n8n vs Zapier

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Category	Automation & agents	Automation & agents
Pricing	Freemium	Freemium
Starting price		USD 19/mo
Free tier
Audience	Technical	All audiences
API available
Open source
Self-hostable
Model provider		OpenAI
Founded	2019	2011
Headquarters	Berlin, Germany	Sunnyvale, US
Key strengths	·Self-hostable with full source code access on GitHub ·500+ integrations with pre-built nodes and custom API support ·Hybrid low-code/code environment supporting JavaScript and Python ·AI agent orchestration with multi-agent and RAG support	·7,000+ app integrations ·AI Zap builder ·Tables (database) ·Interfaces (no-code UI)