Automation

n8n Cloud starts at €20/mo. A VPS starts at $4. But the VPS isn’t the whole bill. Here’s the honest 12-month cost of both, including the parts nobody puts in the comparison table.

n8n 2.0 turned on task runners, disabled the Execute Command node, blocked env vars in the Code node, and deprecated WEBHOOK_URL. Here is what actually breaks on a self-hosted instance and the exact variable that fixes each one.