Which n8n node is growing fastest?
The fastest-growing n8n node is Data Table: its share of AI-built workflows rose from 4.3% in May 2026 to 8.6% in Aug 2026, a 2.0× increase. Convert to File is second (1.8×). Last week Data Table was the most searched node among AI agents.
- Last updated
- Sep 25, 2026
- Data window
- Sep 7–13, 2026
- Author
- Romuald Członkowski
- Data Table1.99× · 8.6%
- Convert to File1.85× · 1.3%
- Limit1.50× · 1.3%
- Read/Write Files from Disk1.39× · 1.4%
- Filter1.35× · 2.9%
- Webhook1.33× · 54.3%
- Structured Output Parser1.32× · 1.6%
- Execute Workflow1.29× · 10.5%
- Extract from File1.17× · 1.9%
- Send Email1.16× · 2.9%
The ranking compares the last complete month with the month a quarter earlier and only counts nodes with at least a 1% share in the last month, so a jump from 0.01% to 0.1% cannot beat real adoption. Searches are a leading signal: an agent searches for a node when it is new or undocumented in its context.
Data Table, n8n's built-in database, is absorbing the simple state, lookup tables and queues that teams used to keep in Google Sheets (10% of last week's workflows) or Postgres (15%). When the leader changes, so does this page: the URL and the question stay, the answer is recomputed every week.
History
One row per weekly issue. The table grows with every update.
| month | Data Table share |
|---|---|
| Mar 2026 | 3.3% |
| Apr 2026 | 3.6% |
| May 2026 | 4.3% |
| Jun 2026 | 4.9% |
| Jul 2026 | 5.8% |
| Aug 2026 | 8.6% |
| Sep 2026 | 9.4% |
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