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Pricing from
$495 per month
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User industry
  1. Information technology and software
  2. Healthcare and life sciences
  3. Banking and insurance

What is Bold BI

Bold BI is a business intelligence and analytics platform focused on building dashboards and reports and embedding them into customer-facing or internal applications. It supports self-service analytics for business users and provides developers with embedding options for web apps. The product is available as a cloud service and as a self-hosted deployment, which can be relevant for organizations with data residency or infrastructure requirements.

pros

Strong embedded analytics tooling

Bold BI is designed to embed dashboards and reports into other applications, which fits SaaS teams delivering analytics to end customers. It provides embedding via web components and APIs, enabling integration into common web stacks. This emphasis can reduce the need to build custom charting and permissions logic from scratch.

Cloud and self-hosted options

The product is offered in both SaaS and on-premises/self-managed forms, supporting different security and compliance postures. Self-hosting can be useful when data cannot leave a private network or when organizations require control over upgrades. This flexibility is not universal across BI tools that are primarily cloud-only.

Broad dashboarding and reporting

Bold BI covers core BI needs such as interactive dashboards, scheduled reporting, and sharing with role-based access. It supports connecting to multiple data sources and building visualizations for operational and management reporting. For teams that need standard BI capabilities plus embedding, this can consolidate tooling.

cons

AI analytics depth varies

While positioned in AI-assisted analytics, the depth of natural-language querying, automated insight generation, and semantic modeling may not match tools that center their product strategy on search- and AI-driven analytics. Organizations expecting advanced AI-guided exploration should validate capabilities with representative datasets. AI features can also depend on configuration, data modeling quality, and licensing tier.

Modeling and governance tradeoffs

Teams with complex enterprise semantic layers, metric governance, and multi-domain data modeling may find they need additional design work to standardize definitions across many dashboards. Governance features should be evaluated for large-scale deployments with many creators and consumers. This can affect consistency of KPIs across embedded and internal analytics.

Customization requires engineering effort

Embedding and tailoring analytics experiences typically requires developer time for authentication, authorization mapping, theming, and lifecycle management. Organizations without dedicated engineering resources may find implementation slower than expected compared with purely internal BI rollouts. Buyers should plan for ongoing maintenance, especially in self-hosted deployments.

Plan & Pricing

Plan Price Key features & notes
Business 10 / Basic $495 per month 10 Dashboard Creators, unlimited Dashboard Users, 10 GB storage, 15-minute data refresh, custom domain & branding, Office 365 & Azure AD integration. (Shown on Bold BI app/offer pages and referenced as the $495/month Basic plan on the Community License page.)
Standard Request a Quote (price not published) Essential BI features, embedding, 120+ data connectors, 40+ visualizations, collaboration tools, business-hours support. Official pricing page lists this plan but requires requesting a quote.
Enterprise Request a Quote (price not published) Dedicated/scalable infrastructure, 24/7 premium SLA support, multi-tenant deployment, compliance options. Official pricing page lists this plan but requires requesting a quote.

Seller details

Syncfusion Inc.
Morrisville, North Carolina, United States
2001
Private
https://boldsign.com/
https://x.com/boldsign
https://www.linkedin.com/company/syncfusion/

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