# Aembit vs Nango (slim)

> Aembit scores 70.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Nango's 67.7 (B), and leads in 1 of 7 scored categories. Nango leads on reliability, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do auth oauth. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Aembit scores 70.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Nango's 67.7 (B), and leads in 1 of 7 scored categories. Nango leads on reliability, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do auth oauth.

- Aembit: BB 70.5, rank #127 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/aembit.min.md
- Nango: B 67.7, rank #185 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nango.min.md
- Aembit, good for A security team that wants one policy and audit point between AI agents or workloads and the services they call, with credentials kept away from the agent. Ahead on Security & auth, 84 against 67. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; No incidents deducted, where Nango loses 5 points for them.
- Nango, good for A product that connects many users to many SaaS APIs and wants tokens, refresh, syncs and a per-tenant MCP surface in one place, with source you can read. Ahead on Reliability, 78 against 65; Maintenance & community, 90 against 80; Transparency & trust, 76 against 60. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | Aembit | Nango |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 78 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 72 | 74 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 84 | 67 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 90 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 60 | 76 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Aembit | Nango |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Aembit, Inc. | Nango |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.nango.dev` |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Aembit's terms of service. The Edge SDKs on GitHub are Apache-2.0 | Elastic License 2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-30 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-14 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-05 | no date given |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 27 npm/wk | 469k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (2) |