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Bardeen vs. n8n

A practical comparison of Bardeen and n8n across pricing, GDPR, EU AI Act risk, and workflow fit.

bardeen

Bardeen

Browser automation with AI agents

DSGVO: partialEU-AI-Act: limitedFree tier

n8n

n8n

Open-source automation with AI nodes

DSGVO: conformEU-AI-Act: limitedFree tier

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FactorBardeenn8n
PricingFree tierFree tier
GDPRpartialconform
EU AI Actlimitedlimited
Data residencyuseu
Use casesMultimodal, Research & analyze, Customer communication, AutomateCode, Multimodal, Build & code, Automate
Data quality
Updated6/15/20266/15/2026

Choose Bardeen when

Chrome-plugin-first automation. Strong in web scraping, sales outreach, recruiting workflows.

Choose n8n when

Berlin-based, source-available. Self-host or cloud. Native AI nodes for LangChain, OpenAI, Anthropic, vector DBs.

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