Genie Code

Note

Starting July 8, 2026 at 00:00 UTC, Genie Code is billed following a pay-as-you-go pricing model that includes a per-user free monthly allowance. Account administrators can manage budgets and cost controls for Genie. For more information about pricing, see Databricks pricing.

Genie One and Genie Agents usage by users is free through January 31, 2027. Service principals are excluded from the promotion, and their usage is billed.

Genie Code is the AI coding and data assistant for developers and technical practitioners in the Azure Databricks workspace. It generates and runs code, builds pipelines and AI/BI dashboards, debugs errors, and works directly with Unity Catalog tables, columns, and lineage to accelerate multi-step data work. It runs in notebooks, the SQL editor, the Lakeflow Pipelines Editor, AI/BI dashboards, and MLflow, and chats persist as you navigate between pages.

Genie Code is governed by your Unity Catalog permissions, so it can only access data and perform operations that you have permissions for. Fair usage limits prevent abuse but do not affect most users.

Genie Code is part of the Genie family of AI experiences. Business users who want a simplified chat interface to ask data questions, explore dashboards, and run apps should use Genie One. Data teams configuring trusted data, metrics, and business rules for domain-specific environments should see Genie Agents. For privacy, trust, and security details, see Databricks AI assistive features trust and safety.

Tip

Genie Code has a full page command center experience, where the active chat is shown prominently, surfacing notebooks and files alongside it as tabs when needed. Start work directly from Genie Code rather than from an asset like a notebook, run multiple chats in parallel, and personalize Genie Code with skills, instructions, and MCP servers. See Full page Genie Code.

Demo video

See Genie Code in action in this demo video.

Explore Genie Code

Topic	Description
Navigate Genie Code	Open Genie Code and work in the chat pane, the full page command center, settings, and chats.
Agent mode	Run Genie Code as an autonomous agent that plans, runs code, fixes errors, and asks for approval before it uses tools.
Features and capabilities	See how Genie Code helps with code, answers questions from documentation, and works across notebooks, pipelines, dashboards, and MLflow.

Customize and improve Genie Code

Topic	Description
Add custom instructions	Guide how Genie Code responds with user and workspace instructions.
Agent skills	Add reusable user and workspace skills that Genie Code applies to tasks.
Connect to MCP servers	Connect Genie Code to external tools using MCP servers and built-in connectors.
Improve Genie Code responses	Follow tips and best practices to get better results from Genie Code.
Measure Genie Code impact	Track Genie Code adoption and impact across your organization.

Geo availability of Genie Code features

Genie Code is a Designated Service that uses Geos to manage data residency when processing customer content. To learn more about the availability of Genie Code features in different geographic areas, see Databricks Designated Services.

Tip

If you can't enable Genie Code, you might need to disable Enforce data processing within workspace Geography for AI features. See Enable cross-Geo processing.