Kintone vs. n8n

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Kintone
Score 9.9 out of 10
N/A
Kintone is a customizable digital workplace platform used to manage data, tasks, and communication. The no-code drag-and-drop interface can be used to create custom applications.
$120
per month for 5 users (minimum)
n8n
Score 9.4 out of 10
N/A
Free, open and self-hostable workflow automation tool.N/A
Pricing
Kintonen8n
Editions & Modules
Professional Subscription
$24
per month per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Kintonen8n
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsMinimum requirement of 5 users. Kintone offers a free prototype to build with using existing process.
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User Ratings
Kintonen8n
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(48 ratings)
9.3
(3 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.3
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.8
(5 ratings)
8.7
(3 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.4
(46 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.8
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
9.6
(42 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
1.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
5.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
3.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
2.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Kintonen8n
Likelihood to Recommend
Kintone
Kintone is great if you want a software that will help you in managing your data, and keep track of which tasks are assigned to whom. It also helps to streamline communication and information in one central place. However, it is not for you if you are looking for something complex that has to manage a lot of data.
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n8n.io
It is simply great for replacing manual and repetitive tasks, as well as for more complex ones where you need to work a little bit harder to get the whole process well represented inside the app. It is an excellent app for learning how to build agents using AI, going from simple to more complex solutions as you evolve.
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Pros
Kintone
  • Flexibility. You can build apps (without coding) to serve a wide range of processes and projects.
  • Ease of use. The interface is intuitive.
  • Training. There are resources readily available to train new users. Even starting from scratch, I felt like I was up to speed in just a few hours.
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  • Intuitiveness
  • Testing
  • Integration with APIs
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Cons
Kintone
  • I feel that Kintone is not well enough known yet. This means that other apps/APIs are not necessarily easy to connect with Kintone. Yes, you can use Zapier though for interfacing with other apps.
  • It would be great if it could give more customized options to change the look and format of certain things. You can make price quote apps, for example, but have to rely on 3rd party apps or programming skills to customize the look and fields.
  • If you make a table as an input field, it cannot connect to other internal Kintone apps for lookups and such.
  • I think there is more potential to make more customized data graphs.
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n8n.io
  • It should have a community node marketplace
  • it should also show the execution while its running instead of showing when its completed
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Likelihood to Renew
Kintone
I still think that there's a room for Kintone's future, and high expectations for them in additional features and innovative tools and supports. Truly hope that they will support email features, and standardized supports for various plug-ins with the 3rd party software and apps. In the meantime, we will have to consider our ways of doing our work in all aspects
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n8n.io
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Usability
Kintone
Kintone is agile app and most of the time we can easily come up with new apps. However, there should be more feature-based drag and drop and or a visual-based usability, as we all want to minimize the number of clicks and dropdown menu selections as much as possible. Thanks.
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n8n.io
The learning curve of the app is a little too steep for new users, especially those users who are not very familiar with technology and maybe coding. Nothing that can't be reached if you choose to use YouTube to learn more. It might be hard at first, but it can save you many hours, and your current job will get a lot easier with it.
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Reliability and Availability
Kintone
Never had an issue with this.
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n8n.io
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Performance
Kintone
No issues.
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n8n.io
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Support Rating
Kintone
I have had very specific questions about different aspects of the software, and I have always been able to get a hold of someone who could help. If my sales rep didn’t know the answer, he would get me in touch with someone who did know the answer. The whole team is very ready to help. It definitely feels like they view my success as their success, which is so important with this type of software.
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n8n.io
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Implementation Rating
Kintone
Everyone has their own tastes of things and way they want to work. Asking them to adapt to the changes with the new tools or apps is always difficult. We would want to start with a very small but best example within the organization, which in our case was that the employees will not be bothered by the bosses by being asked to find the documents, status of the progresses, or major things/requests/projects.
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n8n.io
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Alternatives Considered
Kintone
Kintone is the easiest product to create from and the cost is the lowest I believe. In addition, reconfigurability and extendability are great. If you look for a low code tool, you can try Kintone. But as same as another low code tool, don't expect too much.
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n8n.io
n8n gives more freedom to use and do whatever I want. Make was a bit too stiff and limited to try to make the UX more friendly. But I prefer capability over friendliness in this specific scenario.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Kintone
Should be multiple pricing packages.
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n8n.io
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Scalability
Kintone
I could see this work for all departments if implemented correctly.
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n8n.io
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Professional Services
Kintone
Needed improvement at the time.
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n8n.io
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Return on Investment
Kintone
  • It has helped us reduce the amount of people we need to track our inventory. We’ve saved time and money using less people.
  • We are able to see our data much better now and have a spot that we can all look at the database on the go.
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n8n.io
  • Ever since I started using n8n workflow - I have saved so much time
  • The amount of leads we are getting has drastically increased
  • n8n has lead to increase in my business revenue
  • it has also given me the opportunity to get creative without the need of coding.
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ScreenShots

Kintone Screenshots

Screenshot of a view of apps from the portalScreenshot of 4 ways to build an appScreenshot of the drag and drop interfaceScreenshot of business app viewsScreenshot of Kintone appearing across desktop, and mobile