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CrewAI vs n8n

CrewAI or n8n? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.

In short

  • Both: Runs commands, Command line, Choice of models, Self-hosted, API, Builds agents and workflows, Traces and evaluates
  • Only CrewAI states: Reviews pull requests
  • Only n8n states: Search over your data

CrewAI

CrewAI helps teams build, run, and govern multi-agent workflows through visual tools, code, integrations, and enterprise controls.

Plans

Basic

Free

  • Visual editor and AI copilot
  • GitHub integration
  • 50 workflow executions/month

Enterprise

Price on request

  • Everything in Free
  • SSO, RBAC, workload identity, PII redaction, and policies
  • Deploy on CrewAI cloud, your own VPC, or your own infrastructure
  • 45-day onboarding
  • Forward deployed engineering and training, available a la carte

Prices checked 2026-09-24 on the maker’s page.

Capabilities

  • Runs commands — “The same tool for building locally, testing in staging, and deploying to production.” source
  • Reviews pull requests — “reviewing code” source
  • Command line — “Unified CLI” source
  • Choice of models — “Multi-LLM testing for model swapping at runtime, find the right model for every workflow” source
  • Self-hosted — “Deploy on CrewAI cloud, your own VPC, or your own infrastructure” source
  • API — “Code-first API built for total control” source
  • Builds agents and workflows — “Build complex operational agents that automate long horizon work using simple prompt and canvas style builder, intelligently guided by 700k agent workflow patterns.” source
  • Traces and evaluates — “Real-time tracing of every LLM call, tool call, and memory read is observable with full cost accounting” source

Security

  • SOC 2 Type II — “We maintain a SOC 2 Type 2 certified security program with comprehensive controls across our infrastructure, endpoints, and identity management.” source
  • SOC 2 — “We maintain a SOC 2 Type 2 certified security program with comprehensive controls across our infrastructure, endpoints, and identity management.” source

Latest updates

  • 1.15.22 (1.15.22)

    Added connection aliases, deployment failure reasons, tracing feedback and pause events, platform tools/catalog support, and OpenRouter embeddings.

  • 1.15.21 (1.15.21)

    Added telemetry for checkpoint runtime and CLI usage.

  • 1.15.19 (1.15.19)

    Added Clipper integrations, a CEL now() function, run outcome reporting, and an injectable CrewAI Platform tools client.

About CrewAI

n8n

n8n connects apps, APIs, data, and AI models in visual workflows that technical teams can inspect, customize, and run.

Plans

Starter

  • $20/mo, billed annually
  • 1 shared project
  • 5 concurrent executions
  • Unlimited users
  • 2,300 AI credits/month
  • Forum support

Pro

  • $50/mo, billed annually
  • 3 shared projects
  • 20 concurrent executions
  • 7 days of insights
  • Up to 13,700 AI credits/month
  • Admin roles
  • Global variables

Business

  • $800/mo, billed annually
  • 6 shared projects
  • SSO, SAML and LDAP
  • 30 days of insights
  • AI Assistant (preview)
  • Different environments
  • Version control using Git

Enterprise

Price on request

  • Unlimited shared projects
  • 200+ concurrent executions
  • 365 days of insights
  • External secret store integration
  • Log streaming
  • Extended data retention

Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.

Capabilities

  • Runs commands — “Run bash scripts” source
  • Command line — “Control n8n via CLI” source
  • Choice of models — “You pick the model, and you bound what it is allowed to touch before it runs.” source
  • Self-hosted — “Go fully on-premise with Docker or K8s in minutes.” source
  • API — “Control n8n via API” source
  • Builds agents and workflows — “Put an agent inside a workflow, or let it run on its own.” source
  • Search over your data — “Handle multi-agent setups and RAG systems.” source
  • Traces and evaluates — “Every step of your agents' reasoning, traceable on the canvas.” source

Security

  • SOC 2 — “Our SOC 2 report is available to enterprise customers.” source
  • GDPR — “For more details about privacy, security and how we comply with GDPR at n8n, please visit our docs .” source
  • Data kept in the EU — “The physical hardware powering n8n, and the data stored by the platform, is currently hosted in the European Union.” source

Latest updates

  • stable (2.40.6)
  • n8n@2.41.2 (2.41.2)

    Instance reports are authenticated with the license certificate.

  • n8n@2.40.6 (2.40.6)

    Instance reports are authenticated with the license certificate.

About n8n