I read the home page twice and struggled to figure out the use case. Is Zapier w...

reion · on Aug 26, 2023

In footer they have n8n vs Zapier and n8n vs Make pages, I guess other similar software would be IFTTT

grotorea · on Aug 26, 2023

IFTTT is target more at personal usage while the others are more professional or more complex uses. n8n is, as the starting page, open source and self-hosted unlike those two.

commoner · on Aug 27, 2023

n8n is source-available, not open source, because they restrict commercial use. They acknowledge this themselves: https://docs.n8n.io/choose-n8n/faircode-license/#is-n8n-open...

grotorea · on Aug 28, 2023

Thanks for the correction.

The non-commercial aspect seems to be mostly directed at people trying to compete with them, not comercial users.

> You may distribute the software or provide it to others only if you do so free of charge for non-commercial purposes.

> You may use or modify the software only for your own internal business purposes or for non-commercial or personal use.