Nango
Unified APIs software
Embedded integration platforms
Data integration tools
Cloud data integration software
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$50 per month
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- Information technology and software
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What is Nango
Nango is an embedded integration platform that helps software teams build and manage third‑party API integrations inside their own products. It provides a unified way to handle OAuth connections, token storage/refresh, and integration workflows across multiple external services. The product targets SaaS companies that need to ship and maintain many customer-facing integrations without building all authentication and connector plumbing from scratch. It is typically used by engineering teams to standardize connection management and reduce ongoing integration maintenance.
OAuth connection management layer
Nango centralizes OAuth flows, token storage, and token refresh logic for multiple external services. This reduces the amount of bespoke authentication code required per integration and helps standardize how connections are created and monitored. For teams building many integrations, this can simplify operational handling of expired tokens and re-authentication. It also supports embedding the connection experience into an application’s product UI.
Developer-oriented integration building
The platform is designed for engineering-led implementation rather than business-user workflow design. It supports building and running integration logic in a way that can be versioned and maintained alongside application code. This approach fits teams that need predictable behavior, code review, and CI/CD around integrations. It also aligns with products in this space that emphasize API-first integration delivery over drag-and-drop automation.
Reusable connector approach
Nango provides a structured way to create and reuse connectors/integration components across customers and environments. This can reduce duplicated effort when supporting multiple tenants and multiple external systems with similar patterns. It also helps teams standardize error handling and retries across integrations. In practice, this can shorten the time to add new integrations compared with building each connector from scratch.
Connector coverage may vary
As with many embedded integration platforms, the breadth and depth of prebuilt connectors can be uneven across long-tail SaaS applications. Teams may still need to implement custom endpoints, edge cases, or non-standard OAuth behaviors for specific providers. This can reduce the expected time savings for less common integrations. Ongoing maintenance remains necessary when upstream APIs change.
Engineering effort still required
Nango is not a no-code automation tool; it typically requires developers to implement integration logic and handle domain mapping. Organizations without dedicated engineering capacity may find adoption slower than tools aimed at non-technical users. Even with standardized auth and connector scaffolding, teams must design data models, sync strategies, and idempotency. Testing and observability for integrations still need to be implemented and operated.
Not a full data pipeline suite
While it can support data movement use cases, Nango is not positioned as a full cloud data integration suite with broad ELT/warehouse-native transformations and governance features. Teams needing extensive scheduling, lineage, transformation orchestration, and warehouse-centric operations may require additional tooling. It may also be less suitable for enterprise-wide integration governance compared with platforms built for centralized IT integration programs. Fit depends on whether the primary goal is embedded product integrations versus enterprise data engineering.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | For testing. On the pricing page Free tier lists resource quotas: API auth — 10 connections; Proxy requests — 100k requests; Functions compute time — 10 hours; Functions runs — 100k runs; Function custom logs — 100k logs; Sync storage — 100k records; API webhooks — 100k webhooks; Environments — 2. (Nango also documents a Free self-hosted edition — see notes.) |
| Starter | from $50/mo | For small teams. Starter quotas and overages on pricing page: API auth — 20 connections (then $1/connection additional); Proxy requests — 200k requests (then $0.0001/request); Functions compute time — 20 hours (then $0.0000002/ms); Functions runs — 200k runs (then $0.0001/run); Function custom logs — 200k logs (then $0.00001/log); Sync storage — 200k records (then $0.0001/record); API webhooks — 200k webhooks (then $0.0001/webhook); Environments — 3; New API support — 30 days. |
| Growth | from $500/mo | For growing teams. Growth quotas and overages: API auth — 100 connections (then $1/connection); Proxy requests — 1M requests (then $0.0001/request); Functions compute time — 100 hours (then $0.0000002/ms); Functions runs — 1M runs (then $0.0001/run); Function custom logs — 1M logs (then $0.00001/log); Sync storage — 1M records (then $0.0001/record); API webhooks — 1M webhooks (then $0.0001/webhook); Environments — 10; New API support — 7 days. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom pricing. Enterprise listed as "Talk to an expert" with custom resource limits and enterprise features (Unlimited environments, faster New API support, SOC 2, SAML, HIPAA add-ons, SLAs, self-hosting options). |
Notes: The pricing page shows usage-based overage rates for many resource types (per-connection, per-request, per-run, per-record, etc.). The vendor changelog/docs also reference "usage-based pricing starting at $50/month" and mention a Free self-hosted edition; there is a discrepancy between the changelog (mentions 1,000 free connections on the Free plan) and the pricing page (which lists 10 connections for the Free tier). I have not attempted to reconcile that beyond quoting the official pages.
