Best for
Best for regulated organisations building database applications and portals where HIPAA, SOC 2 or GDPR compliance has to be certified.
- Small and mid-sized
- Enterprise
Low-Code / No-Code Comparison
Caspio vs. Xano
At a glance
At a glance
Best for
Best for teams building a scalable backend and API without managing servers, with the frontend built elsewhere.
- Freelancers
- Small and mid-sized
- Enterprise
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Full Comparison
| Criterion | Caspio | Xano |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $270 / month Team plan billed annually; $300 on monthly billing. Business is $540 annually or $600 monthly, and a separate HIPAA/Compliance Edition is $500 a month on a one-year term. All plans include unlimited app users. | lower value Free tier; paid from $85 / month Prices are billed annually: Essential $85 and Pro $224 per month. Custom plans are quoted by the vendor. |
| Free trial | Free trial with access to core features, no upfront cost | Free tier with rate limits, up to 100K database records and 1 workspace |
| Output | Online database applications, deployed standalone or embedded | Backends: PostgreSQL databases, REST APIs, background tasks and agent tooling |
| API | Yes, a REST API with webhooks and an MCP server | Yes, the platform's purpose is generating APIs, with autogenerated OpenAPI docs and an MCP server |
| Hosting | Caspio-hosted on AWS, with data residency in the US, Canada, the EU, UK, Australia and South America | Xano-managed regions or self-hosted on Azure, AWS, GCP or on-premise |
| What you build | Online database applications generated from a description by the Caspi AI builder, then edited in the Flex drag-and-drop builder; automations cover scheduled tasks and triggered actions | The backend rather than the whole app: database, REST APIs, custom functions, middleware, background tasks and triggers, with the frontend left to another tool |
| Stack and frameworks | A SQL Server data core with role and record-level security, encryption and audit trails; apps are configured rather than written in a framework | PostgreSQL with Redis caching and Docker microservices; logic is built visually or written as XanoScript, which the CLI syncs to files on disk; works with React, Next.js, Flutter, Webflow, Framer and AI-generated frontends from Lovable and Bolt |
| Auth and database | SQL Server with user directories and SAML single sign-on; record-level security controls which rows a given user sees | PostgreSQL with unlimited records from the Essential tier; authentication endpoints (/signup, /login, /me) ship by default on JWE tokens, with role-based access control and enterprise SSO through GitHub, Google and Microsoft |
| Connectors | A REST API with 500K integration calls a month on Team, 1M on Business and 2M on Enterprise, outgoing webhooks, Zapier, and scheduled data import and export with HTTP, FTP, SFTP and SCP servers, Amazon S3, Dropbox, OneDrive, Box and email; not every repository type is on every plan | An External API Request function calls any outside service, filled in by pasting a cURL command or entered by hand, and an API Request Assistant drafts the call. Xano Actions, built by the Xano team and the community, package integrations with external APIs as installable functions; the older Marketplace is being deprecated in favour of Actions and Snippets |
| Hosting and deploy | Caspio-hosted on AWS; apps deploy standalone or embed as components in a website, intranet or customer portal, with data residency across six regions | Xano-managed hosting across multiple regions, or self-hosted on Azure, AWS, GCP or on-premise; releases are immutable versioned objects promoted through staging |
| Governance and admin | Caspio Directories manage end-user identities, access and security policies, with 5 directories on Team and 10 on Business and Enterprise. Apps support SAML 2.0 single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID, ADFS, Okta, OneLogin, PingOne, Auth0 and Salesforce, two-factor authentication covers app users and account users, and logs are kept for 1 year on Team, 2 on Business and 5 on Enterprise. The Compliance Edition adds system-wide audit logs that never expire | Branching and merging and CLI sandbox environments from Essential, a role and permissions manager from Pro, and SSO on Custom. Audit logs are kept for 24 hours on Free, 7 days on Essential and 28 days on Pro, with retention listed as unlimited on Custom; backups roll over 7 days on Essential and 14 on Pro, and schema versioning keeps 10 versions on Essential, 20 on Pro and an unlimited number on Custom. SOC 2 and 3 apply from Essential, and HIPAA with a BAA is a paid add-on |
| Payments | Yes, real-time payments inside a generated app through Stripe and PayPal, in the Bridge framework; the feature is listed on the Business and Enterprise plans and not on Team | Not part of the platform itself; payments are added by wiring in Stripe, for which the vendor ships a prebuilt connection and a Stripe Checkout extension in its marketplace. The prebuilt actions create products and prices, create, itemise, finalise and void invoices, open Stripe-hosted checkout sessions, read customer billing and subscription data and verify webhook signatures |
