Bruin

Bruin is an AI data analyst agent built for data teams that need verified answers to business questions inside Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, WhatsApp, Discord, Telegram, email, and the browser. The differentiator versus a general AI assistant is data integrity enforcement: Bruin reads live pipeline state, schema metadata, and data quality status before responding, and it declines to answer when the underlying data is stale or broken. Every team member receives the same answer from the same source. Bruin is built by Bruin Data Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales, and serves data engineering and analytics teams at mid-market and enterprise B2B technology and SaaS companies. The open-source Bruin CLI handles ingestion, SQL and Python transformation, quality checks, lineage, and orchestration, and the managed Bruin Cloud layer adds the AI analyst, dashboards, and governance on top. Bruin publishes 238 named connectors in its own integrations directory, each marked as a source, a destination, or both. Twenty-eight are supported as destinations, including Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Databricks, Amazon Redshift, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, ClickHouse, DuckDB, Trino, Elasticsearch, IBM DB2, and Amazon S3. Oracle Database, Tableau, Looker, and Power BI are published as sources, so Bruin reads from those systems rather than writing dashboards back into them. Bruin publishes its own MCP server on a dedicated product page, which lets Cursor, Claude Code, and other MCP-compatible editors query databases, compare tables, ingest data, and run pipelines through the Bruin CLI. A Cloud MCP endpoint is documented separately for the managed platform. Pricing: the free entry point is the Try for free path, which the homepage describes as $100 credits plus 50 AI tasks. The Bruin CLI, the VS Code extension, the ingestr ingestion tool, and the Python SDK are open source and free to self-host. Bruin publishes no pricing page. The pricing path returns HTTP 404 against a clean control, the cloud application is behind a login, and G2 records that pricing details for the product are not available. Paid tiers above the free credits are quoted by the vendor rather than published, so a buyer cannot forecast monthly cost from the site alone. What the free credits do not buy is a published ladder above them. Compute is consumed against the credit balance, so cost at scale depends on pipeline volume rather than on a seat count, and the figure has to come from the vendor. Enterprise controls named on the security page, including VPC peering, IP whitelisting, SAML 2.0 SSO, and audit logs, are described at the platform level and their tier placement is not published. Bruin suits data teams that want ingestion, transformation, quality checks, and an AI analyst on a single warehouse-native platform. Teams weighing the same ground also look at Otto, which works on Apache Airflow orchestration rather than on the pipeline itself, and at Hex and Sigma, which pick up once the data has landed in the warehouse. Teams whose need is app-to-app automation rather than warehouse-native pipelines should look at n8n or Workato. Teams that want to drive data work from an AI editor rather than from chat can reach the Bruin CLI through its MCP server from Cursor and Claude Code. Current state Q3 2026: Bruin Data Limited holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification issued 19 August 2026 by Prescient Security LLC, certificate 123371, valid to 18 August 2029, and a SOC 2 Type 2 attestation examined annually by Prescient Assurance LLC and released under NDA. The bruin-data/bruin CLI repository holds 1.7k GitHub stars, and the vendor homepage states 5.5k stars across all Bruin Data repositories. The vendor states that customer data is never used to train any model and that LLM calls run through enterprise endpoints under no-training agreements. Infrastructure runs on Google Cloud Platform and DigitalOcean.