Many AI agents and apps fail at the last mile: reliable, multi-tenant access to external APIs (auth, token refresh, rate limits, retries) at production scale. This gap forces product teams to reimplement brittle connectors or give agents unsafe direct credentials. Nango addresses that operational burden by offering a single platform that handles auth, proxying, and deployable integration code so your agents can call real-world APIs reliably.
What Sets It Apart
- Managed auth and credential lifecycle for 800+ providers — so what? you avoid building OAuth flows, token storage, and refresh logic per provider, cutting months of integration work.
- Request proxy with built-in retries, rate-limit handling, and tenant isolation — so what? calls from agents or backend services behave consistently across providers and tenants without leaking secrets.
- Deployable TypeScript "Functions" plus AI-assisted generation — so what? you get readable, editable integration code that can be generated from natural language, reviewed, and run in a production runtime with observability.
- Cloud + self-host model and compliance claims (SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR) — so what? teams can start quickly on the cloud and move to self-hosting when compliance or custom control is required.
Who Should Use It & Trade-offs
Great fit if you need reliable, multi-tenant access to many third-party APIs (CRMs, payment providers, calendars, etc.) from AI agents or product backends and want to avoid reimplementing auth and resilient request logic. It’s also attractive when integration logic benefits from AI-generated TypeScript that you can review and iterate on.
Look elsewhere if your needs are limited to a single provider with simple API usage, if you require a permissive open-source license for commercial redistribution (project uses the Elastic License), or if you prefer to embed integration logic entirely inside a different vendor’s managed platform. Self-hosting reduces vendor lock-in but requires ops effort to match the cloud runtime’s scalability and observability.
