Hasura
Instant GraphQL APIs on your data, plus PromptQL for agentic data access.
About
Hasura turns existing databases and APIs into a unified GraphQL API in minutes, with a metadata-driven authorization layer that enforces row-level permissions. The engine has been downloaded hundreds of millions of times (per vendor) and underpins data access at companies including Atlassian and Walmart. Hasura raised $100M at a $1B valuation in 2022 led by Greenoaks, bringing total funding to $136.5M.
The AI-era product is PromptQL, a data access agent that gives LLMs reliable, permissioned access to structured and unstructured data, composing data queries with numeric and LLM computations into flexible query plans instead of brittle canned RAG pipelines. Hasura positions its years of work on the access-control layer as the moat: pointing AI at company data safely requires exactly the governance its engine was built for.
What it can do
- Instant GraphQL/REST APIs generated from databases with metadata-driven authz
- PromptQL: agentic natural-language data access with governed query planning
- Hasura DDN: federated data delivery network across many sources
- Subscriptions, caching, and observability for production APIs
Setup
Deploy via Hasura Cloud, Docker, or the open-source engine; connect a database to generate the API.
Prerequisites
A database (Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, BigQuery, etc.) or existing REST/GraphQL sources.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 8/10
Scored 8/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: Verified via vendor site/docs/GitHub and reputable coverage, wave 89; Trending score 82/100 from researcher assessment.
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