Vanna AI
RAG-powered text-to-SQL library now pivoting toward paid agents
Overview
Vanna AI turns natural-language questions into SQL using retrieval-augmented generation trained on your schema, docs and query history. The original open-source library was archived on GitHub in March 2026 as the company shifted its roadmap toward Vanna 2.0, a paid user-aware agent platform.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 12 Jul 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- 20 questions/day
- Admin features (OSS or Cloud)
- API access, same-day email support
- 300 questions/day
- All Explorer features
- Setup assistance, same-day live support
- Unlimited questions
- On-premises deployment, SAML SSO
- Admin API and custom development
What you can produce with Vanna AI
- Schema and doc-trained RAG for SQL generation
- Works with any LLM provider and database
- Embeddable into custom applications
- Vanna 2.0 agent API with streaming and user-aware components
- MIT-licensed original library (now archived, read-only)
ASEAN Perspective
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Vanna earned its following as a genuinely embeddable, no-lock-in text-to-SQL library — train it on your schema and example queries, point it at any LLM and any database, and it hands back working SQL rather than a hosted chat widget. That's still true of the code, but the project's status changed materially in 2026: the 23.8k-star original repository was archived by its owner in March, meaning it's now read-only and won't receive further fixes.
The company's stated direction is Vanna 2.0, a rewritten "user-aware agent" framework sold through paid Explorer ($50/month), Team ($500/month) and Enterprise tiers rather than the permissively licensed library that built its reputation. Existing self-hosters have forked the archived code to keep it working outside the paid product. Anyone evaluating Vanna today should go in expecting a commercial pivot, not a free open-source tool, and should budget time to assess whether the archived codebase or the new paid agent is the better fit.
What people say
Vanna built its reputation as one of the most-starred open-source text-to-SQL projects on GitHub — 23,800 stars and 2,400 forks on the original vanna-ai/vanna repository — by staying deliberately unopinionated: train it on your schema, documentation and example queries via retrieval-augmented generation, point it at whichever LLM and database you already use, and embed it directly into your own application rather than adopting a hosted chat product.
That changed in 2026. GitHub shows the repository "archived by the owner on Mar 29, 2026. It is now read-only" — no more commits, issues or pull requests accepted against the code that earned it those stars. The README frames this as evolution rather than abandonment, describing Vanna 2.0 as a complete rewrite: a new agent-based API instead of the old VannaBase class methods, user-aware components that track identity per request, streaming responses with rich UI widgets instead of raw text and dataframes, and a web-first <vanna-chat> component. A LegacyVannaAdapter is offered as a bridge for teams still on the old API.
The practical effect for anyone evaluating Vanna today: the free, MIT-licensed library that made it popular is now a frozen snapshot, and the actively developed product is a commercial cloud offering. Vanna 2.0 pricing starts at Explorer ($50/month, 20 questions/day, for teams of 2-3), Team ($500/month, 300 questions/day), and custom Enterprise (unlimited questions, on-prem, SAML SSO), a meaningful jump from free open-source library to metered SaaS, with a 20% discount for annual billing. Community reaction has been mixed enough that at least one developer publicly documented forking the archived 23k-star codebase into a working self-hosted tool specifically because the abandoned original needed work to run out of the box — a sign that some of the self-hosting audience Vanna built its name with isn't following the move to the paid product.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
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