What is n8n?
n8n is an open-source workflow automation tool — the self-hosted answer to Zapier and Make. You build automations visually: a trigger fires (a form submission, a schedule, a new row in a database) and each step after it calls an API, moves data around, branches on a condition, or asks a model to write something. There are 400+ ready-made integrations, and anything without one can still be reached over a plain HTTP request.
The catch with the hosted version is the meter. Automation tools bill per task or per execution, so the workflow that checks something every five minutes is also the one that quietly triples your invoice. Self-hosted n8n has no meter — it runs as many workflows as your server can handle, and the price is the price of the server.
Running it yourself normally means wrestling with Docker, a database and an SSL certificate before you automate anything at all. On livemy.app you pick the n8n template, click deploy, and get a live URL in about two minutes. Your workflows and credentials stay on your own server, and you can point your own domain at it whenever you're ready.
Same app, no meter running
These tools are free and open source. What you normally pay for is someone else's server — and their pricing page.
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Visual workflow automation with 400+ integrations.


