Cyfe vs Databox
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
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The short answer
Editorial assessmentCyfe compared with Databox
Databox is the closest modern equivalent of what Cyfe pioneered, and it has kept moving: metric-level modeling, calculated metrics that combine sources, goals, alerts, a mobile app, and a usable free tier. Databox meters data sources and users, so it can end up costing more, but it does the blending and derived-metric work that Cyfe simply cannot. For most buyers comparing the two in 2026, Databox wins on product and Cyfe wins on price predictability.
Choose Cyfe if
Small businesses and small marketing agencies that want one always-on screen of live metrics from many accounts at a flat, predictable monthly price, and who value breadth of connectors and speed of assembly over designed reports, blended cross-channel metrics, or chart customization.
Choose Databox if
Small and mid-sized businesses and marketing agencies who want one self-updating board covering marketing, sales, and revenue metrics, delivered automatically to clients, executives, and Slack, without building anything or hiring an analyst.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Cyfe | Databox |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Reporting | Analytics |
| Starting price | $29 per month (Starter: 2 dashboards, 1 user) (14 days trial) | $0 (Free), then $71 per month billed annually ($89 monthly) (Analyst) |
| Pricing model | Flat monthly subscription metered on the number of dashboards, users and (on the Agency plan) clients. Data volume, rows pulled and integrations used are not metered, so cost does not rise with traffic or ad spend. Core capabilities including unlimited history, TV mode, public URLs, custom logo and theme, custom SSL domain, unlimited exports and embedded analytics are advertised as included on every tier; the Agency plan is what adds full white labeling, branded widgets, custom CSS and client management. | Freemium, with paid plans priced by users, connected data sources, and monthly AI credits, a per-client Agency plan, and paid add-ons for white labelling, security, fiscal calendars, OKRs, and faster sync. |
| Free plan | No | Free forever with 1 user, 3 data sources, 1 dashboard, 10 custom metrics, 50 monthly AI credits, daily sync, and the Genie AI analyst; no sharing, notifications, or chat and email support. |
| Free trial | 14 days on all plans | 14 days, no credit card required |
| Best for | Small businesses and small marketing agencies that want one always-on screen of live metrics from many accounts at a flat, predictable monthly price, and who value breadth of connectors and speed of assembly over designed reports, blended cross-channel metrics, or chart customization. | Small and mid-sized businesses and marketing agencies who want one self-updating board covering marketing, sales, and revenue metrics, delivered automatically to clients, executives, and Slack, without building anything or hiring an analyst. |
| Setup time | A first useful dashboard in well under an hour: create the dashboard, authenticate the accounts, add widgets. An agency setting up ten client dashboards should budget most of a day, since there are almost no templates to clone from and each dashboard is assembled widget by widget. | An hour to a first useful board: connect two or three sources, apply a prebuilt template, and share it. A full agency setup with sub-accounts, custom metrics, and datasets across a dozen clients is a week of design work. |
| Learning curve | Low. There is no query language, no data model and no report designer to learn, which is the whole premise. The learning that does happen is about the limits: working out which metric combinations are impossible because widgets do not blend, and which custom data route (Push API, Private URL, SQL, Sheets) fits an unsupported source. | Low. The dashboard designer is drag-and-drop, templates cover the common cases, and the concepts are metrics and goals rather than dimensions and scopes. Datasets are the only piece that requires real thought, because blending across sources means deciding which definitions win. |
| Platforms | Web application, Mobile web, TV and wall display mode, Embeddable dashboards and widgets | Web app, iOS and Android mobile apps, TV display mode, Slack and email delivery |
| Compliance | GDPR | GDPR, SOC 2, CCPA |
| Founded | 2012 | 2013 |
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, California, United States | Boston, Massachusetts, United States, with engineering in Slovenia |
| Ownership | Acquired February 2019 by Alpine Software Group and marketed as part of the Traject portfolio; the current site carries a ScraperAPI, LLC copyright. | Venture-backed; privately held, led by chief executive Peter Caputa IV, formerly of HubSpot |
Strengths and limitations
Cyfe
Strengths
- Flat pricing that does not meter data volume, rows, or connected accounts, so cost stays predictable as traffic and ad spend grow.
