Nango vs TransportAPI

Nango provides infrastructure for building, running and maintaining integrations between products or AI agents and external APIs. It supports authentication, agent tools, webhooks, triggers and managed incremental data syncs, with a catalog listing more than 1,000 APIs. Integrations are built as code, with local development, CI/CD and multiple environments. Authentication options include OAuth 2.0, OAuth 1.0a, API keys, JWT, Basic auth and MCP auth. Nango manages token refresh, encrypts credentials in transit and at rest, and provides tenant isolation. Runtime features include resumable executions, retries, rate-limit handling, logs, metrics and alerts. The Free plan is free and has monthly caps of 10 connections, 10 compute hours and 10GB of data transfer. Pay-as-you-go costs $50 a month, includes $50 in monthly credits, and lists separate rates for connections, compute and data transfer. Self-hosting and custom connectors are supported. Nango says it does not currently offer EU-hosted cloud; Enterprise BYOC instances are available in AWS, GCP or Azure regions.

TransportAPI provides managed services for accessing and publishing UK transport data through APIs. Its Journey Planner covers bus, train, metro, coach, tram, light rail, cycle, car, ferry, and taxi journeys across Great Britain. Bus Information and Rail Information provide nationwide scheduled and real-time data through APIs or GTFS. Managed services monitor data quality and send errors to data vendors for correction at source. API options include polling and streaming, with RESTful JSON and, for some services, Websocket JSON-RPC. Journey Planner engine choices include SilverRail, TfL API, OTP, R5, OSRM, CycleStreets, and TaxiCode. Bus Information draws on UK datasets including TNDS, BODS, NaPTAN, BODS SIRI VM, and Traveline Nextbuses SIRI SM. The services are intended for apps, websites, transport analytics, and data mining. TransportAPI says customers can use data as they see fit and that it retains no downstream rights in customer-created or developed work. The free plan costs nothing and allows 30 API hits per day, free forever.