Q2 2026
New features and improvements introduced from April to June 2026
CARTO for Agents: bring the platform into your AI workflows
May 14th, 2026
New CARTO for Agents
AI agents are quickly becoming part of how teams build with spatial data. We're launching CARTO for Agents, three new capabilities that put the entire CARTO platform within reach of the AI agents you already use: authoring Builder maps and Workflows, managing connections, browsing the Data Observatory, running imports and exports, and anything else you do day to day.
CARTO CLI. A script-friendly command-line for the platform that humans run in a terminal and agents call as a tool. The latest release adds first-class Builder map and Workflow authoring from JSON bundles.
CARTO MCP Server. A hosted Model Context Protocol server that exposes built-in CARTO tools, plus any workflow you publish, to web and desktop AI clients like Claude.ai, ChatGPT, and Gemini.
CARTO Agent Skills. A public catalog of skill playbooks at
CartoDB/agent-skillsthat teaches coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI) how to drive CARTO without re-discovering the API every session.
The three pieces work together depending on the scenario. A chat agent in Claude.ai, ChatGPT, or Gemini connects through the MCP Server. A coding agent in Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex combines the CLI with the Agent Skills, which teach it the right flags and patterns for each task. Learn more in our CARTO for Agents documentation.
CARTO AI Analytics for organization Admins
May 14th, 2026
New Workspace
Organization Admins now have a dedicated Analytics tab in Settings > CARTO AI to see how CARTO AI is being used across the organization. The tab is split into three views: All activity with active users and consumption of your AI and agentic usage quotas, CARTO Agents with activity from AI Agents created in Builder, and External Agents with activity driven from external clients consuming CARTO through the MCP Server and the CARTO CLI.
Learn more in our CARTO AI Analytics documentation.
Quota controls for organization Admins
May 14th, 2026
New Workspace
Organization Admins can now cap how much of each quota a specific user or group is allowed to consume, directly from Settings > Quotas & Activity > Quota Limits. Limits can be set for the Usage quota, the Location Data Services quota, and the AI quota, and they are hard limits: once a user or group reaches the limit, they are blocked from consuming more of that quota until an Admin raises or removes the limit.
Learn more in our Managing quotas documentation.
Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles in Builder
May 8th, 2026
New Builder
Bring your maps to life with our new CARTO Builder basemap option: Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles. This high-fidelity representation of the world built from aerial and satellite imagery lets you explore your data on top of detailed 3D buildings and terrain.
Your data will automatically cover the surface of buildings and other 3D terrain features, allowing you to understand the data in real-world context. This can be incredibly useful for urban planning, real estate or insurance use cases.
Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles span over 2,500 cities across 49 countries. See Google's Photorealistic 3D Tiles coverage for the latest list of supported areas.
Ready to try it? Learn more in our Basemaps documentation.
Reorder categorical legend entries in Builder
April 20th, 2026
Improvement Builder
Categorical and ordinal legend entries can now be reordered in Builder to improve map readability. Categories can be sorted by frequency or alphabetically, in ascending or descending order. Reordering only affects the legend’s reading order, colors remain fixed to each category, so the map visualization does not change.
Learn more in our Legend documentation.
Click interactions now show every overlapping feature
April 15th, 2026
Improvement Builder
Click interactions in Builder now paginate across every feature at clicked location, in both pop-up and info panel modes. When overlapping polygons, overlapping lines, or multiple records sharing the same geometry sit at the same spot, you can step through all of them within a layer instead of only seeing the top one. Previously, clicking a stacked location surfaced only a single feature and the rest were unreachable without zooming in or filtering the data. The new prev/next controls let you browse all of them, with the map highlighting updating as you paginate.
Learn more in our Click interactions documentation.
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