Is Anaplan or Dundas BI better?

Neither clearly leads. Anaplan starts at On request and Dundas BI at $500/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.

Which is cheaper, Anaplan or Dundas BI?

Anaplan starts at On request and Dundas BI at $500/month.

Does Anaplan or Dundas BI run on more platforms?

Anaplan runs on Web, iOS. Dundas BI runs on Web, Embedded, Mobile.

What is Anaplan best used for?

Anaplan is most often used for sales territory and quota planning across thousands of reps where a change to segmentation must reflow quota immediately, demand and supply planning at sku and location level for a manufacturer with tens of thousands of items, workforce planning that ties headcount, cost and capacity to a revenue plan across dozens of business units, replacing a spreadsheet estate where the master planning model has become too large and too fragile for excel to open reliably. Of those, sales territory and quota planning across thousands of reps where a change to segmentation must reflow quota immediately and demand and supply planning at sku and location level for a manufacturer with tens of thousands of items are not what Dundas BI is typically brought in for.

What can Anaplan do that Dundas BI cannot?

Anaplan covers Hyperblock calculation engine, Connected planning, Scenario and versioning, Model builder. Dundas BI covers White-labeling, Embedded Analytics, Data Preparation, Custom Visualizations.

Business Intelligence · head to head

Anaplan vs Dundas BI

Anaplan

Business Intelligence

Connected planning platform with an in-memory calculation engine for large multidimensional models

From: On request
Rated: -

Full review Website

Dundas BI

Business Intelligence

Flexible business intelligence platform

From: $500/month
Rated: -

Full review Website

The short version

Each has a real cost: Anaplan workspace is licensed by memory consumed, so a model that grows as the business adds SKUs, regions or scenarios generates a bill increase without a single new user being added, and teams end up optimising models for licence cost rather than clarity.; Dundas BI the published Embedded BI Package starts from about $4,738.70 USD per month billed annually for 8 core capacity
They diverge on capability: Anaplan covers Hyperblock calculation engine, Dundas BI covers White-labeling.
Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Anaplan and Dundas BI actually diverge.

Attributes where Anaplan and Dundas BI differ
Attribute	Anaplan	Dundas BI
Starting price	On request	$500/month
Pricing model	quote	subscription
Platforms	Web, iOS	Web, Embedded, Mobile
Founded	Unknown	1992

Identical on both: free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Business Intelligence).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Anaplan

Hyperblock calculation engine
Connected planning
Scenario and versioning
Model builder
Anaplan PlanIQ
Workflow and approvals
Application lifecycle management
Data integration

Only in Dundas BI

White-labeling
Embedded Analytics
Data Preparation
Custom Visualizations
API
SQL Server
Oracle
PostgreSQL

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Anaplan

Sales territory and quota planning across thousands of reps where a change to segmentation must reflow quota immediatelynot Dundas BI
Demand and supply planning at SKU and location level for a manufacturer with tens of thousands of itemsnot Dundas BI
Workforce planning that ties headcount, cost and capacity to a revenue plan across dozens of business unitsnot Dundas BI
Replacing a spreadsheet estate where the master planning model has become too large and too fragile for Excel to open reliablynot Dundas BI

Dundas BI

Embedding dashboards and analytics inside another applicationnot Anaplan
Self service business intelligence and ad hoc reportingnot Anaplan
Building custom data visualisations against open BI APIsnot Anaplan

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Anaplan

Workspace is licensed by memory consumed, so a model that grows as the business adds SKUs, regions or scenarios generates a bill increase without a single new user being added, and teams end up optimising models for licence cost rather than clarity.
Model building requires certified Anaplan modellers using a proprietary formula language, and the labour market for that skill is small, so most customers stay dependent on a systems integrator long after go-live.
Thoma Bravo took the company private in 2022 in a $10.7bn deal, and customers have since reported firmer renewal terms; a private-equity owner optimising for cash flow is a real factor in a multi-year planning contract.
Native reporting and visualisation are weak for anything beyond planning grids, so most customers push data out to Power BI or Tableau for executive reporting, adding another tool and another latency point.
Implementations are long. A connected planning programme across finance and supply chain routinely runs six to eighteen months before the first production plan, which is difficult to justify when the business wants a forecast this quarter.

