Selling n8n workflow for calls

Questions
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Is this true?
It’s all nice and shiny, until you realize that selling n8n workflows to businesses while hosting it needs the “embed” license, which starts at $50k per year. Noone ever mention this in their videos.

Hostinger you can run a VPS to host workflows but wtf is buying a $50K license so you can make Ai voice agents for business? if tru then talking about pricing yourself out of the market quickly. Am hoping it’s not and there’s a plan? not sure how many calls a business would get a day on average, depends on size etc…. Guess you could scale it up? I see the prices for 500K executions per month, which is around 50K euros per year. Love to hear your feedback/answers :slight_smile: Cheers, Simon.

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Yes, you’re on point. n8n’s standard Sustainable Use License allows free self-hosting only for internal, non-commercial use. n8n Pricing
If you try to embed n8n into a product or host workflows for paying customers (i.e. offer it as a service), you may need their “Embed” or “Enterprise / commercial” license. n8n Community pricing
Multiple community sources mention that this Embed / commercial license starts around $50,000/year.

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And curios how can they track that someone sold a workflow? :thinking:

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n8n does not publicly disclose how it monitors the use of workflows under the Embed license. However, it’s advisable to adhere to the licensing terms to avoid potential legal issues.

For more detailed information, you can refer to n8n’s official documentation and licensing pages:

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“ Our license restricts use to “internal business purposes”. In practice this means all use is allowed unless you are selling a product, service, or module in which the value derives entirely or substantially from n8n functionality. Here are some examples that wouldn’t be allowed:

  • White-labeling n8n and offering it to your customers for money.

  • Hosting n8n and charging people money to access it.

All of the following examples are allowed under our license:

  • Using n8n to sync the data you control as a company, for example from a CRM to an internal database.

  • Creating an n8n node for your product or any other integration between your product and n8n.

  • Providing consulting services related to n8n, for example building workflows, custom features closely connect to n8n, or code that gets executed by n8n.

  • Supporting n8n, for example by setting it up or maintaining it on an internal company server.“

Actually , you can “sell” workflows.

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Normally it is pretty easy if you follow these rules:

Use internally in one company with data from that company it is all free in selfhosted.

Allow external users to login to your n8n/interact with your n8n you need embedded license.

Use external credentials u need a commercial license which is normally OK to have business/enterprise license. So for example you have a flow that syncs data for a client or have an Agent that interacts with a client system/API you need this license.

If you build workflows and sell them for a client to host themselves you are fine with the community/free self hosted version.

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This together with the execution limit turns N8N in rapid prototyping tool …

Reg

J.