Microsoft Power BI vs. Yurbi

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Microsoft Power BI
Score 8.5 out of 10
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.
$14
per month (billed annually) per user
Yurbi
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Yurbi is an embedded analytics and OEM business intelligence platform from 5000fish, built for ISVs and SaaS companies that need to deliver dashboards and reporting to their own customers. It is white-labeled to match the vendor's product, isolates data per tenant, and runs self-hosted on the vendor's own Windows, Linux, or Docker servers, so customer data never leaves their environment. Every tier includes the full platform with no feature paywalls: a no-code report…
$10,000
per year per user
Pricing
Microsoft Power BIYurbi
Editions & Modules
Power BI Pro
$14
per month (billed annually) per user
Power BI Premium
$24
per month (billed annually) per user
Starter
10,000
per year per user
Growth
$18,000
per year per user
Scale
$24,000
per year per user
Unlimited
$30,000
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Microsoft Power BIYurbi
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPower BI Desktop is the data exploration and report authoring experience for Power BI, and is available as a free download.A primary pricing consideration is that Yurbi is licensed by named users on a flat annual basis — not by consumption, queries, or sessions. Because Yurbi is self-hosted, pricing does not fluctuate with traffic, data volume, or the number of dashboards rendered, which maintains cost predictability as embedded usage grows. This contrasts with consumption-billed embedded BI (such as Power BI Embedded) and per-seat tools. Every tier includes the entire platform with no feature paywalls — embedding, multi-tenant security, the no-code report builder, dashboards, and the REST API are all standard. Tiers ($10,000 to $30,000 per year) differ only by the named-user ceiling, so you select a plan based on the number of users served rather than feature requirements. All plans include Priority Support and all upgrades. Additional factors ISVs commonly consider: each plan includes one development and one production license, with additional production deployments available from $500/year — suitable for one-instance-per-customer or on-premise ISV models — and volume discounts apply at scale. A 14-day free trial is available without a credit card; early-stage and smaller ISVs may qualify for pricing below the Starter plan, and optional professional services and a VIP Service Plan are available for teams requiring implementation assistance.
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Community Pulse
Microsoft Power BIYurbi
Considered Both Products
Microsoft Power BI
Chose Microsoft Power BI
Tableau having pure visuals, we can't make custom visuals. Power BI costs around $10 per month, but Tableau costs around $30-$40 per month, so comparing with Power BI it is costly. Using Power BI is very easy for everyone (technical/non-technical), but tableau is only can …
Chose Microsoft Power BI
Plotly has been used to create time-series charts that we are hosting internally. Sometimes, it hasn't been easy for us to set up a data gateway. (for security) To get an internal report, we used Plotly instead of Power BI. Plotly does require some JavaScript knowledge to …
Chose Microsoft Power BI
Microsoft Power BI has more templates and the control panel for modifying data visualizations is more powerful with more choices of line charts, bar charts, maps/scatter points than Google sheets, which is limited to simple bar charts and pie charts.
Chose Microsoft Power BI
We were able to bundle Power BI with other Microsoft products we rely on heavily. This and the customization options were the main sellers for us.
Chose Microsoft Power BI
All others apps are enablers and Microsoft Power BI is the visual that end user sees which often adds more value to the end user to make strategic decisions from this. All are equally great but Microsoft Power BI is the end result
Chose Microsoft Power BI
Microsoft Power BI vs. Tableau Power BI cheaper and works well with Microsoft tools. Tableau has better visuals but is costly. Microsoft Power BII vs. Looker Looker is good for big data, but Microsoft Power BI is easier to use. Microsoft Power BI vs. Qlik Qlik is fast for big …
Chose Microsoft Power BI
Microsoft Power BI provide a user friendly in many ways to analyse the data and visualization of the data .Stacking makes the works easier easily attach the table ,chart row and column through the various available tool ..it also reduces the work part and manpower mechanically …
Chose Microsoft Power BI
Microsoft Power BI is more flexible and it requires less effort in order to create a working environment. The results have an attractive and customizable display. The model is a star schema therefore it do not require specific database adaptation. Excel and csv files could be …
Chose Microsoft Power BI
Microsoft Power BI is free. If I didn't want to create a custom platform (i.e. my organization insisted on an existing platform that I *had* to use), I'd use Microsoft Power BI. For any start-up or SMB, I'd just use Claude & Grok to build it quickly, also for free. Would …
Chose Microsoft Power BI
Same need to be large scale.
Chose Microsoft Power BI
Microsoft Power BI is easier to learn, a lot of examples on YouTube, internet documentation books helps to the implementation and personalization of the dashboards easier to use than other platforms.
Chose Microsoft Power BI
While excel can be useful for a very quick data dump, Microsoft Power BI is able to bring that data to life, and show trends and the actual story of what is happening. Microsoft Power BI is the ultimate display tool, and allows us to share information quickly to the CORRECT …
Chose Microsoft Power BI
Compared to this tool, Microsoft Power BI doesn't involve heavy coding and provides user friendly interface to visualize data. Microsoft Power BI reports can be shared and published without exposing your source code. Also, the reports are interactive providing drill down …
Chose Microsoft Power BI
Power BI is much simple to use, and more modern than BusinessObjects, which has now been discontinued. It costs much less to license than Tableau which is perhaps more niche and designed better. It is also much more powerful for data analysis than excel, smartsheet, airtable, …
