Competitor pricing and feature information updated March 2026.
What is Grow?
Grow combines data connections, data warehousing, and visualization into one platform, allowing enterprises to connect and comprehend their data. It offers over 150 pre-built data connectors that work with some of the most popular platforms, databases, and CRMs. When users need to make key business choices, the BI platform imports data easily via APIs that constantly update and refresh data, ensuring current and reliable metrics.What is Epicor?
We don't know much about this company, and our information is a little sketchy. Epicor provides enterprise solutions for a variety of application cases. The automotive, building supply, distribution, manufacturing, and retail industries are Epicor's clients. It's difficult to say whether or not this acquisition is a smart idea.What Happens to Grow After the Acquisition?
We can't know for sure. However, there has been an unsettling trend of companies buying up BI tools and increasing their pricing model, cutting off support, merging and removing features entirely, etc. We can hope this won't happen to Grow, but one can never be sure. If you're concerned about the direction Grow might take post-acquisition, we've put together a list of six potential alternatives to the platform to look into.Top 5 Alternatives to Grow (Plus 1 Bonus)
Klipfolio
Klipfolio is a well-regarded web dashboard software, but its pricing structure can become expensive quickly. Starting at $120/month for just 3 dashboards and 4-hour refresh rates on their Base plan, costs escalate to $190/month for 10 dashboards with Grow plan, and $310/month for 20 dashboards with their Team plan that includes SSO. For 40 dashboards, their Team+ plan runs $600/month. What makes Klipfolio particularly costly is their add-on model. White-label branding requires a separate $299/month add-on that's not included in any base plan. Near real-time refresh costs an additional $139/month on lower tiers, and SSO on lower plans requires a $49/month add-on. Extra dashboards beyond plan limits cost $8 each per month. Additionally, Klipfolio lacks row-level security at any tier, which is a significant limitation for businesses needing data access controls. While the platform offers good visualization capabilities and API integration, the per-dashboard pricing model and expensive add-ons can make it cost-prohibitive for growing businesses that need multiple dashboards. Some think it could be an alternative to Grow, but the dashboard limits and high costs for essential features like white-labeling may be dealbreakers for many organizations.Metabase
Metabase is an open-source business intelligence application, but don't be fooled by the "open-source" label—most businesses will hit expensive paywalls quickly. While there's a free self-hosted version, it lacks essential enterprise features like white-label embedding, row-level security, and SAML authentication. For these critical features, you'll need Metabase Pro at $575/month for 10 users, with additional users costing $12 each. This means a team of 25 users would pay $755/month ($575 + 15×$12). For white-label embedding with external users, there's an additional $500/month platform fee plus $10 per external user. Enterprise plans start at $20,000 annually, making Metabase one of the more expensive options in the market. The pricing cliff from free self-hosted to $575/month Pro is particularly steep, especially considering that features like row-level security are standard in many competing platforms. While Metabase offers good SQL capabilities and visualization options, the open-source version serves more as a limited trial than a viable business solution. The rigid pricing structure and high costs for essential features make it less attractive than it initially appears.Cyfe
Cyfe is a corporate dashboard software that lets you track and analyze data from websites, departments, and other sources through dashboards. They can retrieve data from services like Google and Salesforce using pre-built widgets in the app. Users of Cyfe get a complete picture of how well their firm is doing and what business trends they should be aware of. Data may be viewed in real-time with Cyfe dashboards, so clients are constantly up to date on what's going on. Cyfe also has a decent number of sources from which it obtains its data. This reduces the number of reports delivered to them because they can share information with them quickly and securely. Some users have complained about the platform's annoying usability flaws.Toucan Toco
Toucan is a cloud-based, guided analytics platform with a single goal: to simplify the process of delivering data insights to business users. Toucan makes analytics a little easier, from data connectivity to distributing insights wherever they're needed. With one-touch deployment from staging to production, easy embedding with web components or iFrames, and publishing to any device, deployment, and maintenance are simplified. Toucan Toco's visual data readiness feature makes data preparation simple, allowing business people to accomplish actions with data that would normally require a data professional. Many consumers have complained that this product is too code-heavy for the typical individual to utilize.Google Data Studio
Google Data Studio (now called Looker Studio) appears free but comes with significant hidden costs and limitations. While the free tier offers unlimited dashboards and 21 native Google connectors, businesses quickly hit expensive walls when they need more. The Pro tier costs $9 per user per project per month—and billing is per project, meaning 10 users across 3 projects equals 30 billable seats. Non-Google connectors require expensive third-party services ranging from $30 to $500+ per month each, making it costly to connect to databases like SQL Server or PostgreSQL. Major limitations include no white-label branding (Google branding remains visible even on Pro), no true row-level security (only basic "filter by email" workarounds), and strict data limits with PostgreSQL/SQL Server capped at 150,000 rows per query. Queries also time out after 3-5 minutes, making it unsuitable for complex analysis. Don't confuse this with Looker (Google Cloud), which is a completely different enterprise product costing $60,000+ annually. While Looker Studio may seem attractive as a free option, the connector costs, data limitations, and lack of enterprise features make it impractical for most business use cases.Bonus: DashboardFox
Now let's talk about the bonus option as a worthy alternative to Grow, DashboardFox. Rather than put ourselves in the top alternatives, we'll let you be the judge of that, but we think DashboardFox is a pretty good bonus option to know about. DashboardFox might not be as well known as some of these other options. Still, we have many of the same amazing data visualization capabilities (and a few features like security and branding that exceed the competition). DashboardFox allows you to create interactive dashboards, charts, tables, graphs, and other forms of visuals in a no-code environment that saves organizations from needing a developer to produce dashboards and reports.With DashboardFox, you don't need to be proficient in computer programming languages because it is designed to be used by anyone, including those with zero programming knowledge.Apart from that, DashboardFox's one-time payment policy and VIP-level assistance set the bar high for everyone, not only for large corporations but most especially for small and medium-sized businesses. DashboardFox believes that everyone deserves the best in business intelligence, no matter how big or small they are.
With DashboardFox, your business can still grow (pun intended) even without Grow.What are you waiting for? Reach out to us: schedule a meeting with our staff or book a free live demo session. We're always here for you.
