I’m building a workflow on the n8n cloud-hosted version where: CSV files are fetched from FTP Parsed and normalized Business rules are applied (including mapping, cleaning, merging) A final combined CSV is generated The problem is that processing is extremely slow. For around 20MB of CSVs (~20k–3…

Any suggestion to improve the workflow?

In which terms? Execution time?

Slow Workflow Execution on n8n Cloud — FTP CSV Parsing & Merging Taking Over 100 Minutes

Gallo_AIA June 3, 2025, 2:57pm 2

Hello @Dev_Learn,
welcome here!

I suppose there’s some issue on platform cause you are the third person raising the same/similar problem:

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