# n8n vs Stack AI

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** n8n

| Attribute | n8n | Stack AI |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 76.2 (75% (high)) | 52.4 (39% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 206,695 | - |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 137,563 | - |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"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. It is indexed under No-Code Automation Tools.","source":"https://n8n.io/pricing/","question":"What is n8n?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"n8n offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at €20 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://n8n.io/pricing/","question":"Is n8n free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"n8n supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://n8n.io/pricing/","question":"What platforms does n8n support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. n8n can be deployed cloud / SaaS, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://n8n.io/pricing/","question":"Can n8n be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 34 integrations for n8n, including Salesforce, Slack, HubSpot, Stripe, Typeform, Mautic, Airtable and Asana, plus 26 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://n8n.io/pricing/","question":"What does n8n integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and GDPR for n8n. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as n8n not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://n8n.io/legal/security/","question":"What security certifications does n8n have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Yes. n8n is published under the SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE.md licence, a copyleft licence, so check its terms before embedding it in a closed-source product. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://www.npmjs.com/package/n8n","question":"Is n8n open source?","confidence":0.85},{"answer":"n8n is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in Germany.","source":"https://n8n.io/pricing/","question":"Where is n8n available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"An enterprise-focused AI platform that enables teams to build, deploy, and govern AI agents across their organization. It supports multiple deployment models and integrates with hundreds of enterprise systems. It is indexed under AI Workflow Automation.","source":"https://www.stackai.com/pricing","question":"What is Stack AI?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Stack AI does not publish its prices. Pricing is quoted on request, across 2 plans (Free and Custom), so the figure depends on your seat count and requirements. We record this as a pricing-transparency signal rather than guessing a number. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.stackai.com/pricing","question":"How much does Stack AI cost?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Stack AI. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.stackai.com/pricing","question":"What platforms does Stack AI support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Stack AI can be deployed cloud / SaaS and on-premise, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.stackai.com/pricing","question":"Can Stack AI be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 13 integrations for Stack AI, including Slack, Microsoft Teams, Email, Google Drive, Notion, Salesforce, Asana and SharePoint, plus 5 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.stackai.com/pricing","question":"What does Stack AI integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR for Stack AI. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Stack AI not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.stackai.com/solutions/risk-compliance","question":"What security certifications does Stack AI have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Stack AI is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://www.stackai.com/pricing","question":"Where is Stack AI available?","confidence":0.5}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"air_gapped":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | A no-code platform enabling enterprises to build, deploy, govern, and scale AI agents that automate workflows while maintaining security, compliance, and human oversight over critical decisions. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"both","ai_steps":true,"free_tier":true,"code_steps":true,"rbac_audit":true,"app_builder":false,"soc2_type_ii":true,"pricing_model":"freemium_with_task_credits","error_handling":true,"pricing_metric":"operation","visual_builder":true,"branching_logic":true,"loops_iteration":true,"prebuilt_connectors":"1500+ integrations","custom_http_connector":true,"builder_ui_architecture":"visual_node_canvas","environments_versioning":true,"custom_http_webhook_catch_and_triggering":true,"native_llm_nodes_anthropic_openai_gemini":true,"on_premise_self_hosted_deployment_option":true,"bring_your_own_key_byok_for_llm_inference":true,"sub_workflow_calling_and_reusable_templates":true,"human_in_the_loop_approval_steps_via_slack_email":true}` | `{"iso_27001":true,"soc2_type_ii":true,"pricing_model":"freemium_with_task_credits","builder_ui_architecture":"visual_node_canvas","native_llm_nodes_anthropic_openai_gemini":true,"on_premise_self_hosted_deployment_option":true,"web_scraping_and_browser_automation_nodes":true,"sub_workflow_calling_and_reusable_templates":true,"human_in_the_loop_approval_steps_via_slack_email":true,"dynamic_conditional_routing_via_llm_classification":true,"unstructured_document_extraction_pdf_image_to_json":true}` |
