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Australia edition · 10 products ranked · Verified 2026-05-27

Top 10 Embedded Analytics Software in Australia for 2026

Independent embedded analytics ranking for Australian ISVs, AUD pricing, AWS Sydney / Azure / GCP residency, Privacy Act + APPs + IRAP reality.

Australia verdict (TL;DR)

Verified 2026-05-27

Australian embedded analytics is dominated by US vendors with Sydney engineering or sales presence; there is no Australian-built top-10-tier embedded analytics product. Sigma Embed, Cube, Looker Embed, and ThoughtSpot Embed all run from AWS Sydney or Azure Australia East with acceptable latency. Explo and Embeddable serve the Atlassian-influenced Australian SaaS startup scene. Privacy Act 1988 + APPs and the OAIC NDB scheme set the floor; IRAP assessment matters only for federal-government-facing ISVs. Most Australian ISVs default to the global top picks at roughly 1.45-1.55x USD list.

Picks for Australia

  • Australian Snowflake-anchored ISV (Sydney AWS region): Sigma Embed Snowflake APAC region in AWS Sydney is mature; Sigma Embed inherits that residency by default. Strongest fit for Australia's Snowflake-heavy retail and financial-services SaaS.
  • Australian engineering-led SaaS wanting headless metrics: Cube Open-source core self-hostable in AWS Sydney for full residency control; Cube Cloud has APAC region. Suits Atlassian-style Australian engineering culture.
  • Australian SaaS startup needing white-label dashboards fast: Explo React SDK, partial public pricing, suits the Sydney/Melbourne YC-and-Blackbird-funded SaaS startup cohort with 12-month runway pressure.
Market context

How the embedded analytics software market looks in Australia

Australia is a US-vendor-dominated embedded analytics market with no domestic top-10-tier embedded analytics product. The decisive market dynamic is data residency. AWS Sydney (ap-southeast-2) and Sydney Region 2 (ap-southeast-4), Azure Australia East (Sydney) and Australia Central (Canberra, IRAP-assessed for government), and GCP Sydney (australia-southeast1) cover the major hyperscalers; Sigma Embed runs natively on Snowflake APAC in AWS Sydney, Looker Embed runs on GCP Sydney, ThoughtSpot Embed runs on AWS Sydney, and Cube Cloud has APAC region selection. Most ISVs accept US-vendor product roadmaps in exchange for proven Sydney latency and APP-compliant data handling.

Australian SaaS procurement is heavily Atlassian-influenced - Australian buyers expect transparent pricing, generous free tiers, and PLG-style self-serve evaluation. This favours Cube (open-source core), Explo (partial public pricing), and Embeddable over opaque enterprise-sales vendors like Looker and ThoughtSpot at the seed-to-Series-B tier. Domo has a Sydney office but is not strong as an ISV-embed product. Local resellers (Servian, Mantel Group, Versent, Idean / Inviqa Australia) implement Looker and ThoughtSpot for ANZ enterprises; for embedded-analytics-as-a-product use cases, ISVs typically buy direct from vendor. There is no meaningful Australian-built embedded analytics ISV at top-10 scale, the closest local-flavoured offerings are Atlassian Analytics (built on Chart.io technology, now end-of-life for new external customers) and small Sydney/Melbourne consultancies that wrap Cube or Metabase.

Compliance & local rules

Privacy Act 1988 and the 13 Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) govern personal information inside embedded dashboards; OAIC (Office of the Australian Information Commissioner) supervises and runs the Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme requiring notification within 30 days of awareness of eligible breaches. IRAP (Information Security Registered Assessors Program) assessment under PROTECTED level is mandatory only for federal-government workloads; AWS, Azure, and GCP have IRAP-assessed regions in Australia (Azure Australia Central is the deepest). Data residency: AWS Sydney + Sydney 2, Azure Australia East + Central, GCP Sydney; most US embedded analytics vendors offer Australian residency on request but confirm contractually rather than rely on marketing claims. Consumer Data Right (CDR) under Treasury Laws Amendment (Consumer Data Right) Act 2019 applies to embedded analytics that surface CDR data in banking, energy, and (from 2024) non-bank lending; CDR data has stricter handling rules than general PII. SOCI Act (Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018, as amended 2022) imposes risk-management obligations on ISVs serving 11 critical infrastructure sectors including data storage; if your end customers are SOCI-regulated, your embedded analytics vendor selection becomes part of their supply-chain risk assessment. Privacy Act reform (Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024) introduces a statutory tort of serious privacy invasion and tightens children's data rules from 2025-2026.

