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24 alternatives to Mertiql - Turn Natural Language into SQL

Turn plain English into SQL queries + charts in 3 seconds

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Turn plain language into powerful database queries

    2025 · text2query.com · its alternatives →

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    Turn everyday language into SQL queries

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    inferring sql queries from plain-text questions about tables - paulfitz/mlsql

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

  4. 4DS

    I played around with GPT-3 to build this demo. Select a public BigQuery dataset and describe your query in natural English, then edit the generated SQL as needed and execute it. https://app.tabbydata.com/sql-assistant-demo

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Would love thoughts! Here is the HF page: https://huggingface.co/chatdb/natural-sql-7b

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

  6. 6NL

    Hi HN- Today, we are releasing the hosted API for our natural language to SQL engine, which allows you to: (1) Explain Your Data: Feed in dictionaries, dbt, schemas, Confluence docs - we'll understand the business context to your data. (2) Train Your AI: Fine-tune an LLM (including GPT-4) specifically for your data, increasing accuracy and lowering latency (3) Trust the Answer: See confidence scores with each AI-generated query, stay in control. (4) Conduct complex SQL queries Problem background - Developers struggle to build NL-to-SQL into products because LLMs do not work out-of-the-box;…

    2024 · dataherald.com · its alternatives →

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    Converse with your data in natural language

    2023 · ai2sql.io · its alternatives →

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    Convert natural language to sql queries

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    sql, data, analytics, database, query, syntax, translation

    2023 · askai.free · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN community. We are excited to open source Dataherald’s natural-language-to-SQL engine today (https://github.com/Dataherald/dataherald). This engine allows you to set up an API from your structured database that can answer questions in plain English. GPT-4 class LLMs have gotten remarkably good at writing SQL. However, out-of-the-box LLMs and existing frameworks would not work with our own structured data at a necessary quality level. For example, given the question “what was the average rent in Los Angeles in May 2023?” a reasonable human would either assume the…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Long story short: We (Dataherald) just open-sourced our entire codebase, including the core engine, the clients that interact with it and the backend application layer for authentication and RBAC. You can now use the full solution to build text-to-SQL into your product. The Problem: modern LLMs write syntactically correct SQL, but they struggle with real-world relational data. This is because real world data and schema is messy, natural language can often be ambiguous and LLMs are not trained on your specific dataset. Solution: The core NL-to-SQL engine in Dataherald is an LLM based agent…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Embed NL-to-SQL into your product

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone — thanks for your interest in PRQL — let us know any questions or feedback! We're excited to be releasing 0.2[1], the first version of PRQL you can use in your own projects. It wouldn't exist without the feedback we got from HackerNews when we originally posted the proposal. [1]: https://github.com/prql/prql/releases/tag/0.2.0

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    ShapedQL▲211

    The SQL engine for search, feeds, and AI agents

    Jan 2026 · its alternatives →

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    A complete platform for integrating natural language to SQL

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    AskEdith▲289

    Never write SQL from scratch again

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Turn English into secure, complex SQL queries instantly.

    Dec 2025 · rapidapi.com · its alternatives →

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    SQL AI▲21

    Transform text to SQL query instantly

    2025 · sqlai.app · its alternatives →

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    Turn natural language into SQL queries with AI - instantly

    Jul 2026 · text2sql.io · its alternatives →

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    Turn questions into data insights with privacy-first AI

    Nov 2025 · astrasql.com · its alternatives →

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    Generate SQL directly in your browser with help of AI

    2022 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Easy JSON Query Processor with a Lispy syntax in Go - cube2222/jql

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    From Questions to SQL Instantly!

    2024 · opensql.ai · its alternatives →

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