Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/different-ai/openwork/vs/n8n-io/n8n
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/different-ai/openwork/vs/n8n-io/n8n.md
Description: openwork and n8n share 16 technologies: Vite, MCP, Sentry, Redis, PostHog, MySQL, CodeMirror, ai, katex, Zod, Ajv, yaml, jose, sanitize-html, opentelemetry, and nodemailer. Both are written in TypeScript.

# openwork vs n8n

openwork and n8n share 16 technologies: Vite, MCP, Sentry, Redis, PostHog, MySQL, CodeMirror, ai, katex, Zod, Ajv, yaml, jose, sanitize-html, opentelemetry, and nodemailer. Both are written in TypeScript.

- [different-ai/openwork](https://seerepo.com/r/different-ai/openwork): The open-source alternative to Claude Cowork (powered by opencode)
- [n8n-io/n8n](https://seerepo.com/r/n8n-io/n8n): Fair-code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities. Combine visual building with custom code, self-host or cloud, 400+ integrations.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Vite, MCP, Sentry, Redis, PostHog, MySQL, CodeMirror, ai, katex, Zod, Ajv, yaml, jose, sanitize-html, opentelemetry, nodemailer
- Only in openwork: React Router, React, Electron, Next.js, Stripe, Hono, PlanetScale, Resend, Vercel, Tailwind CSS, class-variance-authority, tailwind-merge, motion, sonner, lexical, @tanstack/react-virtual, Mermaid, xterm, Lucide, @heroicons/react, marked, dompurify, shiki, htmlparser2, Drizzle, @ai-sdk/provider, Better Auth, sharp, fast-xml-parser, @standard-schema/spec, @hono/node-server, recharts, cmdk, Framer, react-email
- Only in n8n: Postgres, Supabase, Anthropic, OpenAI, Express, Vue, vue-router, MongoDB, SQLite, lru-cache, Kafka, @ai-sdk/provider-utils, LangChain, pdf-parse, @joplin/turndown-plugin-gfm, @mozilla/readability, turndown, xss, validator, logform, winston, jsonwebtoken, @lezer/highlight, class-validator, linkedom, mammoth, @clack/prompts, @aws-sdk/credential-providers, epub2, Cheerio, html-to-text, bcryptjs, otpauth, file-type, class-transformer, highlight.js, markdown-it, tiptap, vuedraggable, Chart.js, rss-parser, pdfjs-dist

## Side by side

| | openwork | n8n |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 954,486 lines written, 3,280 code files | 5,241,398 lines written, 14,224 code files |
| Who writes it | 3% of its commits signed by AI. With Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, and Warp | 14.4% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, and CodeRabbit |
| Activity | Last push November 4, 2026, 6,571 commits, 24,396 stars | Last push November 4, 2026, 26,047 commits, 209,517 stars |
| Tests | 822 test files. 27.7% of its code files have a test that imports them | 10,704 test files. 53.7% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, openwork or n8n?

n8n, with 5,241,398 lines written in 14,224 code files; openwork has 954,486 in 3,280.

The proof: [n8n-io/n8n's code at commit d5e7db2](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/tree/d5e7db2bf57dbc06e65648cdbec7f5db6b91bedc)

### Which has more GitHub stars, openwork or n8n?

n8n, with 209,517 stars; openwork has 24,396.

The proof: [n8n-io/n8n on GitHub](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n)

### Which has more tests, openwork or n8n?

n8n, with 10,704 test files; openwork has 822.

The proof: [n8n-io/n8n's code at commit d5e7db2](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/tree/d5e7db2bf57dbc06e65648cdbec7f5db6b91bedc)

### Which was updated more recently, openwork or n8n?

Both got their last push on November 4, 2026.

The proof: [n8n-io/n8n's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, openwork or n8n?

n8n: an AI signed 14.4% of its commits, with Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, and CodeRabbit; in openwork, 3%.

The proof: [the commits each tool signed in n8n-io/n8n](https://seerepo.com/r/n8n-io/n8n/ai)

## Sources

- different-ai/openwork: Read on November 4, 2026, at commit 2fff515 (https://github.com/different-ai/openwork/tree/2fff515e6b6cab8a362dcbfff6b0fac983696bf2)
- n8n-io/n8n: Read on November 4, 2026, at commit d5e7db2 (https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/tree/d5e7db2bf57dbc06e65648cdbec7f5db6b91bedc)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.