# Tableau pricing (2026): plans, cost, and compliance

**Entry price:** $15/mo (Tableau Viewer). Among the 6 bi / analytics we track it is #5 cheapest of 6; median entry $0/mo.
**Domain:** tableau.com
**Free tier:** No · 14-day free trial
**Compliance:** HIPAA Not published · SOC 2 Not published · GDPR Not published
**Integrations:** Salesforce, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Azure, SAP, Slack, Tableau Prep
**Best for:** Large enterprises needing mature self-service BI; Salesforce ecosystem shops; Teams requiring rich visualization breadth
**Price tracked since:** June 2026

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tableau Viewer | $15 | — | per_seat | Read-only access: interact with dashboards, download data, receive alerts. Price from GetApp aggregator; official page inaccessible (403). | getapp.com |
| Tableau Explorer | $42 | — | per_seat | Author from curated data; edit existing workbooks; manage permissions. Price from GetApp aggregator. | getapp.com |
| Tableau Creator | $75 | — | per_seat | Full access including Tableau Desktop and Prep Builder; create new data sources and workbooks. Price from GetApp aggregator. | getapp.com |

**Key features:** Drag-and-drop visual analytics; Tableau Prep for data wrangling; Natural language Ask Data queries; Embedded analytics via Tableau Embedded API; Live and in-memory data connections.

**Plan limits:** Viewer: read-only, no authoring; Explorer: cannot connect new data sources; Creator: minimum 1 Creator required per site.

## Cheaper bi / analytics alternatives

- [Microsoft Power BI](https://frontdeskreview.com/software/bi-analytics/power-bi/) — from $0/mo
- [Metabase](https://frontdeskreview.com/software/bi-analytics/metabase/) — from $0/mo
- [Mode Analytics](https://frontdeskreview.com/software/bi-analytics/mode/) — from $0/mo
- [ThoughtSpot](https://frontdeskreview.com/software/bi-analytics/thoughtspot/) — from $0/mo

Sources: 1 · Last verified 2026-06-14
Provenance: Official tableau.com/pricing page returned HTTP 403 on all fetch attempts (2026-06-14). Prices sourced from GetApp aggregator at getapp.com/business-intelligence-analytics-software/a/tableau/pricing/ — Viewer $15, Explorer $42, Creator $75 per user per month — corroborated by a second independent GetApp fetch returning identical figures. Annual vs. monthly billing distinction not disclosed on the aggregator page; Tableau historically bills annually but GetApp lists these as monthly rates without qualification.
Canonical: https://frontdeskreview.com/software/bi-analytics/tableau/
Cite: Per The Front Desk Review, Tableau's entry plan was $15/mo as of 2026-06-14 — https://frontdeskreview.com/software/bi-analytics/tableau/
License: CC BY 4.0. Price history: https://frontdeskreview.com/data/price-history.jsonl