Is n8n Still Maintained? Live GitHub Status
n8n is a workflow automation platform with a visual editor and AI agent nodes. It can be self-hosted under n8n’s Sustainable Use License, which is not a standard open-source licence.
Short answer: Yes, it is actively maintained. Health score 100/100. Checked 18 Oct 2026.
What the numbers say
n8n’s master branch received 3,834 commits in the last 91 days, against 1,347 in the same 91 days a year earlier (+185%). Activity is at least half of last year’s pace and no maintenance notice was found, so the index labels it active. It has 207,916 stars on GitHub. GitHub does not recognise its licence as a standard one, so read the licence file before commercial use.
n8n usage: downloads and installs
Trend: the monthly download count is stored once a day, starting 17 Oct 2026. A chart appears here after a week of readings.
Download and pull counts include automated installs from CI pipelines, containers and mirrors, so they show how widely the software is pulled, not how many people use it. Docker Hub reports an all-time total. Numbers from different registries are not comparable with each other. Sources: npm download statistics via ecosyste.ms, Docker Hub, read 18 Oct 2026, 13:59 UTC.
n8n security practices and adoption
Security practices
OpenSSF Scorecard, an automated review of how the repository is run
- Code review10/10
- Branch protection4/10
- Dangerous workflow10/10
- Pinned dependencies8/10
- Security policy10/10
All 14 checks
- Maintained10/10
- License9/10
- OpenSSF Best Practices badge0/10
- Signed releases0/10
- Token permissions0/10
- Packaging10/10
- Binary artifacts10/10
- Fuzzing10/10
- Static analysis (SAST)0/10
Full report, run 12 Oct 2026
Used by other projects
deps.dev: npm packages that depend on n8n 2.43.7
- Indirect dependents0
- All dependents16
- Registrynpm
Latest release
GitHub: files attached to the latest release and how often they were downloaded
- Versionn8n@2.43.7
- Published16 Oct 2026
- Downloads of its 3 files63
- Contributors431
Scorecard checks security practices such as code review, branch protection and pinned dependencies; it does not find bugs, and a low score does not mean the software is unsafe. Dependents and download counts show reach, not quality. Sources: OpenSSF Scorecard, deps.dev, GitHub, read 18 Oct 2026, 14:33 UTC.
Health score breakdown
| Part | Points | Based on |
|---|---|---|
| Activity | 35.0 / 35 | 3,834 commits in the last 91 days (full marks at 600) |
| Trend | 20.0 / 20 | 285% of last year’s pace (full marks at 100%) |
| Recency | 15.0 / 15 | last commit 0 days ago |
| Releases | 10.0 / 10 | latest GitHub release 2 days ago |
| Community | 20.0 / 20 | 4,487 pull requests merged in the last 91 days (full marks at 300) |
Open issues and pull requests: 1,199. The score summarises maintenance signals only, not quality or security. How the score works
n8n: common questions
Is n8n still maintained?
Yes. As of 18 October 2026, n8n received 3,834 commits in the last 91 days and its latest commit is from 18 October 2026, and no maintenance notice was found. Its health score is 100 out of 100.
What is the latest n8n release?
The latest GitHub release of n8n is n8n@2.43.7, published on 16 October 2026.
How many people contribute to n8n?
GitHub lists 431 contributors for n8n. 4,487 pull requests were merged in the last 91 days.
What licence does n8n use?
GitHub does not match the n8n licence to a standard one, so read its licence file before commercial use.
How many times is n8n downloaded?
The n8n package on npm was downloaded 473,196 times in the last month, according to ecosyste.ms (checked 18 October 2026). The count includes automated installs from CI pipelines and mirrors, so it is not a count of users.
Is n8n secure?
We cannot say whether the code is free of vulnerabilities. What can be measured is how the project is run: the OpenSSF Scorecard gives n8n 6.7 out of 10 for security practices (run 12 October 2026), covering checks such as code review, branch protection and pinned dependencies. Read the full report and the project’s security policy before relying on it.
How is the health score calculated?
It adds five parts from public GitHub data: commit activity over 91 days (35 points), the trend against the same period last year (20), how recent the last commit is (15), how recent the last release is (10) and merged pull requests (20). Archived projects score 0; a maintenance notice caps the score at 25. It measures maintenance signals only, not code quality or security.
Visitor rating
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Ratings come from visitors, not from EvalAITools, and are not part of the health status above. One rating per visitor per tool every 30 days.
Daily snapshots
| Date (UTC) | Stars | Commits, last 91 days | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Oct 2026 | 207,829 | 3,835 | Active |
| 17 Oct 2026 | 207,701 | 3,835 | Active |
| 16 Oct 2026 | 207,533 | 3,826 | Active |
One snapshot is stored per day, starting 16 October 2026. No status change has been recorded for n8n since then.
Other agent frameworks
| Tool | Status | Stars | Commits (91d) | vs last year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n8n | Active | 208k | 3,834 | +185% |
| AutoGPT | Active | 188k | 919 | +107% |
| Dify | Active | 159k | 2,477 | +106% |
| Langflow | Active | 156k | 1,004 | +144% |
| Browser Use | Slowing down | 118k | 545 | −76% |
| OpenHands | Active | 91.2k | 803 | +40% |
| MetaGPT | No recent commits | 70.9k | 0 | −100% |
| AutoGen | Archived | 61.5k | 1 | −98% |
| CrewAI | Active | 59.8k | 328 | +66% |
| Flowise | Archived | 55.5k | 18 | −86% |
| LangGraph | Active | 43.5k | 187 | −45% |
| Agno | Active | 42.8k | 339 | −39% |
| OpenAI Agents SDK | Active | 30.1k | 760 | +175% |
| smolagents | Slowing down | 29.9k | 7 | −94% |
| Mastra | Active | 28.9k | 4,575 | +168% |
| Letta | Slowing down | 25.2k | 9 | −99% |
| Activepieces | Slowing down | 25.1k | 1,228 | −96% |
| Google ADK | Active | 21.9k | 1,520 | +157% |
| Pydantic AI | Active | 20.7k | 1,785 | +352% |
| CAMEL | Slowing down | 17.9k | 48 | −83% |
| SuperAGI | No recent commits | 17.7k | 0 | — |
| Microsoft Agent Framework | Active | 14.2k | 1,013 | +74% |
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How this is measured: commits on the repository’s default branch counted through the GitHub API, the last 91 days against the same 91 days a year earlier; archived flag and licence from the repository; README checked daily for maintenance notices. Commit counts measure activity, not quality, and we have not tested this tool ourselves for this page.