n8n-io/n8n vs windmill-labs/windmill
windmill-labs/windmill shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, windmill shows healthier maintenance signals than n8n. windmill rates Healthy overall while n8n rates Mixed. n8n was committed to 3 weeks ago with 48+ active contributors, while windmill was committed to 3 weeks ago with 7+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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n8n-io/n8n
Evidence incomplete — review before adopting
license evidence incomplete; dependency CVE scan unavailable
license evidence incomplete
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10; license evidence incomplete…
- ⚠Could not verify license from the available repository evidence
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓48+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 7% of recent commits)
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
windmill-labs/windmill
Healthy across all four use cases
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓7 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 48% of recent commits)
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
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
| n8n | windmill | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 202,325 | 17,669 |
| Last commit | 22d ago | 23d ago |
| License | Unknown | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 1,077 | 816 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 85% | 41% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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