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n8n AI agent recipes
32 sourced recipes on AppToBot use n8n, ranked by our reliability rating. Costs below are only what each source reports.
What you need to run them
- An n8n instance: the free self-hosted Community Edition on your own server or computer, or a paid n8n Cloud plan. Most recipes here are importable n8n templates.
- Often paired with: OpenAI (16), Google Sheets (14), Gmail (11), Gemini (7), Telegram (7), Google Calendar (4).
- Setup: 20 Medium, 7 Easy, 5 Hard. Skill: 20 Intermediate, 7 Beginner, 5 Advanced.
- 5 of 32 self-hosted per source · 32 of 32 no-code.
Running cost, as reported
- Free to run: 3 recipes · show
- API pennies: 18 recipes · show
- Paid plan needed: 2 recipes · show
- Not reported: 9 recipes · show
From each source, never estimated. “API pennies” means pay-as-you-go API usage with no subscription named, not a verified amount. Exact lines are in the table below. How we sort costs
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Running cost
Tiers come from what each source reports. “API pennies” means pay-as-you-go API usage with no subscription named, not a verified amount. What the tiers mean
| Recipe | Replaces | Stack | Cost after | Setup | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI SEO content pipeline | SEO tools + content team workflow | n8n (self-hosted) + LLM APIs | 💲 Paid plan needed $12/mo VPS + about $40-60/mo APIs; ~$0.30 per article (per author) | Hard | 4/5 |
| CRM auto-updates from sent emails | Manual Salesforce data entry | n8n + GPT + Postgres | Not reported LLM API + n8n hosting; total Not reported | Hard | 4/5 |
| Inbox labeler with Sheets log & dry-run mode | Email client filters/rules | n8n + OpenAI + Gmail + Google Sheets | API pennies $29 template (n8n listing) + OpenAI API + n8n | Medium | 4/5 |
| Lead replies with human approval loop | Writing sales replies by hand | n8n + GPT-4o-mini + Gmail | API pennies OpenAI API usage + n8n; free template | Medium | 4/5 |
| Self-hosted social post scheduler | Buffer/Hootsuite-style scheduler | n8n + OpenAI + Google Sheets | API pennies Pennies/mo in API calls on self-hosted n8n (per author) | Medium | 4/5 |
| Social scheduling + FAQ triage agents | 3 part-time contractors | n8n + HubSpot API + Claude | 💲 Paid plan needed About $190/mo infrastructure (per author) | Hard | 4/5 |
| Support inbox triage with FAQ-grounded drafts | Helpdesk first-pass triage | n8n + Gmail + Google Sheets + OpenAI | API pennies OpenAI API usage + n8n; free template | Easy | 4/5 |
| AI recipe book in Telegram + Google Sheets | Recipe manager apps | n8n + Gemini or OpenAI + Telegram + Google Sheets | API pennies Gemini or OpenAI API usage + n8n; free template | Medium | 3/5 |
| AI study schedule straight into Google Calendar | Study planner apps and hand-made revision timetables | n8n + OpenAI GPT-4o-mini + Google Calendar + Sheets + Gmail | API pennies OpenAI API usage + n8n; free template | Medium | 3/5 |
| Billing/Technical/Account specialist router | Manual support routing | n8n + OpenAI GPT-4.1 + Gmail | API pennies OpenAI API usage + n8n; free template | Medium | 3/5 |
| Chat bot that books, moves and cancels appointments | Calendly-style booking pages and back-and-forth emails | n8n + Groq (Llama 4 Scout) + Google Calendar + Gmail + Sheets | Not reported Not reported (Groq free tier supported, per template) | Medium | 3/5 |
| Competitor pricing-page change alerts | Paid page-change monitors and manual checks | n8n + OpenAI + Google Sheets + Slack | Not reported Not reported (OpenAI called only when a page changes) | Easy | 3/5 |
| Daily plan email from Todoist + Google Calendar | Opening Todoist and Google Calendar to plan the day | n8n + GPT-4o + Todoist + Google Calendar + Gmail | Not reported Not reported (template is free; OpenAI API usage extra) | Easy | 3/5 |
