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Pricing and Business Updates
A major focus of the livestream was the recent pricing changes. Yan Oberhouser, n8n's founder, explained the rationale behind these updates:
- No More Workflow Limits: Say goodbye to charges per active workflow on cloud and enterprise plans. Now, you're only charged per execution, encouraging more building and experimentation.
- New Business Plan: A new plan is available, sitting between the free community version and the enterprise plan. This is aimed at small to medium businesses, providing access to some enterprise features at a lower cost.
- Commitment to Community Edition: The free community version is here to stay, with no features being removed. In fact, 70% of engineering resources are dedicated to it.
Community News
The n8n community is growing and there are many ways to get involved:
- New Team Members: Welcome Adeline, Melinda, and Cino to the community team!
- Revamped Ambassador Program: If you're an experienced n8n user, you can now apply to the revamped ambassador program to organize events and workshops in your area.
- Events Galore: There have been recent community events in Germany, Brazil, Kenya, and the US. Upcoming events include meetups in San Francisco and New York City, and a series of "n8n Starter Sessions" for beginners across Europe and the US.
Product Updates and New Features
Several new features have been released to improve the user experience:
- Archive Workflows: You can now archive workflows instead of deleting them, making it easier to recover them later.
- Faster Subworkflow Opening: Quickly open subworkflow nodes with a right-click or keyboard command.
- Auto Naming Nodes: Nodes are now automatically named based on the resource and operation you select.
- Extended Logs View: A new persistent log view at the bottom of the canvas helps with debugging by showing each step of your workflow.
- Convert to Subworkflow: You can now highlight nodes and convert them into a subworkflow, which can help with organization and performance.
AI Features and Enhancements
n8n is doubling down on AI with several new features and improvements:
- Partial Execution for AI Tools: Test changes to your AI tools without running the full agent, saving you time and money.
- Evaluations for AI Workflows: Track the reliability of your AI workflows over time and make data-driven decisions about your models and prompts.
- Model Selector Node: Get more control when using multiple LLMs with the new model selector node.
- Chat Streaming: Real-time chat is now available, configurable from the chat trigger, webhook node, or AI agent node.
- Respond to Chat Node: Add a human-in-the-loop to your chat experiences, allowing the AI to ask for clarification or approval.
- AI Agent Tool Node: Simplify multi-agent architectures by allowing agents to direct other agents on the same canvas.
- New Nodes: Anthropic and Gemini nodes have been added for advanced AI reasoning and analysis.
Hiring
n8n is hiring for a variety of roles, including AI engineers, full-stack developers, and community software engineers. You can find more information on the n8n careers page.