GoodData's self-hosted option exists.
It just requires Enterprise — and a sales call.
GoodData has strong semantic layer capabilities and a full AI analytics platform. The problem for ISVs: self-hosted deployment, data residency, and compliance features are all locked behind the Enterprise plan, which has no published pricing and requires a sales conversation to even see a number. Yurbi is self-hosted from $10,000/year with pricing on the website.
Where GoodData creates friction for ISVs
GoodData is a capable platform — but its architecture, pricing model, and plan structure create specific friction points for ISVs embedding analytics in a customer-facing product.
No public pricing — on either plan
GoodData does not publish pricing for Professional or Enterprise. Their pricing page routes to a demo or sales contact. Based on publicly available information, the Professional plan starts around $1,500/month as a platform fee, with workspace-based charges on top. You can't budget GoodData without a sales conversation — regardless of which tier you're evaluating.
Self-hosted locked behind Enterprise
GoodData does offer self-hosted deployment — but only for Enterprise customers. The Professional plan is cloud-only. If your customers require on-premise, private cloud, or data residency guarantees, you'll need Enterprise pricing, which is custom and opaque. You're negotiating for a feature Yurbi includes in every plan from $10,000/year.
Workspace billing scales with your customers
GoodData's Professional plan charges per workspace — and each customer or tenant typically needs its own workspace. As your ISV product grows and you onboard more customers, your GoodData bill grows with it. That's not a consumption spike — it's structural cost growth baked into the billing model. Yurbi's flat-rate tiers don't change as you add customers within your user count tier.
MAQL proprietary language — steep and sticky
GoodData uses MAQL (Multi-Dimensional Analytical Query Language) — a proprietary query language that reviewers consistently cite as a steep learning curve. Around 80% of users in published reviews mention the learning curve explicitly. More than complexity, it's a lock-in vector: any developer who builds expertise in MAQL is building expertise that doesn't transfer to any other platform if you ever need to switch.
GoodData vs Yurbi — for ISVs
GoodData details based on publicly available documentation and pricing research, current as of Q1 2026. Verify directly before purchasing — gooddata.com.
GoodData vs Yurbi — questions answered directly
GoodData does not publish pricing for either of their plans (Professional or Enterprise). Their pricing page leads to a demo or sales conversation. Based on publicly available information from user reviews and third-party research, the Professional plan has a platform fee starting around $1,500/month, with additional per-workspace charges as you add customers. Enterprise pricing is fully custom and requires a sales call to get a number.
Yurbi publishes pricing directly: Starter $10,000/year (75 users), Growth $18,000/year (250 users), Scale $24,000/year (500 users), Unlimited $30,000/year. Additional production servers are $500/year each. You can calculate your exact cost on our pricing page without talking to anyone.
Yes — but only on their Enterprise plan. GoodData launched expanded self-hosted capabilities (including self-hosted AI) in July 2025. The Professional plan is cloud-only, hosted on GoodData's infrastructure. If self-hosted deployment is a requirement, you'll need Enterprise — which has custom pricing and requires a sales conversation to even get a quote.
Yurbi is self-hosted on every plan from $10,000/year. Windows Server, Linux, or Docker on x86/amd64 — your infrastructure, your control. Customer data never leaves your environment. If any of your customers have data residency, compliance, or on-premise requirements, Yurbi satisfies those from the entry tier.
GoodData's Logical Data Model and MAQL-based Metrics Store are genuinely sophisticated — purpose-built for complex metric governance across large organizations with intricate data hierarchies. If centralized, governed, reusable business metrics are your primary requirement, GoodData leads in that area and Yurbi doesn't match it.
Yurbi's semantic layer maps database fields to user-friendly names and enforces row-level security as end users build reports — designed for ISVs whose customers need to self-serve analytics inside your product, not for enterprise data teams building a governed metrics repository. The use cases are genuinely different. If you need the former, Yurbi fits. If you need the latter, GoodData is worth the investment.
Being direct: Yurbi has no JavaScript SDK — embedding is iframe and API only. SSO is session-token based via our DoLogin API, not SAML or OIDC (SAML is on the roadmap). There are no AI or natural language analytics features yet. Dashboard interactivity is parameter and global-filter driven — not associative click-through. GoodData has a meaningful lead in all of those areas, particularly in AI (they've launched AI Assistant, Smart Search, and agentic analytics capabilities).
If those are hard requirements for your product, find out now rather than after a full evaluation. Tell us in a demo and we'll give you a direct answer on fit rather than work around the question.
GoodData is genuinely the better choice when: you need enterprise-grade AI analytics (their AI Assistant and agentic platform are production-ready where Yurbi's is roadmap); you need SDK-based embedding via React or Python rather than iframe; your customers require SAML or OIDC SSO today; or you're building a centralized metrics governance platform for a large enterprise with complex data hierarchies where GoodData's LDM is purpose-built.
GoodData also makes sense if cloud-only deployment is fine for your entire customer base and your budget supports the Professional tier pricing. The ISVs who run into friction are those who need self-hosted deployment — and then discover that requires Enterprise pricing — or who find workspace-based billing grows uncomfortably fast as their customer base scales.
With Yurbi: download the trial today, connect it to your database, and most ISVs have working embedded dashboards in their product within days. Full production deployment — with your branding, SSO, and multi-tenant structure — typically takes 2–6 weeks depending on data architecture complexity. No sales call required to start.
GoodData's path begins with a sales conversation, then requires building out the Logical Data Model before any reporting is useful. The LDM investment pays off at scale — but it's a real upfront cost in time and technical resource. If your team has the runway for that investment, GoodData's semantic layer is worth it. If you need embedded analytics running in your product this quarter, the GoodData ramp-up is a meaningful constraint.