Cloud & Self-Hosted n8n Setup
Your own automation platform, not access to mine.
Your own n8n instance, on your server or cloud account, with three working workflows to start. It stays yours if you ever cancel.
The difference between this and buying an outcome is what happens in month six. With your own instance the next idea is a workflow somebody builds. Without one it is a new project with a new quote every time.
Who it is for — pick yours
That is the difference between this and the done-for-you service: your instance, your credentials, your server or cloud account. Cancel any time and everything keeps running - it is yours.
Cloud stands up faster on your own n8n account; self-hosted puts the whole platform on your server, like the instance below running on my own domain. Both start with the same three working workflows.
New workflows, built as your needs come up - not just maintenance. That is the honest difference from the done-for-you monthly, which covers API costs and upkeep only.
What it costs
Published, not quoted on request.
Self-hosted costs more to set up because a server has to be provisioned, secured, and backed up. The monthly is the same either way, because what it buys is new workflows and monitoring rather than hosting.
n8n cloud
$350then $150 a month
Turnaround20 – 45 days
- n8n installed and configured
- Server provisioned and secured, on the self-hosted plan
- SSL and domain
- Credentials and API connections wired up
- Three workflows built: Facebook comments and DMs, Instagram comments and DMs, YouTube comments
- Backups
- Handover and training
- Monitoring and fixes, in the monthly
- New workflows built as you need them, also in the monthly
- The instance is yours. Cancel the monthly and the workflows keep running.
Buy this when you want to own the automation platform rather than one outcome. The monthly keeps building: new workflows as you think of them, not just keeping the first three alive. If you only want comments and DMs handled and do not care where it runs, Social Media Automation is the cheaper route. Most of the 20 to 45 days is Meta and Google reviewing the app, not build time.
Work out your exact priceProof
Open the real ones.
Every card opens the actual canvas, big enough to read. No prompts or credentials are visible, which is the honest limit of a screenshot.
Before you ask
The questions that come up.
If yours is not here, send it and you get a straight answer in writing.
Ask about your projectA workflow tool that connects the apps you already use, so an event in one triggers an action in another. Comparable to Zapier, except it can run on your own server and it does not bill per task once the instance is yours.
Cloud unless you have a reason. It is quicker to stand up and there is no server to look after. Self-hosted is right when data cannot leave your infrastructure, or when volume makes per-execution pricing hurt.
The instance stays yours and the workflows keep running. You lose new workflow building and monitoring, not access to what you already paid for. Nothing switches off.
Yes, and handover training is included so you can. Plenty of clients build the simple ones themselves and send me the awkward ones, which is a sensible way to use this.
Not the right one? The follow-up that keeps getting lost covers everything in n8n automation.
All n8n automationTell me what you want running first
The first workflows are included in the setup, so it helps to know what they are. Describe what you keep doing by hand. No charge and a written reply within one business day.
Or email me directly at [email protected] or [email protected]
What are you trying to get done?
Pick the closest one. The work shows up here.