Here’s a brief rundown of everything that was announced at today’s big Summer Launch Event! If you’d like to watch a recording of the event, you can check that out here. 

A major theme of the event was AI (of course), and we covered not just how AI is changing the way software is built, but also who software is for. CEO Prakash Chandran emphasized this shift, stating, “It’s not just that people are building with AI…AI is becoming a user of that software. This is the agentic shift that Xano has been building to support.” 

After that, members of the Xano product team unveiled some incredible (to keep with our summer theme, dare we say “sizzling”?) new features and capabilities, including:

• Xano Agents for bringing intelligent decision making and autonomous agents to your applications and workflows
• Xano Function Stack AI Assistant for building out your business logic with the help of AI
• Programmatically building out your entire Xano infrastructure and logic using your vibe coder or AI code generator of choice, thanks to XanoScript, our new scripting language
• A totally new pricing lineup, including the much anticipated Starter tier that makes Xano accessible to more builders for just $29 / mo, plus a new Pro plan optimized for teams 

Check out the full details below. 👇

Build for AI: Infrastructure for Agents 

(Presented by Krista Krebs, Product Manager)

This past quarter, we launched a new foundation for building agentic backends, recognizing the critical need for scalable and secure backend infrastructure when working with AI Agents. The goal was to simplify the creation of this infrastructure for production use. To achieve this, we introduced a suite of new AI features, transforming the platform into a command center for designing, testing, and scaling intelligent backend workflows:

• MCP Servers: Standards-based interfaces that expose structured backend logic and data in a way that AI agents (like LLMs) can discover, understand, and interact with programmatically.
• MCP Tools: Secure, interpretable, function-based logic that agents can execute (e.g. book a hotel reservation, update data in a database).

Today, we’re announcing the next evolution in our agentic AI capabilities: Xano Agents.

Xano Agents are usable, prompt-driven agents residing within the backend. 

Xano Agents enable you to configure, invoke, and direct AI behavior within the agent configuration. This includes:

• Choosing your preferred LLM.
• Setting behavior with system instructions.
• Injecting dynamic data into tasks.
• Securely linking tools for action. 

These agents can be run from any part of Xano—API endpoints, custom functions, database triggers, or tasks—providing AI with real structure, safety, and control within your backend.

These tools can perform a wide range of actions, from calling APIs and triggering logic to running other agents or orchestrating external systems. You maintain full control over the agent's reasoning and responses, defining system and task prompts (which can be dynamically hydrated with runtime data) and feeding in crucial context, such as user attributes and permissions, all within your backend workflows. 

Xano Agents are ideal for applications requiring fuzzy reasoning, dynamic decision logic, and complex, multi-step planning, operating entirely within your hosted backend without the need for third-party orchestration tools.

Build with AI: Assistants You Can Trust 

(Presented by Michael Udinski, Customer Engagement Lead)

Xano's AI tools provide structure, speed, and scale for users working with AI agents. Rather than creating a generic copilot, we have focused on developing specialized AI Assistants directly integrated into its features. This approach aims to offer clarity, context, and control, adhering to a "trust but verify" philosophy. Each Xano AI Assistant is designed to be transparent, explaining its actions to help users understand, customize, and trust the solutions it builds. These tools include:

• Database Assistant: Generates normalized schemas in seconds.
• SQL & Lambda Assistants: Assists in writing backend queries and JavaScript with clarity.

At today's launch event, we unveiled the most anticipated AI assistant yet: Function Stack Assistant.

The new Function Stack Assistant brings AI directly into your backend logic. It works right inside your Function Stack. IT understands what you’ve already built and suggests the next step, whether that’s a condition, loop, data operation, or string formatting. No need to craft perfect prompts or stop your flow because it meets you where you are.

Watch for this new feature, slated to release soon, that helps you leverage AI to build out your backend logic.

Build by AI: From Prompt to Production 

(Presented by Lachlan Campbell, AI Product Manager)

To top off our AI announcements, we unveiled an exciting new vision for how you’ll soon be able to use AI to programmatically build out your backend, including configuration, logic, data storage, and structure, all from your LLM or vibe coder of choice. 

To make it all possible, we’re introducing XanoScript. XanoScript is a new scripting language designed for visual backend development, describing logic, structure, flow, and visual configuration in a single syntax, unlike traditional languages that fall short in these combined aspects. It’s lightweight, human-readable, and structured enough that AI can use it to describe backend changes that Xano can understand and implement.

XanoScript allows AI to describe a backend in a way Xano understands, translating it into data models, logic flows, and API endpoints, which can be generated by AI, edited by users, or worked on in an IDE and then visually built in Xano.

In addition to XanoScript, we introduced the Xano MCP Server, which provides a secure interface for AI agents to interact with the backend. When combined with an XanoScript, an AI agent can:

• Read backend structures.
• Generate logic.
• Update and extend existing infrastructure.
• Build entire backend systems.
• Propose new logic flows or data models.
• Output backend instructions that are versionable and safe to review before applying.

XanoScript will soon power more direct AI actions within the MCP Server. Access to write or generate XanoScript directly will be available this summer, enabling fast and flexible backend generation with full visibility. 

We believe this is the foundation for building by AI, where users define boundaries and agents build within them, with Xano ensuring security, scalability, and visual representation. This new feature addresses a highly requested demand for AI to build backends with structure, visibility, and control. 

A New Way to Grow: Updated Pricing with a $29 / month Starter plan

To conclude the event, Prakash Chandran, Xano CEO, announced a new pricing structure designed to align with Xano's evolving vision.

The new lineup is designed to better serve the growing variety of builders and teams using Xano, from solo developers to large enterprises building mission-critical applications.

New Starter Plan: For just $29/month, our new Starter plan is perfect for proving out an idea, building your MVP, or scaling an app without breaking the bank. It includes:

• All the core features of the platform you need to deliver an app (logic, data, auth, etc.) with no rate limits
• Expanded limits on version history, file storage, and database storage
• 3 data sources
• 7-day rolling backups (upgraded from 3-day)
• Optional CPU Boost add-on for more processing power when you need it

New Pro Plan: Optimized for growing teams and production-grade apps. This plan delivers a significant step up in performance and collaboration, and includes everything in Starter, plus:

• 10 team seats for easier collaboration, RBAC, and 5 workspaces
• Database Connector to work with external tools like Tableau, Power BI, and more
• Xano Link for managing and deploying changes across multiple workspaces
• Significantly more compute and storage, plus an optional CPU Boost add-on for even more scalability and speed

Custom Enterprise Plan: For teams that require maximum flexibility, control, and support. Our custom Enterprise plan is built around your specific needs and includes:

• Support for specialized compliance and security requirements
• Flexible infrastructure options, including custom hosting
• Advanced support and onboarding from the Xano team

If our Starter and Pro plans don't quite meet your requirements, our Sales team is ready to assist you in creating a bespoke solution.

Upgraded Build (Free) Plan: Finally, our free Build plan now includes Lambda functions. You can now test Lambda functions—Xano’s new edge and code execution feature—without needing to upgrade. It’s a great way to explore custom logic and edge capabilities before moving to a paid plan.

To simplify our offerings, we are deprecating our previous Launch and Scale plans. If you’re a current Launch or Scale customer, look out for an email from our team on how this impacts you. TL;DR, we’re making improvements to your existing plans and offering discounts if you decide to upgrade to the new plans, valid for the next 90 days.

Our Summer Launch Event wasn't just a showcase of new features; it was a comprehensive roadmap to the next era of software development. By enabling users to "build for," "build with," and "build by AI," Xano is empowering developers to step into the future of backend development, which is already here.