Cube
Verified Oct 15, 2026 ActiveSemantic layer for analytics: define a metric once, then query it from dashboards, embedded apps and AI agents
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $40/seat/mo
- Billing
- Per seat, monthly
Free tier covers data connections, modelling, up to 5 workbooks, agents and the MCP server with 1,000 requests a day. Starter is $40 per developer per month and Premium $80 (adds explorer and viewer seats at $40 and $20, embedded dashboards and chat); production compute is billed on top by the hour, from $0.60/hour for a dedicated deployment on Starter. Enterprise is quoted.
Use tool ↗About Cube
Cube sits between a warehouse and everything that asks it questions. You model metrics and dimensions once in code, and Cube serves those same definitions to dashboards, workbooks, embedded customer-facing analytics, an MCP server that Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor can call, and a Slack agent, with pre-aggregation caching underneath for speed. It connects to Snowflake, BigQuery and Databricks. Cube Dev, Inc. runs it from San Francisco and also maintains the open-source Cube Core project. Cube Cloud has a free tier; paid plans start at $40 per developer per month, and Enterprise adds single-tenant infrastructure, BYOC and SAML SSO.
- Platforms
- Web · API
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026
Verified sources
- Free forever tier; Starter $40 and Premium $80 per developer per month; embedded dashboards and embedded analytics chat are Premium-only (15 October 2026)cube.dev ↗
- Compute billed hourly on paid tiers: dedicated deployment $0.60/hour on Starter and $1.20/hour on Premium, Cube Store workers from $0.15/hour (15 October 2026)cube.dev ↗
- Home page positions Cube as an agentic analytics platform on a semantic layer, serving agents through MCP and APIs (15 October 2026)cube.dev ↗
- Privacy policy names Cube Dev, Inc., 548 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA (15 October 2026)cube.dev ↗
Is Cube 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
- Mar 2, 2019 (7 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar Squarespace Domains II LLC., looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Amazon, valid until Jan 12, 2027Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 15, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- Cube Dev, Inc., United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Cube
Cube's value is that one metric definition serves a dashboard, a customer-facing embed and an AI agent identically, which is exactly where bolt-on chat BI falls apart. The catch is the shape of the bill: it is per developer, and the features most teams actually want from a semantic layer - embedded analytics and embedded chat - sit on the $80 tier rather than the $40 one.
Pros
- Metrics defined once are reused by dashboards, embedded apps, MCP clients and Slack alike
- Pre-aggregations answer queries without hitting the warehouse for every request
- Cube Core is open source, so the modelling layer is not trapped inside the hosted product
- An MCP server exposes governed metrics to Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor without hand-written SQL
Cons
- Free tier stops short of production: deployment compute is a paid feature
- Per-developer pricing means a large data team costs more than a per-workspace tool
- It stores no source data of its own, so a warehouse is still a prerequisite
Best for
- Data teams who need one governed metric definition shared across BI, embeds and agents
- Product teams shipping multi-tenant analytics inside their own application
- Anyone wiring an LLM to warehouse data who wants it querying modelled metrics, not raw SQL
Not for
- Small teams with no warehouse who just want charts on a spreadsheet
- Buyers who need a fixed workspace price rather than per-developer billing
Watch out: Embedded analytics and the embedded chat widget are Premium ($80/developer) features, not Starter ($40) ones - check which tier your actual use case needs before budgeting.
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