Which n8n node is growing fastest?
The fastest-growing n8n node is stopAndError: its share of AI-built workflows rose from 0.5% in Jun 2026 to 1.7% in Sep 2026, a 3.4× increase. Extract from File is second (2.9×).
- Last updated
- Oct 23, 2026
- Data window
- Oct 5–11, 2026
- Author
- Romuald Członkowski
- stopAndError3.39× · 1.7%
- Extract from File2.92× · 2.3%
- Data Table2.00× · 9.7%
- Convert to File1.48× · 1.2%
- Execute Workflow1.40× · 12.5%
- Read/Write Files from Disk1.35× · 1.3%
- IF1.25× · 35.4%
- Structured Output Parser1.25× · 1.6%
- Limit1.24× · 1.0%
- Wait1.18× · 5.9%
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 (9% of last week's workflows) or Postgres (13%). 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 | stopAndError share |
|---|---|
| Mar 2026 | 0.3% |
| Apr 2026 | 0.4% |
| May 2026 | 0.5% |
| Jun 2026 | 0.5% |
| Jul 2026 | 0.5% |
| Aug 2026 | 1.0% |
| Sep 2026 | 1.7% |
| Oct 2026 | 3.1% |
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