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From your first workflow to production-ready automation, everything you need to learn n8n is here. Free, structured courses, hands-on practice, and certificates and badges you earn as you go.
Free courses, from your first workflow to production
The n8n Academy is where you learn n8n by building it, not just reading about it. Four free courses take you from your first workflow through connecting apps, calling APIs, and putting AI into practice. Every course is free for everyone, and you earn a completion certificate and a verifiable badge for each one you finish.
Why start with Foundations?
The Foundations program brings the essentials together in one in-depth path. Work through it once to learn the fundamentals, then come back to it whenever you need a reference.
- Your first workflows: Build with the core nodes, triggers, and moving data between steps
- Connected workflows: Call APIs, use webhooks, and connect n8n to your apps safely
- AI in practice: Add AI steps and agents, test your work, and handle errors
- Certificate and badge: Finish all three courses to earn the program certificate and badge
Complete to earn. Certify to prove.
Two ways to show what you can do with n8n.
- Earn a completion certificate and badge for every course you finish
- Complete the whole Foundations program for a program certificate and badge
- Certification is coming soon, a separate timed exam you sit on its own
- Pass it to earn a certification badge that stays valid for two years
Keep learning
The Academy is the structured way to learn, but it isn't the only one. When you want to go deeper or get unstuck, the community, the docs, and our videos are open to everyone, whenever you need them.
Workflow templates
Browse templatesStart from a library of ready-to-use workflows you can import and adapt. Pulling apart something that already works is one of the fastest ways to learn n8n.
Community Forums
Visit the forumAsk questions, share what you've built, and learn from other builders. The n8n community is one of the best places to get unstuck and keep improving, whatever you're building.
Documentation
Browse the docsRead the full documentation whenever you need a reference. Every node, trigger, and feature is documented, with examples you can follow as you build in n8n.
Our courses
Every course is free and hands-on, built to teach n8n by building real workflows. Start at the beginning or jump to what you need, and each one ends with a completion certificate and a verifiable badge.
qs101 Quickstart
Start the courseThe fastest way in. Build your first real workflows in n8n, starting with triggers, scheduling, and HTTP requests, then working up to transforming data and handling errors.
You'll finish by building a working AI agent that can look up customer records and answer questions, with no coding experience needed to start.
n8n101 Essentials
Start the courseThe first course in the Foundations program. Learn to navigate the n8n canvas, understand how nodes and executions work, and build and run your first workflows from scratch.
You'll use triggers and scheduling to run workflows automatically, and learn how data is structured so you can map, transform, and merge it between nodes.
n8n102 Integrations
Start the courseThe second Foundations course, and the most technically dense. Control how your workflows run with flow control, sub-workflows, and error handling.
Then connect n8n to any service: make API calls, handle authentication and webhooks, and manage credentials safely, all using practice APIs.
n8n103 In Practice
Start the courseThe third Foundations course. Make your workflows intelligent with the AI Agent node, tools, and memory, and learn the difference between AI chains and agents.
Then make them reliable and maintainable: test and debug, handle errors with patterns like Try/Catch, organize your work, and get workflows genuinely production-ready.