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Alternatives to Pigment
22 business intelligence tools sit alongside Pigment in this directory. Below is what separates each from Pigment on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 22
- With a free tier
- 6
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Pigment starts at
- On request
Why people look past Pigment
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Pigment entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is no free tier
The record for Pigment carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 6 of the 22 alternatives below can be used without paying.
There is only one tier
Pigment publishes a single plan, Pigment platform at On request. There is no smaller tier to drop to if the fit is wrong or the budget moves.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Enterprise cloud applications for finance and HR
- 3 tiers to Pigment's 1.
Enterprise inventory analytics and planning
- Sold on a subscription model rather than quote.
- 3 tiers to Pigment's 1.
Oracle cloud ERP covering finance, inventory, orders and commerce
Priced and rated the same as Pigment on the figures we hold. The difference, if there is one, is in the feature records.
AI notebooks combining SQL, Python and no-code for small data teams
- Can be used without paying; Pigment cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of $39/month, where Pigment does not.
- Sold on a Per user per month model rather than quote.
- 4 tiers to Pigment's 1.
IBCS-based charting add-ins that replace native visuals in Power BI, Excel and PowerPoint
- Can be used without paying; Pigment cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of $50/month, where Pigment does not.
- Sold on a Per year by licensed user count model rather than quote.
- 5 tiers to Pigment's 1.
Cookieless web analytics that also reports the carbon footprint of your website
- Can be used without paying; Pigment cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of $14/month, where Pigment does not.
- Sold on a Per month by pageview volume model rather than quote.
- 3 tiers to Pigment's 1.
Every Pigment alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pigment (this page) | On request | Quote | 1 | |
| WorkdayIf you want planning inside the same vendor as your HR and finance system of record | On request | Quote | 3 | vs Pigment |
| SAP Analytics CloudIf you are an SAP shop and want planning that sits natively against S/4HANA data | On request | Subscription | 3 | vs Pigment |
| NetSuiteIf your requirement is closer to budgeting within the ERP than to standalone multidimensional planning | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Pigment |
| Fabi | Free, then $39/month | Per user per month | 4 | vs Pigment |
| Zebra BI | Free, then $50/month | Per year by licensed user count | 5 | vs Pigment |
| Cabin | Free, then $14/month | Per month by pageview volume | 3 | vs Pigment |
| Hex | Free, then $36/month | Seat-based subscription with credit system | 4 | vs Pigment |
| Deepnote | Free, then $39/month | Subscription with free tier | 3 | vs Pigment |
| Cube | Free, then $40/developer/month | Per-developer seats with volume pricing | 4 | vs Pigment |
| Luzmo | €995/month | Per month by monthly active user count | 3 | vs Pigment |
| DashThis | $44/month | Per month by dashboard count | 4 | vs Pigment |
| Jedox | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Pigment |
| Board International | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Pigment |
| Phocas | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Pigment |
| Snowplow | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Pigment |
| Anaplan | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Pigment |
| Rill Data | $20/month | Per user per month plus metered compute | 3 | vs Pigment |
| Quid | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Pigment |
| Reportz | $9.9/month | Per month by dashboard count | 3 | vs Pigment |
| NetBase Quid | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Pigment |
| Zenlytic | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Pigment |
| Evidence | $2500/month | Flat team pricing with no per-user fees | 2 | vs Pigment |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Pigment badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
What you would be giving up
Pigment is most often brought in for a finance team retiring a fragile excel consolidation that no one can audit and only one person can run, sales operations modelling quota, territory and headcount capacity against a revenue plan in the same system finance uses, a company that needs monthly re-forecasting fast enough to run scenarios live in the leadership meeting, replacing an ageing anaplan estate where the model has become unmaintainable and per-workspace costs have crept up. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Pigment is broadly right and the question is cost, the Pigment pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Business Intelligence category lists everything the directory holds, and best business intelligence tools ranks them.
Pigment runs on web. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Pigment alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Pigment?
- 22 other business intelligence tools are listed in this directory, led by Workday, SAP Analytics Cloud, NetSuite, Fabi. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Pigment?
- 6 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Fabi, Zebra BI, Cabin, Hex, Deepnote.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Pigment?
- On the figures on record, 2 things stand out: there is no free tier; there is only one tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Pigment?
- Pigment is most often brought in for a finance team retiring a fragile excel consolidation that no one can audit and only one person can run, sales operations modelling quota, territory and headcount capacity against a revenue plan in the same system finance uses, a company that needs monthly re-forecasting fast enough to run scenarios live in the leadership meeting, replacing an ageing anaplan estate where the model has become unmaintainable and per-workspace costs have crept up. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Pigment?
- None of the business intelligence tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Pigment alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Business Intelligence, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Pigment against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Pigment covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every business intelligence tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Business Intelligence category, 22 tools beside Pigment. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.