Tambo — Developer Tools

What is Tambo?

Tambo is an open-source toolkit that lets developers add AI agents to their React applications. It connects your existing components—the agent renders your UI with the right props, handling streaming, state management, and MCP (Model Context Protocol) under the hood. This means you can ship AI features without rebuilding your UI from scratch.

Problem it solves

Building AI features typically requires integrating LLMs, managing message streams, handling errors, and maintaining state—a lot of heavy lifting. Tambo automates these 'boring parts' so engineers can focus on product logic. It also keeps your AI secure by inheriting your user's permissions, and it lets your AI use your own components, preserving your design system and styling.

Who is it for?

Tambo is for product engineers and AI software engineers building React apps who want to add conversational or generative interfaces quickly. It's especially useful for teams with existing component libraries and design systems. It's not for non-technical users or those working outside React.

Use cases

Build a chatbot that can render interactive seat maps, forms, or dashboards directly in your app. Or create an AI assistant that can update state as users interact—e.g., changing selections or navigating through multi-step flows. Tambo supports multi-model configurations, so you can plug in your preferred LLM.

• Generative Components — Your existing components are registered once, and the agent renders them with the right props, keeping your styling and logic.
• Auth Just Works — The agent inherits your user's permissions, ensuring secure access to your AI features.
• Conversation Storage — Built-in chat thread history so you can manage conversations easily.
• Component State — Tambo updates state when users interact, enabling dynamic, stateful UIs.
• MCP Support — Model Context Protocol integration for easy connection to external tools and data.
• Multi-Model Support — Use different LLMs interchangeably without reintegrating.
• Error States, Cancellation, and Message Threads — Handled out of the box, saving you time on edge cases.

Tambo pricing: from $25/mo.

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Starter (Free)

Perfect for getting started. Includes 10K messages per month, unlimited users (OAuth), chat-thread history, analytics + observability, and community support.

Growth ($25/mo)

For growing teams and projects. Includes 200K messages per month, unlimited users, chat-thread history, analytics + observability, and $8 per additional 100K messages (billed in 100K blocks).

Enterprise (Annual Contract)

For large organizations. Negotiated message volume, unlimited seats for cloud, enterprise-only features (SSO/SAML, SCIM, RBAC), single-tenant or on-prem, 99.99% uptime SLA, SOC 2, HIPAA opt-in, GDPR (upon request), early access to new features, and 24x7 support.

Also available: open-source self-hosted option — free forever via the tambo.ai/react package.

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