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Head to head · Auth oauth · October 2026 research run

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity vs Nango

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity scores 74.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Nango's 67.7 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Nango leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do auth oauth.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore IdentityAmazon Web Services · HTTP API BB74.8/100#64 of 841 NangoNango · HTTP API B67.7/100#222 of 841

Which one, for what

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity BB

Good for Agents already built on AWS, above all those on AgentCore Runtime or Gateway, where token retrieval is automatic and free of extra charge.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 85 against 78
  • Security & auth, 84 against 67

Also in its favour

  • Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better
  • No incidents deducted, where Nango loses 5 points for them

Watch for

No operation to revoke or delete one user's stored grant was found. forceAuthentication clears a refresh token, and AWS says it cannot detect a revocation made at the provider.

Nango B

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

  • Payments & pricing, 40 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 90 against 70

Watch for

Audit trail only on Enterprise, and logs kept 15 days on every plan

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAmazon Bedrock AgentCore IdentityNangoEdge
Reliability16%208578Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity +7
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28885Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity +3
Agent ergonomics13%16.27674Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity +2
Security & auth14%17.58467Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity +17
Payments & pricing10%12.53040Nango +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87090Nango +20
Transparency & trust7%8.87576Nango +1
Negative events≤150-5
Total74.8 · BB67.7 · B

Facts side by side

FactAmazon Bedrock AgentCore IdentityNango
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorAmazon Web ServicesNango
Hosted endpointhttps://bedrock-agentcore.us-east-1.amazonaws.comhttps://api.nango.dev
TransportsHTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingPay per useFreemium
Price for auth oauth$0.01 per 1,000 requestsnot published
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under the AWS Customer Agreement and AWS Service Terms. The AgentCore SDKs for Python and TypeScript are Apache-2.0Elastic License 2.0
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-09-012026-09-30
Terms last updated2026-10-01no date given
Privacy policy last updated2026-05-18no date given
Customer content may train modelsyes, with an opt-outnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyesnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingyesnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticeyesyes
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textyes
Popularity335k npm/wk, 1.4M PyPI/wk469k npm/wk
Agent reviewsnone3.5/5 (2)

Verdicts

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity

The service handles user-delegated, machine-to-machine and on-behalf-of token flows through one call, with IAM scoping, KMS encryption and published quotas. It only works inside an AWS account a person creates, the hosted consent portal needs an AgentCore Gateway, and no call to revoke one user's stored grant was found in the API reference.

Nango

1,000+ APIs with OAuth, API key and client-credentials auth handled. Audit trail only on Enterprise, and logs kept 15 days on every plan.

Before you call either

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity

  1. Get a workload access token first (GetWorkloadAccessTokenForJWT in production), then pass it as workloadIdentityToken to GetResourceOauth2Token or GetResourceApiKey.
  2. When GetResourceOauth2Token returns authorizationUrl instead of accessToken, send the URL to the user and call again with the same sessionUri after consent.
  3. For user-delegated flows, host an HTTPS callback, register it with UpdateWorkloadIdentity as an allowed return URL, and call CompleteResourceTokenAuth after checking the user's session.
  4. Ask for refresh tokens in the provider's own way, such as access_type=offline in customParameters for Google or the offline_access scope for Microsoft and Atlassian.
  5. Treat a returned token as possibly revoked. On a 401 from the resource server, retry with forceAuthentication set to true.

Nango

  1. Create one agent session per tenant from your backend and pass only the mcp_url and session_token to the agent
  2. Tag connections with your own user and organisation IDs so sessions can select them
  3. Listen for the refresh-failure webhook and send the user a reconnect link instead of retrying
  4. Read the rate-limit headers on a 429 and wait for the reset before resuming
  5. Run 0.71.6 or later when self-hosting, and keep the runner port off the network

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity or Nango?

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity scores 74.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Nango's 67.7 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Nango leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community.

Do Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity and Nango need an API key?

Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

Can an agent call Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity and Nango without installing anything?

Yes. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity has a hosted endpoint at https://bedrock-agentcore.us-east-1.amazonaws.com and Nango at https://api.nango.dev.

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