> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://lightdash-docs-feature-availability-map.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Feature availability

> Which plan, add-on, or deployment each gated Lightdash feature needs

Most of Lightdash is available to everyone. This page maps the features that aren't — what each one needs, and where it's documented.

Availability is a separate question from [maturity](/support/feature-maturity-levels): a feature can be Beta *and* Enterprise-only, or GA and available to everybody. This page covers only who can reach a feature. For prices, see [lightdash.com/pricing](https://www.lightdash.com/pricing).

## Availability levels

| Level                                                                              | Meaning                                                                                                                      |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| <Badge icon="building-plus" color="blue" size="sm" shape="pill">Enterprise</Badge> | Enterprise plan on Lightdash Cloud, or an [Enterprise license key](/self-host/enterprise-features) on a self-hosted instance |
| <Badge icon="sparkles" color="blue" size="sm" shape="pill">AI add-on</Badge>       | A paid add-on available on any Cloud plan; self-hosted instances need the Enterprise license key and a model provider        |
| <Badge icon="cloud-bolt" color="blue" size="sm" shape="pill">Cloud</Badge>         | Runs on Lightdash Cloud, where we operate the supporting infrastructure for you                                              |
| <Badge icon="server" color="blue" size="sm" shape="pill">Self-hosted</Badge>       | Only applies to instances you run yourself                                                                                   |

Anything not listed on this page is available to every Lightdash user on every plan — including [dbt write-back](/integrations/dbt/write-back) from the Custom Metric and SQL Runner menus, which is gated by project role rather than by plan.

## AI features

The AI add-on covers most of this section, and some features need an Enterprise plan on top of it. The badges say what each one takes.

| Feature                                                           | Availability                                                                                                                                                    | What it is                                                         |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| [AI agents](/agents)                                              | <Badge icon="sparkles" color="blue" size="sm" shape="pill">AI add-on</Badge>                                                                                    | Natural-language querying in the app and Slack                     |
| [AI writeback](/agents/ai-writeback)                              | <Badge icon="sparkles" color="blue" size="sm" shape="pill">AI add-on</Badge>                                                                                    | Agents edit your dbt project and open a pull request               |
| [Deep research](/agents/deep-research)                            | <Badge icon="sparkles" color="blue" size="sm" shape="pill">AI add-on</Badge>                                                                                    | Multi-step investigations with an evidence-backed report           |
| [AI Router](/agents/enable-ai-router)                             | <Badge icon="sparkles" color="blue" size="sm" shape="pill">AI add-on</Badge>                                                                                    | Routes a question to the best-fit agent in a shared Slack channel  |
| [Data apps](/data-apps)                                           | <Badge icon="sparkles" color="blue" size="sm" shape="pill">AI add-on</Badge>                                                                                    | Generated React apps on the semantic layer                         |
| [Autopilot](/agents/autopilot)                                    | <Badge icon="sparkles" color="blue" size="sm" shape="pill">AI add-on</Badge> Cloud Pro and above                                                                | Scheduled agent that keeps a project healthy                       |
| [Issues](/agents/issues)                                          | <Badge icon="sparkles" color="blue" size="sm" shape="pill">AI add-on</Badge> Cloud Pro and above                                                                | Tracked problems raised by agents and users                        |
| [AI coding agent](/agents/ai-coding-agent)                        | <Badge icon="sparkles" color="blue" size="sm" shape="pill">AI add-on</Badge>                                                                                    | Agents edit any connected repository, not just dbt; off by default |
| [Thread retention](/agents/thread-retention)                      | <Badge icon="sparkles" color="blue" size="sm" shape="pill">AI add-on</Badge> <Badge icon="building-plus" color="blue" size="sm" shape="pill">Enterprise</Badge> | Control how long agent conversations are kept                      |
| [Project chart types](/explore/chart-types/custom-project-charts) | <Badge icon="sparkles" color="blue" size="sm" shape="pill">AI add-on</Badge> <Badge icon="building-plus" color="blue" size="sm" shape="pill">Enterprise</Badge> | Custom chart types built on the data apps runtime                  |
| [MCP server](/agents/lightdash-mcp)                               | <Badge icon="cloud-bolt" color="blue" size="sm" shape="pill">Cloud</Badge>                                                                                      | Outside assistants query your semantic layer                       |