Chose Microsoft Power BI
Some of the strengths are 1. User-Friendliness 2. Self-Service BI (Caters to all levels of the employees 3. Cost-effective. 4. Easy integration with Microsoft Suits. 5. DAX Calculations 6. Familiar Interface like traditional Excel. 7. Easier Self-Service platform for …
Chose Microsoft Power BI
It's got a larger user base and seems better supported. Personally it feels like alot more work getting comparable results from Tableau. Microsoft Power BI will be WAY easier to work with all your various data sources, if you are working in an environment with M365 already. …
Chose Microsoft Power BI
After several years using Google Looker Studio and BigQuery, Microsoft Power BI is a step-up in terms of visualizations. It is also much more powerful, leading to less errors and has a more intuitive interface. Looker studio has a focus on google analytics whereas Microsoft …
Chose Microsoft Power BI
NA - did not use any other software, yet. Happy with the services and features provided by Microsoft Power BI which helps us navigate through the client requests on a daily basis while also providing actionable insights / solutions with maximum efficiency and that too in a …
Chose Microsoft Power BI
It's the most widely used tool in most organizations
Chose Microsoft Power BI
Each has a different function. I think Microsoft Power BI is easier to use than Tableau and cheaper but SQL and databricks have so much more versatility
Chose Microsoft Power BI
We use Microsoft Power BI in addition to other software.
Chose Microsoft Power BI
I prefer Power BI because of its affordability and fewer complicated tools than Tableau. It's easy to use and compatible with other Microsoft products, which are mostly used in the IT industry. It's not limited to only one platform like Looker Studio, which is mostly used in …
Yurbi
Features
Microsoft Power BIYurbi
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Power BI
8.2
Ratings
0% above category average
Yurbi
-
Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Power BI
7.9
Ratings
1% below category average
Yurbi
-
Ratings
Drill-down analysis8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages7.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Power BI
8.0
Ratings
2% below category average
Yurbi
-
Ratings
Publish to Web8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to PDF7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Versioning7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Power BI
7.7
Ratings
4% below category average
Yurbi
-
Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive Analytics7.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Power BI
8.4
Ratings
1% below category average
Yurbi
-
Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Power BI
7.9
Ratings
2% above category average
Yurbi
-
Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access7.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Application7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Power BI
7.6
Ratings
2% below category average
Yurbi
-
Ratings
REST API7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Javascript API7.40 Ratings00 Ratings
iFrames8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Java API6.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Microsoft Power BIYurbi
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
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10.0
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Likelihood to Renew
9.6
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10.0
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Usability
8.3
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10.0
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Availability
-
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10.0
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Performance
-
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10.0
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Support Rating
10.0
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-
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Implementation Rating
9.0
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
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10.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Microsoft Power BIYurbi
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft Power BI is great for sales tracking, financial reporting, and real-time operations monitoring. It integrates data from multiple sources, creating interactive dashboards for better decision-making. However, it's less ideal for real-time big data processing, offline access, or when deep customization is needed. It works best for structured reporting but struggles with highly complex data models.
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The Yurbi Poduct is extremely well suited for organizations looking for a mature Business Intelligence and ad-hoc reporting tool. The strength of Yurbi is that it is highly customizable and can work in various environments.
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Pros
  • It is great at taking in large amounts of data and housing it all.
  • Microsoft Power BI is so user friendly and it's dashboards are very easy on the eye.
  • The ease of sharing dashboards makes it great for use across a large company.
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  • Yurbi allows us to build customized Dashboards for specific users. Once the initial Dashboard is created, the user themselves have permissions to customize the Dashboard to suit their needs. The flexibility is there for a wide set of users.
  • Yurbi product is highly customizable. We looked for a Business Intelligence product for quite some time that could be customized to work with different types of data sets. When we started considering Yurbi, it was evident from the beginning that the product could be customized very quickly to work within our environment and our specific data types.
  • The Yurbi product stays a step ahead with the changing market being focused more for the tablet and smart phone user population. As our customers first started to use iPADs and iPhones, it was great to see that an upgraded Yurbi product was readily available for use for the iPAD/iPhone set of users.
