n8n Cloud Stuck? It's Execution Limits, Not Workflow Caps

Older guides mention a cap on how many workflows you can have "active" at once — that's outdated. n8n removed active-workflow limits from every Cloud plan in 2025. You can now run as many workflows as you want on any tier.

The real ceiling now is execution count per month, and it's easy to blow through without noticing — a single workflow polling an inbox every 10 minutes alone can generate over 4,000 executions a month, well past a free trial's allowance.

The fix:

if a workflow is genuinely stuck, check your plan's monthly execution count first, not the number of active workflows — that's not the constraint anymore. Self-hosted n8n has no execution ceiling at all, which is the real move once you're running more than a couple of frequent-polling workflows.