Alternatives
Self-hosted alternatives to n8n
Projects in the registry that can run on your own hardware and serve at least one of the same use cases as n8n.
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01How this list was built
- Compared against
- n8n
- Delivery
- Hybrid — hosted or self-hosted
- Shared use cases
- Invoice processing automation, Marketing workflow, Document classification, CRM call summaries, Employee helpdesk
- Selection rule
- open source, or self-hostable, and shares a use case
- Candidates found
- 10
02Alternatives
authentik
Hybrid — hosted or self-hosted
Identity provider with OpenID Connect, SAML and proxy-based authentication, application-level policies and a forward-auth outpost for services that have no login of their own.
- Repository
- goauthentik/authentik
- Stars
- 25,644
- Licence
- Other
- In stacks
- 0
Shares: Employee helpdesk
ComfyUI
Self-hosted projects
Node-based interface for image and video generation models, where a pipeline is an explicit graph that can be saved, versioned and re-run. Runs locally on your own GPU.
- Repository
- comfyanonymous/ComfyUI
- Stars
- 133,870
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
- In stacks
- 0
Shares: Marketing workflow
Dify
Hybrid — hosted or self-hosted
Platform for building LLM applications: visual workflow editor, retrieval pipelines, agent tools, prompt management and an API layer. Available self-hosted or as a managed cloud service.
- Repository
- langgenius/dify
- Stars
- 153,448
- Licence
- Other
- In stacks
- 1
Shares: Marketing workflow
Keycloak
Self-hosted projects
Identity and access management server providing OpenID Connect and SAML single sign-on, user federation, groups and roles for self-hosted applications.
- Repository
- keycloak/keycloak
- Stars
- 36,449
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- In stacks
- 4
Shares: Employee helpdesk
Onyx
Hybrid — hosted or self-hosted
Open-source enterprise search and chat over company systems, with connectors to common SaaS tools, permission-aware indexing and a self-hosted deployment path.
- Repository
- onyx-dot-app/onyx
- Stars
- 31,754
- Licence
- Other
- In stacks
- 0
Shares: Employee helpdesk
PaddleOCR
Libraries
OCR toolkit with detection, recognition and layout models, including Chinese and other East Asian scripts, plus table and formula recognition. Runs offline on CPU or GPU.
- Repository
- PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR
- Stars
- 88,941
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- In stacks
- 0
Shares: Document classification
paperless-ngx
Self-hosted projects
Self-hosted document management system that OCRs incoming scans and email, applies tags and correspondents through trainable rules, and keeps a searchable archive.
- Repository
- paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx
- Stars
- 44,585
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
- In stacks
- 2
Shares: Document classification
PostgreSQL
Self-hosted projects
Relational database used here as the system of record for documents, metadata and job queues, and — with pgvector — for embeddings as well.
- Repository
- none linked
- Stars
- —
- Licence
- unknown
- In stacks
- 4
Shares: Invoice processing
scikit-learn
Libraries
The standard Python library for classical machine learning: regression, classification, clustering, preprocessing pipelines and model evaluation on tabular data.
- Repository
- scikit-learn/scikit-learn
- Stars
- 67,301
- Licence
- BSD-3-Clause
- In stacks
- 1
Shares: Document classification
Tesseract OCR
Libraries
Long-established open-source OCR engine with trained data for many languages and scripts, usable offline and embedded in most self-hosted document pipelines.
- Repository
- tesseract-ocr/tesseract
- Stars
- 76,569
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- In stacks
- 0
Shares: Document classification
03Repository facts
| Repository | Stars | Health |
|---|---|---|
| goauthentik/authentikThe authentication glue you need. | 26k | Maintenance 80%, Releases 80%, Contributors 50%, Issues 57%, Community 88%75 |
| comfyanonymous/ComfyUIThe most powerful and modular diffusion model GUI, api and backend with a graph/nodes interface. | 134k | Maintenance 80%, Releases 60%, Contributors 50%, Issues 63%, Community 100%75 |
| langgenius/difyBuild Agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, with rich AI model and tool support on one collaborative workspace. Deploy on cloud, VPC, or self-hosted, so teams move from prototype to production without rebuilding the stack. | 153k | Maintenance 60%, Releases 60%, Contributors 50%, Issues 94%, Community 100%72 |
| keycloak/keycloakOpen Source Identity and Access Management For Modern Applications and Services | 36k | Maintenance 60%, Releases 60%, Contributors 50%, Issues 14%, Community 91%62 |
| onyx-dot-app/onyxOpen Source AI Platform - AI Chat with advanced features that works with every LLM | 32k | Maintenance 60%, Releases 60%, Contributors 50%, Issues 87%, Community 90%69 |
| PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCRTurn any PDF or image document into structured data for your AI. A powerful, lightweight OCR toolkit that bridges the gap between images/PDFs and LLMs. Supports 100+ languages. | 89k | Maintenance 60%, Releases 40%, Contributors 50%, Issues 97%, Community 99%68 |
| paperless-ngx/paperless-ngxA community-supported supercharged document management system: scan, index and archive all your documents | 45k | Maintenance 60%, Releases 60%, Contributors 50%, Issues 100%, Community 93%71 |
| scikit-learn/scikit-learnscikit-learn: machine learning in Python | 67k | Maintenance 80%, Releases 60%, Contributors 50%, Issues 68%, Community 97%74 |
| tesseract-ocr/tesseractTesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository) | 77k | Maintenance 60%, Releases 60%, Contributors 50%, Issues 94%, Community 98%71 |
04Ask about your own case
Which alternative is right depends on how many people will use it, what the data is and what you can operate. Ask and the answer is researched for your organisation.