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DashThis vs Restate

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DashThis

Business Intelligence

Fixed-price marketing dashboards for agencies billed by dashboard, not by seat

From
$44/month
Free plan
No
Visit DashThisFull review
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Restate

Developer Tools

Durable execution engine in Rust with a free tier and low-latency workflows

From
Free
Free plan
Yes
Visit RestateFull review

The short version

  • Restate has a free plan, then $300/mo; DashThis starts at $44/mo.
  • Only DashThis lists unlimited users; only Restate lists durable execution.
  • Where DashThis falls short: there is no free tier at all, and the fourteen day trial is short for an agency wanting to rebuild forty client reports before committing.
  • Prices and features on this page were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which DashThis and Restate actually diverge.

Attributes where DashThis and Restate differ
AttributeDashThisRestate
Starting price$44/monthFree
Pricing modelPer month by dashboard countPer month by durable action count
Free tierNoYes
PlatformsWebLinux, macOS, Web
CategoryBusiness IntelligenceDeveloper Tools

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 DashThis

  • Unlimited users
  • Preset templates
  • Multi-source widgets
  • Calculated widgets
  • White labelling
  • Scheduled delivery
  • Data source library
  • Comment annotations

Only in Restate

  • Durable execution
  • Virtual objects
  • Single binary runtime
  • Multi-language SDKs
  • Workflows and sagas
  • Restate Cloud

What people use each for

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

DashThis

  • A twenty-person agency that wants every account manager and every client to have a login without per-seat billingnot Restate
  • A PPC team producing the same monthly report for forty accounts and wanting it emailed automaticallynot Restate
  • An in-house marketing lead who needs one cross-channel view for the board without involving a data teamnot Restate
  • An SEO consultancy white labelling client reports under its own domain and sending addressnot Restate

Restate

  • Payment or order flows where a crash between two external API calls must not double-charge or lose the ordernot DashThis
  • AI agent loops that call tools over minutes or hours and must survive a deployment mid-runnot DashThis
  • Replacing hand-rolled retry, idempotency key and outbox code across a set of microservicesnot DashThis
  • A small team that wants durable workflows without operating a Temporal cluster and its databasenot DashThis

Where each one falls short

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

DashThis

  • Dashboards are the billing unit, so an agency that gives each client a summary and a channel detail view consumes its allowance at twice the expected rate and upgrades jump by roughly a hundred dollars a step
  • There is no data warehouse, SQL layer or real data modelling, so anything requiring joins beyond simple multi-source widgets has to be done in another tool first
  • Historical data depends on what each connected API will return, so switching to DashThis does not retroactively give you years of comparable history
  • There is no free tier at all, and the fourteen day trial is short for an agency wanting to rebuild forty client reports before committing
  • Visualisation options are limited to a fixed widget set, so clients who want a specific chart type or layout often cannot get it

Restate

  • The runtime is under a Business Source Licence rather than an open source licence, so building a competing managed offering on it is prohibited and some procurement functions will reject it on licence grounds alone
  • Restate Cloud jumps from a free fifty thousand actions straight to 300 US dollars a month for twenty million, so a workload sitting at a few hundred thousand actions pays enterprise-shaped money for hobby-shaped volume
  • It is a young project against Temporal’s established base, so hiring engineers who already know it is unrealistic and the answer to most questions is in the docs rather than on Stack Overflow
  • The programming model requires structuring code around durable handlers and virtual objects, which is a genuine rewrite for existing services rather than a library you add
  • The single-binary simplicity that makes small deployments cheap also means fewer operational knobs at very large scale than a system designed as separable components

Pricing, plan by plan

DashThis

$44/month
  • Individual$44/mo
    • 3 dashboards
    • 15 data sources
    • Unlimited users
  • Professional$139/mo
    • 10 dashboards
    • 40 data sources
    • Unlimited users
  • Business$279/mo
    • 25 dashboards
    • 100 data sources
    • Unlimited users
  • Standard$429/mo
    • 50 dashboards
    • 200 data sources
    • Unlimited users

Restate

Free
  • FreeFree
    • Fifty thousand durable actions per month
    • No credit card required
    • Community support
  • Starter$300/mo
    • Twenty million actions per month
    • Two hundred actions per second, bursting to one thousand
    • Twenty GB storage
  • Pro$1,000/mo
    • Fifty million actions per month
    • Five hundred actions per second, bursting to two thousand
    • Fifty GB storage
  • EnterpriseOn request
    • Negotiated volume
    • Twenty-four seven P0 support
    • 99.99 per cent SLA

Which should you pick?

Choose DashThis if

  • You need unlimited users.
  • You also want preset templates.
DashThis review

Choose Restate if

  • You need durable execution.
  • You want to start without paying.
  • You work on Linux, macOS, Web.
  • You also want virtual objects.
Restate review

Questions people ask

Is DashThis or Restate better?
Neither clearly leads. DashThis starts at $44/month and Restate at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, DashThis or Restate?
Restate has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at $44/month for DashThis and Free for Restate.
Does DashThis or Restate run on more platforms?
DashThis runs on Web. Restate runs on Linux, macOS, Web.
Can I use Restate for free?
Yes. Restate has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. DashThis starts at $44/month.
What is DashThis best used for?
DashThis is most often used for a twenty-person agency that wants every account manager and every client to have a login without per-seat billing, a ppc team producing the same monthly report for forty accounts and wanting it emailed automatically, an in-house marketing lead who needs one cross-channel view for the board without involving a data team, an seo consultancy white labelling client reports under its own domain and sending address. Of those, a twenty-person agency that wants every account manager and every client to have a login without per-seat billing and a ppc team producing the same monthly report for forty accounts and wanting it emailed automatically are not what Restate is typically brought in for.
What can DashThis do that Restate cannot?
DashThis covers Unlimited users, Preset templates, Multi-source widgets, Calculated widgets. Restate covers Durable execution, Virtual objects, Single binary runtime, Multi-language SDKs.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

DashThis: Does DashThis charge per user?

No. Every plan includes unlimited users and client viewers; you pay for dashboards and data sources.

Restate: Is Restate open source?

The SDKs are MIT. The runtime is under a Business Source Licence, which permits self-hosting but not offering it as a competing service.

DashThis: Is there a free plan?

No. Pricing starts at 44 US dollars a month for three dashboards, after a short trial.

Restate: How does it compare with Temporal?

Same problem, different shape: one Rust binary with embedded storage instead of a server plus database plus workers, and lower per-step latency.

DashThis: Can I blend data from several ad accounts?

Yes, through multi-source widgets and calculated widgets, but there is no general purpose join or SQL layer.

Restate: Is there a free tier?

Yes, fifty thousand durable actions a month on Restate Cloud with no card required.

DashThis: Does it white label fully?

Yes, including logo, colours, sending email address and a custom domain on the higher plans.

Restate: Which languages are supported?

TypeScript, Java, Kotlin, Go, Python and Rust.

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