Tellius vs Power BI
Looking for a Power BI alternative? See why more teams choose Tellius.
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Tellius is the best alternative to Power BI. Here's why.
Power BI gives you dashboards. Tellius gives you answers, insights, and a path forward. While traditional BI tools require you to build visualizations and hope the insights emerge, our semantic layer connects directly to how your business operates. No more pre-built reports that miss the mark or dashboard sprawl. Ask questions in natural language, follow your curiosity, and get meaningful insights without waiting on anyone.
Answer & Insight-oriented: Conversational, agent-powered guidance from question to diagnosis to recommended action
Agentic Analytics: Tellius Kaiya agents automate complex multipart, multistep analysis and offer a code-free AI agent building experience to turn analysis into action
Deeper “why” out of the box: Automated driver analysis, cohort/segment discovery, and change explanations—prioritized narratives in business terms
Contextual, Actionable Answers & Insights: Tellius provides deeper contextual understanding and industry-specific AI tuning for more relevant, actionable answers and insights
Built for scale: Works directly on unaggregated, large-scale data across multiple datasets, enabling deep drill-down to the most granular level without pre-aggregations—avoiding manual data prep and unlocking faster, richer insights.
Dashboard-oriented: Power BI is primarily designed for dashboarding, visualizations, and reporting
AI Assistant: Copilot creates and describes charts but doesn’t close the loop from “what” to “what to do.”
Surface-level insights: Power BI's Quick Insights, Key Influencers, Explain Increase/Decrease, Decomposition Tree, etc lack the statistical rigor and depth/breadth/automation of Tellius's root-cause analysis.
Generalist Assistance, Limited Context: Power BI Copilot offers broad, non-specialized AI support that lacks deep industry context—producing generic answers rather than domain-tuned, highly actionable insights.
Aggregated Views: Optimized for aggregated views; drilling to raw-level data often requires manual extracts, custom queries, or pre-built aggregations, adding complexity, delays, and limiting the scope of analysis.
Detailed Comparison
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role-based, per-user licenses
"For people who know PBI and are developers? I could potentially see them saving some time with it. But if you are a business user who doesn't make reports already? There's such a low probability that Copilot will spit out *exactly* your requirements/report in the way you intend."
— Data Analyst
Not Just Answers. Better Decisions. Faster.
Designed from the ground up to deliver an integrated analytics environment that combines natural language conversational exploration, automated insights, accessible advanced analytics, and agentic workflows. This approach enables anyone—regardless of technical skill—to ask questions, uncover answers, and take action in a single, seamless workspace.
Empowers users to uncover not just what is happening, but why, using multivariate analysis, multi-level drilling, and exploration across millions of variable combinations. This depth of analysis reveals patterns, trends, and relationships that traditional dashboards miss, providing the clarity needed to drive informed, confident decisions.
Built with a robust dual analytics engine that integrates flexible ad hoc exploration for analytical queries at scale, delivering sub-second response times. Deep ML-driven analysis enables organizations to explore massive datasets, uncover trends faster, and make confident decisions—without pre-aggregation.
Common Power BI Pitfalls
Power BI Copilot can generate visuals, write DAX, and handle basic data Q&A, but is a single-session assistant that outputs generalized answers compared to Tellius Kaiya’s multi-step, workflow-oriented AI agents for diagnosing change, running statistic tests, and persistently helping users
Power BI's Quick Insights, Key Influencers, Explain Increase/Decrease, Decomposition Tree, etc lack the statistical rigor and depth/breadth/automation of Tellius's AI-powered root-cause analysis. Tellius provides explanations in real business terms, coupling insights with recommendations, next-best-actions, and agentic workflows
Tellius provides deeper contextual understanding and industry-specific AI tuning for more relevant, actionable answers and insights.
The Only Agentic AI Platform Built for True Self-Service Analytics
Unified platform for data prep, exploration, and insight generation
Ask questions in natural language and get instant answers
Go beyond dashboards with automated, AI-generated insights
Understand what changed, why it changed, and what to do next
Build agentic workflows that automate multi-step analysis
Scale from ad hoc questions to predictive modeling with AutoML
No SQL, no stitching tools — just answers and actions in one place
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Faster charting ≠ faster answers
- Depth of insight: Copilot summarizes what happened; it doesn’t run true diagnosis. Tellius pinpoints why with driver analysis, cohorts, and change explanations that ladder to decisions—not just descriptions.
- Agentic capability: Copilot is an assistant that replies to prompts. Tellius uses agents that monitor KPIs, investigate anomalies, run tests, and recommend next steps—with human-in-the-loop approvals.
- Contextual understanding: Copilot’s answers skew generic. Tellius’ domain-tuned semantics and KPI knowledge layer deliver narratives in business terms—relevant, role-aware, and actionable.
Switching from Power BI? You’re Not Alone.
Many organizations move from Power BI to Tellius to cut the time from question to insight. See how Tellius eliminates manual dashboard maintenance with AI-powered answers, automated workflows, and predictive insights — all in one platform.
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