How do I self-host n8n?

n8n can be deployed using Docker Compose. The AltStack provides a production-ready configuration that you can deploy on your own server. Simply copy the configuration and run it on any machine with Docker installed.

Is n8n free to self-host?

Yes, n8n is open source under the Sustainable Use License and free to self-host. Your only costs are the server infrastructure. A basic cloud VPS starts at around $5-10/month.

What programming language is n8n built with?

n8n is built with TypeScript. It has 207,289 stars on GitHub, indicating strong community adoption and support.

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Quick Start

Create a directory

mkdir n8n-self-hosted && cd n8n-self-hosted

Create config file

Copy the content from the Config tab below into a file named docker-compose.yml

Deploy

docker compose up -d

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Metadata

License

Sustainable Use License

Language

TypeScript

Last Updated

10/14/2026

Configuration

yaml


# ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
# 🚀 BUILT & MAINTAINED BY THE ALTSTACK
# 🌍 https://thealtstack.com
# 💡 Open-source deployment templates for modern self-hosting.
# ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

# Docker Compose for n8n
version: '3.8'

services:
  n8n:
    image: docker.n8n.io/n8nio/n8n
    restart: always
    ports:
      - "5678:5678"
    environment:
      - N8N_HOST=localhost
      - N8N_PORT=5678
      - N8N_PROTOCOL=http
      - NODE_ENV=production
      - WEBHOOK_URL=http://localhost:5678/
      - GENERIC_TIMEZONE=UTC
    volumes:
      - n8n_data:/home/node/.n8n
    networks:
      - n8n_net
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD", "curl", "-f", "http://localhost:5678/healthz"]
      interval: 30s
      timeout: 10s
      retries: 3

networks:
  n8n_net:
    driver: bridge

volumes:
  n8n_data:

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