Developer Tools · head to head
Fig vs Rill Data
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Fig
Developer Tools
IDE-style autocomplete for your existing terminal
- From
- Free
- Free plan
- Yes
Rill Data
Business Intelligence
Local-first BI on DuckDB and ClickHouse with dashboards defined as code
- From
- $20/month
- Free plan
- No
The short version
- Fig is free; Rill Data starts at $20/mo.
- Where Fig falls short: the standalone desktop app is no longer available or supported.
- Prices and features on this page were last checked on 13 November 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Fig and Rill Data actually diverge.
Not yet recorded: founded for Rill Data.
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 Fig
Nothing recorded that Rill Data does not also cover.
Only in Rill Data
- Local development
- Dashboards as code
- Embedded DuckDB
- Bring your own database
- Alerts and scheduled reports
- Embedded analytics
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
Fig
No use cases recorded yet. See the Fig review.
Rill Data
- An analytics team that wants dashboard changes to go through code review rather than being edited in a web UInot Fig
- Interactive exploration of event-scale data where a warehouse round trip per filter click is too slownot Fig
- Embedding fast slice-and-dice dashboards into a product where the underlying store is already ClickHouse or Druidnot Fig
- A data engineer prototyping a metrics layer locally on a laptop before committing to any cloud spendnot Fig
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
Fig
- Shut down on 1 September 2024. Amazon acquired Fig in August 2023 and folded it into Amazon Q Developer, which now carries the terminal autocomplete
- The standalone desktop app is no longer available or supported
- The completion specs remain open source on GitHub, but the product that consumed them is gone
Rill Data
- The seat price of 20 dollars is misleading as a budget figure: Rill’s own calculator puts a small two-seat project at around 256 dollars a month, with compute making up the great majority
- Dashboards are defined in YAML and SQL, so business users cannot create or change one without a developer and a Git workflow, which stalls self-service adoption
- It is built for the explore-a-metric pattern and does not produce pixel-perfect financial or operational reports, so most organisations still need a second reporting tool
- AI tokens and API calls are quota-limited per seat, with API overage at a cent per call, so programmatic consumers can create an unbudgeted line item
- As a smaller vendor competing against Looker, Tableau and Power BI, the ecosystem of consultants, templates and trained analysts is thin, which raises the cost of hiring for it
Pricing, plan by plan
Fig
FreeNo published plan breakdown. See the Fig review.
Rill Data
$20/month- Starter$20/mo
- Per seat, up to twenty seats
- Three projects
- Compute at 0.15 USD per compute unit hour
- Growth$30/mo
- Per seat, up to one hundred seats
- Ten projects
- Compute at 0.20 USD per compute unit hour
- EnterpriseOn request
- Annual platform licence with negotiated capacity
- Unlimited seats and projects
- Dedicated infrastructure
Which should you pick?
Choose Rill Data if
- You need local development.
- You work on Web, Linux, macOS, Windows.
- You also want dashboards as code.
Questions people ask
- Is Fig or Rill Data better?
- Neither clearly leads. Fig starts at Free and Rill Data at $20/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Fig or Rill Data?
- Fig has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at Free for Fig and $20/month for Rill Data.
- Does Fig or Rill Data run on more platforms?
- Fig runs on Web. Rill Data runs on Web, Linux, macOS, Windows.
- Can I use Fig for free?
- Yes. Fig has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Rill Data starts at $20/month.
- What can Fig do that Rill Data cannot?
- Rill Data covers Local development, Dashboards as code, Embedded DuckDB, Bring your own database.
Answered from the vendors’ own pages
Rill Data: Is Rill open source?
The Rill developer binary is open source and free to run locally; Rill Cloud is the paid product.
Rill Data: How much does it actually cost?
Seats start at 20 USD per month, but hosted compute at 0.15 USD per compute unit hour typically dominates the bill. Bringing your own database removes the usage fee.
Rill Data: Can business users build dashboards?
Not directly. Dashboards are YAML and SQL under version control.
Rill Data: Which databases can back a deployed project?
DuckDB, ClickHouse, Druid, Pinot, Snowflake and others.
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