Akkio vs DataSquirrel

Akkio

Once a self-serve no-code prediction tool, now an agency analytics platform sold only through a sales call — if you came expecting to upload a CSV and train a model on a card, that door has closed.

Pros

• +REST API and Python SDK are still documented for training and prediction
• +Domain agents map onto real agency workflows instead of generic dashboards
• +Referenced in production — it powers the Plus.AI media planning system at Mediaplus

Cons

• −No published pricing, no free tier and no self-serve signup
• −The general-purpose no-code framing carried by most catalogs no longer matches the site
• −Scope now assumes media-campaign data, so other use cases are off-message
• −Small company, with roughly $15M raised in total

DataSquirrel

This is the narrow, honest version of an AI analyst: it does not answer arbitrary questions, it runs a fixed pipeline of clean, analyse, chart, comment over a file you upload. That makes it predictable in a way chat-over-your-data tools are not, and the auto-clean step alone saves the tedious part. The catch is that the ceiling is low — once you need joins across sources or scheduled refreshes you have outgrown it.

Pros

• +Automatic column cleaning before analysis, not after
• +Generates charts and written commentary in one pass
• +Free tier with no card, so the workflow is testable in minutes
• +Vendor is a named Singapore company operating since 2021, not an anonymous wrapper

Cons

• −Vendor pricing page does not render prices to crawlers and directories disagree on the entry figure
• −File-upload only — no database or warehouse connectors
• −No API for automating the analysis step

Does Akkio or DataSquirrel have a free tier?

DataSquirrel has a free tier; Akkio prices on request.

Which has a public API, Akkio or DataSquirrel?

Akkio ships a public API, as of our last verification. A public API for DataSquirrel is not confirmed by us — check its developer docs before you plan an integration.