Best n8n Community Nodes in 2026: Top 20 by npm Downloads

Our directory tracks more than 10,000 n8n community nodes, and the median one gets 9 npm downloads a week. This list picks out the ones people actually use: the 20 most downloaded n8n community nodes in our directory, then the strongest picks for common jobs such as WhatsApp, web scraping, voice and documents. Every number comes from npm or GitHub, and every node links to its page in our directory with the install command.

How this list is ranked

• Weekly downloads: npm, the week of November 3 to 9, 2026, read from the npm downloads API on November 10.
• GitHub stars: the node’s GitHub repository, as stored on its page in our directory.
• Latest release: the publish date of the current npm version.

We only rank nodes that our directory keeps listed and indexed after its quality review, so test uploads and copies of other packages are not in it. Downloads measure installs, including automated ones from servers and build pipelines, so read them as a sign of use, not as a count of people.

The 20 most downloaded n8n community nodes

* More than half of that week’s downloads came on a single day, so the weekly figure is less steady than it looks.

Together these 20 packages were downloaded 2,490,056 times in one week. Evolution API alone accounts for 1,072,894 of them, more than the next eight combined.

Best n8n community nodes by job

WhatsApp and customer chat

• n8n-nodes-evolution-api (1,072,894 downloads last week). The default choice if you already run Evolution API. It has 171 published versions on npm, more than any other node in this list.
• n8n-nodes-evolution-go (26,279 downloads last week). For the Evolution Go server. Released in November 2025, it is the newest of the WhatsApp picks.
• n8n-nodes-chatwoot (171,841 downloads last week). Connects Chatwoot, the open source support inbox. Note that it has a single npm release, from February 2023.
• @devlikeapro/n8n-nodes-chatwoot (36,371 downloads last week). A second Chatwoot node, last released in June 2025.

More options: the WhatsApp hub, the Chatwoot hub and our comparison Best n8n Community Nodes for Evolution API.

Web scraping and page content

• @mendable/n8n-nodes-firecrawl (78,772 downloads last week). The official Firecrawl node, last released in September 2026. It can also run as a tool for the AI Agent node.
• n8n-nodes-firecrawl (91,102 downloads last week). The older community version, last released in October 2024. New workflows are better served by the official package.
• @apify/n8n-nodes-apify (98,162 downloads last week). Built by Apify. Gives n8n access to the actors in the Apify Store, with the most recent release of any node in the top 20 (October 2026).
• n8n-nodes-webpage-content-extractor (56,032 downloads last week). Fetches a URL and returns the readable text, similar to reader mode in a browser.
• n8n-nodes-scraperapi-official (2,549 downloads last week). The official ScraperAPI node, released by ScraperAPI in November 2025.

Compare them on the Firecrawl hub, the Apify hub and in Firecrawl in n8n: Community Nodes Compared, or browse the SEO category.

Voice and transcription

• @elevenlabs/n8n-nodes-elevenlabs (202,173 downloads last week). The official ElevenLabs package, and the second most downloaded node in our directory.
• n8n-nodes-elevenlabs (85,755 downloads last week). The earlier community version, last released in June 2024.
• n8n-nodes-palatine-speech (110,485 downloads last week). Published by Palatine Vision for its own speech API.
• n8n-nodes-transcript-lol (13,410 downloads last week). Audio and video transcription through Transcript.lol.

See the ElevenLabs hub, the Transcription hub and the AI Voice category.

AI agents, LLMs and MCP

• n8n-nodes-mcp (157,504 downloads last week). Its GitHub repository has 2,913 stars, the most of any node in this list.
• n8n-nodes-deepseek (62,731 downloads last week). DeepSeek models in a node that works like the built-in OpenAI node.
• n8n-nodes-merge (22,701 downloads last week). Released in 2026 by Merge, the unified API company.
• @langfuse/n8n-nodes-langfuse (20,093 downloads last week). Langfuse prompts and tracing for LLM steps, from the Langfuse team.
• n8n-nodes-qdrant (2,146 downloads last week). Vector database node from the Qdrant team.

The MCP hub, MCP in n8n: Built-in vs Community and the AI Assistants category go further, and n8n AI Nodes covers the whole AI side by category.

Documents, PDF and text

• n8n-nodes-text-manipulation (87,742 downloads last week). Covers many string edits that would otherwise need a Code node.
• n8n-nodes-document-generator (47,747 downloads last week). Fills Handlebars templates with workflow data, for documents or email bodies.
• n8n-nodes-pdfkit (20,977 downloads last week). Converts images to a PDF. Small in scope, last released in May 2023.
• @mazix/n8n-nodes-converter-documents (2,163 downloads last week). Extracts text, HTML or Markdown from DOCX, PDF, ODT, PPTX and other files, and rows from XLSX and CSV.

More in the PDF hub, the Utilities category and PDF in n8n: Extract From File vs PDF Community Nodes.

Email, social media and payments

• n8n-nodes-resend (8,198 downloads last week). Built by Resend, with 60 versions on npm so far. Version 3.2.1 came out on November 5, 2026.
• n8n-nodes-instagram-token (23,876 downloads last week). Instagram through an access token. A second option, @mookielianhd/n8n-nodes-instagram, is on the Instagram hub.
• n8n-nodes-browserflow (4,982 downloads last week). Runs Browserflow browser automations, which are built around LinkedIn.
• n8n-nodes-openpix (16,819 downloads last week). Pix payments in Brazil through OpenPix.

Official nodes from the service’s own team

A node published by the company behind the service is maintained by the same people who change the API. These nodes in the lists above come from the vendor’s own GitHub organization:

• ElevenLabs (github.com/elevenlabs)
• Apify (github.com/apify)
• Firecrawl (github.com/firecrawl)
• Langfuse (github.com/langfuse)
• Resend (github.com/resend)
• Qdrant (github.com/qdrant)
• Merge (github.com/merge-api)
• ScraperAPI (github.com/scraperapi)

Official does not mean verified by n8n. Verification is a separate review by n8n itself, explained in Verified vs Unverified n8n Community Nodes.

What download numbers do not tell you

A high count is a good first filter, but check two more things on the node page before you build on it:

• The latest release. n8n-nodes-chatwoot and PdfKit are near the top on downloads but have not had a release since 2023. They may still work, but no fixes have shipped since then.
• One-day spikes. PdfKit got 12,821 of its 20,977 weekly downloads on a single day. Bursts like that usually come from automated installs, so compare a few weeks before you trust a number.

How to install these nodes

On a self-hosted n8n, open Settings > Community Nodes, choose Install and enter the npm package name from the table, for example @mendable/n8n-nodes-firecrawl. On n8n Cloud only verified community nodes can be installed. The full steps for Docker, npm and environment variables are in How to Install n8n Community Nodes.

FAQ

What is the most downloaded n8n community node?

n8n-nodes-evolution-api, with 1,072,894 npm downloads in the week of November 3 to 9, 2026. The most downloaded node that is not about WhatsApp is the official ElevenLabs package with 202,173.

Which n8n community node has the most GitHub stars?

Of the nodes in this list, the MCP Client node with 2,913 stars. The next most starred in the top 20 is DeepSeek with 326. For the full ranking by stars, see the 25 most starred n8n community nodes on GitHub.

Can I use these nodes on n8n Cloud?

Only the ones n8n has verified. Everything else needs a self-hosted instance; n8n Community Edition vs Cloud covers the difference.

How often does this list change?

The numbers here are a snapshot from November 10, 2026. Every node page in our directory shows its current weekly downloads, and the n8n community nodes directory can be sorted by weekly or monthly downloads at any time.