What is the current cheapest way to host n8n, and when was that price checked?
The lowest verified first-term price above zero, excluding usage-based plans and plans under review, is DigitalOcean Basic Droplet 512 MiB at $4/mo, checked Oct 17, 2026. Free options in this snapshot: Render Hobby at $0/mo (plus compute), checked Oct 16, 2026, and Oracle Cloud Always Free at $0/mo (free tier), checked Oct 16, 2026. The largest verified renewal jump is Hostinger KVM 4, $12.99/mo first term to $28.99/mo renewal (+123%), checked Oct 17, 2026.
That figure is the lowest verified fixed price in this snapshot. It is not a ranking of which host suits you. For which kind of hosting suits you, see best n8n hosting. The same rule on the live table is the cheapest way to host n8n.
7 US-dollar plans have a first-term price of $5/mo or less in this snapshot: Render Hobby at $0/mo (plus compute), Oracle Cloud Always Free at $0/mo, DigitalOcean Basic Droplet 512 MiB at $4/mo, OVHcloud VPS-1 (2027) at $4.54/mo (12-month upfront) · $5.35/mo no commitment, Railway Hobby at $5/mo (usage-based), Vultr Cloud Compute 1 GB (Regular) at $5/mo, and Linode (Akamai) Nanode 1GB at $5/mo. Prices in other currencies are not converted, so they are not in that set. See n8n hosting under $5.
All n8n hosting prices checked in October 2026
One row per plan. A dash means that field is not verified. Each price keeps the currency on the host's page.
All n8n hosting prices in this snapshot, one row per plan, with first-term price, renewal price, and the date that row was checked.
Note 1. OVHcloud VPS-1 (2027). n8n comes preinstalled on Debian 12. You manage the server after install; this is not managed n8n. Daily backup is included at no extra charge. Renewal price is not verified yet. A 6-month commitment option exists; its price is not listed here. The calculator uses the 12-month upfront price.
Note 2. netcup VPS Lite 1 G12.5s. Snapshots are included. That is not a daily backup. There is no official n8n preinstall, so you install n8n yourself. The listed price includes 19% VAT (about €4.92 ex-VAT). Minimum contract and billing period is 6 months. The price after that period is not verified here.
Note 3. Hostinger Managed n8n. Separate from the KVM one-click VPS plans. Managed deployment with automatic software updates and security, in an isolated Docker environment. Rolling out by region. Specs and backups are not verified, so they are not listed.
Sorted by first-term price, low to high. Unverified prices are last. Sorting compares the listed amounts and does not convert currencies. "—" means not yet verified. A long flag note is written in full under its row. A short flag stays in the Flags cell.
First-term vs renewal — what changes after the first term
Cite a dated n8n hosting price
DigitalOcean Basic Droplet 512 MiB costs $4/mo first term and renews at $4/mo, checked Oct 17, 2026 (n8nhosts, October 2026 snapshot).
What does each host charge for n8n hosting in October 2026, and what does it renew at?
Hostinger Managed n8n: $5.99/mo on a 24-month term · $7.99/mo on a 12-month term · $10.99/mo on a 1-month term first term, renews at $11.99/mo excl. taxes (checked Oct 17, 2026).
Hostinger KVM 1: $6.49/mo first term, renews at $11.99/mo for 24 mo (checked Oct 17, 2026).
Hostinger KVM 2: $8.99/mo first term, renews at $14.99/mo for 24 mo (checked Oct 17, 2026).
Hostinger KVM 4: $12.99/mo first term, renews at $28.99/mo for 24 mo (checked Oct 17, 2026).
Renewal price not yet verified
OVHcloud VPS-1 (2027): $4.54/mo (12-month upfront) · $5.35/mo no commitment first term, renewal price not yet verified (checked Oct 17, 2026).
Contabo Cloud VPS 4: $5.28/mo first term, renewal price not yet verified (checked Oct 16, 2026). Flag: parse failed.
netcup VPS Lite 1 G12.5s: €5.86/mo first term, renewal price not yet verified (checked Oct 17, 2026).
Hetzner Cloud (smallest): First-term price not verified, renewal price not yet verified (not checked yet).
Free and $0 options in this snapshot
Is there a free way to host n8n right now?
Yes. Render Hobby at $0/mo (plus compute), checked Oct 16, 2026, and Oracle Cloud Always Free at $0/mo (free tier), checked Oct 16, 2026.
