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Anthropic API vs n8n

API for Claude — frontier models for chat, tool use, agents, and long-context reasoning
vs. Source-available workflow automation — fair-code, self-host or cloud

Anthropic website ↗n8n website ↗

Pricing tiers

Anthropic API

Opus 4.7 — usage
Input $5 / output $25 / cache-write $6.25 / cache-read $0.50 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Sonnet 4.6 — usage
Input $3 / output $15 / cache-write $3.75 / cache-read $0.30 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Haiku 4.5 — usage
Input $1 / output $5 / cache-write $1.25 / cache-read $0.10 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Anthropic website ↗

n8n

Community (self-host)
Source-available (fair-code). Free forever. Full feature set self-hosted.
$0 base (usage-based)
Cloud Starter
€20/mo annual (~$22). 2,500 workflow executions. 5 concurrent. 1 shared project. Unlimited users.
$22/mo
Cloud Pro
€50/mo annual (~$55). Custom execution volume. 20 concurrent. 3 shared projects. 7-day insights.
$55/mo
Cloud Business
€667/mo annual (~$735). 40,000 executions. 30 concurrent. 6 projects. Self-host option. SSO, SAML, LDAP. Git version control.
$735/mo
Enterprise
Custom. 200+ concurrent. Unlimited projects. SLA. 365-day retention.
Custom
n8n website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing opus-4-7 on Anthropic API vs starter on n8n.

MetricAnthropic APIn8n
discount batch50 % off—

Features

Anthropic API · 0 features

    n8n · 19 features

    • 500+ Integration Nodes — Apps, SaaS, DBs, cloud services, AI models.
    • AI / LangChain Nodes — AI Agent, Chain, Memory, Vector Store nodes out of box.
    • Audit Logs — Enterprise compliance logging.
    • Code Nodes (JS + Python) — Drop-in custom code nodes with full data access.
    • Credentials Vault — Encrypted credentials per service.
    • Environments — dev/staging/prod environments.
    • Error Workflows — Global + per-workflow error handlers.
    • Execution History — Full run log with inputs/outputs per node.
    • Expression Editor — JavaScript expressions for data mapping.
    • External Secrets — HashiCorp Vault + AWS Secrets + Azure Key Vault integrations.
    • Git Version Control — Version workflows in Git (Business+).
    • HTTP Request Node — Full-featured HTTP client node (any REST API).
    • Queue Mode — Redis-backed execution queue for scaling.
    • Schedule Triggers — Cron-based triggers down to the minute.
    • SSO + SAML + LDAP — Business+ authentication.
    • Sub-Workflows — Reusable child workflows.
    • Variables — Global variables + per-workflow variables.
    • Visual Editor — Drag-and-drop flow builder. Node-based canvas.
    • Webhooks — Webhook triggers + responses.

    Developer interfaces

    KindAnthropic APIn8n
    CLIClaude Code CLIn8n CLI
    SDKGo SDK, Java SDK, Python SDK, Ruby SDK, TypeScript SDK (@anthropic-ai/sdk)—
    RESTAWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Microsoft Azure AI, REST API (Messages + Agents)n8n REST API
    MCP—n8n MCP
    OTHER—n8n Editor UI, Webhook Triggers
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