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Cons
  • It would be easier for users could Microsoft Power BI and Excel used the same programming languages.
  • Would like to see the online version of Microsoft Power BI be as powerful as the desktop version.
  • Publishing a Microsoft Power BI file online and then having to save the file is somewhat redundant.
  • Would like to export each page or chart as an image.
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  • While the Yurbi Developer tool is highly mature, there have been cases where building specific complex reports within Yurbi required extensive support directly from the vendor (and even some Yurbi product customizations). It would be great if the Yurbi Developer tool could be slightly refreshed to make it easier for more non-technical users to build more complex reports within Yurbi.
  • Over years of usage of the Yurbi product with growing set of available reports to run for users, it's easy to get unorganized in terms of being able to find the correct report to run. It's highly adviseable if future releases of Yurbi began offering features to organize all reports a little better within the product (including an audit trail of reports that users typically run to make it easier for them to go back to the right reports).
  • We heavily use the SMTP configuration within Yurbi to set up auto-email notifications to specific set of users with requested reports. At times, the SMTP service becomes unavailable and Yurbi product is unable to send these emails to the users. Besides not receiving the email, it's easily evident that the SMTP service connection failed. It would be great if future versions of the Yurbi product would alert the user of the failed SMTP connection on initial Yurbi login so the administrator becomes aware of the issue and can take action to resolve the problem.
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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft Power BI is an excellent and scalable tool. It has a learning curve, but once you get past that, the sky is the limit and you can build from the most simple to the most complex dashboards. I have built everything from simple reports with only a few data points to complex reports with many pages and advanced filtering.
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The Yurbi product has been perceived very well by our customers. They have continued to use it for years and the user population has only expanded. Customers love the flexibility and large set of Dashboards and reports that can be made available within the product quickly and efficiently.
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Usability
Takes a little bit to get used to it. Not natively intuitive but fairly straight forward to pick up. Also docking it a few points because you can create a really clean, simple UI in Claude very quickly that's faster than building all of this yourself in Microsoft Power BI.
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The Yurbi product is incredibly easy to use and very intuitive for the user. The environment is highly customizable to the user's own preferences which is the best part.
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Support Rating
It is a fantastic tool, you can do almost everything related with data and reports, it is a perfect substitutive of Power Point and Excel with a high evolution and flexibility, and also it is very friendly and easy to share. I think all companies should have Power BI (or other BI tool) in their software package and if they are in the MS Suite, for sure Power BI should be the one due to all the benefits of the MS ecosystem.
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Implementation Rating
It was integrated with our erp easily and was accessible on cloud.
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Yurbi was very simple to implement and the software prerequisites and server requirements were very basic.
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Alternatives Considered
All others apps are enablers and Microsoft Power BI is the visual that end user sees which often adds more value to the end user to make strategic decisions from this. All are equally great but Microsoft Power BI is the end result
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Yurbi was overall a better product, highly customizable, more user friendly, and lower priced.
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Return on Investment
  • We're still early in the adoption process at this company, but we've illustrated how bad data keeps us from being more productive. ~25% of a team's work week was dedicated to effectively cleaning up entries, but it was always seen as a normal to them.
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ScreenShots

Microsoft Power BI Screenshots

Screenshot of Microsoft Power BI - Turns insights into impact for business usersScreenshot of Power BI integrates easily with Microsoft 365Screenshot of Microsoft Power BI - AI-Powered CapabilitiesScreenshot of Microsoft Power BI - Copilot can be used to create reportsScreenshot of Microsoft Power BI - Data HubScreenshot of Microsoft Power BI - Scales as organizational needs grow

Yurbi Screenshots

Screenshot of a white-labeled Yurbi dashboard embedded inside your app, showing service-desk trends across trend lines and bar charts. Your customers log into a branded analytics experience — your logo, your colors — without ever leaving your product.Screenshot of the Yurbi report library, embedded in your product, where end users browse and run saved dashboards and reports organized by folder. Fully branded as your own, giving customers self-service access with no developer involvement.Screenshot of Yurbi's no-code report builder lets your customers build their own reports and charts by picking fields — no SQL needed. Embed it so users create self-service analytics right inside your app, under your brand.Screenshot of Yurbi Architect, the app builder and semantic layer where you define data sources, report types, and the exact tables and fields users can access. Configure once to expose safe, governed self-service reporting inside your embedded app.