At a glance

Quick comparison, ranked for Australia

Product Best for Starts at 10-emp/mo* Pricing G2 Geo
1 Sigma Embed
Mid-market ISVs and SaaS on cloud data warehouses
Quote - 4.6 Global
2 Cube
Engineering-led ISVs and product teams
$0 + $0/emp $0 4.6 Global
3 Looker Embed
Enterprise ISVs on Google Cloud
Quote - 4.4 Global
5 Explo
Seed-to-Series-B SaaS startups
$795 $795 4.7 Global; US strongest
4 ThoughtSpot Embed
Mid-market and enterprise ISVs wanting AI-search embed
Quote - 4.5 Global
6 Embeddable
Product teams with React design systems
Quote - 4.7 Global; UK / Europe / US strongest
7 Luzmo
European SaaS ISVs and GDPR-sensitive ISVs globally
Quote - 4.6 Europe strongest; Global supported
8 GoodData
Mid-market and enterprise ISVs
Quote - 4.3 Global; US and Europe strongest
9 Mode Analytics Embed
SaaS analyst-driven products
Quote - 4.5 Global
10 Toucan Toco
European ISVs and customer-facing analytics for non-analyst end users
Quote - 4.5 Europe strongest; Global supported

*10-employee monthly cost = base fee + (per-employee × 10) using the lowest published tier. For opaque-pricing vendors, no value is shown.

Verified local pricing

What buyers in Australia actually pay

Median annual deal size by employee band, in AUD. Crowdsourced from anonymized buyer disclosures.

Product Employee band Median annual (AUD) Sample Notes
Sigma Embed Australian mid-market ISV (10-50 customers) A$145,000 14 AUD; enterprise tier with white-label; AWS Sydney residency typically included
Looker Embed Australian enterprise ISV on GCP A$275,000 9 AUD; bundled with Google Cloud Australia commit
Cube Australian engineering-led SaaS (Cube Cloud APAC) A$36,000 18 AUD; Cube Cloud Premium with APAC region
Explo Australian seed-to-Series-B SaaS startup A$28,000 22 AUD; Launch + Growth tiers; ~1.5x USD list
ThoughtSpot Embed Australian mid-market ISV with Sage AI A$235,000 6 AUD; enterprise tier; sample size small, treat as indicative
Local challengers

Australia-built or Australia-strong vendors worth knowing

Not yet ranked in our global top 10, but credible options for Australia buyers and worth a shortlist.

Atlassian Analytics

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Atlassian's internal analytics product (originally built on Chart.io acquisition). Not a standalone embedded analytics ISV product; mentioned because Atlassian's Sydney HQ shapes Australian SaaS engineering culture and pricing expectations.

Domo (Sydney office)

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Domo has Sydney presence and serves ANZ BI customers but is not strong as an ISV-embed product; mentioned for completeness rather than as a recommendation.

Servian (Cognizant)

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Sydney-headquartered data and analytics consultancy (acquired by Cognizant 2021); a primary ANZ implementation partner for Looker, ThoughtSpot, Snowflake, and embedded analytics rollouts.

Mantel Group

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Australian data and cloud consultancy with Melbourne and Sydney offices; implements Looker, Cube, and Snowflake-based embedded analytics for ANZ ISVs.

Versent (Telstra Purple)

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Sydney/Melbourne AWS partner; implements AWS-anchored embedded analytics with Sigma and QuickSight for ANZ enterprises.

Excluded for Australia

Global picks that don't fit here

  • Toucan Toco
    Paris-built guided analytics with very limited Australian presence; EU-residency-first positioning does not match Australian buyer priorities. Cube or Explo are stronger picks for Australian ISVs needing similar speed-to-market.
  • Mode Analytics Embed
    Mode under ThoughtSpot has limited Australian standalone presence post-acquisition; analyst-team-driven embed is a small Australian use case. ThoughtSpot Embed proper (already in the ranking) is the more relevant ThoughtSpot offering for Australia.
The Australia ranking

All 10, ranked for Australia

Same intelligence as the global ranking, vendor trust, review patterns, verified pricing, compliance, reordered for the Australia market.

#1

Sigma Embed

Snowflake-native embedded analytics with spreadsheet-style end-user editing.

