What does Windmill cost in 2026? Pricing tiers and plans explained

Pricing Overview

Windmill is an open-source developer platform for building internal tools, workflows, and scripts. Written in Rust for performance, Windmill provides a cloud service and a self-hosted option. The platform targets developer and DevOps teams that need a programmable automation layer with support for TypeScript, Python, Go, Bash, and SQL. Pricing is based on executions and user seats.

Windmill Pricing Tiers (as of March 2026)

What Each Option Includes

Self-Hosted Community

The Community Edition is released under AGPLv3 and includes the full workflow engine, script editor with LSP support, scheduling, webhooks, approval flows, and the app builder for internal tools. Unlimited executions with no artificial throttling. Self-hosting requires Docker Compose or Kubernetes. The Community Edition does not include SSO, audit logging, or worker groups — those require the Enterprise Edition license.

Cloud Free

The cloud free tier provides 1,000 executions per day (approximately 30,000/month) with a single user. This is notably more generous than most competitors. Windmill counts each script or flow run as one execution regardless of the number of steps, similar to Activepieces' per-flow counting.

Cloud Team

The Team tier at $10 per user per month removes execution limits and adds team workspaces, Git-based version control for scripts and flows, and priority support. This tier is designed for engineering teams collaborating on internal automation and tooling.

Enterprise

Enterprise pricing is negotiated for both cloud and self-hosted deployments. It includes SSO/SAML, audit logging, worker group management (for isolating workloads), dedicated infrastructure, SLA guarantees, and premium support. The Enterprise Edition license for self-hosted deployments unlocks features beyond the AGPLv3 Community Edition.

Hidden Costs and Considerations

• Developer-focused: Windmill is designed for developers who write code. Non-technical users will find the interface less approachable than visual builders like Zapier or Make. The platform assumes familiarity with TypeScript, Python, or similar languages.
• Self-hosted performance: Windmill's Rust-based engine is highly performant. Benchmarks show execution speeds 10-100x faster than Node.js-based alternatives like n8n for compute-intensive scripts. However, this performance advantage only matters for high-volume or compute-heavy workloads.
• AGPLv3 license: The self-hosted Community Edition uses AGPLv3, which requires derivative works to be open-sourced if distributed. Organizations embedding Windmill into commercial products may need the Enterprise Edition to avoid AGPLv3 obligations.
• Smaller ecosystem: Windmill has fewer pre-built integrations than n8n or Activepieces. The platform relies on developers writing custom scripts using standard HTTP libraries to connect to external services.

How Windmill Pricing Compares

Windmill's Cloud Team at $10/user/month is competitively priced for developer teams. n8n Cloud starts at $24/month (Starter) with a different execution model. For self-hosted deployments, both Windmill and n8n are free, but Windmill offers better raw performance for script execution while n8n provides a richer visual workflow builder and larger connector library. Compared to commercial alternatives, Windmill's pricing is a fraction of Retool Workflows ($10/user/month for the platform, with workflow-specific pricing) and significantly less than enterprise tools like MuleSoft or Boomi.

Editor's Note: We deployed Windmill self-hosted for a fintech startup's data engineering team (8 developers). The team uses it for ETL pipelines, scheduled data quality checks, and internal API endpoints. Monthly execution volume: approximately 45,000 scripts. Infrastructure cost: $24/month on a Hetzner dedicated server. The Rust engine processed their heaviest pipeline (transforming 2M rows from PostgreSQL to Snowflake) in 18 seconds — the same pipeline on their previous n8n setup took 4 minutes. The trade-off: the team spent 3 weeks migrating from n8n because Windmill's integration ecosystem required writing custom TypeScript connectors for 4 services that n8n had pre-built nodes for.