Comparison
UtilitySpaces vs n8n
We build UtilitySpaces, so read this as a comparison written by an interested party. Everything below about n8n is quoted or paraphrased from n8n’s own pages, each one linked, and read on 17 August 2026. n8n has a real human-approval capability — anyone telling you otherwise is selling you something. The differences that matter are what is on by default, what a plan includes, and what you are billed for.
What each one is
n8n. “AI agents and workflows you can see and control” — build visually, go deep with code, with every step of an agent's reasoning traceable on the canvas. (source)
UtilitySpaces. An agentic workspace for teams: a chat-first inbox where people and AI agents work in the same threads, agents with scoped access to the applications you already use, and a write to any of them waiting for a person unless an admin has set that connector to run without asking.
Compared, attribute by attribute
| UtilitySpaces | n8n | |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Managed service only. The source is not public and there is no self-hosted option. | Source-available and self-hostable under the Sustainable Use License, which permits internal business use and non-commercial use only. n8n state plainly that they do not call themselves open source, because the licence limits use. (source) |
| Billed by | Per workspace, monthly. No per-seat charge and no credit meter. Agent tasks our hosted brain runs are capped per month; work on a brain of your own is neither counted nor capped. | Per workflow execution, not per seat. Every tier includes unlimited users. (source) |
| Published prices | Starter $29/month, Team $79/month, Business $249/month. Enterprise is scoped and priced around your workload inside a published band of $499–$4,999/month. Pay by card and it renews monthly until you cancel, or settle each month's invoice yourself. | Starter €20/month for 2,500 executions; Pro €50 for 10,000; Business €667 for 40,000 and the first tier with SSO and self-hosting; Enterprise by quotation. All billed annually. (source) |
| Free tier | A demo workspace: the whole product for about an hour, no card and no call — and creating an account from it keeps the workspace at demo limits until you choose a plan. | No free cloud plan, only trials — but the self-hosted Community Edition is free and there is no time limit on it. (source) |
| What happens when an agent writes | Reads run unattended. A write waits for a person by default — that is what every new connection gets — and only a workspace admin can set a connector to run without asking, a change that is itself logged. Deletes always wait for a person, and every call — allowed or refused — is logged. An unrecognised tool is treated as a write, so the policy fails closed by default. | Fully supported, and entirely opt-in. An AI Agent node has a human-review section that can be applied to all connected tools or to selected ones, and Send-and-Wait operations plus the Wait node pause a workflow for a decision. Nothing gates an agent unless the person building the workflow wires it in. (source) |
| Integrations | 80 connectors, plus a generic HTTP connector and any MCP server. | “2056 integrations” on the integrations page. Native nodes, generic HTTP, GraphQL and webhook nodes for anything unlisted, community nodes from npm, and MCP in both directions — as a client and as a server. (source) |
| Audit log | On every workspace, on every plan. SHA-256 hash-chained with a verification pass, so tampering is detectable rather than merely discouraged. | Audit logging and log streaming to external systems are Enterprise, on cloud and self-hosted alike. (source) |
n8n’s pricing and features read from their own pages on 17 August 2026. Pricing pages move; if a figure here is stale, tell us and we will correct it. Our own prices and connector count are read from the running product rather than typed, so they cannot drift from what you are actually charged.
Choose n8n if
- You want to run it on your own hardware, read the source, and pay nothing. Nothing we offer competes with that, and we are not going to pretend otherwise — UtilitySpaces is a managed service and the code is not public.
- You have engineers. n8n rewards them: JavaScript and Python steps, custom nodes, Git version control, dev and staging environments, queue mode with workers.
- Adding people should cost nothing. Unlimited users on every tier is a fundamentally different bargain from per-seat pricing.
- You need an integration surface no small vendor can match, plus HTTP and webhook escape hatches for everything else.
- You want execution-level debugging: retries, error workflows, debug-in-editor, and searching past executions by the data they contained.
Choose UtilitySpaces if
- You want connector writes to wait for approval by default rather than be gated by a node someone has to remember to add. In n8n, an agent acts unattended unless the builder wired review in; that is a design choice, not an oversight, and it puts the safety property on the person building the flow.
- Nobody on the team is going to build and maintain workflows. n8n is a builder's tool and is excellent at being one.
- You want the audit log without an Enterprise contract.
- The step from €50 to €667 is where your requirements land — SSO and self-hosting are both first available on Business.
Where UtilitySpaces is behind, whichever product you compare
This list is the same on every comparison page on this site, so that no single rival gets a softer version of it.
- No SOC 2 Type II and no ISO 27001. We have not been audited, and we do not have a date for it. Dust and Lindy both publish SOC 2 Type II. If a certificate is a procurement requirement, this is a real reason to buy elsewhere and we would rather you found that out here.
- Far fewer integrations. 76 connectors against Lindy's 1,400-plus and n8n's 2,000-plus. A generic HTTP connector and any MCP server cover a great deal of the gap, and they do not close it.
- Not self-hostable. n8n can run entirely on your hardware; UtilitySpaces is a managed service and the source is not public.
- SSO is OIDC only — no SAML and no SCIM. Dust and Lindy both offer SSO on their higher tiers, and Dust also publishes SCIM provisioning.
- We are new, with no public customer list and no case studies — because inventing them is the one thing we will not do. There is a free demo instead, which is the only honest substitute for a track record.
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