Business Intelligence · head to head
Exa vs Dundas BI
Dundas BI
Business Intelligence
Flexible business intelligence platform
- From
- $500/month
- 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.; Dundas BI the published Embedded BI Package starts from about $4,738.70 USD per month billed annually for 8 core capacity
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Exa and Dundas BI actually diverge.
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 Exa
Nothing recorded that Dundas BI does not also cover.
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.
Exa
No use cases recorded yet. See the Exa review.
Dundas BI
- Embedding dashboards and analytics inside another applicationnot Exa
- Self service business intelligence and ad hoc reportingnot Exa
- Building custom data visualisations against open BI APIsnot 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.
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
Exa
On requestNo published plan breakdown. See the Exa review.
Dundas BI
$500/month- Professional$500/month
- Full Platform
- Embedding
- Support
- EnterpriseFree
- Unlimited Users
- Multi-tenant
- Premium Support
Which should you pick?
Choose Exa if
Nothing in the data separates Exa from Dundas BI on the points above - pick on price and on how each one feels to use.
Choose Dundas BI if
- You need white-labeling.
- You work on Web, Embedded, Mobile.
- You also want embedded analytics.
Questions people ask
- Is Exa or Dundas BI better?
- Neither clearly leads. Exa 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, Exa or Dundas BI?
- Exa starts at On request and Dundas BI at $500/month.
- Does Exa or Dundas BI run on more platforms?
- Exa runs on Web. Dundas BI runs on Web, Embedded, Mobile.
- What can Exa do that Dundas BI cannot?
- Dundas BI covers White-labeling, Embedded Analytics, Data Preparation, Custom Visualizations.