Axomaly vs Soda

Axomaly is a cloud service that learns patterns in SaaS product and business metrics and flags meaningful changes without fixed thresholds. It accepts timestamped time-series values, with optional metadata, for business, operational, and application metrics. Before creation, Smart Metric Creation prepares a detection configuration and baseline requirements for review. Values are submitted through a REST API, one timestamped value per POST request. Detection begins once the required history is available; the amount depends on metric cadence and detector configuration. Results include an anomaly decision, confidence, expected range, direction of change, and detector evidence, which can feed existing workflows alongside logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting. The alpha starts with one metric and includes guided onboarding and direct support. It is free during alpha with no credit card required. During that period, data and results are hosted in the EU, isolated by organisation, encrypted in transit using HTTPS/TLS, and kept for up to 12 months before rolling deletion.

Soda is a data quality platform for monitoring production data, testing data through development and deployment, and investigating issues. Its machine-learning-powered observability looks for unexpected changes without requiring every rule to be set in advance. Teams can test data during development, deployment, transformation, and CI/CD workflows. Data contracts let producers and consumers specify expected schemas, data types, value ranges, and other constraints. Soda lists integrations including Databricks, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Airflow, dbt, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, and PagerDuty, and offers three deployment models for different infrastructure and privacy needs. Its listed database support includes Athena, BigQuery, Databricks SQL, Dremio, DuckDB, Fabric, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Spark Dataframe, Snowflake, SQL Server, Synapse, and Trino. The Free plan is free and includes pipeline testing, metrics observability, and alerting and ticketing integrations. Team is $750 a month; Enterprise has no listed price. Soda lists SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 3, DORA, and GDPR under compliance. It was founded in 2019 and lists locations in Chicago, Illinois, and Brussels, Belgium.