The short answer
Cheapest at 5 seats a month
$0.38/mo
Amazon QuickSight, SPICE plan
- Lowest starting price
- $5 · Polymer
- Free plans
- 11 of 28
- Prices published
- 23 of 28
- Sales-led only
- 3
AI data analytics tools at a glance
Median starting price$22.50/moHalf start between $10 and $140
Free plan39%57% offer a time-limited trial
Buy online82%Sign up and pay without a sales call
Sales only11%Demo or contact sales to buy
How they charge
Vendors whose domain dates from 2023 or later start at a median $50/mo, 150% above the $20 of older ones (5 newer, 11 older, public USD prices).
What you'd pay at 5 seats a month
- Amazon QuickSight SPICE$0.38
- Polymer Basic$10
- AI2SQL Pro$19
- Rows Plus$40
- IBM Cognos Analytics On Demand$56.25
- Powerdrill Team Pro$66.35
- Microsoft Power BI Power BI Pro$70
- Metabase Starter$100
- ThoughtSpot Essentials$125
- Hex Professional$180
- Deepnote Team$195
- Qlik Starter$300
Computed from each tool's published plans, allowances and overage rates.
Every AI data analytics tool, side by side
| Tool | Starts at | Usage price | Free plan | How you buy | Checks | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Amazon QuickSight |
$9/mo yearly | – | – | Both | 5/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Polymer |
$5/mo yearly | – | – | Both | 7/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 AI2SQL |
$7/mo yearly | – | Yes | Self-serve | 4/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Rows |
$6/mo yearly | – | Yes | Both | 5/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 IBM Cognos Analytics |
$11.25/mo | – | – | Both | 4/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Powerdrill |
$13.27/mo yearly | – | Yes | Both | 5/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Microsoft Power BI |
$14/mo yearly | – | Yes | Both | 6/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Metabase |
$90/mo yearly | – | Yes | Both | 6/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 ThoughtSpot |
$25/mo yearly | $0.10/credit | Yes | Both | 6/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Hex |
$36/mo | – | Yes | Both | 8/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Deepnote |
$39/mo yearly | – | Yes | Both | 7/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Qlik |
$300/mo yearly | – | – | Both | 4/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 SQLAI.ai |
$6/mo | – | – | Both | 4/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Julius AI |
$16/mo yearly | – | Yes | Both | 6/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Vanna AI |
$50/mo | – | – | Both | 4/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 WrenAI |
$179/mo yearly | – | – | Both | 8/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Querio |
$2,083/mo yearly | – | Yes | Both | 8/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Defog |
$5,000/mo | – | – | Sales-led | 5/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Akkio |
– | – | – | Sales-led | 4/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 BlazeSQL |
– | – | – | Both | 7/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Databricks AI/BI |
– | – | Yes | Both | 4/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Fabi.ai |
– | – | – | – | 5/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Looker |
– | $3/1m input data tokens | – | Sales-led | 8/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Sigma Computing |
– | – | – | Both | 5/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Sisense |
– | – | – | Both | 5/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Snowflake Cortex Analyst |
– | – | – | Both | 3/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Tableau |
– | – | – | – | 0/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
 Zoho Analytics |
– | – | – | Both | 8/8 | Oct 29, 2026 |
The tools
Amazon QuickSightAmazon Quick Sight is AWS's BI service, now part of Amazon Quick, with dashboards, natural language Q&A, and embedded analytics.$9 /moPolymerPolymer is an AI-assisted dashboard, reporting and embedded analytics tool that connects to marketing, e-commerce and file data sources.$5 /moAI2SQLAI SQL query generator that writes, explains, fixes and optimizes SQL on your connected database schema and runs it read-only.$7 /moRowsRows is a spreadsheet with an AI analyst that extracts data from documents, imports business data and analyzes it from plain-language requests.$6 /moIBM Cognos AnalyticsIBM Cognos Analytics is a governed business intelligence platform with reporting, dashboards, forecasting and an AI assistant, offered as SaaS, hosted, on-premises or container deployments.$11.25 /moPowerdrillPowerdrill Bloom is an AI data analysis workspace where you ask questions in plain language over uploaded files and connected data and get charts, summaries and reports.$13.27 /moMicrosoft Power BIPower BI is Microsoft's business intelligence product for building reports and dashboards, with Copilot for natural language questions.$14 /moMetabaseOpen-source and cloud business intelligence tool with AI querying, dashboards, a semantic layer, and embedded analytics.$90 /moThoughtSpotThoughtSpot is an AI analytics platform for asking data questions in natural language, building dashboards, and embedding analytics in apps.$25 /moHexHex is an analytics platform with notebooks, conversational AI analytics, BI, data apps and a context layer, running on top of a customer's own data warehouse.$36 /moDeepnoteCloud data workspace where teams and AI agents run SQL and Python notebooks and publish them as dashboards and apps.$39 /moQlikQlik sells cloud analytics and data integration software with dashboards, AI question answering and automation.$300 /moSQLAI.aiAI tool that turns plain-language requests into SQL and also optimizes, validates, explains, formats and converts queries across about 28 database engines.$6 /moJulius AIJulius is an AI workspace for chatting with data and files, building charts, reports, presentations, websites, images and video.$16 /moVanna AIOpen-source SQL agent that lets users query company databases in natural language, with optional hosted cloud and admin features.$50 /moWrenAIOpen-source GenBI agent that answers plain-language data questions using a governed context layer, available in its own UI, Slack, Teams, embeds and over MCP.$179 /moQuerioQuerio is an AI analytics workspace where an agent answers questions on connected data using notebooks, dashboards and shared context kept in a git repo.$2,083 /moDefogDefog is an AI data analyst that answers questions about structured databases and CSVs, powered by its own SQLCoder text-to-SQL model.$5,000 /moAkkioAkkio is an AI platform for media agencies and data providers that automates campaign workflows such as audience building, planning and measurement.QuoteBlazeSQLBlazeSQL is an AI data analyst that turns natural language questions into SQL queries, answers, and dashboards on top of a company's SQL databases and warehouses.QuoteDatabricks AI/BIDatabricks AI/BI is an AI-assisted business intelligence layer built into the Databricks Data + AI Platform, with dashboards and a natural language assistant called Genie.QuoteFabi.aiAI analyst platform that answers questions on connected data, builds dashboards and runs scheduled workflows using SQL, Python and AI.QuoteLookerLooker is Google Cloud's BI platform with a LookML semantic layer, Gemini-powered conversational analytics, and embedded analytics.$3 /1m input data tokensSigma ComputingSigma is a cloud analytics platform that runs on live data-warehouse data, with an AI assistant, agents, apps, embedded analytics and warehouse-inherited governance.QuoteSisenseSisense is an embedded analytics platform that lets software companies put dashboards and AI-driven analytics inside their own products.QuoteSnowflake Cortex AnalystSnowflake Cortex AI is a set of AI features inside the Snowflake data platform, including natural-language-to-SQL, data agents and LLM functions callable from SQL or APIs.QuoteTableauQuoteZoho AnalyticsZoho Analytics is a BI and analytics platform with built-in AI agents, 500+ data connectors, dashboards, and embedded analytics.QuoteHow this list is made
Every price is read from the vendor's own pricing page on the date shown and tied to the line it came from. Tools are ordered by what they cost at a typical volume, then by starting price. No one pays to be listed or ranked.