# Koshra vs n8n

> A factual comparison of Koshra and n8n, from n8n's public pricing page and licence on 2 Nov 2026: self-hosting, licence for client work, approvals and price, including where Koshra is behind.

Canonical: https://koshra.com/compare/n8n
Last updated: 2026-11-02

n8n is a workflow automation tool with AI agent steps, offered as a hosted cloud or self-hosted. Koshra is a team of AI employees with business roles that runs on a server you control. Both can run on your own server and ask a person before a step runs.

Compared on 2 November 2026 from the public pages of n8n, linked below.

| Area | Koshra | n8n |
| --- | --- | --- |
| What it is | A ready team of AI employees with roles, a dispatcher and a shared Brain | A visual workflow builder, with an AI agent step among many nodes |
| Where it runs | On your own server, in the country you choose; set up and supported with you | Hosted cloud with data in Frankfurt, or self-hosted Community, Business and Enterprise editions |
| Licence | Built on an Apache 2.0 open source base: commercial use, changes and resale are allowed. Commercial terms for Koshra: talk to us | Sustainable Use License: use and change it for your own internal business or non-commercial purposes; enterprise features need a licence key |
| Approvals | Allow, Ask or Block per tool and space, approval cards, CRM deletes blocked | Human approval for tool calls |
| Setup | Roles and routines ready, agreed with you | You design each workflow yourself |
| Price | Talk to us | Cloud Starter 20 EUR and Pro 50 EUR a month billed yearly; self-hosted Business 667 EUR a month; Community Edition free |

## Where Koshra is ahead

- An Apache 2.0 open source base that lets an agency resell and run it for clients, where n8n's licence limits use to your own internal business
- A ready team of role bots, so you do not build each workflow by hand
- A shared Brain with versioned undo that every bot reads

## Where Koshra is behind

- n8n has a large community, many nodes and years of use in production
- n8n triggers workflows from webhooks and app events; Koshra's event triggers are coming soon
- n8n is public with a free self-hosted edition and published prices; Koshra is in private preview

## Coming to Koshra

Being built now, with no dates promised. None of this is counted above.

- Event triggers from webhooks and app events
- Building a whole team from one chat

## Questions

### Can I use Koshra for client work where n8n's licence is limited?

Koshra is built on an Apache 2.0 open source base, which allows commercial use and resale; terms for Koshra are agreed with you. n8n's Sustainable Use License allows use for your own internal business or non-commercial purposes, so check your case with n8n.

## Which to pick

If you want to wire your own automations step by step, with a big community, n8n is further along. If you want a ready team of AI employees on your own server that you can also run for clients, Koshra fits.

## Sources

- [n8n pricing](https://n8n.io/pricing)
- [n8n licence (Sustainable Use License)](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/blob/master/LICENSE.md)