Zapier vs n8n
Both wire your apps together — one is hosted for you, one you can host yourself.
n8n is the only one here that says it does not train on what you type
We hold no tested score and no verified price for these, so the strongest thing we can compare is what each company commits to in writing. n8n: “We do not use any personal data, including data received through any third-party services, for developing, improving, or training AI and/or ML models.”
Ranked on each vendor's own published policy, quoted word-for-word from a document we fetched
What each one looks like
Side by side
Every cell is either a fact with the source and the date we read it, or a sentence saying we hold no verified answer. There is no third option: nothing here is filled in from memory, and a row only appears when at least one of these tools has something real in it.
Swipe the table sideways for n8n.
| Measure | Zapier AI | n8n |
|---|---|---|
| What people are sayingFrom our own 90-day sweep of Reddit, X, YouTube, Hacker News and the web. The count always travels with the word. | Too few opinions to call — 2 of 148 posts took a side | Mixed6 positive, 4 negative of 10 that took a side (111 scanned) |
| Trains on what you typeThe vendor's own published answer. No line renders unless we found the sentence word-for-word in a document we fetched. | They use your content to train their AI models by default, but you can fill out a form to stop it.zapier.com ↗ | The company explicitly states that they do not use your personal data to train artificial intelligence models.n8n.io ↗ |
| How long they keep it | They keep your data until you delete your account, after which it is permanently removed and cannot be recovered.zapier.com ↗ | They keep your data for as long as they need it for their business purposes or legal requirements.n8n.io ↗ |
| Developer attention (90 days)Hacker News stories and points, and GitHub stars where the project is open. A measure of attention, never of quality. | Nothing measurable in our sweep | 200,930 GitHub stars20 HN pointsGitHub API · 17 Aug 2026 |
Each one on its own
It connects the apps you already use so tasks flow between them automatically, no code needed.
In their words: “Build and govern AI workflows and agents across 9,000+ apps with Zapier” — zapier.com ↗ · read 10 Aug 2026
“Zapier AI Review 2026: My Agent Actions Trust and Time Saved”
a quiet post from our 90-day sweep — read it ↗
What we could not compare
- No tested score for Zapier AI and n8n — we score a tool only when it names the model it runs.
- No verified price for Zapier AI and n8n — their pricing pages render figures in a browser, so we hold none.
These gaps close by themselves: the scanner re-reads every vendor pricing page and app-store listing on a schedule, and this page rebuilds from whatever it found. How the testing works →
Questions people ask
Zapier AI or n8n — which should I choose?
n8n is the only one here that says it does not train on what you type. That is based on each vendor's own published policy, quoted word-for-word from a document we fetched. We hold no tested score and no verified price for these, so the strongest thing we can compare is what each company commits to in writing. n8n: “We do not use any personal data, including data received through any third-party services, for developing, improving, or training AI and/or ML models.”
Which of Zapier AI, n8n is cheapest?
We hold no verified price for any of them: each publishes its figures only to a browser, so we link to their pricing pages rather than quote a number we could not read.
Do Zapier AI, n8n train on what you type?
Zapier AI: They use your content to train their AI models by default, but you can fill out a form to stop it. n8n: The company explicitly states that they do not use your personal data to train artificial intelligence models. Each of those answers is quoted word-for-word from the vendor's own published document, linked on this page with the date we read it.
How do you test these?
We have not run a task suite on these. We score a tool only when it names the model it runs, because a coding assistant or notetaker is a wrapper around a model — so this page compares what we can verify instead: prices from vendor pricing pages, app-store ratings, our 90-day sweep of public opinion, and each company's own written data policy.
No vendor pays for placement, position or inclusion, and the code that produces the verdict above cannot see which outbound links earn us anything. How we make money →
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