n8n is the open-source automation from Berlin that you can run on your own server. With snori as a fixed endpoint, your workspace becomes a hub – data flows in the moment an event happens somewhere, and flows out the moment you create something in snori. Two European building blocks that fit together: automation you control yourself, and a knowledge store in a German data centre.
What is n8n?
n8n is a workflow automation from Berlin whose source code is openly available. The decisive difference from the big cloud services: you can self-host n8n – on your own server, in your own cloud, behind your own firewall. That means your data never leaves for a third-party platform during automation, which is a strong argument for the GDPR: no detour through a US provider, full data sovereignty. Like Make, n8n works with a visual canvas of connected nodes and integrates several hundred services. Especially on trend are its AI-agent features, which let you build language models directly into your flows. And because snori also keeps its data in Germany, the whole chain stays European. That is exactly where snori fits in: as a source and as a target.
snori and n8n: the two directions
Every connection has a direction. With snori both are possible, often in the same flow.
snori as the target – data comes in
A contact fills in a form, an event occurs in another system, an AI agent returns a result: n8n catches it and writes it as a new row into a smart table in snori, or creates a new page. Because n8n runs on your own server, all the processing happens under your control before the data lands cleanly in snori.
snori as the source – data goes out
You create a new table row or page in snori, and n8n carries it onward: into your CRM, into a chat, into a database or as context for an AI agent. snori becomes the central point of truth that feeds your self-hosted flows.
How to set up the connection
- In snori, open the settings for the Workspace API and create an access key for this specific workspace.
- You decide what that key may do: read only, append, change or also delete.
- In n8n you add an HTTP Request or webhook node and enter the key.
- Done: from now on the data flows in the direction you set.
No third-party middleman, no data detour – the flow runs on your infrastructure as long as it is active.
Who can access your data
This is where snori is different. An access key in snori can never do more than you allow. You decide separately for each connection: may n8n only append new entries, or also overwrite existing ones? See only this one workspace, or several? Every change is versioned and can be rolled back. Together with n8n's self-hosting and snori's German, encrypted data centre, this forms a chain that keeps your data with you and in Europe throughout.
n8n, Zapier or Make – which fits?
n8n is the right choice when data sovereignty and the GDPR come first: open source, self-hostable, from Berlin. Zapier is the fastest to set up and has the most ready-made apps, Make offers plenty of logic at a low per-operation price. For snori it makes no difference: all three speak the same interface. If you like, you can also connect snori directly via the Workspace API, with no service in between.