A Power BI alternative with AI built in, simple pricing and dashboards the whole company can open.
Power BI is a well-known choice, especially in Microsoft-centred companies. Klayara is the Power BI alternative for teams that want published per-user pricing with a lower-priced Viewer seat, Klayara AI across the product, speed on big tables on every plan, and dashboards in Arabic and English — in our cloud or on your own servers.
Simple per-user pricingKlayara AI built inCloud or your own serversArabic and English
What teams gain moving from Power BI.
Share widely with a lower-priced Viewer seat
Two published seats: Builders who build and lower-priced Viewers for everyone who views, filters and exports. Branch managers, department heads and the board all get a login, with no capacity plan to size.
Klayara AI across the product
Ask a question and get a real chart. Describe a chart or a whole dashboard and get a draft. Summarise a dashboard, ask why a number changed, and write formulas and automations from a sentence — each one a click, within the person's permissions.
Arabic and English from one dashboard
The full interface runs right to left in Arabic and in English, chosen per user, so the Arabic board pack and the English operations view come from the same build.
Formulas the finance team can read
Klayara's 138 formula functions read like a spreadsheet, with year-to-date, running totals, rankings and share-of-total built in — and the formula assistant writes, fixes and explains them for you.
Power BI and Klayara, in general terms.
Written October 2026 from public documentation, describing each product in general terms; features and plans change, so check the current position with each vendor.
| Aspect | Power BI | Klayara |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Per user, with capacity options for wider sharing | Published per-user prices: Builders who build, lower-priced Viewers who read; Enterprise quoted per organisation |
| AI | AI features through the vendor's AI services | Klayara AI built in on Growth and Enterprise: ask your data, AI chart and dashboard builder, dashboard summaries and "why did this change", formula and query assistants, automations from a sentence — runs only when you click, within each person's permissions |
| Speed on big tables | Depends on the model and capacity chosen | Built-in acceleration on every plan; dashboards stay fast on tables with more than 100 million rows |
| Live or imported data | Import and live modes, set in the model | Live queries in place, or imports for extra speed — chosen per table, both on one dashboard |
| Where it runs | The vendor's cloud, with an on-premises report server for some scenarios | Our hosted cloud, or your own servers with Enterprise (even offline) |
| Arabic, right to left | Depends on how each report is designed | Full right-to-left Arabic interface and English, chosen per user |
| Row and column permissions | Available; configured in the model | Set once per person or team, applied to every dashboard, download, scheduled report, embed and AI answer |
| Scheduled delivery | Email subscriptions | Email, WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram and webhooks, rendered per recipient with their own rows |
| Done-for-you dashboards | Through partners | Our own BI developers build the dashboards and hand them over |
Who should stay on Power BI.
Some teams are well served where they are, usually because their work is built around Power BI and its wider ecosystem.
- Teams whose analysts are deeply invested in Power BI and whose reports are finished and working well.
- Organisations standardised on the vendor's wider data platform, where the dashboard tool is one piece of a larger investment.
Who chooses Klayara instead.
The teams that get the most from Klayara from the first week.
- Teams that want AI to answer questions and draft charts, dashboards and formulas — inside their own permissions
- Companies sharing dashboards widely that want a lower-priced Viewer seat for everyone who reads
- Groups that need one dashboard across several companies or branches, with each reader limited to their own rows
- Companies that want the data to stay on their own servers, in their own country
- Teams with no analyst that want the first dashboards built for them and handed over
- Businesses that read in Arabic and English on the same day
Power BI alternative questions, answered.
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Is Klayara a good Power BI alternative?
Yes, for dashboards, scheduled reports, permissions and AI questions on databases, warehouses, spreadsheets and business apps. Klayara is built to get reports in front of the whole business quickly: drag and drop, 100+ chart types, formulas that read like a spreadsheet and 150+ data sources.
Is Klayara a cheaper Power BI alternative?
Klayara keeps the cost simple: published per-user prices, a lower-priced Viewer seat for everyone who only reads, and speed on big tables included on every plan. Plans start at $10 per Viewer and $20 per Builder a month, billed yearly; Enterprise and self-hosted plans are quoted. Prefer it built for you? Our done-for-you service has our developers build the dashboards. See the plans.
Is Klayara a Power BI alternative with AI?
Yes. Klayara AI is built into the product on Growth and Enterprise: ask a question and get a real chart, describe a chart or a whole dashboard and get a draft, summarise a dashboard or ask why a number changed, write and fix formulas and queries, and set up automations from a sentence. It runs only when someone clicks, stays within each person's row and column permissions, and Growth includes 150 AI credits a month for the workspace. On Enterprise it can also run on your own AI provider or a private model. See Klayara AI.
Can we move our existing reports?
Reports are rebuilt in Klayara — usually faster than expected, because the data connections and measure definitions already exist, the formulas read like a spreadsheet and Klayara AI drafts charts and dashboards from a description. Our BI developers can rebuild the core pack for you.
Does Klayara work in Arabic?
Yes. The full interface runs right to left in Arabic, and each user picks their language, so an Arabic board pack and an English operations view come from the same dashboard.
Can Klayara run inside our own network?
Yes, with Enterprise. Install it in your cloud account, your data centre or a closed network. Nothing phones home, and Klayara AI can run on a model inside your network.
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