| Access to the code | Apps run on the platform; access to the data is through a documented REST API, webhooks and an MCP server rather than an exportable codebase | XanoScript is readable and editable, and the CLI syncs the workspace to files on disk; APIs carry autogenerated OpenAPI documentation |
| AI assistant | Caspi generates the data model, interface and roles from a plain-language description, a Chat AI Agent answers end users' questions about app data within their role and field-level permissions, and AI Connector Extensions run OpenAI GPT, Google Gemini or Anthropic Claude against live records to classify, summarise or generate. Usage draws on credits, 100 a month on every plan for testing and $20 for 1,000 more | Xano Agent builds tables, endpoints, functions, middleware and background tasks from a prompt, writes them as XanoScript and shows a plan, a diff and a push-to-draft step before anything goes live. Separate assistants write logic, database changes, SQL, JavaScript or TypeScript lambdas, prompt templates and external API requests |
| Pricing model | Flat monthly price per account with unlimited app users and no per-user fees; the plans differ in app authors, data records and integration calls, usage above the allowance is billed as excess usage fees or bought as add-on blocks, and annual billing saves 10 percent. Enterprise is quoted | A flat monthly price per plan, billed annually, with a set number of team seats and workspaces (5 and 3 on Essential, 10 and 5 on Pro) that add-ons extend. Extra CPU with autoscaling, extra storage and the enhanced security pack are priced add-ons, and Custom is quoted |
| AI features | Yes | Yes |
| MCP-ready | Yes | Yes |
| Deployment | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based | more entries Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based, On-premise |
| Support | more entries Email helpdesk, Phone, Chat, Community forum | Chat, Community forum |
| Onboarding | more entries Documentation and knowledge base, Video tutorials, Guided onboarding, Personal consulting | Documentation and knowledge base, Video tutorials |
| Company size | Small and mid-sized, Enterprise | more entries Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise |
| Integrations | Zapier, Make, n8n, Keragon, Stripe, PayPal | more entries Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Lovable, Bolt.new, Webflow, Framer, Flutter, Datadog, Stripe |
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The short version
Key Differences
- Starting price Caspio From $270 / month Xano Free tier; paid from $85 / month
- Free trial Caspio Free trial with access to core features, no upfront cost Xano Free tier with rate limits, up to 100K database records and 1 workspace
- Deployment Caspio Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based Xano Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based, On-premise
- Company size Caspio Small and mid-sized, Enterprise Xano Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
- Hosting Caspio Caspio-hosted on AWS, with data residency in the US, Canada, the EU, UK, Australia and South America Xano Xano-managed regions or self-hosted on Azure, AWS, GCP or on-premise
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The trade-offs
Strengths and Limitations
Caspio
Strengths
- HIPAA, SOC 2 Type II and GDPR certified annually by independent audit, not self-attested
- Unlimited app users on every plan, so cost does not grow with the audience
- Phone, live chat and ticketing, staffed by in-house support engineers rather than outsourced
Limitations
- Entry pricing starts at $270 a month, well above most tools in this category
- Apps live on the platform rather than as an exportable codebase
- Builder seats are capped on the Team plan at five app authors
Xano
Strengths
- Self-hosting on Azure, AWS, GCP or on-premise, not only the vendor's cloud
- Frontend-agnostic: pairs with React, Flutter, Webflow, Framer, Lovable or Bolt rather than dictating one
- An official MCP server, so external AI agents build against the same workspace rules
Limitations
- The first paid tier is $85 a month, a steep step up from the free one
- It builds only the backend, so a second tool is needed for the interface
- The free tier is rate-limited to 10 requests per 20 seconds and watermarks stored images
Plans
Pricing
Caspio
- Team $270 Per month billed annually ($300 monthly). 5 app authors, 250K data records, unlimited app users.
- Business $540 Per month billed annually ($600 monthly). Unlimited app authors, 1M data records.
- HIPAA / Compliance Edition $500 Per month on a one-year term, for workloads under a signed Business Associate Agreement.
- Enterprise Custom Quoted by the vendor, for full governance, security and guaranteed performance.
Xano
- Free $0 Core building tools, rate-limited to 10 requests per 20 seconds. Up to 100K database records, 1GB watermarked image storage, 1 workspace.
- Essential $85 Per month billed annually. Dedicated infrastructure without API rate limits, unlimited database records, 3 workspaces, 5 team seats, 100GB storage.
- Pro $224 Per month billed annually. 5 workspaces, 10 team seats, 250GB storage, managed load balancer, role management, 99.99% SLA.
- Custom Custom Quoted by the vendor. Self-hosting, advanced security, multiple tenant configurations and dedicated support.
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