Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/knadh/listmonk/vs/n8n-io/n8n
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/knadh/listmonk/vs/n8n-io/n8n.md
Description: listmonk and n8n share 5 technologies: Postgres, OpenAI, Chart.js, CodeMirror, and @lezer/highlight. listmonk is written in Go and n8n in TypeScript.

# listmonk vs n8n

listmonk and n8n share 5 technologies: Postgres, OpenAI, Chart.js, CodeMirror, and @lezer/highlight. listmonk is written in Go and n8n in TypeScript.

- [knadh/listmonk](https://seerepo.com/r/knadh/listmonk): High performance, self-hosted, newsletter and mailing list manager with a modern dashboard. Single binary app.
- [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: Postgres, OpenAI, Chart.js, CodeMirror, @lezer/highlight
- Only in listmonk: Echo, pq, Alpine.js, github.com/jmoiron/sqlx, github.com/coreos/go-oidc/v3, golang.org/x/oauth2
- Only in n8n: Supabase, Anthropic, MCP, Vite, Redis, Express, Vue, vue-router, MongoDB, SQLite, 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, 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, tiptap, vuedraggable, katex, rss-parser, pdfjs-dist

## Side by side

| | listmonk | n8n |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 39,387 lines written, 177 code files | 5,241,398 lines written, 14,224 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.1% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code | 14.4% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, and CodeRabbit |
| Activity | Last push November 4, 2026, 2,068 commits, 24,139 stars | Last push November 4, 2026, 26,047 commits, 209,517 stars |
| Tests | 15 test files. 2.3% 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, listmonk or n8n?

n8n, with 5,241,398 lines written; listmonk has 39,387.

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

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

n8n, with 209,517 stars; listmonk has 24,139.

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

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

n8n, with 10,704 test files; listmonk has 15.

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

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

n8n: an AI signed 14.4% of its commits, with Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, and CodeRabbit; in listmonk, 0.1%.

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

## Sources

- knadh/listmonk: Read on November 4, 2026, at commit 517b461 (https://github.com/knadh/listmonk/tree/517b46169e2d7b7b6a544b3caa9ce8970ac5028c)
- 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.