Published: May 30, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

At OSN this year, one of the newer vendor booths which caught my eye was from Nintex. I’ve spoken at length about n8n, Nintex looks to be a very similar play and is expanding with their incorporation of Skuid which they acquired last year. While they are primarily SaaS, they still support their k2 Automation On-Pre.

Getting started

And here is where we already stop. I really came in ready to be excited and there is no trial, no login page to be found:

Let’s see if we can find any info

Gemini says I should be able to setup a 30d trial

I found this from the sources link in Gemini: Free Trial-Workflow

I have to provide a phone number and “work” email to get the trial, but I’ll see what it does next

The account creation said it might take 2 hours, but was almost instant. First I needed to set a password

The other email listed my “Apps” URL and “Workflow” URL

I can now login with my username and the reset password (I noticed they are using Auth0)

And I see I have not 30, but 31 days remaining.

Gallery

I thought I might start with the Gallery for a quick start that could show me some of the features

Since we built out a feedback form with n8n, let’s do the same here

Clicking on the template, I see a very simple but functional form

Feedback Form

When I clicked “Import”, it actually just downloaded a zip file

That said, I can pick a file with “Import” in my Nintex Workflow page so perhaps this is just how it’s done

However, that failed

I tried others as well

Creating our own

Instead I’ll just start fresh and click create workflow

I see we have a start and end defined with a “+” to add to the middle.

Clicking on the start event, I was able to select a form and make it anonymous.

Next, I clicked “Design Form” to see what that experience was like.

I got a rather impressive WYSIWYG no-code editor with an AI side bar

I tried using the AI assistant and it gave a good start, but perhaps not the best at revising

However, as you saw, it was pretty obvious how to tweak up the form as I desired

Next, I want to call an endpoint to see what we can deliver

Visually, any action that is not yet configured shows a gear icon. It’s a nice tip that ‘you got work to do here’.

Next, I’ll use webhook.site to test a webhook endpoint to see what we get passed

I’ll add the URL from webhook.site and also add a custom header to ensure that can be passed

The flow is a bit Microsoft Office-ish to me (and makes sense as they cut their teeth doing Sharepoint integrations) - you create a variable object then “insert” it into the right pane

I can now save it

Then “Publish” it to development

This is something I like more than the n8n model - it gives me not only a dev URL, but also an HTML block for embedding in my site. Again, I know they came from the Sharepoint world where frames and embeds were common, but this is super handy for hiding my backend implementation (whereas my current n8n form link at the top just redirects to n8n.tpk.pw).

I see it called the webhook.site but no evidence it passed anything including my custom header

I opened the Web service action and noted that I needed to “insert” these form variables to pass them forward

I’m going to try setting a response header, but I think the request header should have passed it forward

I’ll try again

The passed values looked like

Stewartstewey@place.comstewey@bsky.social["{\"blob\":{\"name\":\"567207c2-8b21-4870-8524-f072d5705ef2/dcb30ddb-f645-4431-a84b-0d77aad2e233_0_4/3b516793-54ba-4f9a-8475-e8f84427b391\",\"fileName\":\"20250511_101518 (1).jpg\"}}"]Englishen

Next, I’ll try a PUT and use a variable with “key=value” in case that is how the header vars are working

And even with a PUT I do not get my headers nor the actual file (just file name)

And i took out the file upload part to see if that had any bearing

Let’s try sending an email and I’ll include the file. Note - i did NOT configure an outgoing email service so I can only assume nintex is providing one here.

That worked surprisingly well

Let’s test the inline

I’ll leave that live for the duration of my 31-day trial so go ahead and try it.

Pricing

Clearly we are in a trial, but when this wraps up, I would want to know my costs.

They have an “essentials”, “pro” and “expert” tier and the only thing we know for sure is that the lowest starts at US$15k a year

Others have suggested, at least at one time, it was US$625/mo (7.5k/year) for Standard. So it would appear they have doubled their pricing since that post.

They don’t really have a pricing page and instead push you into the “Contact us” form page here.

I was poking at their page source and they use a lot of marketting campaign links from Adobe Marketo to LinkedIn.

But the ones that caught my eye in sources was NewRelic and CrazyEgg

I already know New Relic, but I might need to check out CrazyEgg

Summary

I did not want to delay further as I took the day off yesterday for OSN. I think there are some solid features here.

For instance, we could post to LinkedIn

Slack

Or do pretty much anything we want in Teams

It’s a super-powerful-back office workflow tool and I can see why they put a premium price tag on it.

It’s very “Microsoft focused” and I don’t mean that as a ding - that’s good. For instance, I cannot think of any other workflow tool at the moment that includes Azure Database management as well as creating a classic AzDO release in the canned connectors

My issue, though, is this just isn’t meant for me. I don’t have $15k to drop on a software package. That’s just a bit less than a slate and if I had over $10k, I would be getting a Garmin or two.

Another issue I have is non-transparent pricing. They have a “starts at”, which is double from what history would suggest and no breakdown of what the tiers mean. This, added to the hidden nature of the 30d trial (having to use Gemini to find the underlying page), just gives me aprehnsion on pursuing such a product.

Compare that, if you will to n8n pricing which lays out exactly what you get and for how much. This is what I really want to see for products.

Or if you want to get a bit nutty (said with love friends), look at how specfic Datadog Pricing is:

Even New Relic, who I know negotiates deals, has their base pricing listed making it easy to compare and contrast features

So in summary, I would want a lower tier for enthusiasts, a self-hosted option with clear install instructions and the ability to see a login/signup for trial from the front page (and not having to search for it in AI).