Best Data Analytics Software in India (2026)

The case for

• Basic runs 1,200 rupees a month for two users and half a million rows, billed in rupees with Indian support phone lines.
• Extra users cost 250 rupees a month each, so outgrowing the seat count in a plan does not force a jump to the next tier.
• The free plan holds two users and 10,000 rows with unlimited reports and dashboards, enough to prove a dashboard works before paying.

The catch

• Row limits count every row stored across all workspaces, so historical data nobody queries still pushes you into a larger plan.
• Viewers are an add-on at every tier with a 25 viewer minimum starting at 4,000 rupees a month, on top of the plan price.
• Basic connects to just two business app connectors and refreshes data once a day, which caps you at daily reporting.

The case for

• Microsoft bills Power BI in rupees in India at 1,165 per user per month for Pro paid yearly, with GST stated separately.
• Power BI Desktop is free to install, so an analyst builds and tests reports on a laptop before anyone buys a licence.
• Pro is included in Microsoft 365 E5, so organisations already on E5 pay nothing extra to publish and share reports.

The catch

• Every person who opens a report needs a paid Pro licence unless you buy Fabric capacity at F64 or above, which changes the maths at scale.
• F64 capacity runs around 8,400 dollars a month pay-as-you-go and about 5,000 a month on a one year reservation, so free viewing is not free.
• The free tier cannot share reports with anyone, so any real deployment starts at Pro pricing rather than at zero.

The case for

• The main product costs nothing for creators and for report viewers, and it reaches Google data plus more than 1,300 community connectors.
• Reports embed into any web page or intranet and are shared like a Google Doc, with no seat licence needed for readers.
• The paid tier costs 9 US dollars per user per project a month and adds team workspaces, Cloud Customer Care and customer managed encryption keys.

The catch

• Google has moved the product back to the Data Studio name and lookerstudio.google.com now redirects to datastudio.google.com, so links and guides drift.
• The paid tier is billed per user per project, so cost multiplies with the number of Google Cloud projects rather than headcount alone.
• On the free version reports and data sources belong to individual accounts rather than the organisation, so a leaver takes ownership with them.

The case for

• The open source edition is free for unlimited users and runs on your own servers, which makes it viable for teams with an engineer
• Starter at $90 a month billed yearly covers 5 users, with extra users at $65 a year each, so growth is priced predictably
• Starter and Pro rates including per additional user costs are published, so you can model a 30 person rollout without a sales call

The catch

• The Starter plan runs on Metabase Cloud only, so hosting on your own infrastructure requires Pro at $517.50 a month billed yearly
• Row and column security, SSO beyond Google, white labelling and interactive embedding are all Pro features, and Pro costs over five times Starter
• Enterprise starts around $20,000 a year, and the step up from Pro mostly buys faster support response and deployment options