n8nTwo minutes of build time, then it runs every Monday
Type “check the eight competitor pricing pages and tell me what changed since last Monday”, save it as a routine, and it runs itself with no selector to repair after a redesign. n8n gives you nodes, self-hosting and per-execution pricing.
There is no graph to build here and none to keep in sync when a site changes. A companion re-reads each page every run, so a redesign costs a slower pass instead of an afternoon of repairs.
Strawberry is an agentic browser for macOS and Windows. You describe the job in a sentence and a companion does it in the accounts you are already signed into, stopping at a card before anything consequential.
n8n is a fair-code workflow platform: a free self-hosted Community Edition, 500+ integrations as of this writing, a visual canvas you can drop real code into, and AI agent nodes stating an intent we share, “Connect any model. Inspect every decision. Keep humans in the loop.” Its cloud plans meter executions rather than seats, 20€/month for 2,500 and 50€/month for 10,000 as of this writing, with unlimited users and workflows.
| n8n | Strawberry | |
|---|---|---|
| How a job gets built | Nodes on a visual canvas, with real code dropped in where you want it (as of this writing) | A sentence in the chat panel, saved as a routine if it should repeat |
| Reach | 500+ integrations, plus an HTTP Request node that “allows you to make HTTP requests to query data from any app or service with a REST API” | About a hundred connected accounts, plus every site your browser session already reaches |
| A tool with no API | The documented path is HTTP against a REST API, so anything without one becomes a step you build and repair yourself | A companion re-reads the signed-in page each run, so a redesign costs a slower pass instead of a rebuild |
| Acting inside accounts you are already signed into | Credentials you configure inside n8n, across the seven authentication types its docs name | The session on your own desk, with no credential copied anywhere for the agent to hold |
| When the site changes | A workflow encodes the shape it was built against, so it stops until somebody repairs the node | The page is read fresh each run, which costs more per pass and survives a redesign |
| Approval before a consequential action | Its AI agent nodes state the intent plainly: “Connect any model. Inspect every decision. Keep humans in the loop.” | A card that names the exact send, change or payment, and Ask Always mode in Settings → AI permissions for every action |
| Where it runs | Your own infrastructure on the fair-code Community Edition, or n8n cloud metered per execution (as of this writing) | The machine that already holds your logins, on Mac or Windows |
| Best fit | A job that runs a thousand times a month and has to run identically every time | A weekly job needing judgement across four sites nobody built a connector for |
What breaks, and who fixes it?
Selectors, schemas and versions.
A workflow is code with a nicer skin: it encodes the shape of the page or payload it was built against, and when that shape moves it stops until somebody repairs the node.
A companion reads the page fresh each time. That costs more per run and survives a redesign, and there is no workflow graph for anyone to own eighteen months from now.
When is a graph the right answer?
When the job runs a thousand times a month and has to run identically.
Webhook in, transform, write to the database, retry on failure, log it. n8n is also built for automation that has to live inside your own infrastructure, with a model you host.
A companion takes the other end: weekly jobs, involving judgement, across four sites that were never designed to speak to each other. The agentic work index sorts real examples along that line.
The same job, built and asked
One task: every Monday, check the eight competitor pricing pages and report what changed.
The standing version of that task is at monitor competitor prices.
- n8n: HTTP request nodes, a parser per page, a diff step, a notification node, and eight selectors to repair whenever a marketing team ships a redesign.
- Build time: an afternoon. Run cost: one execution a week.
- Strawberry: type the sentence, save it as a routine for Monday at 08:00.
- Build time: two minutes. Run cost: credits per run, every week, forever.
Self-hosting, and what it buys you
The Community Edition is free and runs on hardware you own, so the data flow is one you can draw on a whiteboard.
Strawberry draws a different diagram. The browsing happens in the session on your own desk, the code a companion runs executes locally in a sandbox with the network filtered, and every consequential action stops for a click. The model is at /security and the plans are on /pricing.
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