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
Created 2026-06-20
Summary
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.)
Source: tableau.com/pricing
Confidence: Verified — vendor page.
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).
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- reference Research brief: dashboards for SMBs — what's worth showing, and when an embedded one earns its keep (June 2026) relates-to
- rule 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 depends-on