Mode Analytics API
REST API for Mode Analytics enabling programmatic management of SQL reports, queries, data sources, spaces, and report runs for data team collaboration workflows.
Score Breakdown
⚙ Agent Friendliness
🔒 Security
HTTPS enforced; Basic Auth over HTTPS; tokens are long-lived with no built-in rotation mechanism; SOC2 Type II certified
⚡ Reliability
Best When
Your data team already uses Mode for SQL analytics and you need to automate report scheduling, extract results, or integrate Mode reports into other workflows
Avoid When
You need embedded customer-facing analytics, real-time data, or are evaluating BI platforms from scratch
Use Cases
- • Automating report runs and refreshes on schedule or trigger
- • Programmatically creating and managing SQL reports
- • Integrating Mode report results into other tools and workflows
- • Managing data source connections and permissions at scale
- • Building report catalogs and organizing spaces programmatically
Not For
- • Real-time dashboards requiring sub-second refresh
- • Teams that need embedded analytics in customer-facing products
- • Non-SQL analytics workflows
Interface
Authentication
HTTP Basic Auth using API token and API secret. Tokens generated per user in Mode account settings. No OAuth, no scopes, no service accounts.
Pricing
API access available on Business and Enterprise plans. Free tier has API access with significant limitations.
Agent Metadata
Known Gotchas
- ⚠ Report runs are async; callers must poll run status before fetching results
- ⚠ API tokens are user-scoped; no service account pattern available
- ⚠ Rate limit of 100 req/min can be hit quickly when polling run status
- ⚠ Report results returned as paginated CSV or JSON but format must be explicitly requested
- ⚠ Mode is acquired by ThoughtSpot; API roadmap and SLA uncertain
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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-07.