Nango vs Pandium (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Nango grades higher than Pandium: 2.2 against 1.2 out of 4.0.
Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA
Nango grades higher on value for money, the free plan, features and platforms. They get the same grade on ease of use.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Nango
Integration infrastructure for products and AI agents
Which one is for you
Pick Nango if
- Fits if you're building a product that must connect to your customers' other apps
- Works for teams building AI agents that call outside APIs
Look elsewhere if
- Tight on Free: 10 connections, 10 compute hours and 10GB, with hard caps
- Not for you if you want a no-code app, since it needs code to use
- Watch out: a connection is one user's account for one API, so cost climbs with customers
- Pricey if you want more: the Growth add-on is $450 a month
- Watch out: self-hosting is an Enterprise offer, priced through sales
Pick Pandium if
- Fits if you run a software company and want integrations your customers install themselves
- Works for an engineering team that can write integration code with an SDK
Look elsewhere if
- Pricey if you're small: $499 a month covers up to 25 tenants
- Watch out: a tenant is one customer's installed copy of one integration, so 100 customers on one integration is 100 tenants
- Not for you if you want to connect your own apps, since it's built for software vendors
- Watch out: the in-app marketplace and integration services are paid add-ons
How we grade them
| 2.2GPANangoFair | 1.2GPAPandiumWeak | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | C$50 a month with $50 in usage credits, at $0.29 a connection, $0.72 a compute hour and $0.50 a GB. That's the start of the dearer quarter. | D$499 a month for 25 tenants, which is where the dearest tenth of automation tools starts. Pro is $2,000 a month and up. |
| Free plan and trial | CFree gives 10 connections, 10 compute hours and 10GB, with hard caps that reset monthly. You'll hit them. | FNo free plan or trial. Plans are arranged through a demo. |
| Features | BManaged auth, tools, triggers and syncs, webhooks, an MCP server, logs and a unified API. The core job is covered. | CAn integration hub, development kit, AI code generator and insights. The marketplace and services are paid add-ons. |
| Ease of use | DNo store rating on record. It's a developer platform and needs code to use. | DNo store rating on record. Engineers write integration code with a development kit. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb, with 6 integrations, an MCP server and an API. | CWeb only, no integrations list. It's a platform that others build on. |
| Best for | connecting your product or AI agent to outside APIs | software companies embedding integrations in their product |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Nango and Pandium. How we grade
Price against what you get
Nango starts at $50 a month and scores 2.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Pandium starts at $499 a month and scores 1.7.
Nango scores higher and starts $449 a month lower. Of the other automation tools on the chart, 16 score higher than Nango for less, and 65 score higher than Pandium for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- Nango is open source and self-hostable, according to its own site.
- Nango also covers AI agents.
- Pandium also covers dashboards.
At a glance
| Nango | Pandium | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Paid |
| Starts at | $50 per month, with $50 in usage credits included | $499 per month for up to 25 tenants |
| Free plan | 10 connections, 10 hours of compute time and 10GB of data transfer a month, with hard caps that reset monthly. | None |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Nango | Pandium |
| Price read from | nango.dev | pandium.com |
| Checked | Nov 13, 2026 | Nov 13, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Nango
- The Free plan has hard monthly caps of 10 connections, 10 compute hours and 10GB of data; usage beyond that needs the paid plan.
- A connection is one user's authorized account for one API, so costs scale with how many customer accounts you connect.
- A Growth add-on costs $450 per month, and self-hosting with support is listed under Enterprise.
- It is a developer platform that needs code to use, not a no-code app for personal automations.
Pandium
- A tenant is one customer's installed copy of one integration, so 100 customers on one integration count as 100 tenants; Lite includes 25.
- Pro starts at $2,000 per month, with extra fees for higher tenant packages and add-ons.
- The in-app marketplace and integration services are paid add-ons, and plans are arranged through a demo.
- It is built for software vendors embedding integrations, not for individuals automating their own apps.
Key features
Nango
- Managed authorization
- Pre-built authentication, secure credential storage and token refresh for more than 1,200 APIs and MCP servers, including a request proxy.
- Tools, triggers and syncs
- Thousands of pre-built tools, triggers and syncs are available, and teams can extend the templates or write fully custom ones.
- Webhooks
- Incoming webhooks from outside APIs are verified and routed, for use in syncs or as triggers.
- MCP server for agents
- A single MCP server exposes the tool library to AI agents, with permissions and scopes controlling what an agent may do.
- Logs and audit trail
- Built-in logs, metrics and alerting show every call, and traces can be exported in OpenTelemetry format on paid plans.
- Unified API and white labeling
- A unified API gives one schema across APIs, and white labeling plus custom OAuth apps remove Nango branding from the authorization flow.
Pandium
- Integration Hub
- Software teams build custom integrations with any API they choose, keeping control of the integration code in their own repos and languages.
- Integration Development Kit
- A kit for building, launching and promoting integrations, with managed authentication, versioning and hosting included on both plans.
- AI code generator
- The Pro plan includes an AI-powered generator for integration code; the Lite plan does not.
- Integration Insights
- Usage metrics and analytics for each integration are included on both plans, with advanced reporting on Pro.
- In-app marketplace add-on
- An optional white-labeled marketplace lets a vendor's customers discover, install and manage integrations inside the vendor's own product.
- Integration services add-on
- An optional add-on puts Pandium's engineers to work designing, building and supporting integrations.
Plans
Nango
Free$0
API and MCP auth, tools and syncs with hard-capped monthly limits: 10 connections, 10 compute hours, 10GB of data.
Pay-as-you-go$50
per month, includes $50 in usage credits
Usage rates of $0.29 per connection, $0.72 per compute hour and $0.50 per GB of data transfer.
EnterpriseCustom
Commitment discounts, self-hosting, an MSA and SLA. Priced through sales.
Pandium
Pandium Lite$499
per month for up to 25 tenants
Unlimited integrations, 50,000 daily executions, managed authentication, versioning and hosting. Sold through a demo.
Pandium Pro$2,000
per month and up
Adds an AI code generator, custom tenant package, unlimited daily executions and a dedicated account manager.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Nango or Pandium?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Nango is cheaper to start with: $50 a month, against $499 a month for Pandium. Nango starts at $50 per month, with $50 in usage credits included, and Pandium starts at $499 per month for up to 25 tenants.
Which has a free plan, Nango or Pandium?
As of Nov 13, 2026, only Nango has a free plan. Pandium does not.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.