Business Intelligence · head to head
Reportz vs Rill Data

Reportz
Business Intelligence
Per-dashboard marketing reporting at under ten dollars a client
- From
- $9.9/month
- Rated
- -

Rill Data
Business Intelligence
Local-first BI on DuckDB and ClickHouse with dashboards defined as code
- From
- $20/month
- Rated
- -
The short version
- Each has a real cost: 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.; 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.
- They diverge on capability: Reportz covers Per-dashboard pricing, Rill Data covers Local development.
- Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Reportz and Rill Data 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 Reportz
- Per-dashboard pricing
- Unlimited users
- Public share links
- White labelling
- Template library
- Scheduled reports
- Custom KPI widgets
- Client management
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.
Reportz
- A five-person SEO agency reporting to twenty five clients that cannot justify several hundred dollars a month for reporting softwarenot Rill Data
- A freelancer who needs one white-labelled dashboard per client and nothing elsenot Rill Data
- An agency giving clients a live link instead of a monthly PDF, without buying client seatsnot Rill Data
- A marketing team wanting a cheap always-on KPI screen fed from ad and analytics platformsnot Rill Data
Rill Data
- An analytics team that wants dashboard changes to go through code review rather than being edited in a web UInot Reportz
- Interactive exploration of event-scale data where a warehouse round trip per filter click is too slownot Reportz
- Embedding fast slice-and-dice dashboards into a product where the underlying store is already ClickHouse or Druidnot Reportz
- A data engineer prototyping a metrics layer locally on a laptop before committing to any cloud spendnot 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.
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
Reportz
$9.9/month- Consultant$9.9/month
- Priced per dashboard
- Unlimited users
- Unlimited data sources
- Agency$99/month
- Around ten dashboards at the same per-dashboard rate
- Unlimited users
- Custom domain
- Enterprise$742.5/month
- 75 dashboards
- Volume rate
- Unlimited users
Rill Data
$20/month- Starter$20/month
- Per seat, up to twenty seats
- Three projects
- Compute at 0.15 USD per compute unit hour
- Growth$30/month
- Per seat, up to one hundred seats
- Ten projects
- Compute at 0.20 USD per compute unit hour
- Enterprise$undefined/year
- 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 Reportz or Rill Data better?
- Neither clearly leads. Reportz starts at $9.9/month and Rill Data at $20/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Reportz or Rill Data?
- Reportz starts at $9.9/month and Rill Data at $20/month.
- Does Reportz or Rill Data run on more platforms?
- Reportz runs on Web. Rill Data runs on Web, Linux, macOS, Windows.
- 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 Rill Data is typically brought in for.
- What can Reportz do that Rill Data cannot?
- Reportz covers Per-dashboard pricing, Unlimited users, Public share links, White labelling. Rill Data covers Local development, Dashboards as code, Embedded DuckDB, Bring your own database.
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.
Rill Data: Is Rill open source?
The Rill developer binary is open source and free to run locally; Rill Cloud is the paid product.
Reportz: Is there a free plan?
No, but there is a fifteen day trial with no card required.
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.
Reportz: Who is behind it?
Four Dots, a digital marketing agency in Belgrade that built the tool for its own client reporting.
Rill Data: Can business users build dashboards?
Not directly. Dashboards are YAML and SQL under version control.
Reportz: Can clients view without a login?
Yes, dashboards can be shared as a public link under your own domain.
Rill Data: Which databases can back a deployed project?
DuckDB, ClickHouse, Druid, Pinot, Snowflake and others.
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