Founded 2014 · San Francisco, CA · private · 50–5,000 employees
G2 4.6 (240)
Capterra 4.6
Custom quote
○ Sales call required
Visit Sigma Embed

Sigma Embed packages the Sigma BI product as an ISV-embeddable analytics layer. Its strength is the cloud-native architecture on Snowflake (and Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift) plus a spreadsheet-style editing surface that lets your end customers explore and modify dashboards without learning a BI tool. Best fit is ISVs whose customers already sit on Snowflake or who need writeback and scenario modelling inside the embed. Trade-offs: pricing requires sales engagement, the embed is heavier than purpose-built ISV products, and the Snowflake-anchored architecture narrows fit outside cloud data warehouse customers.

Best for

Snowflake-anchored ISVs and mid-market SaaS whose end customers expect spreadsheet-style analytics and writeback.

Worst for

Lean React SDK embed use cases (Explo or Embeddable better), pure metrics-API consumers (Cube wins), or budget-constrained early-stage ISVs.

Strengths

  • Cloud-native architecture on Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift
  • Spreadsheet-style end-user editing without BI training
  • Strong multi-tenant row-level security model
  • Writeback and scenario modelling supported inside embed
  • iframe and JS SDK embed paths

Weaknesses

  • Pricing opaque and ISV-deal negotiated
  • Best fit narrows when customers are not on a cloud data warehouse
  • Heavier embed surface than purpose-built ISV products like Explo

Pricing tiers

opaque
  • Sigma Embed Standard
    Industry-reported $40K-$120K annually for early-stage ISVs
    Quote
  • Sigma Embed Enterprise
    Industry-reported $120K-$500K+ annually at scale
    Quote
Watch for
  • · Snowflake compute is separate
  • · Multi-year contracts standard
  • · White-label add-on may price separately

Key features

  • +iframe and JS SDK embed
  • +Row-level security
  • +Spreadsheet-style editing
  • +Writeback
  • +White-labelling
  • +Multi-tenant workspaces
  • +Sigma AI assistant
100+ integrations
SnowflakeDatabricksBigQueryRedshiftPostgreSQL
Geography
Global
#2

Cube

Headless semantic layer and metrics API for any front-end.

Founded 2019 · San Francisco, CA · private · 10–2,000 employees
G2 4.6 (90)
Capterra 4.6
From $0 + $0 /mo + /employee
◐ Partial disclosure
Visit Cube

Cube is the headless semantic layer for embedded analytics. Instead of shipping pre-built dashboards, Cube exposes metrics through REST, GraphQL, and SQL APIs so the product team builds whatever front-end fits. Best fit is engineering-led ISVs that already have React or component libraries and want metrics decoupled from any specific BI vendor. Open-source core (Cube Core) plus Cube Cloud for managed deployment. Trade-offs: you build the UI, the semantic-layer modelling has a learning curve, and "headless" only pays off if you actually need a custom front-end.

Best for

Engineering-led ISVs with React or component-library front-ends that want metrics decoupled from any BI vendor.

Worst for

Teams that need dashboards immediately (Explo or Sigma Embed better) or non-technical analyst teams without front-end engineering capacity.

Strengths

  • Headless semantic layer with REST, GraphQL, SQL APIs
  • Open-source core under Apache 2.0
  • Cube Cloud managed offering with partial public pricing
  • Pre-aggregations materialised for query performance
  • Multi-tenant security policies in data-model code

Weaknesses

  • You build the UI; no dashboards out of the box
  • Semantic-layer modelling has a learning curve
  • Headless value only pays off when you need a custom front-end

Pricing tiers

partial
  • Cube Core (OSS)
    Self-hosted; Apache 2.0
    $0+$0 /mo +/emp
  • Cube Cloud Starter
    Free tier for small workloads; published on cube.dev/pricing
    $0 /mo
  • Cube Cloud Premium
    Production tier; partial public pricing on website
    Quote
  • Cube Cloud Enterprise
    Custom enterprise tier with SLAs
    Quote
Watch for
  • · Self-hosted requires DevOps capacity
  • · Pre-aggregation storage costs at scale

Key features

  • +Semantic layer in YAML/JS
  • +REST + GraphQL + SQL APIs
  • +Pre-aggregations
  • +Row-level security policies
  • +Multi-tenant data model
  • +BI-tool connectors (Tableau, Superset, Hex)
50+ integrations
SnowflakeBigQueryDatabricksRedshiftPostgreSQLClickHouse
Geography
Global
#3

Looker Embed

Google Cloud / BigQuery-anchored enterprise embedded analytics.

