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n8n - Workflow Automation

@n8n-io

Free and open fair-code licensed node based Workflow Automation Tool.

51Ecosystem scoreWeak

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n8n - Workflow Automation Overview & Summary

Rank #230 · 49/100

n8n - Workflow Automation ranks 230th overall in the SaaS category with a composite score of 49 out of 100. The organization describes itself as Free and open fair-code licensed node based Workflow Automation Tool, which frames how developers first encounter the brand on GitHub, in package registries and in search results.

Its documentation and learning material and AI and agent readiness come across as solid, and are what most developers will notice first when they land on the organization. By contrast, its developer experience and developer reach look minimal today, which is the clearest area where a small amount of focused work would visibly move the needle. Taken together, the picture is of a company whose public developer surface is neither uniformly polished nor uniformly weak, and where different audiences (contributors, integrators, evaluators) will likely form very different first impressions depending on which door they walk through.

n8n - Workflow Automation maintains 45 public repositories on GitHub, built primarily in TypeScript, Go Template and Shell, which together have collected 222,092 stars and drawn contributions from 166 developers outside the core team, 14 of those repositories have seen commits in the last 90 days, a useful proxy for how much of the codebase is genuinely alive rather than archived.

For anyone evaluating n8n - Workflow Automation as a technology choice, weighing a contribution, integrating the APIs, or comparing it against similar companies in the space, the sections below break down each of these signals in detail and link straight through to the underlying repositories, documentation and community threads that inform the score.

At a glance

Public repos
45
Total stars
222,092
Active (90d)
14
Outside contributors
166
Foundation
What the company ships
41Weak
Traction
How the ecosystem responds
61Mixed
Foundation
Traction

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