Product / UX / Orchestration & agents

n8n

Fair-code workflow automation platform with native AI/agent capabilities. It pairs a visual node-based canvas with drop-in JavaScript/Python code, 400+ integrations, and LangChain-based nodes for building LLM agents and AI workflows. It is a general automation/iPaaS platform first, with AI as a native layer, and is self-hostable.

Sustainable Use License (fair-code, NOT OSI: internal-business-use only, no resale/hosting-as-a-service) + n8n Enterprise License; GitHub reports NOASSERTION. ~193k stars, ~316k npm downloads/month. n8n Cloud + Enterprise are the commercial tiers.

Openness

2 high confidence

2.0

license: Sustainable-Use-License(fair-code,non-OSI: internal-use-only,no-resale/SaaS)+n8n-Enterprise-License
source: public
commercial: n8n-Cloud/Enterprise

Source-available fair-code, not OSI open source: the license restricts commercial/hosted use.

https://docs.n8n.io/sustainable-use-license/ recorded 2026-06-18
Sustainable Use License: fair-code, non-OSI, use restrictions

Adoption

5 high confidence

5.0

~193k stars (one of the most-starred repos) and ~316k npm downloads/month.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/n8n recorded 2026-06-18
npm n8n, ~316k downloads/month

Capability

4 medium confidence

4.0

Broad automation/iPaaS scope with AI as one native layer; wider but shallower on pure agent depth than the dedicated frameworks.

https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n recorded 2026-06-18
feature set: 400+ integrations, AI/agent nodes, code nodes

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