DashboardFox vs. Microsoft Power BI
DashboardFox vs. Microsoft Power BI
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 DashboardFox | N/A | DashboardFox is cloud-based business intelligence and dashboard software from 5000fish, built for teams that create and deliver dashboards and reports to clients, departments, or business units. It is priced by monthly active users (MAU) rather than per seat, so organizations pay for a tier instead of for every login, and accounts that do not sign in are not counted. Row-level security, white-label branding, and custom domains are included in every plan, which… | $99 per month Monthly Active User (MAU) | |
 Microsoft Power BI | N/A | Microsoft Power BI is a visualization and data discovery tool from Microsoft. It allows users to convert data into visuals and graphics, visually explore and analyze data, collaborate on interactive dashboards and reports, and scale across their organization with built-in governance and security. | $168 per year per user |
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| Additional Details | A primary pricing consideration is the licensing model: DashboardFox is priced by monthly active users (MAU), not per seat. You pay for a tier, and only users who actually log in count toward it — recipients who view shared or scheduled reports without logging in are excluded. For teams with many occasional or read-only users, this is often more cost-effective than per-seat BI tools. Feature inclusion is also notable: row-level security, white-label branding, custom domains, and unlimited reports and dashboards are standard on every plan, including the $99/month Starter tier. Higher tiers scale capacity (more MAU, concurrent load, larger datasets, FastCache, Server Sync) and support levels rather than unlocking core features. Connecting data sources incurs no cost — there are no per-connector fees and no ETL requirement. Additional factors for buyers: annual billing provides a 20% discount; every plan includes a 7-day trial with no credit card required; discounts are available for nonprofits, education, government, and agencies/resellers; and for teams preferring to avoid subscriptions, a self-hosted perpetual license is available from $4,995, with the first year of upgrades and priority support included. | Power BI Desktop is the data exploration and report authoring experience for Power BI, and is available as a free download. | ||||||||||||||
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| Small Businesses |  Yellowfin Score 8.6 out of 10 | Yellowfin Score 8.6 out of 10 |
| Medium-sized Companies |  Reveal Score 10.0 out of 10 | Reveal Score 10.0 out of 10 |
| Enterprises |  Kyvos Semantic Layer Score 9.5 out of 10 | Kyvos Semantic Layer Score 9.5 out of 10 |
| All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | - (0 ratings) | 8.5 (199 ratings) |
| Likelihood to Renew | - (0 ratings) | 9.6 (3 ratings) |
| Usability | - (0 ratings) | 8.3 (115 ratings) |
| Support Rating | - (0 ratings) | 10.0 (52 ratings) |
| Implementation Rating | - (0 ratings) | 9.0 (1 ratings) |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 5000fish No answers on this topic | Microsoft
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| Pros | 5000fish No answers on this topic | Microsoft
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| Cons | 5000fish No answers on this topic | Microsoft
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| Likelihood to Renew | 5000fish No answers on this topic | Microsoft
 David Jensen Operations Manager, Customer Success |
| Usability | 5000fish No answers on this topic | Microsoft
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| Support Rating | 5000fish No answers on this topic | Microsoft
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| Implementation Rating | 5000fish No answers on this topic | Microsoft
 Anuj Sant Senior buyer |
| Alternatives Considered | 5000fish No answers on this topic | Microsoft
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| Return on Investment | 5000fish No answers on this topic | Microsoft
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| ScreenShots | DashboardFox Screenshots      | Microsoft Power BI Screenshots      |