Bricks
Verified Oct 16, 2026 ActiveTurns CSV, Excel and database tables into dashboards, reports and slide decks in the browser.
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $17.50/seat/mo
- Billing
- Per seat, monthly
Free = 20 AI messages/month for up to 3 people. Premium $17.50 per user/month billed annually or $25 month-to-month (200 messages); Pro $70 annual / $100 monthly per user with unlimited messages and Tableau/Power BI export; Enterprise custom.
Use tool ↗About Bricks
Bricks is a browser workspace from The Bricks Inc. that takes a CSV, an Excel file, a PDF or a live database connection and lays out dashboards, reports, spreadsheets and slide decks from it. Data can also arrive through connectors for HubSpot, Stripe, QuickBooks and Google Analytics, and a board can be refreshed from its source in one click. Charts are adjusted by dragging rather than by writing formulas. It sells per seat: a free tier capped at 20 AI messages a month for up to three people, then $17.50 per user monthly on annual billing, with Tableau and Power BI export held back for the $70-plus Pro tier.
- Platforms
- Web
- API
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 16, 2026
Verified sources
- Pricing page: Free $0 (20 AI messages/mo), Premium $25 or $17.5 per user/month on annual, Pro $100 or $70 per user/month, Enterprise custom; 'Save 30% with an annual plan' (15 October 2026)thebricks.com ↗
- Home page: AI dashboards and reports from CSV and Excel files; '100,000+ professionals' claim (15 October 2026)thebricks.com ↗
Is Bricks legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Nov 27, 2001 (24 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar Squarespace Domains II LLC, looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Amazon, valid until Jan 21, 2027Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 16, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 16, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- The Bricks Inc.Our research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Bricks
The positioning is the middle ground between Canva and Tableau, and for small files it holds: upload a spreadsheet, get a laid-out dashboard without building a semantic layer first. The constraint is the message quota rather than the data volume - 20 a month free, 200 on the $17.50 seat - so anyone iterating heavily lands on the $70-plus Pro tier. Tableau and Power BI export, embeddable dashboards and full PDF import are Pro-only.
Pros
- Reads CSV, Excel, PDF and images, and connects directly to PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB and SQL Server
- One-click refresh re-pulls the source into an existing board
- PDF, PPTX, XLSX and HTML export on the entry paid tier
- Prebuilt connectors for HubSpot, Stripe, QuickBooks and Google Analytics
Cons
- AI usage is metered per message: 20/month free, 200/month on Premium
- Tableau and Power BI export, embeddable dashboards and full PDF import need the $70+ Pro seat
- No public API is documented anywhere on the site
- No company location or founding date published
Best for
- small teams with no data analyst
- turning a one-off CSV into a shareable dashboard
- monthly finance or ops reports rebuilt from the same file
Not for
- warehouse-scale modelling
- teams already running dbt and a governed BI semantic layer
Watch out: The advertised $17.50 is annual-commitment pricing; month-to-month Premium is $25 per user.
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