Dundas BI

The published Embedded BI Package starts from about $4,738.70 USD per month billed annually for 8 core capacity
That figure reflects a limited time 35 percent promotional discount rather than list price
Licensing is by CPU core capacity rather than by user, so cost scales with server hardware
Dundas is now part of insightsoftware following acquisition
The page states that a pricing plan is worked out together with the vendor rather than published as a rate card

Pricing, plan by plan

Anaplan

On request

Anaplan$undefined/year
- Licensed by user tier and by workspace capacity
- Workspace charged on memory consumed by models, independent of user count
- Multi-year enterprise agreements are the norm

Dundas BI

$500/month

Professional$500/month
- Full Platform
- Embedding
- Support
EnterpriseFree
- Unlimited Users
- Multi-tenant
- Premium Support

Which should you pick?

Choose Anaplan if

You need hyperblock calculation engine.
You work on Web, iOS.
You also want connected planning.

Anaplan review

Choose Dundas BI if

You need white-labeling.
You work on Web, Embedded, Mobile.
You also want embedded analytics.

Dundas BI review

Questions people ask

Is Anaplan or Dundas BI better?: Neither clearly leads. Anaplan starts at On request and Dundas BI at $500/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Anaplan or Dundas BI?: Anaplan starts at On request and Dundas BI at $500/month.
Does Anaplan or Dundas BI run on more platforms?: Anaplan runs on Web, iOS. Dundas BI runs on Web, Embedded, Mobile.
What is Anaplan best used for?: Anaplan is most often used for sales territory and quota planning across thousands of reps where a change to segmentation must reflow quota immediately, demand and supply planning at sku and location level for a manufacturer with tens of thousands of items, workforce planning that ties headcount, cost and capacity to a revenue plan across dozens of business units, replacing a spreadsheet estate where the master planning model has become too large and too fragile for excel to open reliably. Of those, sales territory and quota planning across thousands of reps where a change to segmentation must reflow quota immediately and demand and supply planning at sku and location level for a manufacturer with tens of thousands of items are not what Dundas BI is typically brought in for.
What can Anaplan do that Dundas BI cannot?: Anaplan covers Hyperblock calculation engine, Connected planning, Scenario and versioning, Model builder. Dundas BI covers White-labeling, Embedded Analytics, Data Preparation, Custom Visualizations.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Anaplan: Why is Anaplan expensive even when user counts are low?

Because workspace is licensed on the memory your models consume as well as on users. Large models cost money regardless of how many people log in.

Dundas BI: How much does Dundas BI cost?

Dundas BI does not publish specific pricing. The vendor emphasizes 'smarter licensing models to scale appropriately and achieve ROI rapidly' and offers 'custom plans that fit your needs' rather than standardized tiers. Customers must contact Dundas directly for pricing quotes tailored to their enterprise or embedded analytics use case.

Source

Anaplan: Do we need a systems integrator?

Almost always for the first implementation. The proprietary modelling language and the scale of typical models make an experienced partner or an internal certified team effectively mandatory.

Dundas BI: What licensing options does Dundas BI offer?

Dundas BI describes their approach as flexible licensing designed to scale based on deployment needs. Specific licensing models and per-seat or concurrent-user costs are determined through custom quotes.

Source

Anaplan: Who owns Anaplan?

Thoma Bravo, which took it private in 2022 for $10.7bn.

Anaplan: Can it replace our BI tool?

No. It is a planning and calculation platform; most customers still export to Power BI or Tableau for reporting and dashboards.

Anaplan vs Dundas BI

Anaplan

Dundas BI

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in Anaplan

Only in Dundas BI

What people use each for

Anaplan

Dundas BI

Where each one falls short

Anaplan

Dundas BI

Pricing, plan by plan

Anaplan

Dundas BI

Which should you pick?

Choose Anaplan if

Choose Dundas BI if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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