- Very fast assembly: a working multi-source dashboard takes minutes because each widget is a pre-built metric rather than a query to build.
- Unusual breadth for the price, spanning marketing, SEO, social, sales, support and accounting sources on one screen.
- Unlimited historical archiving of polled metrics, which gives long series for sources that retain almost nothing themselves.
Limitations
- No cross-channel data blending or calculated fields: each widget shows one source, so combined spend, blended CPA and roll-up totals must be computed outside the tool.
- Chart appearance is largely fixed by the widget, giving little control over visualization type, axes or formatting.
- Reporting is a scheduled snapshot of a dashboard rather than a designed multi-page client document with commentary, cover page or section structure.
- Very few dashboard templates, so each new client dashboard is assembled by hand rather than cloned from a prepared channel template.
Databox
Strengths
- A genuinely useful free plan with three data sources, anomaly detection, and sharing, which lets a small business prove the value before spending anything.
- Finished dashboards out of the box via prebuilt templates per tool, so there is no build project between signing up and having something to show.
- Unlimited users on the Agency plan from $79 a month, with client packs rather than per-seat fees for each new client.
- Benchmarks against anonymised peer companies are genuinely distinctive and answer a question no attribution tool addresses, which is whether your numbers are normal.
Limitations
- No attribution logic whatsoever: platform-reported numbers arrive as stated, so Meta and Google both claiming the same conversion will both appear on your board.
- Plans cap data sources and users together, so a business with a wide tool stack or a mid-sized team jumps to Team Scale at $319 sooner than the entry price implies.
- White labelling and SSO are Custom-tier only, which removes the two features agencies most often need from the self-serve path.
- Datasets are a lighter modelling layer than a real BI or warehouse stack, so data teams will outgrow them.
Pricing compared
Cyfe
Flat monthly subscription metered on the number of dashboards, users and (on the Agency plan) clients. Data volume, rows pulled and integrations used are not metered, so cost does not rise with traffic or ad spend. Core capabilities including unlimited history, TV mode, public URLs, custom logo and theme, custom SSL domain, unlimited exports and embedded analytics are advertised as included on every tier; the Agency plan is what adds full white labeling, branded widgets, custom CSS and client management.
- Starter$29
- Standard$39
- Pro$65
- Premier$119
- AgencyFrom $190
On raw capability per dollar, Cyfe remains competitive at the low end: $29 to $65 a month for an unmetered dashboard with more than 100 connectors is cheaper than most alternatives once data volume enters their pricing. The Agency tier at $190 is roughly in line with the client-reporting category, but it buys a different kind of product, live dashboards rather than designed reports, and the ten-client inclusion means the effective price rises with roster size in a way the headline hides. The honest value read is that Cyfe is good money for always-on monitoring and thin money for client deliverables, and that a buyer should weigh the low price against a product that has not visibly advanced in several years.
Databox
Freemium, with paid plans priced by users, connected data sources, and monthly AI credits, a per-client Agency plan, and paid add-ons for white labelling, security, fiscal calendars, OKRs, and faster sync.
- Free$0
- Analyst$71
- Team Core$199
- Team Scale$319
- Agency$79
- CustomCustom
Databox is priced well for what it is, which is a finished dashboard product that requires no building. The free plan is genuinely usable rather than a teaser, Analyst at $71 removes the dashboard limit for a single operator, and the Agency plan at $79 plus $20 per client pack is the cheapest self-serve route to unlimited users. The structure to model carefully is the combination of users and data sources: the Team plans cap both, so a five-person team with fifteen tools lands on Team Scale at $319. White labelling is now an $80 add-on rather than a reason to leave self-serve. Compared with Supermetrics, you are paying for the dashboard rather than the connector depth, and compared with any attribution tool you are paying for presentation rather than answers. For a small business that wants one board and no project, that is a good trade.
