What is Tableau?
Data visualisation and analytics from Salesforce.
Who is Tableau best for?
Tableau is best for companies that want one analytics platform for preparing, exploring and sharing their data.
Analysts building dashboards
Drag-and-drop charts and visual data prep let analysts clean, combine and chart data without writing code.
People who only read reports
A Viewer seat lets someone view and interact with dashboards and get data alerts for $15 a month, a fifth of the price of a Creator seat.
Salesforce customers
Tableau pulls data from a Salesforce org as well as most other systems, and Tableau Next adds Tableau Agent for plain-language questions plus a native Slack integration.
Companies with strict data rules
It runs in the cloud, on your own servers or inside your CRM, with central governance and security over who sees which data.
How much does Tableau cost?
Tableau is sold per user on a yearly contract: a Tableau Viewer seat costs $15, Tableau Explorer $42 and Tableau Creator $75 per user per month, billed annually, and a free trial is available.
- View and interact with dashboards and visualizations
- Data-driven alerts
- Download visualizations as images
- Self-service analytics on trusted data
- Create and share custom views
- Manage users and permissions, and set up subscriptions for others
- Curate and share data sources
- Create and edit data flows
- Govern data securely
Tableau has no monthly plans: every edition needs a yearly contract, and you pick an edition first, then a mix of Viewer, Explorer and Creator seats. Tableau Next, the agentic analytics product with Tableau Agent, Tableau Semantics and Slack integration, starts at $40 per user per month billed annually, and data or Flex credits may cost extra. The Tableau+ Bundle, which pairs Tableau Cloud with Tableau Next, is priced by sales. These are US prices; Salesforce also lists prices in pounds, euros and other currencies. Full pricing on salesforce.com. We checked these prices on .
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What are the best Tableau alternatives?
Three tools on Recaply do Tableau's job. All three are open source, so you can run them on your own server.
MetabaseOpen SourceChoose it when you want to host it yourself and keep your data on your own server.
KanariesOpen SourceChoose it when you want to explore data by dragging fields into charts inside Jupyter or RStudio, with a free Education plan.
Apache SupersetOpen SourceChoose it when you want dashboards for every analyst without paying Viewer, Explorer or Creator seat prices on a yearly contract
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Questions about Tableau
What is Tableau?
Data visualisation and analytics from Salesforce.
Who is Tableau for?
Tableau is best for companies that want one analytics platform for preparing, exploring and sharing their data.
Is Tableau free?
You can try Tableau free before paying; paid plans start at $15 per user per month, billed annually.
How is Tableau Next priced?
Tableau Next starts at $40 per user per month billed annually, with Consumer and Creator licences. It is also sold with Tableau Cloud in the Tableau+ Bundle, priced by sales, and comes included in some Salesforce CRM editions.
Is there an open source alternative to Tableau?
Yes. Metabase, Kanaries, Apache Superset and Redash are open source tools that do the same job, so you can run your own.
What are the best Tableau alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are Metabase, Kanaries and Apache Superset.
Where can I try Tableau?
On its official website, tableau.com.
Can I pay for Tableau monthly?
No. Tableau Cloud editions and Tableau Next both need a yearly contract billed annually, so the per-user monthly prices, such as $15 for Viewer or $75 for Creator, are paid a year at a time.
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