App builders and analytics tools with an MCP server (2026)
Which app builders and analytics tools ship an MCP server as of September 2026: Retool, Superblocks, Metabase, Luzmo, Sisense, and who does not, with limits.
Namanyay Goel · Updated · 9 min read
A product leader at Chargebee told me, "right now I use Lovable, I use Claude Code because that's what I know my team can understand." That is the week now for a lot of product teams: the work happens in Claude, Cursor or Codex, and the question about any tool is whether the AI client can reach it. So this is a plain list of the app builders and analytics tools with an MCP server as of September 2026, plus the ones that only have an MCP connection through someone else, and the ones with nothing.
I run Gigacatalyst. Our own row in the table is short on purpose; I would rather be accurate than flattering.
What an MCP server lets a product team do
An MCP server is an endpoint a tool exposes so that an AI client (Claude, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT) can call the tool's own functions, with your login and your permissions, instead of you clicking through its UI. In practice it means a product manager can say "find every app that still uses the old billing API" or "what did this customer's usage look like last month" in the chat window they already have open, and the tool answers with real data or makes the real change.
Who has one
Everything in this table comes from the vendors' own docs and announcements, checked 2026-09-15. Where I could not find published terms, the cell says so.
| Tool | MCP server | Since | Auth | Where it runs | What it can do |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retool | Yes, public beta | 2026-05-08 | OAuth 2.0 | Cloud and self-hosted, at your instance /mcp | Manage apps, workflows and users from Claude, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT, Kiro |
| Superblocks | Yes, Admin MCP and Builder MCP | Not published | Bearer token | app.superblocks.com/mcp or npx package | Admin: audit logs and org admin (Enterprise only). Builder: build and publish apps from Claude |
| Metabase | Yes, built in | Not published | OAuth 2.0 | Your Metabase at /api/metabase-mcp | Query data with the user's permissions; results paged 200 rows, 2,000 total |
| Luzmo | Yes, hosted | 2026-06-30 | Not published | Luzmo cloud | Luzmo IQ answers and chart generation for agents or end users via proxied MCP |
| Sisense | Marketed | Not published | Not published | Not published | "Assistant and MCP connectivity" on live and cached models; setup docs not found |
| Appsmith | No official server | n/a | n/a | n/a | Community projects only |
| Budibase | No | n/a | n/a | n/a | Agents in beta since 2026-03-12 but no MCP mentioned |
| Embeddable | No | n/a | n/a | n/a | Claude skills for generating models, components, dashboards and themes instead |
| Explo | No | n/a | n/a | n/a | Acquirer Omni ships an MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor |
| Gigacatalyst | Not for the dashboard product | n/a | n/a | n/a | The company's MCP server today is the PumpGTM outbound server at mcp.gigacatalyst.com |
A note on the Gigacatalyst row. Giga Next Inc. runs one MCP server today, and it is for PumpGTM, our outbound product: an AI client can find buyers, draft and send LinkedIn messages and read replies through mcp.gigacatalyst.com with OAuth. There is no MCP server for the Gigacatalyst dashboard and app product as of September 2026. I am not going to imply otherwise.
Three worked examples
These are the kinds of jobs the servers above actually support, based on what each vendor documents.
Cleaning up a Retool workspace from Cursor. Retool's server manages apps, workflows and users. From Cursor, a platform engineer can ask for every app in the workspace, filter to the ones that reference a resource that is being retired, and have the client propose the edits. Because the server speaks OAuth 2.0 and runs on cloud or self-hosted instances at your own /mcp path, this works the same on a Kubernetes install as on Retool cloud. It is a public beta since May 2026, so expect the tool list to change. I found no separate price for the server; plan terms are on the Retool pricing page (https://retool.com/pricing) as of September 2026.
Answering a customer's usage question from Claude with Metabase. Metabase's server is built in at /api/metabase-mcp, and an admin switches it on under Admin > AI > MCP. The important property is that it respects the signed-in user's permissions, so a support lead who cannot see the finance schema in Metabase cannot see it through Claude either. Results come back paged at 200 rows, capped at 2,000 in total, which is fine for "what did this account do last week" and not fine for a bulk export. If the underlying question is about exporting, the guide to exporting dashboards and data from Metabase covers the real paths.
