Our take
Pick Hoppscotch if app teams who will stay on Cloud Free $0 (personal workspace, REST / GraphQL / realtime, no card) while they send a first Echo request, then buy Business at $6 per user / month billed annually when they need shared collections and mocks. Pick n8n if technical ops, DevOps, and automation engineers who need to connect SaaS apps, internal APIs, and LLM tools — especially teams that want self-host /
Best for
Hoppscotch Requests you start at $0
n8n Wiring tools together
Free plan
Hoppscotch $0 · forever. REST, GraphQL, and realtime. Personal workspace. Collections and environments. Pre-request scripts and tests. Collection runner. Code snippets. Community support
n8n $0 · no license fee. You run Docker or npm. Choose n8n describes a free Registered Community email unlock (folders, debug in editor, custom execution data). SSO, Git, environments, and similar extras need a paid Business/Enterprise license key
Lowest paid
Hoppscotch Business $6/mo yearly
n8n Cloud Starter €20/mo yearly
Next step up
Hoppscotch
n8n Cloud Pro €50/mo yearly
Coding agent
Hoppscotch
n8n AI agents on the canvas
Runs where
Hoppscotch Local; you host it
n8n Local; you host it
Watch out
Hoppscotch Free is a personal workspace
n8n You operate the graph
Last checked
Hoppscotch 2026-10-22 · hoppscotch.com/pricing
n8n 2026-10-19 · n8n.io/pricing
app teams who will stay on Cloud Free $0 (personal workspace, REST / GraphQL / realtime, no card) while they send a first Echo request, then buy Business at $6 per user / month billed annually when they need shared collections and mocks.
Read the Hoppscotch pagetechnical ops, DevOps, and automation engineers who need to connect SaaS apps, internal APIs, and LLM tools — especially teams that want self-host / data residency.
Read the n8n page