| Executive-style daily meeting prep brief | Manually researching attendees before meetings | n8n + OpenRouter (GPT-4o/Claude) + Google Calendar + Gmail + Hunter | API pennies $25 one-time template + OpenRouter/Hunter usage | Medium | 3/5 |
| Free OCR receipt logger | Manual expense spreadsheets | n8n + OCR.space + Telegram + Google Sheets | Free to run Free (OCR.space free key) + n8n | Easy | 3/5 |
| Google Maps lead list builder | Paid lead databases / manual prospecting | n8n + OpenAI + Google Sheets | API pennies Several API keys (scraper, crawler, SerpAPI, OpenAI) + n8n; free template | Medium | 3/5 |
| Hacker News AI digest to Telegram | Scrolling Hacker News for AI stories | n8n + OpenRouter (GPT-5) + Telegram | Not reported Not reported (HN API is free; OpenRouter credits extra) | Medium | 3/5 |
| Invoice OCR from Drive, Gmail & Telegram | Bookkeeping data entry | n8n + Gemini API + Google Sheets | API pennies $5 template (n8n listing) + Gemini key + n8n | Medium | 3/5 |
| Itemized receipt ledger with chat queries | Expense apps | n8n + Google Vision + OpenRouter | API pennies Vision + OpenRouter API usage + n8n; free template | Medium | 3/5 |
| Meeting recordings to Notion notes | Manual meeting notes | n8n + AI Agent + deAPI + Notion + Slack | API pennies deAPI + Anthropic API usage + n8n; free template | Medium | 3/5 |
| Morning briefing email: news, tasks and weather | Checking news, to-do and weather apps each morning | n8n + Google Gemini + Google Sheets + Gmail | Not reported Not reported (template is free; needs a Gemini API key) | Easy | 3/5 |
| Multi-agent inbox triage & auto-reply | Manually sorting Gmail | n8n + OpenAI + Gmail | API pennies OpenAI API usage + n8n; free template | Medium | 3/5 |
| Reddit-to-Slack alerts in 5 minutes | Custom-coded poller script | n8n | Free to run Free on self-hosted n8n | Easy | 3/5 |
| SMS booking agent with lead follow-ups | Phone tag and manual follow-up texts | n8n + OpenAI + Twilio + Cal.com + Airtable | Not reported Not reported (Twilio, OpenAI and Cal.com usage) | Hard | 3/5 |
| Send a phrase in Telegram, get an Anki flashcard | Making flashcards by hand / paid flashcard decks | n8n + OpenAI GPT-4 + Telegram + Google Sheets + Anki | API pennies OpenAI API usage + n8n; free template; Anki is free on desktop | Medium | 3/5 |
| Social listening, invoicing, lead routing in one stack | 4 separate SaaS tools | n8n (self-hosted) + OpenAI | Not reported Self-hosting + API usage; amount Not reported | Hard | 3/5 |
| Telegram calorie & macro logger (Cal AI alternative) | Calorie-counting apps like Cal AI | n8n + Gemini + Telegram + Google Sheets | API pennies Gemini API usage + n8n; free template | Medium | 3/5 |
| Telegram finance agent for receipts | Expense tracker apps | n8n + Gemini Vision + Google Sheets/Drive | API pennies Gemini API (free tier available) + n8n; free template | Medium | 3/5 |
| Vocabulary drip in Telegram every few hours | Vocabulary and word-of-the-day apps | n8n + Gemini + Telegram | API pennies Gemini API usage + n8n; free template | Easy | 3/5 |
| Weekly dinner plan + shopping list on autopilot (Mealie) | Meal-planning apps and Sunday planning | n8n + Mealie (self-hosted) | Free to run Free if you already self-host Mealie and n8n | Medium | 3/5 |
| AI agent that decides when a page change is worth an email | Page-watch services and RSS alerts | n8n + OpenAI + Firecrawl + Gmail | Not reported Not reported (Firecrawl + OpenAI usage) | Medium | 2/5 |
| Amazon price-drop alerts to Telegram | Price-tracker sites/extensions | n8n + Google Gemini + Telegram | API pennies $20 template (n8n listing) + Gemini API + n8n | Medium | 2/5 |
“Not reported” means the source doesn't say. Ratings are editorial, see methodology. Product names are trademarks of their owners; AppToBot isn't affiliated with n8n.
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