Open Source web
Free source (opens in a new tab)
Month
For: Developers running Coral themselves
Limits
- Self-hosted
- Community support
Includes
- Query engine
- Access control plane
2 more
- Unlimited sources, agents and queries
- Your own LLM keys
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Coral: Pricing, Features & Best Use Cases
Open-source SQL data engine that lets AI agents query APIs, databases and files through one interface, over MCP or CLI.
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Our take: Coral suits teams building AI agents that need to query several APIs and databases with SQL, free when self-hosted or $249 a month hosted.
Main limitation: Team usage beyond 50,000 queries costs extra and Enterprise pricing requires contacting sales.
Who should use Coral
Coral suits teams building AI agents that need to query several APIs and databases with SQL, free when self-hosted or $249 a month hosted. Based on the vendor's documentation, not on a hands-on test.
Best for: Developers running agents on internal data
Also a good fit for
- Teams wanting cheaper agent retrieval
Consider another tool if open-source tier has community support only
Or if
- Team plan is $249/month plus $0.005 per query above 50,000
- Enterprise pricing requires contacting sales
Coral in the news
Headlines from US outlets, selected automatically — not endorsements. Updated Oct 2, 2026
Coral pricing and usage limits
Prices checked Oct 2, 2026 on the official US pricing page. Official pricing ↗ Prices and limits change often.
Free access and trial conditions
Open source is free forever.
Not stated.
Paid plans: what changes as you upgrade
Team web
$249/mo source (opens in a new tab)
Month
For: Teams wanting managed software
Limits
- Hosted on Coral in AWS-EU
- Queries above 50,000 billed at $0.005
Includes
- Admin tools
- Social sign-in
2 more
- Source connector evals
- Priority support via email and Slack
Enterprise web
Custom pricing source (opens in a new tab)
Month
For: Larger regulated organizations
Includes
- SAML and SCIM
- Immutable audit log
2 more
- Air-gapped or SaaS
- Uptime and support SLAs
Usage caps, credits and extra costs
Additional queries beyond 50,000 are billed monthly at $0.005 each.
Not stated.
What is Coral, and how does it work?
Coral turns APIs, databases and files into read-only tables that agents can query together with SQL. It handles authentication, pagination and rate limits and plugs into agents over MCP or a CLI. It is available as a free self-hosted open-source project (Apache 2.0) and as a hosted Team plan, with custom Enterprise plans.
What you provide and what you get back
You provide
- SQL queries from agents
- Credentials to APIs, databases and files
You get back
- Joined read-only query results
Where you can use it
- Platforms
- Desktop
- Account
- Not required
Where Coral is most useful
Scenarios are worked out by our editors from the documentation; the actual result depends on your input and plan.
Giving coding agents cross-source data access
- Who
- Developers using coding agents
- You provide
- Agent SQL against several tools
- Expected result
- One result across sources
- Plan needed
- Open Source
- Limitation
- Read-only tables source (opens in a new tab)
Joining data from tools such as GitHub, PagerDuty, Slack and Linear
- Who
- Incident responders
- You provide
- PagerDuty and GitHub data
- Expected result
- Joined incident-to-PR results
- Plan needed
- Open Source or Team
- Limitation
- Needs connectors source (opens in a new tab)
Reducing agent token usage
- Who
- Teams trying to cut LLM spend
- You provide
- Agent tool calls
- Expected result
- Fewer tool calls per task
- Plan needed
- Team
- Limitation
- Benchmark claims are vendor-reported source (opens in a new tab)
What Coral does, and where it stops
SQL over many sources
Lets agents run SQL joins across tools such as GitHub, PagerDuty, Slack and Linear. Gives agents one query interface.
MCP and CLI integration
Connects to agents over MCP or a CLI. Fits agent tool setups.
Read-only schemas
Exposes sources as read-only schemas and handles authentication, pagination and rate limits. Prevents unsafe writes.
Access control plane
Includes an access control plane for agents. Limits what agents see.
Coral: strengths and limits
Reasons to choose Coral
- Open-source tier is free with unlimited sources and queries Self-hosting costs nothing documented source (opens in a new tab)
- Docs cover install, MCP and self-hosting Docs cover setup documented source (opens in a new tab)
- Works with your own LLM keys You choose the model provider documented source (opens in a new tab)
Check before paying for Coral
- Open-source tier has community support only You must handle support yourself documented source (opens in a new tab)
- Team plan is $249/month plus $0.005 per query above 50,000 Large volumes add per-query costs documented source (opens in a new tab)
- Enterprise pricing requires contacting sales Large organizations need a quote documented source (opens in a new tab)
- Benchmark claims are vendor-reported Savings may differ documented source (opens in a new tab)
How to use Coral for letting an agent query several data sources with SQL
Set up Coral
- Install with brew install withcoral/tap/coral.
- Add credentials for the sources you need.
- Connect Coral to your agent over MCP or CLI.
Example: letting an agent query several data sources with SQL
- Ask the agent a question spanning two tools.
- Review the SQL it ran.
- Read the joined results.
Review and export the result
- Check results against each source.
- Review query counts against the 50,000 included on Team.
Coral API
API access and separate billing
Coral has no public API in its official documentation. MCP and CLI documented; no REST API described.
Privacy, data use and commercial rights
Summarized from the vendor's current policies; this is not legal advice and a vendor's badge is not an independent audit.
How your inputs and outputs are handled
Team plan is hosted in AWS-EU; you use your own LLM keys and agent queries pass through Coral.
Commercial use and plan restrictions
Apache 2.0 license for open source.
Controls for business users
- SAML and SCIM on Enterprise
Other tools to consider instead of Coral
"Better suited" is based on documented features and pricing, not on a head-to-head test.
Cursor: better suited to
GitHub Copilot: better suited to
n8n: better suited to
| Alternative | When to choose it | Pricing | Limitation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cursor | — | — | Compare | |
| GitHub Copilot | — | — | Compare | |
| n8n | — | — |
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Coral FAQ
How much does Coral Team cost?
$249 per month plus $0.005 per query above 50,000. source (opens in a new tab)
What counts as a query in Coral?
One agent tool call to Coral. source (opens in a new tab)
Where does Coral run?
Open Source runs in your cloud or on laptops; Team is hosted in AWS-EU. source (opens in a new tab)
What license is Coral under?
Apache 2.0 for the open-source version. source (opens in a new tab)
Sources and review methodology
Official sources and verification dates
- Coral homepage homepage · checked Oct 2, 2026
- Coral pricing pricing · checked Oct 2, 2026
- Coral docs (desktop app for macOS, Windows, Linux; CLI) homepage · checked Oct 2, 2026
Not verified: Privacy policy; Connector list; Retention on Team.
How we documented and maintain this page
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