Productivity · Head-to-head
n8n vs Gamma
n8n (freemium, AI Score 8.7/10) vs Gamma (freemium, AI Score 8.3/10). Side-by-side pricing, features, pros and cons, and which to pick.
The verdict
Pick n8n if…
- →your primary use case is developer-adjacent ops and engineering teams who want ai agents and internal integrations running on infrastructure they control, with server costs instead of a per-task meter.
- →you need: agents, development
Pick Gamma if…
- →your primary use case is founders, sales teams, and educators who need a client-ready deck, one-pager, or landing page out of an outline today and care more about speed-to-polished than pixel-level layout control.
- →you need: content-creation, design, marketing
Side-by-side specs
| Spec | n8n | Gamma |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Productivity | Productivity |
| Pricing model | freemium | freemium |
| Headline pricing | Free self-hosted + Cloud from ~$20/mo | Free (400 credits) + Plus $10/mo, Pro $20/mo, Ultra $60/mo (annual billing) — confirm current rates on site |
| Free tier | Community edition is free and self-hosted with unlimited workflows and executions; you pay only for the server. Cloud plans have a time-limited trial. Cloud tier prices and execution allowances change periodically — check n8n.io/pricing before quoting them. | 400 AI credits at signup — enough to build and iterate on a few full decks before deciding. Note: month-to-month billing costs more than the annual rates shown, and Gamma adjusts tiers fairly often, so confirm current numbers at gamma.app/pricing before quoting them. |
| AI Score | 8.7/10 | 8.3/10 |
| Best for | Developer-adjacent ops and engineering teams who want AI agents and internal integrations running on infrastructure they control, with server costs instead of a per-task meter. | Founders, sales teams, and educators who need a client-ready deck, one-pager, or landing page out of an outline today and care more about speed-to-polished than pixel-level layout control. |
| Editor's pick | — | — |
| Use cases | productivity agents development | content-creation design productivity marketing |
| Date added | 2025-08-01 | 2026-04-30 |
Pros and cons
n8n
Productivity · freemium
Pros
- ✓Self-hosted community edition runs unlimited workflows and executions for infrastructure cost only, with no per-task meter
- ✓Model-agnostic AI nodes span OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Groq and xAI plus local models via Ollama, so an agent can run with zero external API calls
- ✓MCP support works both ways — consume external MCP servers as agent tools, or expose a workflow as an MCP server to outside assistants
- ✓Code node runs JavaScript or Python inline, so a missing connector is solvable rather than blocking
- ✓Large public template library and an unusually active community, which shortens the path from idea to working workflow
Cons
- ×Fair-code, not open source — the Sustainable Use License bars offering it as a service, and SSO, RBAC, environments and log streaming are gated behind the enterprise license
- ×Running it seriously means queue mode with Redis and worker containers; the one-container Docker demo does not survive real agent load
- ×Cloud plans meter by execution, and an agent that retries and branches burns through an allowance far faster than the old two-step automations those tiers were sized for
- ×Steeper than Zapier or Make for non-developers — expression syntax and n8n's item-array data model are where most newcomers get stuck
Gamma
Productivity · freemium
Pros
- ✓Prompt or uploaded file to a presentable, on-brand artifact in roughly a minute
- ✓Four output formats — deck, document, hosted webpage, social graphic — from one set of cards
- ✓Import-and-redesign handles existing PowerPoint, PDF, and Slides files, which is how most teams actually get value from it
- ✓Per-card view analytics on shared links, uncommon outside dedicated sales-enablement tools
- ✓Free tier is large enough to evaluate on a real project rather than a toy one
Cons
- ×PowerPoint export flattens nested cards and interactive embeds — the exported file is noticeably worse than the hosted version
- ×Little pixel-level layout control; the guardrails that make it fast are the same ones that frustrate designers
- ×Copilot in PowerPoint and Gemini in Google Slides are bundled into subscriptions many buyers already hold, making Gamma a second line item for deck generation
- ×Credit-metered generation and the premium image/video models sit behind the top tier, so heavy or media-rich use gets expensive fast
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Updated 2026-08-10. Spec data sourced from official product pages and tracked in our public directory at /tools.