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N8n

Build with the precision of code or the speed of drag-n-drop. Host with on-prem control or in-the-cloud convenience. n8n gives you more freedom to implement multi-step AI agents and integrate apps than any other tool.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles N8n the way a machine reads it — 43 machine-readable artifacts across 15 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — N8n scores 57.5/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 60/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 57.5/100 · developing
Contract Quality 12.6 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 10.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 18.4 / 20
Operational Transparency 8.2 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.5 / 10
Agent readiness — 60/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile N8n

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for N8n. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 15

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

N8n

Build with the precision of code or the speed of drag-n-drop. Host with on-prem control or in-the-cloud convenience. n8n gives you more freedom to implement multi-step AI agents...

N8n Audit API

Operations about security audit

N8n CommunityPackage API

Operations about community packages

N8n Credential API

Operations about credentials

N8n DataTable API

Operations about data tables and their rows

N8n Discover API

API capability discovery

N8n Execution API

Operations about executions

N8n Folders API

Operations about folders

N8n Insights API

Operations about insights

N8n Projects API

Operations about projects

N8n SourceControl API

Operations about source control

N8n Tags API

Operations about tags

N8n User API

Operations about users

N8n Variables API

Operations about variables

N8n Workflow API

Operations about workflows

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Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

n8n Public API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

MCP Server

MCP SERVER

GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

n8n GraphQL Schema

n8n does not currently expose a public GraphQL API. The primary programmatic interface is a REST API documented at [https://docs.n8n.io/api/api-reference/](https://docs.n8n.io/a...

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

N8N Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

N8N Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

N8N Finops

FINOPS

Features 16

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Starter €20/mo: 2,500 executions, unlimited users, 1 project
Pro €50/mo: 10K executions, 3 projects, admin roles, 7-day insights
Business €667/mo: 40K executions, SSO/SAML/LDAP, git, self-hosted
Enterprise custom: unlimited projects, 200+ concurrent, 365-day insights
REST API: 60 req/min/workspace
Webhook trigger and concurrent execution scale with tier
1,200+ pre-built integrations
Visual node-based workflow editor
Code nodes (JavaScript, Python via Pyodide)
AI Workflow Builder for natural-language workflow creation
AI Agent nodes (LangChain integration)
Self-hosted Community Edition (free)
Self-hosted Enterprise Edition (paid Business+)
Webhooks (in/out), schedule triggers, manual triggers
Multi-environment (dev/stage/prod) on Business+
Git-based version control on Business+

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JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

N8N Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

N8N Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

N8N Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

N8N Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

N8N Trust Center

SOC 2, GDPR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

N8N Agentic Access

73 operations · 50 acting · 3 human-in-the-loop

73 operations · 50 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for N8n — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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