Limits stated above come from each plan's billing text. See free n8n hosting.
What changed in October 2026
Which n8n hosting prices changed in October 2026?
This is the first month in the archive. There is no price history on this site before 2026-10-16, so there are no month-over-month changes to report yet.
· Price dataset first recorded
The comparison started with 16 plans. These are the first prices recorded on this site. The site has no earlier price history, so none of these figures are a change from a previous number.
Hostinger KVM 1: $6.49/mo. Renews at $11.99/mo.
Hostinger KVM 2: $8.99/mo. Renews at $14.99/mo.
Hostinger KVM 4: $12.99/mo. Renews at $28.99/mo.
n8n Cloud Starter (annual): $20/mo. Renews at $20/mo.
n8n Cloud Pro (annual): $50/mo. Renews at $50/mo.
Contabo Cloud VPS 4: $5.28/mo. Renewal not verified.
DigitalOcean Basic Droplet 1 GiB: $6/mo. Renews at $6/mo.
DigitalOcean Basic Droplet 512 MiB: $4/mo. Renews at $4/mo.
Elestio Managed n8n (from): $11/mo. Renews at $11/mo.
Render Hobby: $0/mo. Renews at $0/mo.
Hetzner Cloud (smallest): Price not verified. Renewal not verified. Included with no verified price and no checked date.
Railway Hobby: $5/mo. Renews at $5/mo.
Vultr Cloud Compute 1 GB (Regular): $5/mo. Renews at $5/mo.
Linode (Akamai) Nanode 1GB: $5/mo. Renews at $5/mo.
Oracle Cloud Always Free: $0/mo. Renews at $0/mo.
Sliplane Starter: €9/mo. Renews at €9/mo.
Source: Each host's official page (Linode: Linode's public API), read 2026-10-16 for 15 of the 16 plans. Hetzner had no verified price and no checked date. · price changelog
· Contabo check could not be re-read
The daily check could not parse Contabo's pricing page. The last recorded price was kept: $5.28/mo for the first term. The renewal price was already unverified. The row was flagged "parse failed" and the checked date stayed 2026-10-16.
Contabo Cloud VPS 4: $5.28/mo. Renewal not verified. Flagged: parse failed. Price not changed.
Source: Daily price check of the official Contabo pricing page, 2026-10-16. Only the review flag changed. · price changelog
· OVHcloud, Hostinger Managed n8n, and netcup added
Three plans were added after a manual check. These are the first prices recorded for them on this site, not changes from an earlier figure.
OVHcloud VPS-1 (2027): $4.54/mo (12-month upfront) · $5.35/mo no commitment. Renewal not verified. Renewal price was not verified.
Hostinger Managed n8n: $5.99/mo on a 24-month term · $7.99/mo on a 12-month term · $10.99/mo on a 1-month term. Renews at $11.99/mo excl. taxes.
netcup VPS Lite 1 G12.5s: €5.86/mo. Renewal not verified. 6-month minimum. Listed price includes 19% VAT. Renewal after that minimum was not verified.
Source: https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/vps/vps-n8n/, https://www.hostinger.com/pricing/ai-automations and https://www.netcup.com/en/server/vps-lite, read 2026-10-17 · price changelog
· First patch and update check
First verification of who updates n8n on each of the 14 hosts, recorded on /n8n-hosting-patch-security/. Cells are filled only from official pages read that day. A dash means not yet verified. No price in the price dataset was re-checked or changed for this entry.
Source: Official n8n docs and each host page cited on /n8n-hosting-patch-security/, read 2026-10-18 · price changelog
· First setup-surface check
First verification of install, domain, HTTPS, reverse proxy, environment variables, queue mode, and onboarding on each of the 14 hosts, recorded on /n8n-hosting-setup/. Hostinger is two rows because the official pages describe different setup surfaces. Cells are filled only from official pages read that day. A dash means not yet verified. No price in the price dataset was re-checked or changed for this entry.
Source: Official n8n docs, Google Search Console security-issues help, and each host page cited on /n8n-hosting-setup/, read 2026-10-18 · price changelog
· Hostinger KVM 2 price changed
Hostinger KVM 2 first-term or renewal price changed.
Hostinger KVM 2: $8.79/mo. Renews at $14.99/mo.