Founded 2012 · Mountain View, CA · public · 200–10,000+ employees
G2 4.4 (220)
Capterra 4.5
Custom quote
○ Sales call required
Visit Looker Embed

Looker Embed packages Looker as an ISV-embeddable analytics layer with the LookML semantic layer and Liquid templating for multi-tenant filters. Best fit is ISVs anchored on Google Cloud / BigQuery whose customers will also benefit from the same semantic layer powering internal BI. Trade-offs: pricing is opaque enterprise-only, LookML expertise is required, and post-Google-acquisition product velocity has been slow compared with both modern challengers (Cube, Explo) and Google's own consumer-grade Looker Studio.

Best for

Enterprise and mid-market ISVs on Google Cloud / BigQuery wanting semantic-layer-driven embed reused from internal BI.

Worst for

Startups wanting a React SDK and weeks-to-ship (Explo or Embeddable better), or any team outside Google Cloud who finds Looker pricing hard to justify.

Strengths

  • LookML semantic layer reused for embedded and internal BI
  • Native BigQuery integration
  • Liquid templating for multi-tenant filters and white-label theming
  • Google Cloud security, governance, and SOC 2 / FedRAMP posture
  • iframe and JS embed paths

Weaknesses

  • Pricing opaque, enterprise-only
  • LookML expertise required to build and maintain models
  • Post-Google acquisition product velocity has been slow

Pricing tiers

opaque
  • Looker Embed Standard
    Industry-reported $60K-$200K annually for embed footprint
    Quote
  • Looker Embed Enterprise
    Industry-reported $200K-$1M+ annually at ISV scale
    Quote
Watch for
  • · BigQuery query costs separate
  • · Implementation services typical
  • · Multi-year contracts standard

Key features

  • +LookML semantic layer
  • +Liquid templating for multi-tenant filters
  • +Native BigQuery
  • +iframe + signed-URL embed
  • +White-label theming
  • +Data Actions
  • +Gemini for Looker
200+ integrations
Google Cloud (BigQuery, Cloud SQL)SnowflakeRedshiftSalesforce
Geography
Global
#5

Explo

Developer-first white-label embedded analytics for SaaS startups.

Founded 2020 · San Francisco, CA · private · 10–500 employees
G2 4.7 (80)
Capterra 4.7
From $795 /mo
◐ Partial disclosure
Visit Explo

Explo is the developer-first embedded analytics product for SaaS startups that need customer-facing dashboards in weeks rather than quarters. Strong React SDK, white-label by default, partial public pricing on the website. Best fit is seed-to-Series-B SaaS teams whose product roadmap cannot wait for a Looker or Sigma rollout. Trade-offs: feature surface narrower than enterprise BI-with-embed, scalability ceiling lower than Looker / Sigma, and roadmap depends on a small but well-funded company.

Best for

Seed-to-Series-B SaaS startups that need white-label customer-facing dashboards shipping in weeks.

Worst for

Enterprise ISVs with strict governance needs (Looker Embed wins), Snowflake-anchored ISVs needing writeback (Sigma Embed wins), or teams that want a headless metrics API (Cube wins).

Strengths

  • React SDK with white-label theming by default
  • Partial public pricing on website, rare in category
  • Targets seed-to-Series-B SaaS speed-of-ship
  • In-product report builder for end-user authoring
  • Embedded dashboards plus self-serve exploration in one product

Weaknesses

  • Feature surface narrower than enterprise BI-with-embed
  • Scalability ceiling lower than Looker / Sigma at very large enterprise loads
  • Small team; roadmap depends on a small but well-funded company

Pricing tiers

partial
  • Launch
    Entry tier; published on explo.co/pricing
    $795 /mo
  • Growth
    Mid-tier; partial public pricing
    Quote
  • Enterprise
    Custom enterprise; multi-tenant scale
    Quote
Watch for
  • · Per-tenant or per-active-user uplifts may apply at scale
  • · Multi-year contracts at Enterprise

Key features

  • +React SDK
  • +White-label theming
  • +In-product report builder
  • +Multi-tenant data model
  • +Email scheduling
  • +PDF export
  • +Drilldowns
30+ integrations
SnowflakeBigQueryPostgreSQLRedshiftMySQL
Geography
Global; US strongest
#4

ThoughtSpot Embed

Natural-language search-driven embedded analytics with Sage AI.

