Retool Agents is the AI-agent layer of Retool, the low-code platform widely used to build internal tools, aimed at engineering and product teams that want to add AI agents to existing business systems with developer-grade control rather than a pure business-user no-code builder.
Who it's for
Retool Agents fits teams already building internal apps in Retool — engineering, data, and platform teams — who want an agent that can look things up in a database, call an internal API, or triage a support queue, wired directly into infrastructure they already manage. It's a strong choice for organizations that care about where their data and agent runtime live, since Retool offers a genuine self-hosted deployment path. Non-technical teams looking for a pure drag-and-drop, business-user-friendly agent builder may find Retool's developer-centric approach less approachable than dedicated no-code tools.
How it works
You start from a template or build an agent from scratch, choose the underlying LLM, write instructions, and give the agent access to Retool resources — saved queries, workflows, and connections to your databases and APIs — as governed tools it can call. Agents can be linked to other agents or to MCP servers, enabling multi-agent orchestration for more complex processes, and because it's model-agnostic you're not locked into a single AI provider. Retool's existing production and access controls carry over, so an agent that touches customer data inherits the same governance as any other Retool app.
Pricing
Retool Agents includes a free tier to start experimenting, with paid team and enterprise tiers above it. Retool doesn't publish a fixed monthly price specifically for Agents in our data, so check Retool's current pricing page or talk to sales to confirm exact costs for your team size and usage.
Strengths and trade-offs
The standout feature is self-hosting: Retool offers a self-hosted deployment path (currently rolling out for Agents), which is unusual among AI-agent builders and matters a lot to regulated or security-conscious organizations that can't send data to a third-party cloud. Combined with multi-agent orchestration, multi-model support and built-in audit logging, Retool Agents is well suited to technical teams that want an agent wired deeply into internal systems with full governance. The trade-off is accessibility: configuring an agent still assumes familiarity with Retool's resource model (queries, workflows, permissions), so it's less immediately approachable for a non-technical business user than a pure no-code agent builder — Retool is optimizing for control and integration depth over drag-and-drop simplicity.