Automation Tool Costs: n8n, Make and Zapier, Priced

n8n Cloud vs Self-Hosted: A 12-Month Cost Model (2026)

13 October 202629 August 2026 by StackValue Editorial

Bar chart of the 12-month cash cost of n8n at about 5,000 executions a month: n8n Cloud Pro at €600, about $671, against self-hosting on a $12 a month droplet at about $245, roughly $426 apart before counting an assumed 24 to 48 hours a year of operating time

Compare n8n Cloud and self-hosted costs over 12 months, including VPS prices, backups, maintenance time and the current Cloud versus Business plan structure.

Upgrading Self-Hosted n8n to 2.x: Every Breaking Change

13 October 202629 August 2026 by StackValue Editorial

StackValue chart: n8n-2x-upgrade-breaking-changes

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.