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Reportz vs Steampipe

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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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Steampipe

Developer Tools

Query cloud APIs, SaaS tools and code with SQL, with no extract or load step

From
Free
Free plan
Yes
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The short version

  • Steampipe has a free plan, then $49/mo; Reportz starts at $9.9/mo.
  • Only Reportz lists per-dashboard pricing; only Steampipe lists SQL over live APIs.
  • 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 Steampipe actually diverge.

Attributes where Reportz and Steampipe differ
AttributeReportzSteampipe
Starting price$9.9/monthFree
Pricing modelPer month by dashboard countOpen source, with paid hosting through Turbot Pipes
Free tierNoYes
PlatformsWebmacOS, Linux, Windows, Self-hosted, 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 Steampipe

  • SQL over live APIs
  • Wide plugin set
  • Embedded Postgres
  • Compliance benchmarks
  • Joins across providers
  • Hosted option

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 Steampipe
  • A freelancer who needs one white-labelled dashboard per client and nothing elsenot Steampipe
  • An agency giving clients a live link instead of a monthly PDF, without buying client seatsnot Steampipe
  • A marketing team wanting a cheap always-on KPI screen fed from ad and analytics platformsnot Steampipe

Steampipe

  • Security teams answering posture questions against live cloud accounts rather than a nightly exportnot Reportz
  • Compliance evidence gathering where the answer must reflect the account at the moment it is askednot Reportz
  • Inventory and drift questions spanning several cloud providers in one querynot Reportz
  • Engineers who would rather write SQL than learn each provider command line toolnot 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

Steampipe

  • AGPL-3.0 across all four engines is a procurement blocker at organisations that ban the licence outright, and the network clause reaches any internal portal or service that puts a web interface in front of it
  • Dashboards, benchmarks and mods were removed from Steampipe entirely at version 1.0 in October 2024 and now live in a separate product, so pre-2024 documentation and tutorials describe commands that no longer exist
  • Live querying is bound by cloud provider API rate limits and keeps no persistent store by default, which is why a separate DuckDB-backed product exists for log volumes and why large accounts return slowly
  • The company is fifteen people and bootstrapped, maintaining four command line tools plus a hosted service plus two further products, and the newer tools have thin community traction relative to that surface area
  • Hosted tiers include only three users regardless of tier, with additional Enterprise users charged separately, so a team of thirty costs an order of magnitude more than the headline figure before compute and storage are counted

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

Steampipe

Free
  • Steampipe CLIFree
    • AGPL-3.0
    • All plugins
    • No user or query limits
  • Pipes DeveloperFree
    • One user
    • 400 compute minutes
    • 3GB storage
  • Pipes Team$49/mo
    • Three users
    • 2,000 compute minutes
    • 20GB storage
  • Pipes Enterprise$249/mo
    • Three users
    • 10,000 compute minutes
    • 100GB storage

Which should you pick?

Choose Reportz if

  • You need per-dashboard pricing.
  • You also want unlimited users.
Reportz review

Choose Steampipe if

  • You need sql over live apis.
  • You want to start without paying.
  • You work on macOS, Linux, Windows, Self-hosted, Web.
  • You also want wide plugin set.
Steampipe review

Questions people ask

Is Reportz or Steampipe better?
Neither clearly leads. Reportz starts at $9.9/month and Steampipe at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Reportz or Steampipe?
Steampipe has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at $9.9/month for Reportz and Free for Steampipe.
Does Reportz or Steampipe run on more platforms?
Reportz runs on Web. Steampipe runs on macOS, Linux, Windows, Self-hosted, Web.
Can I use Steampipe for free?
Yes. Steampipe 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 Steampipe is typically brought in for.
What can Reportz do that Steampipe cannot?
Reportz covers Per-dashboard pricing, Unlimited users, Public share links, White labelling. Steampipe covers SQL over live APIs, Wide plugin set, Embedded Postgres, Compliance benchmarks.

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.

Steampipe: When did Steampipe become AGPL?

May 2021, about four months after the project went public. It is a settled licence rather than a recent change, and predates the Business Source Licence wave it is often confused with.

Reportz: Is there a free plan?

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

Steampipe: Where did the dashboards and benchmarks go?

Into Powerpipe. They were deprecated in March 2024 and removed from Steampipe at version 1.0 in October 2024, so the check, dashboard, mod and variable commands are gone.

Reportz: Who is behind it?

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

Steampipe: Is it fast on a large cloud estate?

Not always. Queries call provider APIs at request time, so rate limits rather than query planning set the pace, and there is no persistent store by default.

Reportz: Can clients view without a login?

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

Steampipe: Does the AGPL affect internal use?

Running it internally for your own analysis is fine. Putting a web interface in front of it that other people use is where the network clause becomes a question for your legal team.

Steampipe: Is a bootstrapped vendor a risk?

It cuts both ways. There is no investor pressure toward a licence change or an exit, and there are also fifteen people supporting a large product surface.

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