Shape
Verified Oct 15, 2026 ActiveAI analyst that answers plain-English questions against your database, in a web workspace or straight from Slack
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Paid
- Paid options from
- $49/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
Starter $49/month with 2 users and Team $499/month with 20 users, extra users $24.95/month each; Enterprise is custom and adds a Microsoft Teams bot. Every plan has a 30-day money-back guarantee; no free tier on the page.
Use tool ↗About Shape
Shape connects to your database and lets non-analysts ask questions in plain English; it writes the SQL — joins and unions included — states the assumptions behind each answer, and charts results automatically. Teams use it in a web workspace or directly in Slack, and an API with React components embeds the same question-answering inside your own product. Built by Teamspace, a Y Combinator company, it starts at $49 a month for two users, with a $499 team tier for twenty and custom enterprise pricing, all covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee.
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026
Verified sources
- Pricing section: Starter $49 per month (2 users), Team $499 per month (20 users), additional users $24.95/pm, Enterprise with unlimited users and a Microsoft Teams bot; 30-day money-back guarantee on every plan (15 October 2026)shape.xyz ↗
- Footer reads 'YCombinator | Teamspace Inc'; the updates page's newest post is 'Shape's third major revision' from 24 October 2023 (15 October 2026)shape.xyz ↗
Is Shape 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
- Jun 2, 2014 (12 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar GoDaddy.com, LLC, looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Dec 5, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 15, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- Teamspace Inc, United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Shape
The Slack delivery is the point: answers arrive where the question was asked, with stated assumptions instead of a bare number. Text-to-SQL still misfires on messy schemas, so keep an analyst in the loop for decisions that matter.
Pros
- Surfaces its assumptions alongside answers instead of implying false certainty
- Slack bot plus embeddable API covers internal and customer-facing use from one product
- Flat per-tier pricing is easy to budget
- 30-day money-back guarantee lowers pilot risk
Cons
- No free tier and a comparatively high entry price
- Generated SQL needs human review on complex or poorly named schemas
Best for
- Startups whose analysts are buried under ad-hoc data questions
- Product teams embedding natural-language analytics via the API and React components
- Slack-centric companies that want answers without opening a BI tool
Not for
- Solo users — the entry tier is priced for two seats
- Teams needing a full BI suite with dashboards, governance and a semantic layer
Watch out: Answer quality depends heavily on schema clarity — pilot against your real database inside the guarantee window before rolling it out.
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