| integrations.count | 2,312 | 300 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Salesforce"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"HubSpot"},{"name":"Stripe"},{"name":"Typeform"},{"name":"Mautic"},{"name":"Airtable"},{"name":"Asana"},{"name":"ServiceNow"},{"name":"Zoom"},{"name":"Elevenlabs"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Anthropic"},{"name":"Google"},{"name":"ClearBit"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"WhatsApp"},{"name":"Webhook"},{"name":"Custom HTTP API"},{"name":"AWS Secrets Manager"},{"name":"Azure Key Vault"},{"name":"Google Cloud Platform"},{"name":"HashiCorp Vault"},{"name":"Infisical"},{"name":"ChatGPT"},{"name":"Claude"},{"name":"LangChain"},{"name":"Xero"},{"name":"QuickBooks"},{"name":"MongoDB","native":true,"category":"database"},{"name":"GraphQL","native":true,"category":"api"},{"name":"Nextcloud","native":true,"category":"file_storage"},{"name":"Google Cloud Firestore","native":true,"category":"database"},{"name":"Strapi","native":true,"category":"cms"},{"name":"Claris FileMaker","native":true,"category":"database"},{"name":"Box","native":true,"category":"file_storage"},{"name":"KoBo Toolbox","native":true,"category":"forms"},{"name":"Google Gemini","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Telegram","native":true,"category":"messaging","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"MySQL","native":true,"category":"database","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Webhooks","native":true,"category":"integrations","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"ClickUp","native":true,"category":"project_management","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Twilio","native":true,"category":"communications","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Pipedrive","native":true,"category":"crm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"1Password","native":true,"category":"secrets","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"GCP Secrets Manager","native":true,"category":"secrets","direction":"inbound"}]` | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Email"},{"name":"Google Drive"},{"name":"Notion"},{"name":"Salesforce"},{"name":"Asana"},{"name":"SharePoint"},{"name":"Chrome Extension"},{"name":"REST API"},{"name":"Deepgram","native":true,"category":"voice"},{"name":"Stable Diffusion","native":true,"category":"image"},{"name":"Groq","native":true,"category":"ai_inference"},{"name":"Anthropic","native":true,"category":"ai_models"},{"name":"Airtable","category":"database"},{"name":"Atlassian Jira","category":"project_management"},{"name":"AWS RDS","category":"database"},{"name":"AWS S3","category":"file_management"},{"name":"Snowflake","category":"database"},{"name":"OpenAI","category":"ai_models"},{"name":"Google Gemini","category":"ai_models"},{"name":"AWS Bedrock","category":"ai_models"},{"name":"Ahrefs","category":"analytics"},{"name":"Abstract API","category":"data_enrichment"},{"name":"15Five","category":"hr"},{"name":"Apollo","category":"crm"},{"name":"Ashby","category":"hr"},{"name":"AWS Athena","category":"analytics"},{"name":"Amazon Neptune","category":"database"}]` |
| language.primary | TypeScript | - |
| license.spdx | SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE.md | - |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"DE","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Starter","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"assistant_credits":"1,600/mo"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"assistant_credits":"4,000-9,600/mo depending on size"}},{"free":false,"name":"Business","summary":"Overages: 4,000 EUR per 300,000 executions","commitment":"monthly|annual","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"execution_bucket_overage"},"kind":"metered","amount":4000,"currency":"EUR"}],"description":"Self-hosted only, currently self-serve","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"execution_bucket":"300,000 executions"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","features":["Dedicated support with SLAs"],"description":"For large-scale deployments with dedicated support","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"Assistant Credits"}],"summary":"Free Community version. Cloud plans start with Starter; self-hosted Business plan available. Execution-based pricing model.","currency":"EUR","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://n8n.io/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-10-05T11:04:13.779Z","freeTrialDays":14,"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free plan with 500 runs/month, 2 projects, 1 team member","features":["500 runs per month","2 Projects","1 Seat","Community support on Discord","Agents","Inputs (Text, Image, Audio, Video)","Outputs (Logic, JavaScript)","Data Loaders (Web Scraping, File Upload, Google Drive, Notion)","Plugins (Browser Extension, Chrome Extension, REST API, Slack Bot)","Knowledge Bases (Document Upload, Document Readers for PDF, Word, PowerPoint)","Custom Domain","API Access","Analytics","Community Support"],"minSeats":1,"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"projects":"2","team_members":"1","runs_per_month":"500"}},{"free":false,"name":"Custom","summary":"Enterprise plan with dedicated infrastructure and support","features":["Custom number of runs","Unlimited projects","Custom number of seats","All features and data loaders","Dedicated infrastructure","Dedicated solution engineers","On-prem deployment","Virtual Private Cloud deployment","Access control","SSO (Single Sign-On)","SOC 2, HIPAA & GDPR compliance"],"description":"For teams who want a custom experience with advanced security and support","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"runs":"Custom","seats":"Custom","projects":"Unlimited"}}],"summary":"Free plan at $0/month with 500 runs per month; custom enterprise pricing available","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.stackai.