Xano

Practical workflows for building, integrating, and scaling backends with Xano.
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Teams use Xano when they want to stand up a real backend quickly and keep it maintainable as the product grows. A typical workflow starts by modeling tables and relationships, then exposing only the needed endpoints for a web app, mobile app, or internal tool. From there, you wire up server-side steps—validation, permissions, calculations, and data transforms—so requests follow a consistent path before anything is written to the database.

In day-to-day development, Xano often sits between the UI and third-party services. For example, you can accept a signup request, create the user record, apply role rules, and return a session token, all in one controlled flow. You can also route data to payment providers, email/SMS tools, CRMs, or analytics, while keeping secrets and business rules on the server. When you need something more specific, you can extend the logic with custom code without rebuilding the whole stack elsewhere.

For AI-driven features, Xano is used to prepare and serve clean, permissioned data to agents or AI services, and to run the backend actions those agents trigger. It also fits MCP-style integrations where an agent needs reliable tools and endpoints to read and write data safely. As traffic increases, teams rely on its scaling and deployment setup to reduce ops work, and they use access controls and compliance-minded practices to support regulated environments and audits.

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Features

  • PostgreSQL data modeling and relations
  • API endpoint creation
  • server-side workflow/logic orchestration
  • optional custom code for advanced behavior
  • authentication and role-based permissions
  • integrations with external services
  • AI/agent and MCP-oriented backend actions
  • scalable hosting and deployment
  • compliance-supporting security controls

How It’s Used

  • Launch a backend for a Bubble or WeWeb app
  • Build CRUD APIs for web/mobile clients
  • Centralize auth, sessions, and permission checks
  • Sync data with Stripe, email/SMS, CRMs, and analytics
  • Create internal admin tools and automations
  • Modernize a legacy system by wrapping it with new APIs
  • Power AI features by serving curated data and executing agent-triggered actions
  • Provide MCP tools/endpoints for agent workflows

Plans & Pricing

Build

$0

For developing and testing. Includes visual logic builder, Agent & MCP builder, edge functions, create and publish APIs (rate limited: 10 req/20s), unlimited Lambda functions, Postgres database (up to 100,000 records), 1 GB image storage (watermarked), 1 workspace.

Starter

$25 / month

For production-ready apps and agents. Everything in Free plus: No API rate limit, more compute & storage, branching and merging, unlimited database records, background tasks, 100 GB image and file storage, GDPR compliance, customizable pre/post API logic, no watermarked images, 7-day rolling backup.

Pro

$224 / month

For businesses and teams ready to scale. Everything in Starter plus: Dedicated infrastructure, 5 workspaces, 10 team seats, even more compute & storage, managed load balancer, Role and permissions manager, Copy components across workspaces w/ Xano Link, Enterprise-grade compliance (ISO, SOC 2 & 3), HIPAA add-on available, 14-day rolling backup, 99.99% SLA.

Custom

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For enterprise-grade security & flexibility. Everything in Pro plus: Unlimited scalability, self-hosting options (AWS, Azure, GCP, on-prem), multi-tenant architecture support, Sidecar Docker containers, integrate directly with LLMs via microservices, dedicated IP, high availability, 24/7 monitoring, dedicated onboarding, training, & support, Single Sign-On (SSO), Cloud Armor advanced security, automatic backups, advanced logging.

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