New pricing plan for agencies

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Hi n8n team & community,

I’d like to propose a dedicated Agency pricing & feature tier that sits between Community Edition and Enterprise.

Many agencies want to build and manage automations for multiple clients using n8n — but today there’s no plan that really fits how agencies work in practice.

The problem

Agencies usually:

  • start small (2–10 people)

  • work inside client accounts

  • need to copy, duplicate, move and share workflows

  • collaborate internally as soon as more than one team member exists

  • sometimes hand over workflows to clients later

  • want light branding control when running n8n for clients

Today:

  • Community Edition is not an option (license + feature limitations)

  • the next meaningful step is Business / Enterprise, which is often far beyond what agencies need at an early stage

This creates a gap for a very common and valuable user group.

Proposed solution: Self-Hosted Agency Plan

A possible model could look like this:

  • One self-hosted master instance (Agency account)

  • Agency team members managed via RBAC

  • Ability to create client workspaces (child instances)

  • Agency has partner access to client workspaces without constantly switching accounts

  • Client workflows live in the client workspace but remain visible/editable for the agency

  • Clients can log in and invite their own users (optional — many never will)

  • Agency handles billing for clients and invoices them directly

  • Light branding options:

    • custom domain

    • logo

    • basic UI colors (e.g. CTA)

    • consistent webhook URLs

Pricing idea:

  • base fee for the agency instance

  • additional fee per client workspace

Why this is good for n8n

This is not about free usage or bypassing licenses.

Instead:

  • agencies can start lean and grow

  • n8n earns more as agencies add clients

  • stronger long-term platform lock-in (agency + customers)

  • clean separation from Enterprise (no SAML, no heavy compliance, no large-corp SLAs)

  • healthier alternative to Community Edition misuse

It’s a win-win growth model.

What this proposal is NOT

  • not full white-label resale

  • not free infrastructure

  • not competing with n8n Cloud

  • not replacing Enterprise

It’s simply a missing middle layer for a very real buyer persona.

Curious to hear what the team and other agencies think.
Happy to elaborate or help refine this further.

Thanks for building such a great product.