I’ve built an AI agent in n8n and it works well most of the time, but I’m running into occasional request timeout issues when using GPT-5. Looking for advice on how to prevent or handle these timeouts more reliably. Any guidance or best practices would be appreciated.
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It looks like he is using the n8n cloud version - on my self hosted community edition, i can change the timeout for the OpenAI Chat node, but it seems you cannot add that parameter in the cloud version.
P.S.: i just found that on my community edition, the OpenAI node has a default timeout of 60 Seconds, whereas the OpenRouter node has a default timeout of 360 Seconds - i don’t know if this is also the case for the cloud version, but maybe it could be a workaround to set up an OpenRouter Account and access ChatGPT via OpenRouter. Does anybody have any experience with this?
I use cloud and self host, but thats a very valuable find. You could theoretically setup a webhook server on the self host, process the data on the self host, and send it back to cloud and you could change the timeout on self host.
Yes, I am on a cloud version and how can i move to self hosted?
There a several providers that offer one-click installation of n8n on a virtual server, or you could install it on your own hardware using this guide by n8n:
You should be aware though, that you have to take care of updates and security issues yourself.