Count the items returned by a node

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Built by Tom Tom
Created on June 05, 2026

Description

This workflow provides a simple approach to counting the items returned by a node.

It uses a Set node with the Execute Once option:



The expression uses $input.all() (documented here) to fetch all incoming items at once, and .length (documented for example here) to count them.

Nodes Used (1)

Customer Datastore (n8n training)
n8n-nodes-base.n8nTrainingCustomerDatastore