Host n8n without installing anything
Connect your tools without writing a service: nodes, a trigger, and a workflow running on your own machine.
Starting at €8.99/month
Introduction
n8n installed, updated and backed up by us, on a machine in France. You install nothing and configure no server: the application is online a few minutes after you order, under your own name.
The plan that suits it is App Confort at €8.99/month incl. VAT — 4 GB of memory. The reason is specific: n8n passes data from one node to the next in memory. A workflow pulling ten thousand rows from an API, or handling a PDF of several dozen megabytes, holds that whole volume in memory while it runs. 1.5 GB is enough for everyday workflows; the 4 GB are what prevent the failure on the day the batch is bigger than usual.
What you gain by hosting it, compared with Zapier or Make, comes down to two points. The first is the bill: it is the server's, not the number of tasks executed — a workflow running every five minutes costs no more than a monthly one. The second is where the data travels: the client file, the attachment and the API key of your invoicing software never cross a third party's platform.
What n8n does
A workflow is drawn, not written
Nodes joined by wires: each one receives the previous one's data and transforms it. Conditions, loops and merges are nodes like any other, which makes the flow readable at a glance.
Three ways to start
At a set time, like a scheduled task; on an incoming call, each workflow getting its own webhook address; or by polling a service that offers neither, checked at a regular interval.
Whatever has no integration is still reachable
The HTTP request node speaks to any API, and the code node runs JavaScript or Python in the middle of the workflow. No service is out of reach because a box is missing from a catalogue.
The log shows what actually happened
Every run is kept with the data present at each step. When a workflow fails, you see where and why, fix it, and replay from the failing step rather than from the beginning.
Who uses it, and what for
A shop that stops retyping its orders
New order, invoice created in the accounting software, a row added to the tracking sheet, a message in the team channel: four gestures that disappear.
A practice processing its forms
The contact form triggers the creation of the file, sends the acknowledgement and raises a reminder after seven days if nobody has replied.
A technical team and its triggers
The code repository calls a webhook on every tag; the workflow notifies the chat channel, updates the tracker and starts the deployment.
A charity signing up its members
The payment received adds the person to the database, subscribes them to the newsletter and sends the membership card — without a volunteer spending an evening copying and pasting.
A freelance who wants a morning digest
New items from their sources, unpaid invoices and the day's appointments gathered into a single message, sent at seven.
Hosted in France
In our own infrastructure in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, which we operate ourselves. An automation tool holds the keys to all the others: better that it lives with you.
Frequently asked questions
Two things, and they weigh heavily. Billing first: those platforms count executed tasks, which pushes you to space workflows out; here the cost is the server's, and a workflow running every five minutes costs no more than a monthly one. The path of the data second: your files, your attachments and the API keys of your other software stay on the machine you rent instead of passing through an intermediary.
Not for an everyday workflow: joining a trigger, a filter and two actions is done with the mouse, and each node shows the data it receives. But as soon as an API answers with an awkward structure, a little JavaScript in the code node saves an hour. That is the honest limit: n8n is very approachable, but it addresses someone who is not afraid of looking at JSON.
Yes, and that is the most frequent use. A webhook-triggered workflow gets its own address, distinct in test and in production, on your own domain name. A form, a payment gateway, a code repository or a signing service can therefore call your instance and start a process, without you having to build and maintain a service for it.
App Confort, at €8.99/month incl. VAT. It provides 4 GB of memory where the application asks for 1.5 GB at minimum: the headroom serves the system, not the decor. You can change plan later without reinstalling.
Yes, they are part of the service. A self-hosted application left un-updated is a security risk, not a saving.