For the last few months my impression was that n8n is losing its momentum. I have used it a lot, and a year ago it came up on X all the time. Now, when people there talk about automation, they mostly talk about coding agents like Claude Code. Then I looked at the numbers.
Some of them support the impression. A year ago the n8n GitHub repository was gaining about 10,000 stars a month. Now it gains about 3,000. Active users on the n8n community forum over 30 days went from about 19,000 to about 7,000 in the same period.
The business numbers point the other way. In October 2025 n8n raised $180 million at a $2.5 billion valuation and said its revenue had grown 10x that year. In May 2026 SAP invested at a $5.2 billion valuation and said it would build n8n into Joule Studio, its tool for building AI agents. At that point n8n reported more than 1,400 enterprise customers and 1.7 million monthly active builders. Mercedes-Benz is rolling it out across R&D, production, sales, HR and IT, on its own servers. Deutsche Telekom resells it to German mid-sized companies. Its annual recurring revenue was reported above $100 million this summer.
So attention went down while revenue went up. I think the two numbers come from different people. The attention on X came mostly from individual builders and creators, and many of them moved on to the newest tool. The revenue comes from companies that need automations that run every night, that someone can review, and that can stay on their own infrastructure. Those companies do not change tools because a new one is popular for a month.
OpenAI's Agent Builder shows the same thing from the other side. When OpenAI launched it in October 2025, many posts and videos said it would be the end of n8n. n8n raised its $2.5 billion round in the same week. In June this year OpenAI announced that it will shut Agent Builder down at the end of November. I think it works in both directions: a product can lose attention on X and keep growing, and it can get a lot of attention and still not last.