Source: Daily price check of the official Hostinger pricing page, 2026-10-19 · price changelog
· Zeabur guide follows the October 19 incident advice on the n8n encryption key
Zeabur's October 2026 security incident report (preliminary report, published October 19, 2026) tells n8n users on its shared cluster: "n8n: Replace the n8n encryption key and recreate all third-party credentials in n8n." /zeabur-n8n-migration/ no longer tells those readers to keep the same key. It now quotes the report and gives the order the official n8n command-line and encryption-key pages support for moving to a new key. Shutdown dates Zeabur has not announced stay TBA. No price in the price dataset was re-checked or changed for this entry.
Source: https://zeabur.com/blogs/october-2026-security-incident and n8n's command line and set a custom encryption key docs, read 2026-10-19 · price changelog
· Weekly batch: Hetzner price and netcup renewal recorded
This week's manual batch, read from each host's own pricing page on 2026-10-19. Hetzner now has a verified plan: Cloud CPX02, the smallest Regular Performance plan, at €6.49/mo excl. VAT with hourly billing capped at that monthly price. It had no verified price before, so this is a first recording, not a change. netcup's VPS Lite page says the vServer Lite tariffs have no price increases after the first year, so the VPS Lite 1 renewal is recorded at the same €5.86/mo incl. 19% VAT. Contabo and OVHcloud renewal prices are still not published on their pages and stay unverified.
Hetzner Cloud CPX02: €6.49/mo. Renews at €6.49/mo excl. VAT. First verified price. Previously listed as Cloud (smallest) with no verified price.
netcup VPS Lite 1 G12.5s: €5.86/mo. Renews at €5.86/mo incl. 19% VAT. First-term price unchanged. Renewal recorded for the first time; it was not verified before.
Source: Manual check of https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/regular-performance and https://www.netcup.com/en/server/vps-lite, read 2026-10-19 · price changelog
· Removed the Vultr $300 credit claim
Removed the Vultr $300 credit claim until we can confirm the offer link. On Oct 19, 2026, /go/vultr opened in a logged-out browser landed on the plain vultr.com homepage with no credit offer shown. /go/vultr and its referral URL are unchanged, and Vultr links still carry a referral disclosure. No price in the price dataset was re-checked or changed for this entry.
Source: Logged-out check of /go/vultr, 2026-10-19 · price changelog
· New guide: Zapier and Make vs self-hosted n8n at 2,500, 10,000 and 50,000 runs a month
/zapier-make-vs-self-hosted-n8n-cost/ prices one workflow (1 trigger + 4 actions) on Zapier Professional, Make Core, and self-hosted n8n server examples at renewal. Zapier and Make figures were read on their official pricing and help pages; the Zapier pay-per-task rate and Make extra-credit price are not published and stay —. Host prices come from the price dataset; none was re-checked or changed for this entry.
· Railway: always-on and Serverless answer, usage rates recorded
/hosts/railway/ now answers whether n8n stays running on Railway (#always-on): Railway sleeps a service only when Serverless is turned on, and a slept service wakes only on incoming traffic. The section quotes Railway's and n8n's docs and lists what we could not confirm, including how n8n schedules behave on a slept service (not tested). Railway's official per-unit rates (RAM $10/GB/month, CPU $20/vCPU/month, egress $0.05/GB, volume $0.15/GB/month) and per-service maxima (48 GB RAM, 48 vCPU, 5 GB volume) were added to the Railway row of the price dataset from docs.railway.com/pricing/plans, checked 2026-10-19. These are rates, not a plan allocation, so the RAM and vCPU count of the Hobby plan stay blank. The Hobby price is unchanged at $5/mo.
· Hostinger KVM 2 source text corrected, one-click flags and Hetzner links fixed
The quoted pricing-page text for Hostinger KVM 2 still showed $8.99/mo after the price changed to $8.79/mo on Oct 19, 2026. It now matches Hostinger's page read 2026-10-19: "Special offer • 64% off KVM 2 $24.49 $8.79 /mo ... Renews at $14.99/mo for 2 years." Hostinger labels it a special offer and gives no end date, so $8.79 may be a promotional price. The Hostinger KVM rows now cite https://www.hostinger.com/self-hosted-n8n, where the old /vps/n8n-hosting URL redirects. n8n Cloud Starter, n8n Cloud Pro and Elestio no longer carry the one-click n8n flag: n8n's pricing page says "Hosted by n8n" and Elestio's n8n page says "Deploy N8N as a fully managed service", so the host runs n8n and there is nothing to install, as already recorded for Hostinger Managed n8n. Sliplane Starter keeps the flag: its n8n page says "Deploy the n8n preset with just 1 click". Links to Hetzner are no longer marked sponsored, because its affiliate program ended June 15, 2026 and /go/hetzner carries no code. /hosts/hetzner/ no longer shows an affiliate disclosure. No price changed in this entry.
