Xano

In plain words

Xano is a no-code backend platform that provides developers and app builders with a scalable server, flexible database, and API builder in a single account. Users can create, transform, filter, and integrate data without writing code. The tool is designed for those looking to build and deploy backends quickly without traditional coding, making it useful for rapid application development and prototyping.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

Xano is the fastest way to build a scalable backend for your App using No Code. Each Xano account comes with a scalable server, a flexible database, and a No Code API builder that can transform, filter, and integrate with data from anywhere.

The fastest way to build a powerful, scalable backend for your app without code. Xano is the trusted Backend for over 100,000 SMB and Enterprise applicatio...

Professional backend development for the AI era—understand, govern, and run everything AI builds. Trusted by enterprises building business-critical workflows around the globe. Before anyone builds, the deterministic harness mandates how an application gets built. Set once by your team, inherited by every build—engineers and agents alike. Work the way your team already works—the harness holds either way. Engineers and agents build the same way, against the same rules. With any agent (Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT—or your own) via the Xano MCP, in code, or visually. Connect any front end, or host static files on Xano. Review the verified backend object in an ephemeral environment and promote it.…from xano.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hi HN — I’m Daniel, DevRel at Xano. Three years ago, Xano started as an internal tool at a software agency. We were rebuilding the same backend infrastructure for every client—auth, databases, APIs, file storage, scaling, security—over and over again. To save time, the team built a platform that could generate…

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