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Box MCP server

Developer tool

by Box

Model Context Protocol server that lets external AI agents search, read and extract metadata from content in Box while enforcing the calling user's existing Box permissions, available as a Box-hosted remote server and as a self-hosted Python project.

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No separate charge on the product page or on box.com/pricing; a free Box developer account is sufficient to build against it. Box support's AI Units document lists "MCP Partner Apps" among features that do NOT consume AI Units. The self-hosted Python server is a Box-published open project.

What it does

• Knowledge retrieval
• Document extraction
• Agent orchestration

Sources

Pricing

Official documentation · 4 Sep 2026

MCP Partner Apps listed as non-AI-Unit-consuming; box.com/pricing lists no MCP line item.

Description

Official documentation · 4 Sep 2026

Product named "Box MCP server", headline "Securely connect AI agents to enterprise content", positioning "a secure gateway that connects external AI agents to enterprise content in Box". URL confirmed in the en-us sitemap. Named client integrations: Anthropic Claude, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure API Center, Mistral Le Chat; Agentforce and GitHub Copilot "coming soon".

Sold within

Pricing page · 30 Sep 2026

The plan comparison lists "MCP server for third party AI agents" with "Additional charges may apply for API calls generated and AI units consumed", ticked on every Business and Enterprise plan. Box's developer docs add that a free Box developer account "gives you the admin access needed to enable the MCP integration yourself."

Also from Box

• Box AI Platform

  Generative AI layer across Box's content platform that answers questions over stored documents, summarizes files and folders, and extracts structured data from contracts and forms; agentic, multi-step work is Box AI Agents, recorded separately.

• Box AI Studio Agent platform

  No-code environment where Box administrators create, configure, test and deploy custom AI agents scoped to selected documents and models, and control which users can access each agent.

• Box Extract Application

  Agentic data extraction service that pulls structured fields from documents, spreadsheets, images and video in Box using OCR and reasoning models, and writes the results back as Box metadata or returns them via API.

• Box AI Agents AI agent

  Agents built on the Box platform that combine frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google with an organization's own content, automating multi-step tasks such as threat analysis and contract review while respecting Box's enterprise permissions.

• Box Automate Application

  No-code agentic workflow-automation platform that orchestrates intelligent content workflows -- contract approvals, claims processing, document routing -- combining AI agents, data extraction and document processing end to end.

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