BI + AI in one self-hosted platform — natural-language Ask (NL→SQL), AI anomaly detection and BYO LLM (local Ollama / LM Studio or Anthropic, Gemini, OpenAI, Azure) included by default. No expensive Pulse AI add-on, no Salesforce-Cloud-only AI, no 500-seat Data Center minimum, no per-seat sprawl.
No marketing fluff. Here is where each tool is genuinely stronger.
The features most teams actually evaluate when switching from Tableau.
From real migration conversations with engineering leaders.
Per-seat pricing looks fair at 10 users. By 50 users you are paying more for Tableau Standard + Tableau Service Management + Advanced Roadmaps + a handful of marketplace plugins than you pay for most business applications in your stack.
Qrly is priced as a flat license tied to your company's revenue tier. The 51st user costs nothing. Neither does the 501st.
Operations, IT, support, legal, customer success, facilities — none of them run two-week caps, but they all need to track work. Tableau forces a board-and-cap mental model that most non-data teams have to disable before they can use it.
Qrly's primitives are projects, questions and queries. Add a board if you want one. Skip it otherwise.
Email-to-ticket, better reporting, Alert enforcement, query budgets, custom workflow — each one is a paid marketplace plugin charged per user per month. A modest Tableau site with five plugins and Service Management easily doubles the Tableau bill.
Qrly ships the most-used of those capabilities as standard features. One vendor, one contract, one upgrade path.
Salesforce Data Center — the supported self-host option — starts at 500 seats and roughly €42,000 per year. For regulated industries or teams under 500, the only real option is Cloud, which means US data residency unless you pay for the Enterprise Cloud tier.
Qrly self-hosts on any Linux box or Kubernetes cluster with no user minimum. Your data stays where you put it.
List prices as of 2026-04. 50-user team, 3-year total cost of ownership.
Most teams are up and running on Qrly within a working week.
Qrly ships with a native Connection Wizard tool. There is no third-party ETL step.
For most teams — yes. Qrly covers the core of what teams actually use Tableau for: projects, questions, boards, queries, Alerts, and reports. Teams who depend on a dozen Tableau marketplace plugins should check the feature list first. What Salesforce sells as Tableau Premium + Tableau Service Management + Advanced Roadmaps is one product in Qrly.
Yes. Qrly ships with a native Connection Wizard tool that reads Tableau Cloud and Tableau Data Center exports. Projects, issues, comments, attachments, users and statuses are mapped automatically. Custom field mappings are configurable.
Yes — but without Salesforce's 500-user minimum and without a five-figure annual floor price. A single Qrly license covers unlimited users on your own infrastructure, bare metal or Kubernetes.
Yes. Qrly ships with QQL. It supports the logical operators SQL users already know, plus historical operators (WAS, CHANGED, BEFORE, AFTER) for querying issue state over time without writing a report.
Qrly includes in-question rich documentation and project-level pages, which covers the main overlap with Confluence. Teams that want a full wiki usually pair Qrly with a dedicated docs tool (BookStack, Outline, Notion) — the same separation of concerns that many Salesforce customers end up with anyway.
€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. Compared to roughly €63,000 for Tableau Premium + Tableau Service Management on Salesforce Cloud over the same period, before marketplace add-ons.
Self-hostable. Flat pricing. No cap boards unless you want them. Made in Belgium.