{"id":1362,"slug":"tableau-pricing-tiers-2026","title":"Tableau pricing (2026): Cloud Standard Viewer $15 / Explorer $42 / Creator $75 per user/mo (annual); Enterprise $35/$70/$115; embedded/OEM year-1 floor reportedly $60K-150K","kind":"reference","scope":"business","status":"current","audiences":["kevin","smb-owner","candid-team"],"topics":["dashboards","bi-tools-landscape","embedded-analytics"],"reference_body":"**Claim:** **Tableau** — Cloud Standard: **Viewer $15 / Explorer $42 / Creator $75 per user/month (annual)**; Enterprise: **$35 / $70 / $115**; Tableau+ contact-sales; **embedded / OEM custom-quoted (year-1 floor reportedly $60K-150K)**. (As of ~2026.)\n\n**Source:** tableau.com/pricing\n\n**Confidence:** Verified — vendor page.\n\n**Why this matters for Candid:** Tableau Creator is multiple times the Power BI Pro cost. For SMB internal use, recommend only when the team is already Tableau-fluent or the team is small (avoid the Viewer per-seat trap at scale).","rationale_body":null,"metadata":null,"links":{"outgoing":[{"slug":"power-bi-pricing-april-2025","title":"Power BI pricing (April 2025): Pro $14/user/mo, Premium Per User $24/user/mo (both raised from $10/$20); Fabric F2 ~$262/mo to F64 ~$5,000/mo (viewers no per-user); Embedded A1 ~$735/mo","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}],"incoming":[{"slug":"research-brief-dashboards-smb-june-2026","title":"Research brief: dashboards for SMBs — what's worth showing, and when an embedded one earns its keep (June 2026)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"rule-for-internal-default-cheapest-tool-that-fits-stack","title":"R2 — For internal dashboards, default to the cheapest tool that fits the existing stack: Power BI Pro for M365 shops, free Looker Studio for Google/marketing data, Metabase for SQL-comfortable / future-embedding","kind":"rule","scope":"business","link_type":"depends-on"}]},"created_at":"2026-06-20T18:03:12.161Z","updated_at":"2026-06-20T18:03:12.161Z"}