n8n Cloud at €960/month gives you convenience. It also gives you vendor lock-in, shared infrastructure, and a pricing model that will keep climbing. The same workload runs for €650/month on a dedicated instance — with full data control and no lock-in.
n8n's Cloud offering has been repriced multiple times over the past two years. The current Enterprise tier — the one you need for production workloads with proper execution limits, SSO, and audit logs — sits at €960/month. That's not the entry tier. That's what growing teams actually pay when they've moved past the free plan and hit real usage.
For context: that's €11,520 per year for a workflow automation tool that you don't own, can't modify at the infrastructure level, and can't export cleanly if you ever want to leave. The data lives on n8n's servers. The execution logs live on n8n's servers. Your entire automation stack depends on one vendor's uptime, pricing decisions, and roadmap.
That's the lock-in risk. And it compounds over time as you build more workflows and become harder to migrate.
| Dimension | n8n Cloud (Enterprise) | Agentic Movers Managed Self-Hosted |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | €960/month | €650/month |
| Annual cost | €11,520/year | €7,800/year |
| Infrastructure | Shared cloud (n8n's servers) | Your own dedicated server |
| Data sovereignty | Data on n8n's infrastructure | On-premise / your chosen region |
| Vendor lock-in | High — migration is painful | None — you own the instance |
| Update control | Automatic rollouts | Controlled, tested updates |
| Workflows & executions | Tier-limited | Unlimited |
| Support | Standard (ticket-based) | Dedicated — direct line to us |
| Custom integrations | Limited by cloud sandbox | Full access — install any npm package |
| Pricing trajectory | Two price increases in 24 months | Fixed monthly rate |
Every execution log, every credential, every workflow definition lives on infrastructure you control. For teams handling client data, financial records, or anything GDPR-sensitive, this isn't optional — it's a compliance requirement. n8n Cloud processes your data on their servers. Self-hosted means your data never leaves your environment.
n8n Cloud pushes updates automatically. That's fine until a new version breaks a custom node or changes a behavior your critical workflow depends on. With a managed self-hosted instance, every update is reviewed and tested before it touches your production workflows. We stage updates, verify compatibility, and roll back if anything breaks. No 2am incidents from a vendor decision you didn't make.
If you're on n8n Cloud and decide to move, you're exporting JSON workflow definitions and hoping everything re-imports cleanly. Your execution history stays with n8n. Your credentials need to be re-entered. The operational muscle memory of your team is built around a platform you don't own. With a self-hosted instance, your n8n is just a process on a server you control. Export, clone, migrate — it's all yours.
Self-hosted n8n isn't hard to set up — but it is work to maintain. Updates, backups, monitoring, SSL renewals, crash recovery, queue management when executions pile up — that's the operational overhead that most teams underestimate when they decide to "just self-host it."
Managed self-hosted means you get the control and cost benefits of self-hosting without the ops burden. We handle the infrastructure: server provisioning, n8n installation and hardening, automated backups, monitoring with alerting, and version management. You log in, build workflows, and we keep the engine running.
It's the same n8n you'd self-host — with a team watching it 24/7 so you don't have to.
Teams running n8n in production with real workflows — lead capture, invoice processing, CRM sync, client onboarding, internal tooling. If n8n is mission-critical infrastructure for your business, paying €960/month to a vendor for it when you could pay €650 for a dedicated instance you own is a decision worth revisiting.
Your own n8n instance. Unlimited workflows and executions. Dedicated support. €310/month cheaper than n8n Cloud. Monthly billing — cancel anytime.
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