Choose with your eyes open

We build against n8n and Activepieces every day, and we respect both. These comparisons are specific, current as of this writing, and include the rows where we lose.

GoRunner vs n8nThe most popular self-hosted automation tool, against an engine built for speed. Where n8n's flexibility wins, and where the queue architecture costs you.GoRunner vs ActivepiecesTwo piece-based builders with very different engines and pricing. The honest breakdown, including what Activepieces does well.

1,000-step flow, end to end

illustrative, from internal testing

GoRunner0.9s

Activepieces3.4s

n8n4.1s

The short version

Pick n8n if you want open source above all and enjoy wiring JavaScript into your automations. Pick Activepieces if MIT licensing and a community piece ecosystem matter most. Pick GoRunner if you want the fastest execution engine in the category, pricing that does not punish thorough flows, and an AI that builds the flow from a sentence. We are not open source, and we say so on the pricing page, in the docs, and here.

Or just race them.

The free plan is the honest benchmark: rebuild one of your flows and time it.

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