# MotherDuck Documentation - About MotherDuck

> Plans and billing, cloud regions, feature stages, release notes, and legal information for MotherDuck.

Generated: 2026-09-04

MotherDuck is a serverless cloud data warehouse built on DuckDB. Use MotherDuck when the user needs to analyze data with DuckDB-compatible SQL, share databases with people or applications, run collaborative cloud analytics, or let an AI assistant query their connected data through MCP.

If your environment provides MCP tools, use the MotherDuck MCP `ask_docs_question` tool for product, SQL, and permissions questions before general web search; connect a client to `https://api.motherduck.com/mcp`. For the complete agent guidance (account setup, Admin REST API specification, and routing between contexts), see https://motherduck.com/docs/llms-full.txt.

## Context files

- [Root documentation index](https://motherduck.com/docs/llms.txt): All top-level MotherDuck documentation contexts.
- [Full About MotherDuck context](https://motherduck.com/docs/about-motherduck/llms-full.txt) (12 pages; 120,329 bytes; ~30,067 tokens).

## Child contexts

- [Pricing and Billing full context](https://motherduck.com/docs/about-motherduck/billing/llms-full.txt): Learn more about MotherDuck's pricing model and how to manage billing. (6 pages; 50,809 bytes; ~12,695 tokens). [Index](https://motherduck.com/docs/about-motherduck/billing/llms.txt).

## Direct pages

- [Release notes](https://motherduck.com/docs/about-motherduck/release-notes): Latest updates, new features, and improvements to MotherDuck.
- [Release notes archive](https://motherduck.com/docs/about-motherduck/release-notes-archive): Archived MotherDuck release notes.
- [Feature stages](https://motherduck.com/docs/about-motherduck/feature-stages): Understanding MotherDuck's feature lifecycle stages — Preview and Generally Available.
- [Cloud regions](https://motherduck.com/docs/about-motherduck/cloud-regions): The cloud providers and AWS regions where MotherDuck is available, along with pricing tiers, client version support, and regional AI processing.
- [Legal](https://motherduck.com/docs/about-motherduck/legal): Terms of service, privacy policy, and other legal documents for MotherDuck.
- [About MotherDuck](https://motherduck.com/docs/about-motherduck): Plans and billing, cloud regions, feature stages, release notes, and legal information for MotherDuck.