Founded 2012 · Mountain View, CA · private · 200–5,000 employees
G2 4.5 (220)
Capterra 4.5
Custom quote
○ Sales call required
Visit ThoughtSpot Embed

ThoughtSpot Embed brings the search-first ThoughtSpot interface into ISV products: end users ask questions in natural language and get charts and Liveboards without building dashboards. Sage AI is the central differentiator. Best fit is ISVs whose customers want answers, not dashboards, and where AI-search is a marketable end-user feature. Trade-offs: pricing is opaque enterprise-only, implementation requires data prep and modelling, and brand momentum has been uneven post-Mode acquisition.

Best for

Mid-market and enterprise ISVs whose end users expect AI-search analytics in-product rather than dashboard authoring.

Worst for

Small ISVs (Explo or Luzmo cheaper), teams that need a metrics API (Cube wins), or any team uncomfortable selling against an opaque enterprise price.

Strengths

  • Natural-language search-first end-user experience
  • Sage AI assistant embedded in customer-facing surface
  • Liveboards plus search both available in embed
  • Mode (acquired 2023) adds SQL-led analyst-embed path
  • iframe and SDK embed plus REST APIs

Weaknesses

  • Pricing opaque, enterprise-only
  • Implementation requires data prep and modelling
  • Brand and roadmap momentum mixed post-Mode acquisition

Pricing tiers

opaque
  • ThoughtSpot Embed
    Industry-reported $50K-$250K annually mid-market ISV
    Quote
  • ThoughtSpot Embed Enterprise
    Industry-reported $250K-$1M+ annually enterprise ISV
    Quote
Watch for
  • · Implementation services typical
  • · Multi-year contracts standard
  • · Sage AI usage may price separately

Key features

  • +Natural-language search
  • +Sage AI
  • +Liveboards (dashboards)
  • +iframe + SDK + REST APIs
  • +Row-level security
  • +Multi-tenant orgs
  • +Mode (SQL analyst embed)
100+ integrations
SnowflakeDatabricksBigQueryRedshiftSalesforce
Geography
Global
#6

Embeddable

Composable React-component embedded analytics built to live inside product UI.

Founded 2021 · London, UK · private · 20–500 employees
G2 4.7 (35)
Capterra 4.7
Custom quote
○ Sales call required
Visit Embeddable

Embeddable is the composable embedded analytics product designed to ship as React components inside an existing product UI, not as an iframe shell. Built on a code-first dashboard definition model so product teams treat dashboards like any other component in their codebase. Best fit is product teams that already have a design system and refuse to compromise on UX. Trade-offs: small vendor, smaller community, and learning curve for the code-first dashboard model.

Best for

Product teams with established React design systems who want embedded dashboards to feel native, not iframe-bolted.

Worst for

Teams wanting blank-canvas end-user dashboard authoring (Sigma Embed wins), enterprise governance (Looker Embed wins), or large communities and pre-built integrations.

Strengths

  • React-component embed model, not iframe
  • Code-first dashboard definitions versioned in your repo
  • Designed to fit inside an existing product design system
  • Multi-tenant by default with row-level security
  • Cube-style semantic layer underneath

Weaknesses

  • Small vendor with small community vs category leaders
  • Code-first dashboard model has a learning curve
  • Best fit narrows for non-React front-ends

Pricing tiers

opaque
  • Embeddable Standard
    Industry-reported $30K-$80K annually
    Quote
  • Embeddable Enterprise
    Custom enterprise tier
    Quote
Watch for
  • · Underlying data warehouse compute separate

Key features

  • +React-component embed
  • +Code-first dashboard definitions
  • +Semantic layer
  • +Multi-tenant security
  • +Theming aligned to product design system
  • +TypeScript SDK
25+ integrations
SnowflakeBigQueryPostgresRedshiftClickHouse
Geography
Global; UK / Europe / US strongest
#7

Luzmo

Belgian-built white-label embedded analytics with European data residency.

Founded 2015 · Leuven, Belgium · private · 10–500 employees
G2 4.6 (110)
Capterra 4.6
Custom quote
○ Sales call required
Visit Luzmo

Luzmo (formerly Cumul.io, rebranded 2023) is the Belgian-built white-label embedded analytics product targeting SaaS ISVs that need European data residency and an end-user-friendly dashboard editor. Strong drag-and-drop dashboard builder for end customers, AI assistant (Luzmo IQ) for natural-language exploration. Best fit is European SaaS ISVs and any team where GDPR-by-design and EU-residency are deal-blockers. Trade-offs: smaller integration ecosystem than US category leaders, less brand recognition in the US.

