conversation state and checkpointing: Yes
Structured output schema validation: Yes
Input and output guardrails: No
Human-in-the-loop approval steps: Yes
Built-in execution tracing: Yes
Prompt versioning in the builder: No
Agent evaluation and test suites: No
MCP server support: Yes
Webhook and event triggers: Yes
Code-first SDK: No
Deploy an agent as an API endpoint: Yes
Embeddable agent chat widget: No
Self-hosted agent runtime: Yes

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n8n 16/18 features

Visual agent workflow canvas: Yes
Custom tool and function definitions: Yes
Model provider choice per agent: Yes
Retrieval-augmented knowledge bases: Yes
Multi-agent handoff and delegation: Yes
Conversation state and checkpointing: Yes
Structured output schema validation: Yes
Input and output guardrails: Yes
Human-in-the-loop approval steps: Yes
Built-in execution tracing: No
Prompt versioning in the builder: Yes
Agent evaluation and test suites: Yes
MCP server support: Yes
Webhook and event triggers: Yes
Code-first SDK: No
Deploy an agent as an API endpoint: Yes
Embeddable agent chat widget: Yes
Self-hosted agent runtime: Yes

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Activepieces

Free plan with 1,000 credits a month; Plus $20/mo and Team $200/mo billed monthly, less billed yearly; Ultimate by quote; Embed from $36k a year.

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n8n

Free self-hosted Community edition. Billed monthly: Starter $24/mo, Pro $60/mo, Business (self-hosted) $960/mo; 17% less billed annually. Enterprise by quote.

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