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Wren AI

Open-source GenBI agent: ask in plain language, get governed SQL, charts, and dashboards.

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Analytics
Pricing
FREEMIUM
Source
Open core
Hosting
Hybrid
Platforms
WebAPI
Models
BYO key / model
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Jun 10, 2026

An agentic GenBI platform from Canner that turns natural-language questions into governed SQL, charts, and live dashboards over 20+ databases and warehouses, from BigQuery and Snowflake to PostgreSQL and DuckDB. Its open-source core is a semantic 'context layer' (MDL) that grounds LLM-generated queries in business definitions instead of raw schemas. Runs self-hosted via Docker or as a managed cloud with RBAC and row/column-level security.

Capabilities 3

What it actually does — grouped by capability family.

  • MCP server (secondary capability)
  • Text-to-SQL (primary capability)
  • Data analysis / BI (primary capability)

Pros & cons

  • Self-host via Docker or use managed cloud
  • Semantic layer grounds SQL, cuts hallucination
  • Many warehouses and databases via one engine
  • LLM-agnostic: OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama
  • 2026 pivot froze the original GenBI UI at v1
  • Best-tested on OpenAI; other models less so
  • RBAC, auditing, row-level security are paid
  • Docs split between v1 app and new core

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