New guide /one-click-n8n-vs-vps/ lists every plan by install type. Every count, plan name, price, renewal, spec and checked date on it renders from the price dataset when the site is built, and a missing figure stays — / not yet verified. It quotes the Hostinger and OVHcloud n8n pages, read 2026-10-19, on what comes preinstalled. No price in the price dataset was re-checked or changed for this entry.
Source: https://www.hostinger.com/self-hosted-n8n and https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/vps/vps-n8n/, read 2026-10-19; plan data from the price dataset · price changelog
· Restored the Vultr $300 credit for new customers
Restored the note that new Vultr customers get $300 in credit through our link, after a check of /go/vultr on Oct 19, 2026. It is shown next to Vultr's links on the Vultr host page, the comparison tables and the October 2026 snapshot, and in llms.txt and the Vultr structured data, with the referral disclosure beside it. /go/vultr and its referral URL are unchanged. No price in the price dataset was re-checked or changed for this entry.
Source: Check of the /go/vultr referral link, 2026-10-19 · price changelog
· netcup renewal back to not verified; Hetzner CPX02 source recorded
The netcup VPS Lite 1 renewal of €5.86/mo recorded in this week's batch was inferred from a general line on the VPS Lite page ("no hidden costs or price increases after the first year"). netcup's VPS Lite page and the VPS Lite 1 G12.5s product page, read 2026-10-19, do not state a renewal price, so the renewal is back to not verified. The first-term price of €5.86/mo incl. 19% VAT is unchanged. Hetzner Cloud CPX02 at €6.49/mo excl. VAT was re-checked on Hetzner's Regular Performance page, which loads the price from Hetzner's own price feed: CPX02 server €5.99 plus primary IPv4 €0.50. The price is unchanged; the price-feed URLs are now in the Hetzner row's note.
netcup VPS Lite 1 G12.5s: €5.86/mo. Renewal not verified. Renewal not stated on netcup's pages. First-term price unchanged.
The first-term price is the rate for the opening term. When the billing field says the plan is prepaid, or names a term, that rate is the one attached to the term you pay for up front. The renewal price is the rate after that first term.
A check that reads the same price updates the checked date on that row. It does not add a line to the price changelog. "—" means not yet verified. A missing renewal is not estimated, and a euro price is not converted into dollars.
This page keeps the prices copied into this snapshot. A later month is a new page. This page is not rewritten when the current dataset moves. The rules for the sort and for what counts as the lowest fixed price are in how we check prices.
Prices here are the dated citation. Which server size to buy is a different question: how much RAM and CPU n8n needs. That guide tiers a plan only when RAM and vCPU are verified in the dataset.
FAQ
When were these prices last checked?
The dataset was last checked Oct 17, 2026. 15 plans were checked Oct 17, 2026. 3 plans were checked Oct 16, 2026: Contabo Cloud VPS 4, Render Hobby, and Oracle Cloud Always Free. Hetzner Cloud (smallest) has not been checked yet.
Why do some plans show "—" for renewal?
A dash means that renewal price was not verified from the host's official pricing page. It is never estimated. In this snapshot that is OVHcloud VPS-1 (2027), Contabo Cloud VPS 4, netcup VPS Lite 1 G12.5s, and Hetzner Cloud (smallest). The rules are in the methodology.
Are these prices in USD?
No. Each plan keeps the currency on the host's pricing page. This snapshot uses USD and EUR. Euro prices stay in euros. Amounts are not converted, including when the table is sorted.
What is the cheapest paid option this month?
The lowest verified first-term price above zero, excluding usage-based plans and plans under review, is DigitalOcean Basic Droplet 512 MiB at $4/mo, checked Oct 17, 2026.
These figures were copied into this snapshot on . A later check can update prices.json without changing this page.
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