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ILuminance vs n8n
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Luminance if…
- you're in its core audience: in-house legal teams, procurement teams
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Choose n8n if…
- you want a free plan to start with
- you work on Self-hosted
- you're in its core audience: developers, operations teams
Side by side
Feature Luminance n8n
Pricing modelContact for pricingFreemium
Starting price——
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
Trains AI on your content—No
Data retention—Execution data deleted automatically based on account's retention settings
Security and complianceISO 27001, SOC 2 Type IISOC 2, GDPR
GitHub stars—208.8K
Custom playbooks—
Contract repository—
PlatformsWebWeb, Self-hosted
CategoryLegalWorkflow Automation
CompanyLuminancen8n GmbH
Based in—Germany
Founded——
Part of——
Key features
L Luminance
- Playbook and precedent-based contract review
- AI-assisted contract negotiation
- Portfolio-wide search of risk, obligations and renewals
- Contract repository
- Connected workflows from intake to signature
- Document search engine for contracts
- Luna assistant for contract questions
- Detection of auto-renewals and commercial opportunities
N n8n
- Visual workflow builder with optional custom code
- 500+ native integrations plus HTTP for any API
- AI agents, AI nodes and MCP support
- Human-in-the-loop approvals, e.g. via Slack
- Re-run only the failed step
- Version history with Git-based version control
- SSO (SAML), LDAP, RBAC and audit logs
- Cloud hosting or self-hosting with Docker
Plans and prices
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Luminance
Contact for pricing. Plan details aren't published.
n8n
Community EditionFree (self-hosted)
Starter€20/mo billed annually
Pro€50/mo billed annually
Business€667/mo billed annually
EnterpriseCustom
Strengths and limitations
Luminance
- ISO 27001 certified and SOC 2 Type II examined
- Built for use across many departments, not only legal
- Covers negotiation, repository and workflows in one platform
- Says it is trusted by more than 1,000 enterprises
- No public pricing; demo request required
- No free plan or trial listed
- Aimed at enterprises rather than individuals or small teams
n8n
- Self-hosted Community Edition available on GitHub
- All plans include unlimited users and workflows
- Cloud trial needs no credit card
- Pricing is per execution, regardless of workflow complexity
- Prices listed in euros for annual billing only
- Business plan is self-hosted only
- Support on non-Enterprise plans is forum only
- Self-hosted licensed features need a daily license server check-in
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