Editorial verdict on each
Cyfe
Cyfe is a good product from an earlier era, sold at a price that still makes sense for what it does. Flat monthly billing that ignores data volume, more than 100 connectors spanning marketing, finance and support, four honest routes for custom data, and TV mode plus a custom SSL domain on every tier add up to unusual value for a small business that wants one always-current screen. The case against it is specific rather than vague: there is no cross-channel blending or calculated metrics, chart control is minimal, there are almost no templates, reporting is a dashboard snapshot instead of a designed client document, and the release pace over recent years has been close to flat under changed ownership. Buy Cyfe for internal monitoring on a fixed budget, and for the lightest kind of client reporting; buy AgencyAnalytics, DashThis or Whatagraph if the deliverable is a report a client will read as a document, and Databox if you need metrics that combine sources.
Read the full Cyfe profileDatabox
Databox is the right buy for a small business or agency that wants every number on one self-updating board and has no appetite for a reporting project. The free plan is genuinely usable, templates mean a first dashboard exists within the hour, the Agency plan's client packs remove the seat tax that plagues competitors, and benchmarks against anonymised peers answer a question nothing else in this category asks. The HubSpot partner heritage shows in how well the agency workflow is handled. Be honest about two things before buying. It does no attribution, so the double-counted conversion numbers your ad platforms report will land on your dashboard unchallenged and you will need a separate tool if that matters. And plan caps on users and sources, plus paid add-ons for white labelling and SSO, mean a wide tool stack or an agency brand requirement costs more than the entry price implies. Compare it directly against Supermetrics, and decide whether you are buying a dashboard or a pipe.
Read the full Databox profileCyfe profile last reviewed 2026-08-23; Databox last reviewed 2026-09-27. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.
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Frequently asked questions
6 questionsWhat is the difference between Cyfe and Databox?
Databox is the closest modern equivalent of what Cyfe pioneered, and it has kept moving: metric-level modeling, calculated metrics that combine sources, goals, alerts, a mobile app, and a usable free tier. Databox meters data sources and users, so it can end up costing more, but it does the blending and derived-metric work that Cyfe simply cannot. For most buyers comparing the two in 2026, Databox wins on product and Cyfe wins on price predictability.
Is Cyfe or Databox cheaper?
Cyfe starts at $29 per month (Starter: 2 dashboards, 1 user) (14 days trial). Databox starts at $0 (Free), then $71 per month billed annually ($89 monthly) (Analyst). The billing models differ, so the entry price is rarely the whole cost. Cyfe pricing model: Flat monthly subscription metered on the number of dashboards, users and (on the Agency plan) clients. Data volume, rows pulled and integrations used are not metered, so cost does not rise with traffic or ad spend. Databox pricing model: Freemium, with paid plans priced by users, connected data sources, and monthly AI credits, a per-client Agency plan, and paid add-ons for white labelling, security, fiscal calendars, OKRs, and faster sync.
Does Cyfe or Databox have a free plan?
Cyfe has no free plan. Trial terms: 14 days on all plans. Databox has a free plan. Free forever with 1 user, 3 data sources, 1 dashboard, 10 custom metrics, 50 monthly AI credits, daily sync, and the Genie AI analyst; no sharing, notifications, or chat and email support. Trial terms: 14 days, no credit card required.
Who should choose Cyfe?
Small businesses and small marketing agencies that want one always-on screen of live metrics from many accounts at a flat, predictable monthly price, and who value breadth of connectors and speed of assembly over designed reports, blended cross-channel metrics, or chart customization.
Who should choose Databox?
Small and mid-sized businesses and marketing agencies who want one self-updating board covering marketing, sales, and revenue metrics, delivered automatically to clients, executives, and Slack, without building anything or hiring an analyst.
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