vars

Feature availability

• Available on Self-hosted Enterprise and Pro and Enterprise Cloud plans.

• You need access to the n8n instance owner account to create variables.

vars contains all Variables for the active environment. It's read-only: you can access variables using vars, but must set them using the UI.

JavaScript

// Access a variable
$vars.<variable-name>

Python

vars and env

vars gives access to user-created variables. It's part of the Environments feature. env gives access to the configuration environment variables for your n8n instance.