We do not offer managed n8n hosting
n8n is excellent software, and this page used to sell it as a managed service. It no longer does. n8n is published under the Sustainable Use Licence, which permits self-hosting for your own internal business purposes but does not permit a provider like us to host it and charge you for access. Rather than quietly drop the page, we would rather explain the licence, because it affects anyone shopping for "managed n8n". What we can do, entirely within n8n's own published terms, is help you run an n8n instance that is genuinely yours: your instance, our infrastructure.
What n8n is
n8n is a workflow automation platform built around a visual editor: you connect triggers, applications and logic as nodes on a canvas, and n8n executes the workflow whenever the trigger fires. It ships with more than 400 integrations covering CRMs, email, messaging, databases, cloud storage, marketing tools and developer services, plus generic HTTP and webhook nodes that connect to anything with an API.
Where n8n differs from pure no-code tools is that code is always available when you need it. Drop a JavaScript or Python node into any workflow to transform data, apply business rules or call libraries that no pre-built integration covers. Your team builds visually for speed and writes code only where it adds value.
The licence, and what it means for you
n8n is source-available software, not open source. It is published under the Sustainable Use Licence, which permits use "only for your own internal business purposes or for non-commercial or personal use". The full source is open for inspection and the software is genuinely self-hostable.
The restriction bites on the commercial hosting side rather than on you as a user:
You can self-host n8n yourself. Running n8n on your own infrastructure to automate your own business is exactly the internal business use the licence permits. Nothing here suggests otherwise, and n8n's own documentation is clear about it.
We cannot host it for you and charge for it. n8n's documentation names "hosting n8n and charging people money to access it" as something the licence does not permit, and their guidance is that hosting and managing clients' workflows and credentials within a provider's own instance requires an Enterprise licence from n8n. We do not hold one, so we do not offer that (including on our self-serve portal, where the deploy path is closed).
Anyone selling you "managed n8n" should be able to explain their licence position. That is not a dig at n8n, whose licence is public and reasonable. It is a fair question to ask a supplier, and one we would rather answer honestly here than take your money for.
Your instance, our infrastructure
There is a path n8n's own licence documentation explicitly permits, and it is the one we offer: you run your own n8n instance, and we support it.
The distinction that matters to the licence is whose instance it is. n8n's docs permit "providing consulting services related to n8n, for example building workflows" and "supporting n8n, for example by setting it up or maintaining it", and their support guidance is that assisting clients with their own instances needs no commercial licence at all. What needs an Enterprise agreement is a provider running its instance and putting your workflows and credentials inside it. So we drew the line exactly there:
- The instance is yours. It runs in your private workspace, under your name. You accept n8n's Sustainable Use Licence at installation, as its user; your relationship with n8n's terms is direct, not through us. Your workflows and credentials live in your instance, administered by you.
- We charge for infrastructure and engineering, never for n8n. What you pay us for is the compute, storage, backups, monitoring and TLS underneath the instance, and our engineers' time setting it up, upgrading it and helping you build workflows. Nothing in the price is a charge for access to n8n functionality, because that is not ours to sell.
- What we will not do: run a shared n8n and sell you a login, white-label it, or hold your workflows and credentials in an instance of ours. Those are the things n8n's licence reserves, and a supplier doing them without an Enterprise agreement is taking a risk with your automation stack.
If that fits, talk to us and we will scope it with you. If you would rather have a fully hosted service from the vendor, n8n Cloud is n8n's own, and choosing it supports the people who build the software.
The workflow automation we do run
Automation is a large part of what we do; n8n is simply one tool in it, and the one we cannot resell. The following are genuinely open source, and we deploy, host and support all of them:
Apache Camel is the closest fit for most of what people reach for n8n to do. It is an integration framework with several hundred connectors, built for routing and transforming messages between systems: a record created here, an event published there, a file landing in a bucket. It is code-defined rather than drag-and-drop, which is a real trade-off, and it is battle-tested at a scale n8n is not aimed at.
Apache Airflow orchestrates scheduled, code-defined pipelines: batch data work, reporting runs, ETL, anything where the unit of work is a job with dependencies rather than an event.
Apache NiFi gives you the visual, drag-and-drop canvas that draws people to n8n in the first place, aimed at dataflow: ingest, route, transform and deliver data between systems, with provenance tracking on every record.
Apache Kafka is the event backbone underneath all of it, for high-volume streaming between systems that then act on those events.
For AI-driven automation, we pair these with private AI infrastructure and PrivateGPT, so prompts and documents are processed by models running on infrastructure you control rather than sent to a public API.
Why any of this is self-hosted at all
The reasons people move off Zapier and Make hold whichever tool you land on.
No per-task pricing: SaaS automation platforms charge for every task or operation a workflow executes. As automation succeeds and volume grows, the bill grows with it. A self-hosted platform runs unlimited executions on a flat, predictable managed service.
Your data stays on your infrastructure: every workflow execution in a SaaS automation tool passes your business data through the vendor's cloud. On a platform we manage, customer records, financial data and internal communications never leave infrastructure you control.
No workflow limits: no caps on the number of workflows, steps per workflow or polling frequency. Build the automation your business actually needs rather than the automation your subscription tier permits.
GDPR and data residency: UK hosting with a clear answer to where your data is processed and who processes it. For organisations in regulated sectors, self-hosting removes an entire category of compliance questions.
Straight answer: if you came here looking for managed n8n hosting, we cannot sell it to you, and a supplier who offers it without an enterprise agreement with n8n is worth a second question. What we can offer is two honest alternatives: your own n8n instance on our infrastructure, supported by our engineers and licensed directly by you; or the same job (connecting your systems so work moves between them without anyone copying and pasting) on tooling we are properly entitled to host, on UK infrastructure, at a flat price. Either conversation starts here.
Open source provenance
n8n
is
SUL-1.0
software maintained upstream
(source, ref n8n@1.29.1).
Node provides managed hosting, configuration and support. We are not the publisher.
- Hosting for paying customers: not permitted under this licence. We do not offer it self-serve.
Adoption and community
197k+ GitHub stars n8n reported over 200,000 users worldwide and more than 3,000 enterprise customers when announcing its Series B funding in March 2025.
Talk to us about workflow automation.
Tell us what you need to connect and our engineers will talk you through the automation tooling we can host and support for you.