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n8n alternatives for agencies: the honest list

Figures checked 30 August 2026 · we build Tenvik, so check them yourself

If you're running n8n workflows for more than one client, the question isn't whether n8n is good — it's what sits around it: isolation between clients, a credential vault, white-label branding, client billing, and a way to push a fix to every instance without redoing it eight times. n8n itself doesn't ship any of that. Everything on this list is really a different answer to what wraps around n8n (or replaces it) for a multi-client operation.

We build Tenvik, which is on this list, so read our row with that in mind. We've tried to describe every option — including the ones we don't sell — the way an operator evaluating them would, not the way a vendor would.

Option
Price
Best for
n8n (self-hosted)
No isolation, billing, vault or white-label out of the box — and reselling hosted access is a licensing question. Check current terms.
Free for internal use; commercial/embed licensing negotiated separately (Business reported around €667/mo)
Teams that want the raw engine and will build the agency layer themselves
Activepieces
The affordable tier separates clients but strips branding.
Free / $16 Plus · $166 Team (isolation, no white-label) · $36,000/yr Embed (white-label)
Shops wanting per-client isolation without branding, or able to fund an embed contract
TaskJuice
Metered on usage, not client count — a heavy month can cross a tier without your roster changing.
$79 / $199 / $399, metered by compute-hours (3/20/100)
Agencies wanting billing, white-label and isolation bundled at the lowest sticker price
Make / Zapier
Not built for reselling under your own brand — no native multi-tenant isolation or white-label.
Metered on tasks or operations; cost scales with execution volume
Solo builders, or clients who specifically want those names in their stack
DIY (compose stack per client)
Vault, billing, white-label, monitoring and cross-client fixes are all things you build.
n8n free; cost is a VPS per client plus your own time
Technical operators at low client counts
Tenvik
We built this. Template propagation ships from tier one.
$39 Solo (3 docks) · $99 Studio (10) · $249 Agency (30). Unlimited executions
Agencies running real n8n per client who want the layer bundled and priced by client count

Prices were checked against each vendor's live pricing page in late August 2026 and change often — verify before quoting a client. Tenvik pricing is current as of this page's update date.

What n8n does well

  • ·n8n is the actual engine underneath most of this category — the largest node library and broadest integration surface here
  • ·Free to self-host for internal or single-tenant use, with no per-execution meter
  • ·The largest community of the options surveyed, which means abundant public workflows and answers

When you should pick n8n

  • You're automating for your own business, not reselling access — the licensing and isolation questions mostly don't apply
  • You have one or two clients and are fine hand-rolling backups, isolation and OAuth handling yourself
  • You need a specific node that only exists in the raw n8n ecosystem and will build the agency layer around it

When Tenvik is the better fit

  • ·You're past three clients and keep making the same fix on every instance by hand
  • ·You want billing, vault and white-label bundled instead of assembled from separate tools
  • ·You'd rather pay for client count than watch a usage meter you can't predict

Questions people ask

Is n8n actually free to run for clients?

Self-hosting is free for internal, single-tenant use. Reselling hosted access to others is a licensing question, not an infrastructure one — n8n's terms distinguish running it for yourself from running it as a service for paying clients, and those terms have changed before.

Why does Activepieces jump from $166 to thousands for white-label?

Team ($166/mo) gives isolated projects per client but no branding. White-label sits in Ultimate (custom) or Embed ($36,000/yr minimum) — budget for that jump if branding is a requirement.

Metered pricing or flat client-count pricing?

Metered tools charge for what runs, so a quiet client costs less and a busy one costs more — good if usage is genuinely uneven, hard to quote a fixed number against. Client-count pricing charges for who you serve, which forecasts cleanly but doesn't reward light usage.

Other comparisons

Field notes on this

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