Nango vs. Zapier: Which is best? [2026]

The shape of AI products has changed in the last couple years. Where a chatbot used to be able to get away with answering questions from its own training data, an AI product in 2026 is expected to read and write across whatever stack the customer has chosen, on demand. That puts a new piece of engineering on every product team's roadmap: an integration layer that handles the auth, the retries, the rate limits, and the slow grind of keeping each upstream API working as it changes. Two paths have