Bold Agent Kit vs n8n
Wire it up, or switch it on.

How Bold Agent Kit and n8n compare: a toolkit for building anything, and an agent built for one job

n8n is one of the most flexible tools a technical team can have. It describes itself as a workflow automation platform: a visual canvas of nodes, with code available when the canvas is not enough, more than 500 pre-built integrations and custom API connections for the rest, and AI agents that can use any LLM, cloud or offline, with tools, memory, knowledge and human approval steps. It can be self-hosted from its source code or run on n8n Cloud. It can automate far more kinds of work than Bold Agent Kit does: internal processes across hundreds of apps, and agents for whatever a team designs them to do.

Bold Agent Kit does one kind of work: it answers, books and follows up the people who contact a business. It is a ready-made sales and service agent for the channels a business already uses, which are email, texts, phone calls, website chat and eleven social DM platforms, and it is set up from a knowledge base and instructions rather than built. You give it your documents, your Q&A pairs, your prices and hours as data points and the pages of your own site it may link to; you write how it should talk, what it may offer and when it should fetch a person. From then on it answers every genuine enquiry in seconds, books real calendar slots and follows up until the person books, buys or opts out.

The difference is who builds the parts. A customer desk is more than a model and a prompt. It needs a trigger for every channel, one reply per thread, caps per sender, a filter for bounces and out-of-office replies, a sending window and a consent line on texts, an opt-out honoured on every channel at once, a check that only an offered slot can be booked, one contact record across the chat, the email and the phone number, an inbox where a person can take over, and a funnel of what it produced. In n8n, each of those is logic your team designs, tests and keeps running, and n8n puts no limit on that logic. In Bold Agent Kit, all of it is already there, and none of it is yours to maintain.

Pricing and hosting follow the same line. n8n Cloud is priced by workflow executions, and the Community Edition is free to self-host, with the server and its configuration yours to run. Bold Agent Kit is $25 a month for the account, hosted for you, on your own AI key, mailboxes and carrier, with nothing counted per execution, message or seat. An engineering team with an automation backlog will get more from n8n. A business that wants its enquiries answered this week, without building anything, will get there faster with Bold Agent Kit, and plenty of teams will run both side by side for different jobs.

The rules a customer channel needs, already switched on

The text step of a campaign carries the number it sends from, how many texts an hour that number may send, a TCPA consent tick, the sending window and the Reply STOP line. A reply of STOP is honoured on every channel at once, and any message already queued to that person is cancelled. Every campaign email carries a one-click unsubscribe that adds the address to a suppression list skipped by every future send. The campaign is created as a draft, shows its whole plan on a review screen, and sends nothing until you press Start; once running it can be paused and resumed.

In a workflow tool, each of those is a branch someone draws, tests and remembers to update. Here they are part of the product, the same on every agent and every channel, alongside the caps that stop an agent from overshooting: one reply per thread, a daily cap per sender, and hourly limits per mailbox and per number. A mailbox whose bounce rate or spam placement passes a threshold leaves campaign rotation on its own.

The funnel counts people rather than messages or runs: how many the agent reached, how many replied, how many went on to visit your website and how many converted, with the total value won and the median time from first contact to the sale. Goals carry a dollar value, either a page rule or a deal you mark as won, so an agent reports what it earned rather than how often it ran.

Below the funnel, a channel table shows where each person first made contact and which channel they were on when they converted, and a pages table shows what known people read before they bought. One row per person shows their whole history in order, across channels and months apart. A visit trigger closes the loop: when a known lead returns to a page you named, the agent tells you or follows up after a delay you set, on the channel they last used. Page goals and triggers need a one-line snippet on your site.

Powered by your own keys

Each agent uses a model on your own API key, in the same way it sends from your own mailbox and your own phone number. Sixteen providers are supported: OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, xAI and Mistral; DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, Qwen and MiniMax; Groq, Together, Fireworks and OpenRouter; and Ollama or any other OpenAI-compatible endpoint you host yourself.

Bring your own credentials and you own the whole stack: your model provider, your mailboxes, your carrier, your CRM. We charge for the software and nothing else — no token markup, no metering, no credit packs — so your provider bills you direct at their rates, usually a few dollars a month per agent.

One account, unlimited agents

One account runs unlimited agents, one per client, and nothing is shared between them. A knowledge base belongs to a single agent, and content from one agent is never used to generate replies for another.

Invite a client by email address and they get their own login, which opens onto the one agent you gave them: its conversations, its numbers, its analytics and a reply box. They cannot see your other clients, your API keys, your settings or your billing. Access is deny-by-default.