Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/docusealco/docuseal/vs/n8n-io/n8n
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/docusealco/docuseal/vs/n8n-io/n8n.md
Description: docuseal and n8n share 5 technologies: Vue, Redis, Postgres, SQLite, and tiptap. docuseal is written in Ruby and n8n in TypeScript.

# docuseal vs n8n

docuseal and n8n share 5 technologies: Vue, Redis, Postgres, SQLite, and tiptap. docuseal is written in Ruby and n8n in TypeScript.

- [docusealco/docuseal](https://seerepo.com/r/docusealco/docuseal): Open source DocuSign alternative. Create, fill, and sign digital documents ✍️
- [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: Vue, Redis, Postgres, SQLite, tiptap
- Only in docuseal: Turbo, Rails, aws-sdk-s3, pg, Sidekiq, sqlite3, trilogy, AWS S3, rack, Tailwind CSS, signature_pad, canvas-confetti, driver.js, @tabler/icons-vue, devise-two-factor, jwt, devise, ruby-vips, @braintree/sanitize-url, rouge, rqrcode, csv, snarkdown, lograge, puma
- Only in n8n: Supabase, Anthropic, OpenAI, MCP, Vite, Express, vue-router, MongoDB, lru-cache, Sentry, PostHog, MySQL, Kafka, ai, @ai-sdk/provider-utils, yaml, Zod, Ajv, opentelemetry, LangChain, pdf-parse, @joplin/turndown-plugin-gfm, @mozilla/readability, turndown, xss, validator, logform, winston, jose, jsonwebtoken, CodeMirror, @lezer/highlight, class-validator, linkedom, mammoth, @clack/prompts, @aws-sdk/credential-providers, epub2, Cheerio, html-to-text, sanitize-html, bcryptjs, otpauth, file-type, nodemailer, class-transformer, highlight.js, markdown-it, vuedraggable, Chart.js, katex, rss-parser, pdfjs-dist

## Side by side

| | docuseal | n8n |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 90,440 lines written, 956 code files | 5,241,398 lines written, 14,224 code files |
| Who writes it | 0% of its commits signed by AI | 14.4% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, and CodeRabbit |
| Activity | Last push November 2, 2026, 3,119 commits, 19,004 stars | Last push November 4, 2026, 26,047 commits, 209,517 stars |
| Tests | 63 test files. 5% 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, docuseal or n8n?

n8n, with 5,241,398 lines written; docuseal has 90,440.

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

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

n8n, with 209,517 stars; docuseal has 19,004.

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

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

n8n, with 10,704 test files; docuseal has 63.

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

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

n8n: its last push was on November 4, 2026, and docuseal's on November 2, 2026.

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

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

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

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

## Sources

- docusealco/docuseal: Read on November 6, 2026, at commit 6c416dd (https://github.com/docusealco/docuseal/tree/6c416dd76e10a44a6440a77d144819199687a06b)
- 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.