MinusX
Verified Oct 2, 2026 ActiveAgent-first BI platform that answers data questions, builds dashboards and sends alerts, self-hosted or in the vendor's cloud.
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $40/seat/mo
- Billing
- Per seat, monthly
Self-hosting the open-source edition is free. Cloud Founders is $40/user/month as displayed, with 500 agent credits per user; Team is $600/month including 20 users and 10,000 pooled credits; Enterprise is custom. The page offers 20% off for annual billing and 50% off with your own LLM keys, and its meta description cites $24/user/month for cloud BYOK.
Use tool ↗About MinusX
MinusX is a business-intelligence tool built around a data agent rather than a chatbot added to dashboards. You connect a warehouse or spreadsheet, ask questions in the app, in Slack or through MCP, and the agent writes SQL, builds dashboards, sets alerts and drafts reports or slide decks. It keeps a shared knowledge base of metric definitions and lets you test answers with evals. The core can be self-hosted, and a managed cloud runs it for you, with optional bring-your-own LLM keys. It targets founders and small data teams.
- Platforms
- Web · Slack app
- API
- No
- Last verified
- Oct 2, 2026
Verified sources
- Product positioning, agent capabilities, self-host or cloud optionsminusx.ai ↗
- Plans and per-user pricing, BYOK discount, license statement in FAQminusx.ai ↗
- Operated by MinusX, Inc., a Delaware corporationminusx.ai ↗
- Repository LICENSE file is GNU AGPL-3.0github.com ↗
- Y Combinator Summer 2024 company based in San Franciscoycombinator.com ↗
Is MinusX legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Last checked
- Oct 2, 2026The site answered
- On the market since
- 2024The vendor's own material, read by us
- Operated by
- MinusX, Inc., United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 2, 2026
Pros & cons of MinusX
MinusX is worth a look for startups that want a self-hostable BI tool where the agent can build dashboards, alerts and reports instead of just answering one-off questions. The open-source route is free, but the cloud pricing is shown in several ways, so confirm the per-user rate before committing.
Pros
- Free self-hosted edition with optional bring-your-own LLM keys
- Agent learns business definitions and stores them in an editable knowledge base
- Evals let you test whether answers stay correct as definitions change
- SOC 2 Type II and GDPR are listed in the footer
Cons
- Licence statements conflict: the repository carries AGPL-3.0 while the pricing FAQ says Apache 2.0
- Cloud pricing is shown inconsistently across the page and its meta description
- Small public community: the GitHub repository had only a few dozen stars at the time of research
Best for
- Founders and small teams without a dedicated analyst
- Teams that want to self-host BI and keep their warehouse in their own environment
- Companies that want metric definitions captured in a shared knowledge base
Not for
- Enterprises needing a mature, governed BI estate with a long track record
- Teams that want a plain chat box over their data rather than a full BI shell
Watch out: Agent credits are consumed per request, roughly one per user turn, and the extra-credit add-on is marked coming soon, so a heavy-use team could hit the cap on the $40 plan. Read the repository licence yourself before embedding or redistributing the code.
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