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-09-10T09:16:33.718Z","billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | no |
| pricing.model | freemium | quote |
| pricing.price_level | low | unknown |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":20,"currency":"EUR"}` | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/releases/tag/stable","date":"2026-10-05T07:26:37Z","type":"stable","version":"stable"},{"url":"https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/releases/tag/n8n%402.41.7","date":"2026-10-05T07:26:35Z","type":"stable","version":"n8n@2.41.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/releases/tag/n8n%402.42.3","date":"2026-10-05T07:23:15Z","type":"prerelease","version":"n8n@2.42.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/releases/tag/beta","date":"2026-10-05T07:23:17Z","type":"prerelease","version":"beta"},{"url":"https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/releases/tag/n8n%402.41.6","date":"2026-10-02T07:27:37Z","type":"stable","version":"n8n@2.41.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/releases/tag/n8n%402.41.5","date":"2026-10-01T08:05:09Z","type":"stable","version":"n8n@2.41.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/releases/tag/n8n%402.42.2","date":"2026-10-01T08:08:01Z","type":"prerelease","version":"n8n@2.42.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/releases/tag/n8n%402.41.4","date":"2026-09-30T06:04:38Z","type":"stable","version":"n8n@2.41.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/releases/tag/n8n%401.123.83","date":"2026-09-30T06:13:31Z","type":"stable","version":"n8n@1.123.83"},{"url":"https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/releases/tag/n8n%402.42.1","date":"2026-09-30T05:56:25Z","type":"prerelease","version":"n8n@2.42.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/releases/tag/n8n%402.42.0","date":"2026-09-29T07:22:50Z","type":"prerelease","version":"n8n@2.42.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/releases/tag/n8n%402.41.3","date":"2026-09-25T07:28:46Z","type":"stable","version":"n8n@2.41.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/releases/tag/n8n%402.40.7","date":"2026-09-25T07:51:22Z","type":"stable","version":"n8n@2.40.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/releases/tag/n8n%401.123.82","date":"2026-09-25T07:49:29Z","type":"stable","version":"n8n@1.123.82"},{"url":"https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/releases/tag/n8n%402.40.6","date":"2026-09-24T07:31:49Z","type":"stable","version":"n8n@2.40.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/releases/tag/n8n%402.41.2","date":"2026-09-24T07:28:30Z","type":"prerelease","version":"n8n@2.41.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/releases/tag/n8n%402.41.1","date":"2026-09-23T09:58:17Z","type":"prerelease","version":"n8n@2.41.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/releases/tag/n8n%402.41.0","date":"2026-09-22T07:32:21Z","type":"prerelease","version":"n8n@2.41.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/releases/tag/n8n%402.40.5","date":"2026-09-21T14:03:50Z","type":"stable","version":"n8n@2.40.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/releases/tag/n8n%402.39.9","date":"2026-09-21T07:41:33Z","type":"stable","version":"n8n@2.39.9"}]` | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"SOC 2","status":"active"}]` | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO 27001","status":"active"},{"name":"GDPR","status":"active"},{"name":"HIPAA","status":"active"}]` |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | 6.7 | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://n8n.io/legal/security/ | https://www.stackai.com/solutions/risk-compliance |

## Capabilities (AI Workflow Automation)

| Capability | n8n | Stack AI |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Builder UI architecture | Visual node canvas | Visual node canvas |
| Native LLM nodes anthropic openai gemini | ✓ | ✓ |
| Human in the loop approval steps via slack email | ✓ | ✓ |
| Unstructured document extraction PDF image to json | - | ✓ |
| Dynamic conditional routing via LLM classification | - | ✓ |
| Web scraping and browser automation nodes | - | ✓ |
| Bring your own key byok for LLM inference | ✓ | - |
| Custom HTTP webhook catch and triggering | ✓ | - |
| Sub workflow calling and reusable templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| On premise self hosted deployment option | ✓ | ✓ |
| SOC2 type ii | ✓ | ✓ |
| ISO 27001 | - | ✓ |
| Pricing model | Freemium with task credits | Freemium with task credits |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T20:04:00.793Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*