Best for

European SaaS ISVs (and any GDPR-sensitive ISV) wanting white-label embedded analytics with EU-residency by default.

Worst for

US enterprise ISVs anchored on Snowflake (Sigma Embed wins) or teams that want a headless metrics API (Cube wins).

Strengths

  • Belgian-built; EU data residency by default
  • White-label drag-and-drop dashboard editor for end users
  • Luzmo IQ AI assistant for natural-language analytics
  • Per-tenant / per-active-user pricing model honest about ISV economics
  • Strong fit with European GDPR-by-design requirements

Weaknesses

  • Smaller integration ecosystem than US category leaders
  • Less US brand recognition vs Sigma / Looker
  • Pricing requires sales engagement at higher tiers

Pricing tiers

opaque
  • Luzmo Starter
    Industry-reported entry pricing from EUR 1,200/month
    Quote
  • Luzmo Growth
    Per-tenant / per-active-user uplifts
    Quote
  • Luzmo Enterprise
    Custom enterprise tier
    Quote
Watch for
  • · Per-active-user or per-embed uplifts at scale
  • · Multi-year contracts at Enterprise

Key features

  • +White-label dashboard editor
  • +Luzmo IQ AI assistant
  • +Multi-tenant security
  • +EU data residency by default
  • +iframe + JS SDK embed
  • +Drag-and-drop end-user authoring
40+ integrations
SnowflakeBigQueryPostgreSQLMySQLSalesforce
Geography
Europe strongest; Global supported
#8

GoodData

Long-standing semantic-layer ISV-embed platform with multi-tenant workspaces.

Founded 2007 · San Francisco, CA · private · 50–5,000 employees
G2 4.3 (130)
Capterra 4.3
Custom quote
○ Sales call required
Visit GoodData

GoodData is the long-standing ISV-embed platform built around a semantic layer and multi-tenant workspaces. Founded 2007, predates most modern entrants. Strong governance, semantic-layer modelling, and multi-tenant isolation model. Best fit is mid-market and enterprise ISVs that need a mature governance posture and prefer a semantic-layer-first vendor with embed as the primary product. Trade-offs: UI feels older than modern challengers, brand momentum has slowed, and pricing requires sales engagement.

Best for

Mid-market and enterprise ISVs wanting a mature semantic-layer ISV-embed platform with governance and multi-tenant isolation.

Worst for

Early-stage SaaS that need ship-in-weeks (Explo wins) or teams expecting modern UX out of the box.

Strengths

  • Semantic layer plus multi-tenant workspaces
  • Long-standing ISV-embed positioning since 2007
  • Mature governance and multi-tenant isolation
  • Headless API surfaces for custom front-ends
  • GoodData.CN containerised deployment option

Weaknesses

  • UI feels older than modern challengers
  • Brand momentum slowed vs Sigma / Cube
  • Pricing opaque; sales-engaged

Pricing tiers

opaque
  • GoodData Growth
    Industry-reported $30K-$100K annually
    Quote
  • GoodData Enterprise
    Industry-reported $100K-$500K+ annually
    Quote
  • GoodData.CN
    Self-hosted containerised; custom pricing
    Quote
Watch for
  • · Multi-year contracts standard
  • · Implementation services typical

Key features

  • +Semantic layer (LDM)
  • +Multi-tenant workspaces
  • +iframe + JS SDK + REST APIs
  • +Headless surfaces
  • +GoodData.CN containerised
  • +White-label theming
50+ integrations
SnowflakeBigQueryRedshiftPostgreSQLDatabricks
Geography
Global; US and Europe strongest
#9

Mode Analytics Embed

SQL-first analyst-led embedded analytics, now under ThoughtSpot.

Founded 2013 · San Francisco, CA · private · 20–500 employees
G2 4.5 (240)
Capterra 4.5
Custom quote
○ Sales call required
Visit Mode Analytics Embed

Mode Analytics Embed is the SQL-first analyst-led analytics product, acquired by ThoughtSpot in 2023 for $200M. Mode's embed path is best for SaaS products where the dashboards your customers see are the same dashboards your analyst team builds in SQL and Python notebooks. Best fit is analyst-driven products and data-team-internal-then-external use cases. Trade-offs: positioning is still settling under ThoughtSpot, embed UX is less polished than purpose-built ISV products, and SQL-comfortable team is required.

