Sisense is a bI & dashboards tool for Enterprise and Developers, offered as paid. Founded in United States in 2004.
About Sisense
Sisense is a business intelligence and embedded analytics platform founded in Tel Aviv in 2004 and now headquartered in New York. It merged with Periscope Data in 2019 and is led by CEO Ariel Katz, who previously helped build Power BI at Microsoft. Its core job today is embedded analytics: letting software companies ship dashboards, reports and AI-driven insights inside their own products, white-labeled for their customers.
Sisense connects to cloud warehouses and databases either live or through its ElastiCube data engine, then builds dashboards with drag-and-drop widgets. Developers embed them with iframes or the Compose SDK, a code-first toolkit for React, Angular and Vue. Sisense Intelligence adds natural-language queries, auto-generated narratives and an assistant end users can talk to. Packaging has two tracks: a Self-serve plan you can start for free, and Enterprise with multi-tenancy, column-level security, SSO and on-prem or dedicated cloud hosting.
Sisense fits SaaS companies that sell analytics as a feature and need tight control over tenants and branding. It is a weaker fit for internal-only reporting, where Power BI or Tableau offer more analysts, training and lower per-seat costs, and for tight budgets, where Metabase's open-source embedding or Looker Studio's free tier go further.
Buying tip: Sisense does not publish prices, and third-party reports put cloud contracts in the five figures per year. Get the tenant count, user model and AI usage limits written into the quote, and ask how AI features are billed.
Key features of Sisense
- Compose SDK for embedding charts in React, Angular and Vue apps
- Iframe embedding with full white-labeling of dashboards
- Live connections or the ElastiCube in-memory data engine
- Natural-language queries and auto-generated narratives via Sisense Intelligence
- Multi-tenant architecture with row and column-level security
- Bring your own LLM for governed generative AI features
- SaaS, dedicated cloud on AWS, Azure or GCP, or on-premise hosting
Pros and cons
Pros
- Built specifically for customer-facing embedded analytics
- Code-first SDK gives developers fine control over the UX
- Strong multi-tenancy and security for B2B SaaS products
- On-prem and dedicated cloud options for regulated industries
- 99.99% premium SLA and 30-day backup on Enterprise
Cons
- No published pricing and contracts are typically annual
- Expensive compared with open-source embedding tools
- Data modeling and ElastiCube tuning need technical skills
- Less suited to internal self-service BI than Power BI or Tableau
Sisense pricing
Sisense uses a paid model.
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Self-serve | Custom | Start free at app.sisense.com; paid price not published |
| Enterprise | Custom | SaaS, dedicated cloud or on-prem; 99.99% premium SLA |
Source: www.sisense.com · checked on Oct 20, 2026
How Sisense compares in BI & dashboards
- Rank by votes
- #1 / 16
- Starting price
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- Free alternatives
- 4
0 votes from members
Category median is $77/mo
Free or open-source tools in BI & dashboards
Sisense ranks #1 of 16 bi & dashboards tools by community votes and is not directly comparable on price.
Common use cases
- 1Adding a customer-facing analytics tab to a B2B SaaS product
- 2White-labeled reporting portals for each client tenant
- 3Embedded dashboards for regulated sectors such as healthcare
- 4Natural-language data questions inside an existing app
- 5Monetizing data with a premium analytics add-on tier
Best for
SaaS companies that want to sell secure, white-labeled analytics inside their own product.
Not ideal for
Teams that only need internal reporting or have a small budget (Power BI, Metabase, Looker Studio).
Integrations
- Snowflake
- Google BigQuery
- Amazon Redshift
- Databricks
- PostgreSQL
- Salesforce
- Compose SDK (React, Angular, Vue)
Our take
Sisense is a serious option when analytics is part of the product you sell and multi-tenancy, branding and security matter. Compare it with Metabase and Power BI Embedded on total cost before signing, and pilot the Compose SDK with your own front-end team.
FAQ
- What is Sisense?
- Sisense is a BI & dashboards tool: Embedded analytics platform for putting dashboards inside your product.
- How much does Sisense cost?
- Sisense uses a Paid model; see the vendor's pricing page for current plans.
- What does Sisense integrate with?
- Sisense integrates with Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, Databricks, PostgreSQL, Salesforce and more.
- Which platforms does Sisense support?
- Sisense is available on web.
- Who is Sisense for?
- SaaS companies that want to sell secure, white-labeled analytics inside their own product.
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