I looked at 300 paid n8n AI templates. Here is what people charge, and what gets looked at.

n8n.io lets verified creators sell templates now. I wanted to know what that
market actually looks like, so I pulled every AI template I could reach
through n8n's public templates API and looked at the paid ones.

What this is and is not. 2,484 AI templates out of the 9,847 n8n lists,
in the order its API returns them, so it is a large sample but not a random
one. And n8n does not publish sales. Everything below is about price and
views, never purchases. Views are attention, not revenue.

How many are paid

300 of the 2,484 (12%), from 131 different sellers. Every seller in
the set is a verified creator.

What they charge

Median $25. The range runs from $1 to $499.

Paid templates get looked at more, not less

Median views: 358 for a paid template, 79 for a free one. That is not
proof that charging helps. The likelier reason is that the people who charge
are the established creators with audiences. But it does kill the idea that a
price tag makes a template invisible.

The mean goes the other way (free 5,333, paid 1,824), because a handful of
free templates have enormous view counts. Medians are the honest comparison.

Cheaper ones get somewhat more attention

Across the paid set, price and views have a rank correlation of -0.24.
Weak, but negative: the $5 to $25 templates are where most of the attention
is. The single most-viewed paid template costs $5 and has about 116,000 views.

What the paid ones are made of

Compared with free templates, paid ones are much more likely to include:

And the most-viewed paid templates are almost all content and video
automation: social posts, TikTok and YouTube Shorts generators,
PDF-to-blog. People pay for things that produce something they would
otherwise have to make by hand, and for bots that live where their customers
already are.

The complaint underneath all of it

The n8n forum had a thread last week asking whether anyone actually pays for
templates. The answers from people who had tried were consistent: buyers
cannot judge a template before they pay for it, and once they buy it they get
stuck connecting credentials and DM the seller asking them to set it up. One
seller had a paid kit on Gumroad with zero sales and a stream of setup
requests.

So if you are going to sell, the data and the thread point the same way:

1. Price it like the market does. $10 to $49 is where most of it sits.
2. Sell an outcome. Content, video and messaging bots dominate attention.
3. Make it inspectable before purchase. "I can't tell if it's good" is the objection, and a screenshot does not answer it.
4. Plan for the credential step. Either price in setup or ship something that runs on the buyer's own keys without a handoff.

Disclosure

I work on Druve, a marketplace for AI agents, which is
why I went looking. Points 3 and 4 are things we built around, so weigh my
read of the forum thread accordingly. The numbers are just n8n's own API.