| Primary job |
Assemble and inspect one API-centric backend contract for an AI-built app, including data, auth, workflows, validation, publish state, docs, and handoff. |
Build, operate, and scale a complete backend through visual tools, XanoScript, Xano Agent, or CLI/IDE workflows. |
| AI workflow |
AI-assisted project work is review-gated; hosted autonomous generation remains experimental and should not be treated as one-prompt production delivery. |
Xano Agent can create and modify tables, APIs, middleware, functions, and tasks, with review before publishing. |
| Visual APIs and logic |
Models, endpoints, flows, tasks, triggers, channels, agents, playground, and addons are visible together; supported workflows can roundtrip between visual steps and code. |
Visual APIs combine inputs, logic, and responses; Xano also provides functions, middleware, addons, tasks, triggers, and XanoScript. |
| Database |
Relational project models use PostgreSQL-backed data paths. Existing PostgreSQL structure can be introspected, but arbitrary application logic and authorization policies are not imported. |
Xano uses PostgreSQL, offers direct database access on qualifying plans, and can connect to external PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, and Snowflake databases. |
| Authentication and access |
Managed JWT authentication, password hashing, roles, permissions, and modeled ownership or tenant semantics. Project-specific authorization still requires review. |
Built-in authentication and endpoint protection support application roles and preconditions; workspace RBAC is available on higher plans. |
| Existing systems |
Best when creating the missing backend contract; it is not a general importer for arbitrary repositories, deployed APIs, or external authorization policies. |
Can connect external databases, call external APIs, consume webhooks, and orchestrate around existing systems. |
| Realtime and async work |
Tasks, triggers, channels, and agents exist, but combined live multi-resource behavior requires project-specific acceptance testing. |
Documents WebSocket realtime channels, database triggers, scheduled and background tasks, and event-driven workflows. |
| Testing and release |
API Playground, draft/publish separation, validation, integrity-checked artifacts, review, and selective restore provide explicit release gates. |
Provides unit tests, workflow test suites, branches, sandboxes, CLI dry runs, review diffs, and publish controls. |
| Agents and MCP |
Authorized project MCP supports inspection, mutation, validation, publishing, review, and handoff. Anonymous public project mutation remains unavailable. |
MCP Builder can expose Xano function stacks as MCP tools, while Xano Agent and CLI workflows provide additional AI-assisted development paths. |
| Handoff and frontend |
Generates OpenAPI, JSON and Markdown docs, JavaScript and TypeScript SDK artifacts, snippets, auth notes, and publish-state context; static frontend hosting is available per project. |
Generates API documentation, works with external frontend tools, and includes static frontend hosting on qualifying plans. |
| Deployment, pricing, maturity |
Secretless runtime export is included. Managed staging and production choices are separate, and production self-service evidence remains narrower than the published target catalog. |
Managed cloud plans range from Free through paid self-service tiers; Custom documents BYOC and on-premise options. Xano is substantially more mature. |