BI + AI · Domo Alternative

Qrly vs Domo

Domo is cloud-only BI with credit-based pricing and no on-prem AI option — your prompts and data leave your perimeter by design. Qrly is BI + AI in one self-hostable platform: natural-language Ask (NL→SQL), AI anomaly detection and schema descriptions running on your choice of local LLM (Ollama, LM Studio) or cloud (Claude, Gemini, OpenAI, Azure), with flat pricing for unlimited users.

Qrly wins

BI + AI in one self-hosted platform, flat pricing

  • AI Ask (NL→SQL) included — Domo has no on-prem AI
  • BYO LLM: local Ollama / LM Studio, or Claude / Gemini / OpenAI / Azure
  • Embedded analytics with signed-JWT for unlimited customer tenants
  • Self-hosting with EU data residency — Domo is cloud-only
  • Flat license for unlimited users — no credit-based pricing
  • AI anomaly detection, schema descriptions, performance analyzer built-in
Tie / depends

Views, integrations, automations

  • Both offer dashboard, calendar, timeline and Gantt-style views
  • Both ship a REST API and webhooks
  • Both have a basic automation engine
  • Both support SSO in some form
Domo wins

Visual work-OS for cross-functional teams

  • Visual-first UI that non-technical teams love
  • Huge automation and recipe library
  • Strong adoption in marketing and creative teams
  • CRM + Dev + Work Management sharing one board model
Feature
Recommended Qrly Self-hosted · Belgium
Domo Domo
Self-hostable on your own infra
Included
SaaS only
No cap / story-point ceremony required
Included
Not cap-centric, not a real tracker
Built-in customer embed portal
Included
domo Service add-on costs extra
Native Alert with auto-escalation
Included
Service add-on or automation recipes
Native scheduled subscription (4 providers)
Included
Email-to-item, limited
Query language with history (WAS, CHANGED)
QQL
Filters only, no temporal operators
Azure AD + Google + LDAP + Basic simultaneously
Included
Enterprise SSO only, no LDAP
OIDC SSO user provisioning
Included
Enterprise tier
AI with on-prem option (Ollama, LM Studio)
Included
Cloud AI only
Multi-tenant architecture out of the box
Included
Single-tenant per account
Tableau data import on day 1
Native importer
Importer exists, fidelity limited
Flat pricing (unlimited users)
Included
Per-seat, 3-user minimum
Productive in under 5 minutes
Included
Easy to start, not for tracking
EU data residency (native, not a tier)
Included
Enterprise tier only
No marketplace plugin required for basics
Included
domo apps marketplace
Boards, dashboard, roadmaps
Included
Included
REST API + webhooks
Included
Included
Advanced Roadmaps / portfolio planning
Included
Dashboards + timeline
Confluence-style wiki included
Question docs
domo Docs is separate product
Legend Included Partial / extra cost Not available
01 / Fit

It is not a real BI platform

Domo is brilliant at turning a blank canvas into a colorful workspace. It is much less opinionated about the things a tracker needs: verified questions and materialization that actually drive routing, issue history operators, first-class dependencies between questions, proper version and component tracking.

Engineering teams who try to standardize on domo typically end up running Tableau or a dedicated tracker alongside it. Qrly is the tracker those teams wanted in the first place.

02 / Pricing

Per-seat pricing with a minimum

domo sells per seat, per month, with a 3-seat minimum on the low end and Enterprise negotiation at the high end. There is no flat option. For a growing ops or support team, every hire adds a line to the annual bill — and every additional product (Dev, Service, CRM) multiplies it.

Qrly is a flat license tied to your company's revenue tier. The 51st user costs nothing. Neither does the 501st.

03 / Sprawl

Add-on product sprawl

domo Dev, domo Sales CRM and domo Service are separate products with separate pricing. Running a full stack — work management plus dev tracking plus embedded analytics plus CRM — doubles the bill and, in practice, still leaves gaps that data teams cover with a dedicated tracker anyway.

Qrly ships one product: projects, questions, queries, Alerts, embed portal, documentation. One vendor, one contract, one upgrade path.