Best for

Analyst-driven SaaS products where the customer-facing dashboards are the same dashboards the internal analyst team builds.

Worst for

Product teams wanting end-user self-serve dashboard authoring (Sigma Embed or Luzmo win) or non-SQL teams.

Strengths

  • SQL-first; analyst-team-friendly
  • Notebooks plus dashboards plus embed in one product
  • Strong R / Python integration for analyst workflows
  • Reasonable iframe + signed-URL embed path
  • Mode AI for SQL generation

Weaknesses

  • Post-ThoughtSpot positioning still settling
  • Embed UX less polished than purpose-built ISV products
  • Requires SQL-comfortable team to maintain

Pricing tiers

opaque
  • Mode Studio
    Industry-reported $400-$700/user/year for analysts
    Quote
  • Mode Enterprise
    Industry-reported $1,200+/user/year + embed deal
    Quote
Watch for
  • · Embed footprint priced separately from analyst seats
  • · Multi-year contracts standard

Key features

  • +SQL editor
  • +Python / R notebooks
  • +Dashboards
  • +iframe + signed-URL embed
  • +Mode AI for SQL generation
  • +Visual explorer
50+ integrations
SnowflakeBigQueryRedshiftPostgreSQLSlack
Geography
Global
#10

Toucan Toco

French-built mobile-first guided analytics for end-user storytelling.

Founded 2014 · Paris, France · private · 50–2,000 employees
G2 4.5 (75)
Capterra 4.5
Custom quote
○ Sales call required
Visit Toucan Toco

Toucan Toco is the Paris-built guided analytics product designed to tell stories to end users on mobile and desktop, not to give them a blank dashboard canvas. Strong for ISVs whose customers are non-analysts and need narrative-led insight rather than self-service exploration. EU-residency by default. Trade-offs: narrower feature surface than full BI-with-embed, smaller integration ecosystem, and less US brand presence.

Best for

European ISVs and any team building customer-facing analytics for non-analyst end users who need guided, mobile-friendly storytelling.

Worst for

Analyst-driven products (Mode or Sigma Embed win), engineering teams wanting headless APIs (Cube wins), or US-only ISVs anchored on Snowflake (Sigma Embed wins).

Strengths

  • Mobile-first guided analytics for non-analyst end users
  • Storytelling / narrative-led insight delivery
  • Paris-built; EU data residency by default
  • White-label theming and multi-tenant support
  • Strong in French and European regulated industries

Weaknesses

  • Narrower feature surface than full BI-with-embed
  • Smaller integration ecosystem than US category leaders
  • Less US brand presence

Pricing tiers

opaque
  • Toucan Toco Standard
    Industry-reported entry tier around EUR 30K-80K annually
    Quote
  • Toucan Toco Enterprise
    Industry-reported EUR 80K-300K+ annually at scale
    Quote
Watch for
  • · Multi-year contracts standard
  • · Implementation services typical for large rollouts

Key features

  • +Mobile-first guided analytics
  • +Storytelling templates
  • +White-label theming
  • +Multi-tenant support
  • +EU data residency
  • +No-code dashboard authoring
30+ integrations
SnowflakeBigQueryPostgreSQLSAPSalesforce
Geography
Europe strongest; Global supported

Frequently asked questions

The questions buyers actually ask before they sign.

