Pick Inngest if
teams who will stay on Free $0 (50k executions, no card) while they wrap a first agent, then buy Pro at $99/month when they need 1M executions and 7-day traces.
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Our take
Pick Inngest if teams who will stay on Free $0 (50k executions, no card) while they wrap a first agent, then buy Pro at $99/month when they need 1M executions and 7-day traces. 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 / data residency. Skip n8n if someone who only wants a chat window, or a
Inngest
durable event runtime for functions and
Best for
Inngest Event-driven durable functions you start at $0
n8n Wiring tools together
Free plan
Inngest $0 · /month. No card. 5 seats. 50k executions/mo. 5 concurrent steps. 3 workers. 500k events. 100k queue depth. 50 realtime connections. 256 KiB event size. 500 MB span data. 10K scores. 24-hour traces. When the free quota is gone, execution pauses until you upgrade
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
Inngest Sandbox compute $0.000011
n8n Cloud Starter €20/mo yearly
Next step up
Inngest Pro execution overage $0.000050
n8n Cloud Pro €50/mo yearly
Coding agent
Inngest Agent Evals
n8n AI agents on the canvas
Runs where
Inngest
n8n Local; you host it
Watch out
Inngest Free pauses when 50k executions are gone
n8n You operate the graph
Last checked
Inngest 2026-10-22 · inngest.com/pricing
n8n 2026-10-19 · n8n.io/pricing
Which one, then?
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 / data residency.
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