Question 1

Is ATX AnalyticsTable a Power BI alternative?

Accepted Answer

Yes, for the core BI jobs: database connections, SQL and a visual query builder, cleaning pipelines, dashboards, and scheduled PDF and workbook reports. The difference is where it runs and how it is priced — on your own laptop or Linux server, with DuckDB doing the work locally, and no licence for the people who only read the reports.

Question 2

How much cheaper is ATX AnalyticsTable Server than Microsoft Fabric?

Accepted Answer

Across every Fabric size from F2 to F128, an ATX AnalyticsTable Server with the same vCPU and RAM is 51–72% cheaper than the 1-year reserved Fabric price, and more against pay-as-you-go. An F64-sized server is $1,664 a month against about $5,003 reserved.

Question 3

Do people who only view reports need a licence?

Accepted Answer

No. ATX AnalyticsTable delivers reports as PDFs, .xlsx workbooks and e-mails that anyone can open, and the Server is priced by machine size, not by user. In Power BI every viewer needs Pro or Premium Per User unless the content is on F64 capacity or larger.

Question 4

Can ATX AnalyticsTable handle more data than Power BI Pro's 1 GB limit?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Nothing is uploaded, so there is no model-size cap: DuckDB queries the data where it is, and the published benchmark aggregates 100 million rows in 346 ms on a 16 GB laptop. Above about 20,000 rows a project stores the query rather than the rows, so the file stays workbook-sized.

Question 5

Does my data leave my network?

Accepted Answer

No. ATX AnalyticsTable runs on your laptop or your own server, works fully offline and air-gapped, and masks personal data before anything is exported. The AI analyst uses the model endpoint you choose, which can be inside your own network.

Question 6

Can I use ATX AnalyticsTable alongside Power BI?

Accepted Answer

Yes. You can prepare, clean and mask data in ATX AnalyticsTable and write the results back to PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle or BigQuery, where existing Power BI reports read them — and send the scheduled PDFs to everyone without a Power BI licence. A connector for Microsoft Fabric and Azure Synapse SQL is in preview, so it can also read what already sits in your Fabric warehouse.

Question 7

Does ATX AnalyticsTable have row-level security and single sign-on like Power BI?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Since version 1.5, data-access policies decide which rows and columns each person sees, enforced by the server on every query, export, API call and AI answer. Sign-in works with Microsoft Entra ID or any OpenID Connect or SAML 2.0 provider, with SCIM provisioning — an add-on on Advanced Plus and included on Unlimited.