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Early access Now taking agencies & self-hosters

Ship n8n workflows
from dev to prod.

Review a visual diff, map credentials and environment values once, and promote with a Git commit. Built for the free Community Edition — no Enterprise license required.

Join the waitlist See how it works
  • Secrets never leave n8n
  • EU-hosted or self-hosted
  • Official public API only

Early access opens in batches from December 2026.

€667/mo

The cheapest n8n plan with Environments and Git — Business, billed annually. Source, Oct 2026

15–30min

A typical manual promotion: export, delete IDs, import, re-select credentials, fix IDs. Our estimate.

0secrets

Transferred by Promote. It maps credentials by reference — values never leave your instance.

The problem

Every promotion is a ritual.
One wrong click breaks prod.

The Community Edition has no environments and no Git sync. So teams copy JSON between instances by hand — and rebuild the same context every single time.

Today manual export / import
  1. 01 Export the workflow JSON from dev 1 min
  2. 02 Delete the "id" line so the import doesn’t clash 1 min
  3. 03 Import into prod — as a new copy with a new ID 1 min
  4. 04 Open every node and re-select the prod credential 5–10 min
  5. 05 Hunt down sheet IDs, channel names, base URLs 5–10 min
  6. 06 Re-wire the webhook path, deactivate the old copy 2–5 min
  7. 07 Hope you didn’t miss anything. No record of what changed. ∞
Per promotion ≈ 15–30 min · error-prone
With Promote review → promote
  1. 01 Open the diff. See every added, changed and removed node — and every parameter.
  2. 02 Check the mapping. Credentials and environment values are already remembered.
  3. 03 Promote. Prod is updated in place, the change lands as a Git commit.
Per promotion one review · one click
How it works

Set up in minutes. Promote in seconds.

No agent on your server, no changes to your workflows. Promote talks to n8n through its public API.

  1. 1

    Connect your instances

    Add dev and prod with an n8n API key each. Promote reads workflows, credential names and IDs — nothing else.

    n8n-dev.acme.ioconnected
    n8n.acme.ioconnected
  2. 2

    Map once

    Tell Promote which credential and which values belong to which environment. It remembers for every future promotion.

    Postgres · dev Postgres · prod
    api.staging.io api.acme.io
  3. 3

    Review & promote

    Read the diff, add a note, click promote. Every release becomes a commit in your own Git repo — with rollback.

    a3f9c1e Add Slack alert for hot leads
    7be20d4 Lower enrich timeout
Features

A real release process.
Minus the Enterprise license.

A focused toolkit for one job: getting changes from dev into production without surprises.

Visual diff

See exactly what will change in prod.

Node by node and parameter by parameter — including Code nodes and AI Agent prompts. No more guessing from raw JSON.

Credential mapping

Credentials, mapped by reference.

Promote swaps “Stripe (test)” for “Stripe (live)” on the way to prod. Secret values never leave n8n.

Environment values

No placeholders. Dev keeps running.

Tell Promote that sheet 1aXk… in dev is 9fQz… in prod. It swaps the literal on every promotion.

Updated in place

Same ID. Same webhook. Same history.

Prod workflows are updated, not re-imported. Webhook URLs keep working and execution history stays attached.

Git history

Every promotion is a commit.

In your own GitHub or GitLab repo. Roll back any workflow to any earlier version in one click.

Audit log Team

Every promotion, on the record.

Who promoted or rolled back what, when and why — with the required comment and the Git commit it produced.

Your server Self-hosted

Or run it next to your n8n.

One Docker container on your own server. Your n8n API keys never leave your network.

Compare

The missing middle.

Between copy-pasting JSON and a €667/month license, there was nothing. Here’s an honest comparison.

Feature comparison of ways to move n8n workflows from dev to prod
Capability Manual export / import DIY Git scripts n8n Business Promote
Price Free Free + your time €667/mo From €0
Works on the Community Edition Yes Yes No Yes
Visual diff before deploying No Partly / with extra work Yes Yes
Credential remapping No No Yes Yes
Environment-specific values No Partly / with extra work Yes Yes
Keeps prod IDs & webhook paths No Partly / with extra work Yes Yes
Git history & rollback No Yes Yes Yes
Audit log of every promotion No Partly / with extra work Partly / with extra work Yes
SSO, more projects, vendor support No No Yes No

= partly, or with extra work. n8n Business price as listed on n8n.io/pricing (Oct 2026, billed annually). If you need SSO and vendor support, Business is worth it.

Pricing

Priced like a tool, not a license.

Planned prices for launch. Excl. VAT, cancel anytime, 14-day trial on every paid plan.

Waitlist members lock in 40% off for the first 12 months.

Free

Try it on one dev/prod pair.

€0 forever
Get early access
  • 1 instance pair
  • Unlimited diffs
  • 5 promotions / month
  • Credential & value mapping

Solo

For freelancers running client automations.

€29 / month
Reserve Solo
  • 2 instances
  • 25 tracked workflows
  • Unlimited promotions
  • Git commit per promotion
  • One-click rollback
Agencies

Team

For agencies with dev, staging and prod.

€79 / month
Reserve Team
  • 4 instances
  • Unlimited workflows
  • Everything in Solo
  • Audit log

Self-hosted

Run Promote next to your n8n.

€590 / year
Reserve Self-hosted
  • Single Docker container
  • Unlimited instances
  • API keys never leave your network
  • 12 months of updates
Security

Your secrets stay where they are.

Promote is built on the assumption that it should know as little as possible about your production system.

  • References, not values. Credentials are mapped by name and ID. Secret values are never read, stored or transferred.
  • Encrypted API keys. The n8n API keys you connect are encrypted at rest and only used to call the instances you added.
  • EU hosting — or yours. The cloud version runs in the EU. The self-hosted edition runs entirely on your server.
  • Public API only. No patched n8n, no database access, no agent. If n8n’s API can’t do it, Promote doesn’t do it.
FAQ

Questions, answered.

Something missing? Write to kontakt@senioguard.de — a human reads every email.

Is this allowed under the n8n license?

Promote never ships, modifies or hosts n8n. It is an external tool that talks to your instances through the official public API, the same way a script or CI job would. The Sustainable Use License governs the n8n software itself; your instances stay yours. This is our reading of the license, not legal advice.

Do you store my credentials?

No. Credential secrets never leave n8n. Promote only reads credential names and IDs so it can map “Slack (dev)” to “Slack (prod)”. The n8n API keys you connect are encrypted at rest — or stay entirely on your own server with the self-hosted edition.

Which n8n versions are supported?

Self-hosted Community Edition with the public API enabled, 1.x and 2.x. Workflow JSON changes between releases, so we test every new n8n release before marking it supported.

What happens to webhooks and execution history in prod?

Promote updates the existing production workflow in place instead of importing a copy. The workflow ID stays, so webhook paths and execution history stay too.

What if Promote is down?

Nothing happens to your automations. Promote is only involved at the moment you promote — your n8n instances run independently of it.

Why not just buy n8n Business?

If you also need SSO, more projects, queue-mode support and vendor support, Business is a good deal. If you mainly want a safe dev → prod path for the Community Edition, Promote costs a fraction of it.

When can I use it?

We are onboarding the waitlist in small batches so every early user gets a direct line to us. Join the list and you will hear from us first.

Early access

Stop copy-pasting JSON into production.

Join the waitlist. We onboard in small batches and talk to every early team.

  • 01Early access before public launch
  • 02Waitlist members lock in 40% off for the first 12 months.
  • 03A direct line to shape the roadmap

Early access opens in batches from December 2026.

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