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n8n-io/n8n vs nilbuild/developer-roadmap

n8n-io/n8n shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, n8n shows healthier maintenance signals than developer-roadmap. n8n rates Healthy overall while developer-roadmap rates Mixed. n8n was committed to today with 42+ active contributors, while developer-roadmap was committed to 5 days ago with 20+ active contributors. Both use the Other license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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n8n-io/n8n

Healthy

Healthy across the board

ConcernsDependency

non-standard license (Other)

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
  • Last commit today
  • 42+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 13% of recent commits)
  • Other licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: clarify license terms

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

nilbuild/developer-roadmap

Mixed

Mixed signals — read the receipts

ConcernsDependency

non-standard license (Other); no tests detected

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 70% of recent commits
  • Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
  • No test directory detected
  • Last commit 3d ago
  • 20 active contributors
  • Other licensed
  • CI configured

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: clarify license terms

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

n8ndeveloper-roadmap
Stars194,262358,208
Last committoday5d ago
LicenseOtherOther
Open issues1,48222
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage100%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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