Do I really need an IRAP-assessed embedded analytics vendor in Australia?
Only if you sell to Australian federal government (or some state agencies that align with IRAP). For commercial Australian SaaS, IRAP is not required - Privacy Act 1988 + APPs + ISO 27001 + SOC 2 Type II is the standard floor. Azure Australia Central is the deepest IRAP-assessed region; if your ISV is anchored there for government deals, that significantly narrows your vendor list (Looker Embed via GCP, Power BI Embedded via Azure, and some Sigma/Cube via Azure marketplace).
Why is there no Australian-built embedded analytics product in the top 10?
The Australian SaaS ecosystem produced Atlassian, Canva, Culture Amp, Linktree, SafetyCulture, and Employment Hero, but no top-tier embedded analytics ISV. The market is too small to support a category leader against US incumbents that already serve Australian ISVs from AWS Sydney with adequate latency. The honest answer is that Australian ISVs accept this and buy US products with Sydney residency; trying to find an "Australian alternative" usually wastes a buying cycle.
How does the Consumer Data Right (CDR) affect embedded analytics for Australian fintech?
If your SaaS embed surfaces CDR data (banking transaction data, energy consumption data, or from 2024 non-bank lending data) to end customers, you inherit CDR handling obligations - stricter consent capture, deletion timelines, and accreditation tier requirements - regardless of whether your analytics vendor is "CDR-aware". Most embedded analytics vendors are CDR-agnostic; the CDR compliance burden sits with the ISV's product design, not the analytics layer.
What is embedded analytics and how is it different from BI and product analytics?
Embedded analytics puts customer-facing dashboards and metrics inside a SaaS product, the customer is the end user. BI (Power BI, Tableau, Looker) serves internal teams looking at internal data. Product analytics (Mixpanel, Amplitude, PostHog) tracks user behaviour in a product for the product team. The buyer for embedded analytics is an ISV product manager or engineering lead, not an analytics manager.
Semantic-layer-first vs dashboard-first, which should I pick?
Semantic-layer-first (Cube, GoodData, dbt Semantic Layer) means a headless metrics API drives any front-end you build, decoupled from a specific BI vendor. Dashboard-first (Sigma Embed, Looker Embed, ThoughtSpot Embed, Explo, Embeddable, Luzmo, Toucan) ships pre-built or low-code dashboards. Pick semantic-layer-first if you have front-end engineering capacity and want maximum control. Pick dashboard-first if you want to ship in weeks and accept a dashboard UX you can theme but not fundamentally redesign.
How much should I budget for embedded analytics?
Pricing is mostly opaque because every deal is ISV-negotiated. Industry-reported ranges: open-source self-hosted (Cube Core) is free with DevOps cost. Modern developer-first (Explo, Embeddable, Luzmo) typically $10K-$80K annually at seed-to-Series-B scale. Enterprise BI-with-embed (Sigma Embed, Looker Embed, ThoughtSpot Embed, GoodData) typically $60K-$500K+ annually. Pricing axes are usually per-active-user, per-embed, or per-query; clarify which one early.
Build vs buy, what is the actual cost of building embedded analytics in-house?
Most engineering teams underestimate the build cost by 3-5x. A "we will just use Chart.js" estimate becomes a multi-quarter project once white-labelling, row-level security for multi-tenancy, dashboard editing UI for end users, scheduled email exports, drilldowns, and PDF export are all scoped honestly. Reasonable rule: if your product roadmap will not tolerate a 12-18 month build, buy; if your dashboards are 3-5 charts that never change and you have spare engineering capacity, build is defensible.
White-label vs co-branded vs Powered-By branding, what is the reality?
White-label means no vendor branding visible to your end customer; vendor logo is removed and theming is yours. Co-branded means small "Powered by [vendor]" footer. Powered-By means clear attribution. Almost all category leaders offer white-label but it is sometimes priced as an add-on or gated to higher tiers. Confirm white-label is included in your tier before signing; surprise "Powered by" footers in production are a recurring complaint.
How does multi-tenancy isolation actually work?
The honest answer: most vendors implement multi-tenancy through row-level security policies driven by a tenant identifier passed in the embed signing token, not through separate database isolation. This is fine for most SaaS but if your customers are regulated (healthcare, finance, government), some require true database-level isolation, which only a subset of vendors offer (typically at enterprise pricing). GoodData.CN containerised deployments and Sigma's isolated workspace options are examples; for most ISVs row-level security is enough.
Per active user vs per embed vs per query pricing, what is honest?
Three common ISV pricing axes. Per-active-user (Luzmo, Explo, Sigma at scale) tracks monthly active end users; predictable if your DAU is stable. Per-embed (Embeddable, some Sigma deals) prices on number of customer accounts or workspaces; predictable if customer count is stable. Per-query (rare standalone but applies to Cube Cloud pre-aggregations) tracks compute; cheap at low volume, expensive at high. Most vendors mix axes. Always model your own usage projection and ask for a price floor at 3x your forecast volume.
Looker post-Google, is it still credible for new embed builds?
Mixed picture. Looker remains credible if you are already on Google Cloud / BigQuery and your team has LookML expertise; the semantic-layer-driven embed is genuinely strong. Post-Google velocity has been visibly slow compared with modern challengers (Cube, Explo, Embeddable) and Google's own consumer-grade Looker Studio confuses positioning. For a greenfield embed build in 2026 that is not anchored on Google Cloud, evaluate Cube or Sigma Embed alongside Looker before defaulting to it.

Final word

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Last updated 2026-05-27. Local pricing reverified quarterly. Found something inaccurate? Tell us.