## Administration and governance

| Feature                                                               | Availability                                                                       | What it is                                                |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- |
| [Custom roles](/workspace-admin/custom-roles)                         | <Badge icon="building-plus" color="blue" size="sm" shape="pill">Enterprise</Badge> | Roles built from a chosen set of permission scopes        |
| [Service accounts](/workspace-admin/service-accounts)                 | <Badge icon="building-plus" color="blue" size="sm" shape="pill">Enterprise</Badge> | Userless credentials for CLI and API access               |
| [SCIM provisioning](/workspace-admin/sso/scim)                        | <Badge icon="building-plus" color="blue" size="sm" shape="pill">Enterprise</Badge> | User and group provisioning from your identity provider   |
| [Organization credentials](/workspace-admin/organization-credentials) | <Badge icon="building-plus" color="blue" size="sm" shape="pill">Enterprise</Badge> | Shared warehouse credentials, Snowflake SSO only          |
| [Enterprise SSO providers](/workspace-admin/sso)                      | <Badge icon="building-plus" color="blue" size="sm" shape="pill">Enterprise</Badge> | Okta, Azure AD, OneLogin, generic OIDC, and warehouse SSO |
| [Verified domains](/workspace-admin/sso/verified-domains)             | Cloud Pro and above                                                                | Domain ownership that controls SSO routing                |
| [Homepage](/explore/homepage)                                         | <Badge icon="building-plus" color="blue" size="sm" shape="pill">Enterprise</Badge> | Curated project landing pages                             |

Google Workspace SSO is available on every plan — see the [provider matrix](/workspace-admin/sso) for the full breakdown.

## Data and platform

| Feature                                                                      | Availability                                                                                                                                                    | What it is                                                                      |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [Pre-aggregates](/semantic-layer/pre-aggregates)                             | <Badge icon="building-plus" color="blue" size="sm" shape="pill">Enterprise</Badge>                                                                              | Materialized rollups served from DuckDB instead of your warehouse               |
| [Metrics SQL API](/integrations/metrics-sql-api)                             | <Badge icon="building-plus" color="blue" size="sm" shape="pill">Enterprise</Badge>                                                                              | Query the semantic layer over the Postgres wire protocol                        |
| [Embedding](/embed)                                                          | <Badge icon="cloud-bolt" color="blue" size="sm" shape="pill">Cloud</Badge>                                                                                      | Also available to Enterprise on-prem customers                                  |
| [Results caching](/semantic-layer/caching)                                   | Cloud Pro and above                                                                                                                                             | Cached chart and dashboard results; filter value caching is on every Cloud plan |
| [Organization roadmap](/self-host/customize-deployment/organization-roadmap) | <Badge icon="server" color="blue" size="sm" shape="pill">Self-hosted</Badge> <Badge icon="building-plus" color="blue" size="sm" shape="pill">Enterprise</Badge> | Your organization's feature requests and their status                           |

## Turning features on

**On Lightdash Cloud**, plan features are active as soon as your plan includes them. A few need an organization admin to switch them on — [Issues](/agents/issues) and the [Metrics SQL API](/integrations/metrics-sql-api) — and a few are enabled by the Lightdash team on request, including [results caching](/semantic-layer/caching), [thread retention](/agents/thread-retention), and [embedding](/embed/set-up-embedding).

**On a self-hosted instance**, every Enterprise feature needs two things: a valid `LIGHTDASH_LICENSE_KEY` on all containers, and that feature's own environment flag. The key alone enables nothing. [Enterprise features](/self-host/enterprise-features) covers both, with a dedicated setup page for the larger ones — [AI agents](/self-host/enterprise-features/ai-agents), [data apps](/self-host/enterprise-features/data-apps), [AI writeback](/self-host/enterprise-features/ai-writeback), [MCP](/self-host/enterprise-features/mcp), and [pre-aggregates](/self-host/enterprise-features/pre-aggregates).