We’ve been using n8n in production for the last few months at my startup and are planning on migrating to regular backend code.

Pros:

- Good observability. It’s handy that they track all executions and let you see when workflows run.

- Usable for non-technical people.

- They’ve had all the integrations we needed.

Cons:

- Implementing parallel execution for async parts of the workflow is complicated and flaky.

- Pricing is expensive for the hosted version.

- Version control is bad.

- If you have engineering capacity, it’s faster and simpler to write some more backend code if you already have a backend.