The best part is that its opensource (which means its almost totally free) and the community modules built around it is massive.. Plus The mcp integration it has is great. I literally connect this with my codex and ask it to build the entire n8n workflow to me and it does amazing job.
The Ui is good but I still like the UI of make.com better than this but overall not much complain here.
Regarding Performance, I self host and use it. I hosted this on a $5 vps of netcup and it works pretty well for my use case and never had a problem. I think there can be problem when there are many tasks in queue and for parallelism but for major tasks, there is no issue at all
The good part of n8n is the community it has. I can find tons of people in reddit and discord to support me when I am stuck in any issue. Onboaridng is also much smoother. I would suggest the first task to do is create an api and connect this with codex/claude code and see the magic happen from there
n8n is a workflow automation platform that uniquely combines AI capabilities with business process automation. The platform enables connection to any app or API while maintaining the flexibility of code with the speed of no-code.