Cube vs Prophecy
Cube
cube.devProphecy
prophecy.aiSide by side
| Figure | Cube | Prophecy |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $40/mo | $150/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 4 | 4 |
| Spec score · Data Transformation Tools | 9.1 (#4) | 7.7 (#21) |
| Company | The company is Cube Dev, Inc.; its about page names Artyom Keydunov and Pavel Tiunov as co-founders. | Prophecy says it was founded in Palo Alto, California in 2017 and is operated by SimpleDataLabs, Inc. DBA Prophecy. |
| Compliance | Cube Cloud states SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR compliance and offers audit logs across deployments. | The pricing page lists ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 27001 certification, SOC 2 Type 2 and SOC 1 Type 2 attestation, and GDPR and CCPA compliance. |
| Deployment | Cube Cloud can run as a managed multi-tenant service on AWS or GCP, in a VPC on AWS, GCP, or Azure, or on a customer's cloud through BYOC. | Visual workflows deploy as production-ready code on the customer’s cloud data platform, including native Snowflake SQL workflows that run inside Snowflake. |
| Founded | 2019 | 2017 |
| Security | Cube states that data is encrypted at rest, API access uses token-based security, and application traffic is encrypted over SSL/TLS 1.2. | Prophecy says it works against data in place and keeps descriptive metadata; its trust page describes AES-256 encryption at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit. |
| Support | Cube lists community support for Free, limited chat and email for Starter, and chat and email plus a dedicated CSM for Enterprise. | Users without Support Portal access can use documentation, community resources, troubleshooting guides, and tutorials; free-version users are not eligible for Support Portal access. |
Plans
Prophecy
- StarterFree
- Professional$150 a month
- Enterprise Express$4,000 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
Cube
Cube is an analytics platform with a semantic layer that encodes governed business definitions for dashboards, embedded applications, and AI agents. Cube Cloud supports internal business intelligence and embedded analytics, while Cube Core is the open-source project alongside which the cloud platform is built. The Free plan includes a semantic layer IDE, workbooks, dashboard publishing, semantic model and workbook agents, and analytics chat. Listed data sources include PostgreSQL, Snowflake, ClickHouse, Databricks, BigQuery, MySQL, Oracle, Redshift, MongoDB, and Trino; integrations include dbt, Dagster, Prefect, Airflow, and Coalesce.io. Cube Core processes API requests using pre-aggregated data in Cube Store or raw data in connected databases. Cloud deployment options include a managed multi-tenant service on AWS or GCP, a VPC on AWS, GCP, or Azure, and a customer's cloud through BYOC. Cube lists a free plan, Starter at $40 a month per developer, and Premium at $80 a month per developer.