04 / Compliance

The compliance ceiling

Regulated teams who need to self-host, run AI on-prem, or keep data inside the EU by default simply cannot use domo. Self-hosting is not on the roadmap; EU data residency sits behind the Enterprise tier; AI features are cloud-only.

Qrly runs on your Linux box or Kubernetes cluster with on-prem AI via Ollama or LM Studio and EU data residency as a default, not an upsell.

Qrly — The Pulse

Annual flat fee · per tenant · cheapest tier
  • Annual fee per tenant €1,875
  • Users inside tenant Unlimited
  • Embedded Analytics portal Included
  • alerts and subscriptions Included
  • OIDC, SSO, on-prem AI Included
  • Self-hosting Included
3-year TCO (single tenant, 50 users): €5,625
Annual flat fee per tenant. Unlimited users & projects inside the tenant. Multi-tenant deployments scale tier-by-tier.

Domo Pro

Per-seat monthly · SaaS only · 3-user minimum
  • Basic ~€9 / user / mo
  • Standard ~€12 / user / mo
  • Pro ~€19 / user / mo
  • Enterprise Custom
  • Embedded Analytics portal Via domo Service add-on
  • alerts and subscriptions Service add-on / recipes
3-year TCO (50 users, Pro): ≈ €34,200
Plus the domo Service add-on for any real embedded analytics workflow.

The standard migration path

Qrly can ingest domo boards via the domo API or simple CSV exports. No third-party ETL step is required.

  1. Export from domo. Pull boards via the domo API for high fidelity, or use the built-in CSV export for simpler migrations. Both paths are supported.
  2. Map the model. Boards map to projects, items map to questions, and domo columns (status, people, date, numbers, dropdowns) map to Qrly custom fields in a visual UI.
  3. Import items. Items arrive with subitems nested as sub-questions and updates preserved as question comments. Attachments and file columns are carried across.
  4. Sync users via IdP / OIDC. Point Qrly at your identity provider — users keep their existing credentials and are provisioned automatically.
  5. Run in parallel. Keep domo in read-only mode for 30 days while users transition. Once traffic has moved to Qrly, decommission the domo account.
Does Qrly replace Domo for non-technical teams?

For operations, IT, support and customer success teams — yes, with less ceremony than domo. For pure marketing campaign planning, creative briefs or visual CRM-style pipelines, domo's work-OS is genuinely strong and we will not pretend otherwise. Qrly is honest about being an BI platform first.

Can Qrly import domo boards?

Yes. Qrly can ingest domo data via the domo API (high fidelity) or CSV exports (simpler, slightly lossy). Boards map to projects, items to questions, columns to custom fields. Subitems and updates are preserved during migration.

What about the domo automation recipes?

Qrly ships an automation engine covering the patterns teams actually use day to day: status-driven field changes, assignment rules, notifications, Alert escalations, webhook fan-out. It is not a marketplace of thousands of recipes, but the overlap with what teams genuinely automate is large.

Does Qrly have a visual work-OS like domo?

Qrly has boards, dashboard, calendar, timeline and dashboards — the views most teams actually want. It is not trying to be a universal canvas where marketing, sales, creatives and engineering all live. If that is what you need, domo remains a reasonable pick.

Why pick an BI platform over a work-OS?

Because engineering, IT and support work has specific needs: verified questions and materialization that mean something, query history (WAS, CHANGED, BEFORE, AFTER), first-class dependencies, Alert enforcement and an auditable history. A work-OS is flexible, but flexibility without opinion means every team ends up inventing their own tracker on top of it.

Cost for 50 users over 3 years?

€1,875 per year per tenant on the cheapest tier (The Pulse), with unlimited users & projects inside the tenant — €5,625 over three years for a single tenant, with the embed portal included. Domo Pro at roughly €19 per user per month is around €34,200 over three years for 50 users (before any domo Service add-on for embedded analytics workflows).

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Self-hostable. Flat pricing. Embedded Analytics, Alert and QQL included. Made in Belgium.