Adapt vs n8n (2026)

Adapt

by Adapt

n8n

by n8n GmbH

Pros

• ✓Works where teams already are: Slack (including a Slack app under the customer's own name and icon), the web app, a Chrome extension that can take browser actions, email, and iMessage or RCS texting.
• ✓A hosted MCP server (beta) with OAuth sign-in lets Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code and other MCP clients run an Adapt agent with full company context, and models can run on the customer's own keys at no markup.
• ✓SOC 2 Type II certified, with a stated commitment that customer data is never used to train AI models, an optional zero data retention mode on Managed, and natural-language policies that can require approval before named actions.

Limitations

• –Microsoft Teams is not listed among Adapt's surfaces or integrations, so organizations that do not use Slack rely on the web app, browser extension, email or text messaging.
• –Managed pricing combines a per-user fee with metered sandbox compute, storage, memory and gateway model usage, which is harder to forecast than a flat subscription, and there is no free hosted tier.
• –The open-source edition is waitlist-only until its January 4, 2027 launch rather than a public repository today, and independent reviews are limited to a small number on G2.

Pros

• ✓The Community Edition can be self-hosted for free from GitHub, so workflows and data stay on the team's own infrastructure.
• ✓AI Agent, vector-store and model nodes sit alongside 500+ integrations and inline JavaScript and Python, and a built-in MCP server lets AI clients run and edit workflows.
• ✓Cloud plans are priced per full workflow execution rather than per step, with unlimited users and workflows on every plan.

Limitations

• –Self-hosting means running and maintaining the servers yourself, and the editor assumes some technical skill.
• –n8n Cloud is priced in euros and capped by monthly executions, from 2,500 on Starter, and the Business plan is not yet available on n8n Cloud.
• –The licence is n8n's own fair-code licence rather than an OSI open-source licence, and SSO, Git version control and environments need Business or Enterprise.