Reading audit logs and shipping an app with Superblocks. Superblocks splits its MCP in two. The Admin MCP at app.superblocks.com/mcp (or the npx @superblocksteam/mcp-server package for Cursor, Claude Code and Windsurf) exposes builder, end-user and admin events, so a security reviewer can ask "who published to production this week" and get an answer without a dashboard. The Builder MCP lets Claude build and publish apps. Admin MCP is Enterprise only; Teams at $125 a month billed monthly does not include it, as of September 2026 (https://www.superblocks.com/pricing). For how that compares with Retool, see Retool vs Superblocks.
Luzmo's server is a different animal: it exposes Luzmo IQ answers and chart generation to agents built on the OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK or LangChain, or to your end users through a proxied MCP. It is for putting analytics answers inside an agent, not for administering Luzmo.
Safety and approval gates
An MCP server is a write path into a production tool, so the gates matter more than the feature list.
- Identity. Retool and Metabase use OAuth 2.0, which means the AI client acts as a named user and inherits that user's permissions. Superblocks uses a bearer token; treat that token like a deploy key.
- Permission scope. Metabase documents that the server respects user permissions. Retool's permissions are group based (Use, Edit, Own) with no row-level policies, so what the client can touch is what the connected user's group can touch. Superblocks maps access to org roles, resource roles and groups.
- Audit. Superblocks exposes audit events through the MCP itself, Enterprise only. Retool's audit logs are downloadable as CSV on Business and Enterprise and streamable to Datadog or Splunk on Enterprise. Metabase's MCP docs do not describe a separate audit trail for MCP calls; treat it as the same user activity.
- Approval. None of the four servers document a built-in "human approves before write" step. That gate has to live in the client (Claude Code and Cursor both ask before running tools) or in your process. If a Sardine ops leader with "3,000 unworked tickets" is going to let an agent close them through Retool, someone should still be reading the diff.
Honest limits
Retool's server is a beta and Retool says so. Sisense markets MCP connectivity but I could not find a setup page, an auth model or pricing, so it is in the table as marketed, not verified. Luzmo's server is scoped to IQ answers and charts. Metabase's 2,000 row cap means it is a question tool, not a data mover. Superblocks gates the admin half behind Enterprise. Appsmith, Budibase, Embeddable and Explo have nothing official; Embeddable's Claude skills are a real alternative for generating models and components, but they are not a server your client connects to.
And Gigacatalyst: no dashboard MCP today. If what you need is a tool your team can drive from Claude to build and change customer-facing apps on your own product's APIs, that is what we do through our own product surface, and pricing is quoted per deployment (start at /contact). The wider comparison of customer-facing dashboard tools for B2B SaaS and internal tool builders for customer-facing apps covers the rest of the criteria.
Next step
If the AI client is where your team lives, shortlist Retool, Superblocks and Metabase, connect one from Claude with a read-only user, and see what it can actually answer before you plan around it. If the job is a customer-facing app on your APIs, see it on your own APIs and we will show you what we have, MCP or not.
Questions people ask
Which app builders have an MCP server in 2026? Retool (public beta since May 2026, OAuth, cloud and self-hosted) and Superblocks (Admin MCP on Enterprise, plus a Builder MCP). Appsmith has community projects only and Budibase has none.
Which analytics tools have an MCP server? Metabase ships one built in at /api/metabase-mcp with OAuth. Luzmo has a hosted server since June 2026. Sisense markets MCP connectivity without published terms. Embeddable and Explo have none, though Explo's acquirer Omni does.
Does Gigacatalyst have an MCP server? Not for the dashboard and app product. Giga Next Inc. runs an MCP server for PumpGTM, its outbound product, at mcp.gigacatalyst.com.
Does an MCP server respect the tool's permissions? Metabase documents that its server respects the signed-in user's permissions. Retool and Superblocks act as the authenticated user or token, so access is whatever that identity has. There is no separate MCP permission layer in any of them as of September 2026.
Is Retool's MCP server free? As of September 2026 it is a public beta and I found no separate price published for it. You still need a Retool plan and a user with access to the apps you want to manage.
Can I use an MCP server to export data from Metabase? Not at scale. Results are paged 200 rows and capped at 2,000. Use the download button, serialization or the API for real exports.