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Reportz vs Restate

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Reportz

Business Intelligence

Per-dashboard marketing reporting at under ten dollars a client

From
$9.9/month
Free plan
No
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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
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The short version

  • Restate has a free plan, then $300/mo; Reportz starts at $9.9/mo.
  • Only Reportz lists per-dashboard pricing; only Restate lists durable execution.
  • Where Reportz falls short: there is no data modelling, SQL or warehouse layer, so cross-source analysis is limited to what the widget set already supports.
  • Prices and features on this page were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Reportz and Restate actually diverge.

Attributes where Reportz and Restate differ
AttributeReportzRestate
Starting price$9.9/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 Reportz

  • Per-dashboard pricing
  • Unlimited users
  • Public share links
  • White labelling
  • Template library
  • Scheduled reports
  • Custom KPI widgets
  • Client management

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.

Reportz

  • A five-person SEO agency reporting to twenty five clients that cannot justify several hundred dollars a month for reporting softwarenot Restate
  • A freelancer who needs one white-labelled dashboard per client and nothing elsenot Restate
  • An agency giving clients a live link instead of a monthly PDF, without buying client seatsnot Restate
  • A marketing team wanting a cheap always-on KPI screen fed from ad and analytics platformsnot Restate

Restate

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

Where each one falls short

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

Reportz

  • The connector library is smaller than the established agency reporting tools, and if a platform you report on is missing there is no practical route to getting it added
  • Four Dots is a small agency-owned business rather than a funded software company, so API breakages and platform changes can take longer to fix than at larger vendors
  • There is no data modelling, SQL or warehouse layer, so cross-source analysis is limited to what the widget set already supports
  • Per-dashboard billing means an agency that builds several views per client loses the headline price advantage quickly
  • Documentation and support are thin compared with larger competitors, and complex setups often need direct email support rather than self-service answers

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

Reportz

$9.9/month
  • Consultant$9.9/mo
    • Priced per dashboard
    • Unlimited users
    • Unlimited data sources
  • Agency$99/mo
    • Around ten dashboards at the same per-dashboard rate
    • Unlimited users
    • Custom domain
  • Enterprise$742.5/mo
    • 75 dashboards
    • Volume rate
    • 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 Reportz if

  • You need per-dashboard pricing.
  • You also want unlimited users.
Reportz 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 Reportz or Restate better?
Neither clearly leads. Reportz starts at $9.9/month and Restate at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Reportz or Restate?
Restate has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at $9.9/month for Reportz and Free for Restate.
Does Reportz or Restate run on more platforms?
Reportz 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. Reportz starts at $9.9/month.
What is Reportz best used for?
Reportz is most often used for a five-person seo agency reporting to twenty five clients that cannot justify several hundred dollars a month for reporting software, a freelancer who needs one white-labelled dashboard per client and nothing else, an agency giving clients a live link instead of a monthly pdf, without buying client seats, a marketing team wanting a cheap always-on kpi screen fed from ad and analytics platforms. Of those, a five-person seo agency reporting to twenty five clients that cannot justify several hundred dollars a month for reporting software and a freelancer who needs one white-labelled dashboard per client and nothing else are not what Restate is typically brought in for.
What can Reportz do that Restate cannot?
Reportz covers Per-dashboard pricing, Unlimited users, Public share links, White labelling. Restate covers Durable execution, Virtual objects, Single binary runtime, Multi-language SDKs.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Reportz: What does Reportz cost?

9.90 US dollars per dashboard per month, with unlimited users and data sources on every tier.

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.

Reportz: Is there a free plan?

No, but there is a fifteen day trial with no card required.

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.

Reportz: Who is behind it?

Four Dots, a digital marketing agency in Belgrade that built the tool for its own client reporting.

Restate: Is there a free tier?

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

Reportz: Can clients view without a login?

Yes, dashboards can be shared as a public link under your own domain.

Restate: Which languages are supported?

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

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