# Nango vs WorkOS Pipes and Agents

> Nango has a score of 67.9 (B) against WorkOS Pipes and Agents's 60 (C). Both do auth oauth. The largest gap is schema & documentation, 32 points. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-05

Nango has a score of 67.9 (B) against WorkOS Pipes and Agents's 60 (C). Both do auth oauth. The largest gap is schema & documentation, 32 points.

- Nango: grade B, 67.9/100, rank #135 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nango.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nango.json
- WorkOS Pipes and Agents: grade C, 60/100, rank #256 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/workos-pipes.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/workos-pipes.json

## Which one, for what

Pick Nango for reliability (+8), schema & documentation (+32), agent ergonomics (+5), payments & pricing (+30), maintenance & community (+7), transparency & trust (+14).

Pick WorkOS Pipes and Agents for nothing in particular (no category where it leads by five points or more).

## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Nango | WorkOS Pipes and Agents | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 78 | 70 | Nango +8 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 53 | Nango +32 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 69 | Nango +5 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 67 | 69 | WorkOS Pipes and Agents +2 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 10 | Nango +30 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 90 | 83 | Nango +7 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 78 | 64 | Nango +14 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -5 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **67.9 · B** | **60 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Nango | WorkOS Pipes and Agents |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Nango | WorkOS |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.nango.dev` | `https://api.workos.com` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Elastic License 2.0 | MIT (SDKs), platform closed |
| Tools exposed | none | none |
| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |
| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |
| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| MCP registry | not listed | `com.workos/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-09-28 |
| Popularity | 469k npm/wk | 221 stars, 4M npm/wk, 1.7M PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (2) | 2.5/5 (2) |

## Verdicts

**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.

**WorkOS Pipes and Agents.** Agent identity with per-session revocation and token lifetimes set per blueprint. 21 incidents on the status page since 3 July 2026, several over an hour.

## Before you call either

### 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

### WorkOS Pipes and Agents

1. Call POST /data-integrations/{provider}/token with user_id for each use and don't cache the token
2. Branch on `active` in the response and send the user to reconnect on `needs_reauthorization`
3. Wait for Retry-After on a 429, or back off with jitter when it's missing
4. Use lower-case provider slugs such as github or slack
5. Revoke an agent's session through the Agents API when a task ends instead of waiting for expiry

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