Vanna AI

Fully open-source text-to-SQL agent, self-hostable with no vendor lock-in

What Vanna AI does

  • Fully open-source text-to-SQL agent, self-hostable with no vendor lock-in
  • Multi-turn conversational querying across Postgres, Snowflake, BigQuery, MySQL, SQLite and more
  • Agent memory (hosted vector DB) that improves query accuracy over time

Vanna AI — straight answers

What is Vanna AI?

Vanna AI is listed under AI Database & SQL Copilots, in the Code & Development category on Flocci AI Tools. Fully open-source text-to-SQL agent, self-hostable with no vendor lock-in. It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at vanna.ai.

Is Vanna AI free?

Vanna AI is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 115 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.

What can Vanna AI do?

Vanna AI does 3 things the catalog singles out: Fully open-source text-to-sql agent, self-hostable with no vendor lock-in; multi-turn conversational querying across postgres, snowflake, bigquery, mysql, sqlite and more; agent memory (hosted vector db) that improves query accuracy over time.

What is the best free alternative to Vanna AI?

Outerbase is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same AI Database & SQL Copilots sub-category and is free tier + paid plans. Wren AI also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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  • Row/column-level security enforced at query time for agentic BI use
  • One-prompt GenBI dashboard creation plus MCP embedding for product integration

Outerbase

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  • AI-powered database GUI with natural-language 'EZQL' querying and auto chart generation
  • Spreadsheet-style table editor plus self-serve AI dashboards across 10+ database engines
  • Private AI models that don't train on customer data; recently joined Cloudflare

Cursor

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  • AI-first VS Code fork with agent mode
  • Multi-file edits and terminal commands
  • Codebase-wide context and rules
  • Free tier with limited requests

Google Antigravity

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freemium
  • Google's agent-first IDE
  • Powered by Gemini 3 models
  • Autonomous multi-step coding
  • Free access tier

Windsurf

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  • Agentic IDE with the Cascade flow
  • Now part of Cognition (Devin)
  • Deep whole-repo awareness
  • Free tier available

Zed

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  • Blazing-fast, Rust-built editor
  • Agentic editing and prediction
  • Real-time collaboration
  • Free and open-source core

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