Why teams choose n8n for automation
n8n is a node-based workflow engine that you can host yourself. It offers hundreds of ready integrations, an HTTP node for anything else, and code nodes in JavaScript or Python when a visual step is not enough. Self-hosting keeps customer data inside your network, which matters for finance, health and legal work. Many teams start with one painful process, prove it, and then expand with the same patterns.
Compared with Zapier or Make, n8n suits complex branching, loops and custom logic, and pricing does not scale per task in the same way when self-hosted. The trade-off is that you own uptime and upgrades, so we set up the operations side as carefully as the workflows themselves. Version upgrades, community nodes and credential rotation all need a routine, which is why we include an operations plan.