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Costs explode at scale
A 5-step Zap running 10,000 times eats 50,000 tasks. The same workload on n8n self-hosted costs the price of a VPS — typically under $20/month.
Zorodo migrates SMBs and agencies off task-billed automation onto self-hosted n8n — cutting costs up to 90%, removing step limits, and giving you full control of the workflows your business runs on.
A 5-step Zap running 10,000 times eats 50,000 tasks. The same workload on n8n self-hosted costs the price of a VPS — typically under $20/month.
30-second per-step timeouts. 6 MB payload caps. No real loops. The moment your business gets interesting, Zapier becomes a wall.
Workflows, credentials, customer data — all on someone else's servers in a single region. Compliance, sovereignty, and exit options vanish.
Four engagements. Each one ends with you in control of automations that work — not a bigger SaaS bill.
We audit every active Zap, prioritise the highest-cost workflows first, rebuild them in n8n, and run both in parallel until you've validated zero regressions.
Lead routing, billing reconciliation, AI agent pipelines, multi-step approvals, ETL between SaaS tools — anything that's currently stitched together with duct tape and prayer.
We deploy n8n on your infrastructure — DigitalOcean, AWS, Hetzner, Railway, your own metal — with backups, monitoring, SSL, and CI/CD for workflow versioning.
Optional retainer for ongoing changes, monitoring, and the inevitable "the API changed and now nothing works" moment. Your automations stay alive without you babysitting them.
No 12-week discovery phases. We move fast because n8n lets us.
Free 30-minute call. We list every workflow you're running, the platforms involved, and project hard numbers on cost & time savings.
Day 0You get a written migration or build plan: scope, sequence, infrastructure choices, fixed price. No surprises, no scope creep clauses.
Day 1–3We rebuild or build, run in parallel against your existing setup, and only flip the switch when outputs match line-for-line.
Week 1–3Documentation, runbooks, and team training. Optional retainer if you want us on call. Either way, you own everything.
Week 3+Real workload: 10,000 workflow runs/month, 8 steps each.
Numbers from publicly published 2026 pricing across both platforms. Your real savings depend on your specific workload — that's what the audit is for.
Twelve voices from the kinds of teams we work with: agencies, ops leads, founders, RevOps.
"We were spending $1,400 a month on Zapier across our client accounts. Zorodo migrated all of it to a single self-hosted n8n in three weeks. New bill: $22 in VPS costs."
"Our biggest workflow had 14 steps and Zapier kept timing out. n8n runs the whole thing in one execution and we stopped getting 3am Slack alerts. That alone paid for the engagement."
"Honestly I expected the rebuild to be painful. They ran our old Zaps and the new n8n flows in parallel for two weeks and we found exactly two output mismatches — both ours, not theirs."
"We needed automations that touched our internal Postgres directly. Zapier couldn't. n8n could in 20 minutes. Wish we'd switched a year earlier."
"Zorodo wrote runbooks for every workflow they built. When our Zap-replacement broke six months later because Stripe changed an endpoint, our junior dev fixed it in 40 minutes."
"Running 70+ Zaps for 14 client accounts as an agency was killing our margins. Now every client gets a workflow on our shared n8n instance. Margins up 31% on retainers."
"The audit alone was worth it. They found three Zaps we forgot about that were still costing us $180/month doing nothing useful."
"I wanted AI agent workflows that Zapier just couldn't do natively. Zorodo built a multi-agent triage system on n8n that handles 80% of our inbound support. Zero ChatGPT subscriptions needed."
"GDPR was the dealbreaker. Self-hosted n8n means EU customer data never leaves our Frankfurt VPS. Compliance team stopped emailing me about it."
"They don't just hand you n8n and disappear. The retainer means when our HubSpot rebuild broke half our workflows, they fixed it in two days."
"We tried building n8n ourselves for two months. Hired Zorodo, they shipped what we couldn't in three weeks. Should've called them on day one."
"The cost projection they gave us during the audit was within 8% of what we actually saved in year one. Most consultants oversell. These guys undersold."
Yes. It's used by Delivery Hero, security teams, and thousands of agencies running mission-critical workflows. Self-hosted with queue mode and Postgres, it scales horizontally and handles execution volumes that would cost five-figure-monthly on Zapier.
Two to three weeks for most SMBs. Agencies with 50+ Zaps across client accounts take four to six weeks. We don't bill until we have a fixed scope, so the audit cost is yours regardless.
n8n has 400+ native connectors plus 600+ community ones. For anything else with a REST API — which is almost everything — the HTTP Request node handles it. We've never hit a tool we couldn't integrate.
Your call. Most clients self-host on their own cloud (DigitalOcean, AWS, Hetzner, Railway). We set it up, harden it, and document it. If you want us to manage the hosting too, that's part of the retainer.
It keeps running. We rebuild in n8n alongside it, run both in parallel for 1–2 weeks, validate every workflow's output matches, then cut over and cancel Zapier. Zero downtime, zero risk of dropped automations.
Yes. We build greenfield n8n setups for teams that have outgrown manual ops, and we help teams already on n8n who need senior help with complex workflows, AI agent pipelines, or scaling.
Fixed-price after the free audit, scoped to the work. We send a written proposal with the number before any commitment. Easiest to start a conversation via the form below.
Free 30-minute audit. We'll come back with a written cost estimate of what you'd save migrating, plus where your current setup is most likely to break.