Home Assistant vs n8n
No leader: the top candidate Home Assistant has only 0.01 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Features
The capabilities each product documents. These tools do not share a category taxonomy, so this aligns what each vendor states rather than a normalised feature set.
| Feature | Home Assistant | n8n |
|---|---|---|
| Ai steps | - | ✓ |
| App builder | - | ✗ |
| Branching logic | - | ✓ |
| Bring your own key byok for llm inference | - | ✓ |
| Builder ui architecture | - | visual_node_canvas |
| Code steps | - | ✓ |
| Custom http connector | - | ✓ |
| Custom http webhook catch and triggering | - | ✓ |
| Environments versioning | - | ✓ |
| Error handling | - | ✓ |
| Free tier | - | ✓ |
| Hosting | - | both |
| Human in the loop approval steps via slack email | - | ✓ |
| Loops iteration | - | ✓ |
| Native llm nodes anthropic openai gemini | - | ✓ |
| On premise self hosted deployment option | - | ✓ |
| Prebuilt connectors | - | 1500+ integrations |
| Pricing metric | - | operation |
| Pricing model | - | freemium_with_task_credits |
| Rbac audit | - | ✓ |
| Soc2 type ii | - | ✓ |
| Sub workflow calling and reusable templates | - | ✓ |
| Visual builder | - | ✓ |
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Home Assistant
An open source system for automating and controlling smart home devices locally without cloud dependency. Includes support for over 1500 integrations, customizable dashboards, natural language voice assistant, energy management, and runs on affordable hardware—keeping all data private and under user control.
n8n
n8n is a workflow automation platform that lets you build automations visually or with code to connect and orchestrate applications and services. It supports AI-powered workflows, runs on your infrastructure or n8n's cloud, and charges only for complete workflow executions rather than individual tasks.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
n8n
From €20/month (annual billing). Free trials available; no credit card required for Starter and Pro
- Starter€20/month (billed annually). 2,500 executions/month
- 2,500 workflow executions/month with unlimited steps
- Unlimited users and workflows
- Unlimited integrations
- 1 shared project
- 2,300 AI credits/month
- +3 more
- Pro€50/month (billed annually). 10,000 executions/month
- 10,000 workflow executions/month with unlimited steps
- Unlimited users and workflows
- Unlimited integrations
- 3 shared projects
- 5,700-13,700 AI credits/month
- +6 more
- Business€667/month. 40,000 executions/month. Self-hosted option
- 40,000 workflow executions/month with unlimited steps
- Unlimited users and workflows
- Unlimited integrations
- 6 shared projects
- SSO, SAML, and LDAP authentication
- +6 more
- EnterpriseContact sales
- Custom workflow executions
- Unlimited users and workflows
- Unlimited integrations
- Unlimited shared projects
- SSO, SAML, and LDAP authentication
- +6 more
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
Home Assistant
- Huawei LTE
- NodeRed
- Discord
n8n
- Salesforce
- Slack
- HubSpot
- Stripe
- Typeform
- Mautic
- Airtable
- Asana
- ServiceNow
- Zoom
- Elevenlabs
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- ClearBit
- Azure
- GitHub
- Webhook
- Custom HTTP API
- AWS Secrets Manager
- Azure Key Vault
- Google Cloud Platform
- HashiCorp Vault
- +6 more
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.