Business Intelligence · head to head
Exa vs Chartio
Chartio
Business Intelligence
Cloud-based data exploration (discontinued)
- From
- On request
- Rated
- -
The short version
- Each has a real cost: Exa pricing is metered per 1,000 requests and stacks by feature: $7 per 1,000 basic searches, $12 to $15 per 1,000 for deep search variants, and separate per-ACU and per-search charges for the Agent product, as of August 2026.; Chartio chartio shut down on March 1, 2022 after the team joined Atlassian, and the site now serves only a shutdown notice and a migration guide
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Exa and Chartio actually diverge.
Identical on both: starting price (On request), free tier (No), platforms (Web), 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 Exa
Nothing recorded that Chartio does not also cover.
Only in Chartio
- Visual Query Builder
- Interactive Dashboards
- Data Blending
- Collaboration
- Embedding
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Redshift
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
Exa
No use cases recorded yet. See the Exa review.
Chartio
- Drag and drop chart building over SQL databasesnot Exa
- Shared business dashboards for non-technical teamsnot Exa
- Exploring warehouse data without writing SQLnot Exa
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
Exa
- Pricing is metered per 1,000 requests and stacks by feature: $7 per 1,000 basic searches, $12 to $15 per 1,000 for deep search variants, and separate per-ACU and per-search charges for the Agent product, as of August 2026.
Chartio
- Chartio shut down on March 1, 2022 after the team joined Atlassian, and the site now serves only a shutdown notice and a migration guide
- No pricing, signup or product access remains; the site's copyright notice stops at 2021
- Existing customers were required to migrate their dashboards to another tool rather than being moved to an Atlassian successor product
Pricing, plan by plan
Exa
On requestNo published plan breakdown. See the Exa review.
Chartio
On request- DiscontinuedFree
- Service ended March 2022
Which should you pick?
Choose Exa if
Nothing in the data separates Exa from Chartio on the points above - pick on price and on how each one feels to use.
Questions people ask
- Is Exa or Chartio better?
- Neither clearly leads. Exa starts at On request and Chartio at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Exa or Chartio?
- Exa starts at On request and Chartio at On request.
- Does Exa or Chartio run on more platforms?
- Both run on Web, so platform support will not decide this one for you.
- What can Exa do that Chartio cannot?
- Chartio covers Visual Query Builder, Interactive Dashboards, Data Blending, Collaboration.