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Nango
Open source unified API and OAuth infrastructure for product integrations, licensed under Elastic License 2.0
As of 31 August 2026, Nango has a free plan and paid plans start at $50/month. Nango handles the OAuth, token refresh, rate limiting and sync plumbing behind third-party integrations, with over four hundred pre-built connections and the ability to write your own. Softwr lists it under Automation Integration. Nango is available on Web, Linux, Docker.
Overview
What Nango does
Nango is integration infrastructure for product teams. It manages the parts of a third-party integration that are identical every time and tedious every time: the OAuth dance, credential storage, token refresh, rate limit handling, pagination, retries, webhook receipt and incremental synchronisation. It ships hundreds of pre-built API connections and, unlike closed unified API vendors, lets you write custom syncs and actions in TypeScript for any API, including internal ones, and run the whole thing yourself. The licence is the fact that should change a shortlist. Nango is published under Elastic License 2.0, which is source available rather than open source by the OSI definition. You may read, modify and self-host it, but you may not provide it to third parties as a managed service and you may not circumvent its licence key functionality. For the overwhelming majority of buyers, product teams embedding integrations in their own application, this is irrelevant. For anyone contemplating offering Nango as part of a platform to their own customers, it is disqualifying, and it should be checked with counsel rather than assumed from the word open source on the homepage. Pricing is per connection per month, where a connection is one authorised end-user account: free up to 10 connections, 50 dollars a month from Starter with 20 connections then a dollar per additional connection, 500 a month for Growth with 100 connections, and enterprise quoted. That model is unusually predictable but scales linearly with your customer base, so a product where every user authorises three services costs three times what the connection count intuition suggests.
What people use it for
- A SaaS product that needs to ship twenty customer-facing integrations without hiring a team to maintain OAuth and token refresh for each
- A team that needs a niche or internal API integrated, which closed unified API vendors will not build for them
- A company with data residency or security constraints that must self-host the integration layer rather than send customer tokens to a vendor
- An engineering team replacing a homegrown integration service whose main cost is silent token expiry and rate limit failures in production
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The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Nango.
- The licence is Elastic License 2.0, which is source available rather than OSI open source, and it forbids offering Nango to third parties as a managed service, so anyone planning to resell or embed it in a platform for their own customers has a genuine legal problem.
- Pricing is per connection where a connection is one authorised end-user account, so cost scales linearly with your customer base and a product where each user links several services multiplies quickly beyond what a headline plan price suggests.
- Pre-built integrations vary in depth, and a connection that exists is not the same as a connection that covers the endpoints and objects your feature needs, so each one must be verified before it is designed into a roadmap.
- Custom syncs are written in TypeScript and run in Nango model, which means integration logic lives in a vendor runtime and migrating away later requires rewriting it rather than lifting it out.
- Self-hosting removes the vendor from the data path but transfers operational responsibility for a component that holds customer OAuth tokens, and few teams appreciate the security burden that comes with running that themselves.
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What people choose instead of Nango
Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.
- NangovsParagon
Paragon: Embedded integration platform with a visual builder, better if non-engineers should maintain integrations
- NangovsAlloy Automation
Alloy Automation: Embedded iPaaS with a unified API and a stronger workflow layer for customer-facing automation
- Nangovsn8n
n8n: Open source workflow automation if the problem is internal automation rather than customer-facing product integrations
Pricing
What Nango costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Free
Free
- 10 connections
- Pre-built integrations
- Managed OAuth
- Community support
Starter
$50 /mo
- 20 connections included
- 1 USD per additional connection
- Custom syncs and actions
- Email support
Growth
$500 /mo
- 100 connections included
- 1 USD per additional connection
- Higher limits
- Priority support
Enterprise
On request
- Quoted
- Custom connection volumes
- Security review and SLA
- Self-hosted deployment support
Capabilities
Features
Managed OAuth
Handles authorisation flows, credential storage and token refresh across hundreds of providers
Pre-built integrations
Over four hundred API connections maintained by Nango rather than by your team
Custom syncs and actions
Write integrations in TypeScript for any API, including internal and niche services
Incremental sync
Keeps records in step with the source system and surfaces changes rather than refetching everything
Rate limit and retry handling
Absorbs provider throttling and transient failures so your application does not have to
Webhooks
Receives and normalises provider webhooks, with delivery to your own endpoint
Self-hosting
Full self-hosted deployment available under the Elastic License 2.0 terms
Unified models
Common data shapes across similar providers where you want them, raw passthrough where you do not
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Is Nango open source?
It is source available under Elastic License 2.0. You can read, modify and self-host it, but you cannot offer it to third parties as a managed service. That is not the same as an OSI approved open source licence.
How is it priced?
Per connection per month, where a connection is one authorised end-user account. Free to 10 connections, 50 dollars a month for Starter with 20, 500 for Growth with 100, and one dollar per additional connection.
Can we integrate an API Nango does not support?
Yes. Custom syncs and actions in TypeScript cover any API including internal ones, which is the main advantage over closed unified API products.
Can we self-host it?
Yes, under the Elastic License 2.0 terms, which permit self-hosting for your own use but not resale as a service.
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