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 "id": "datarails",
 "name": "Datarails",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "datarails.com",
 "category": "Financial Operations",
 "task": "Something else",
 "summary": "Excel-native FP&A platform for finance teams. Consolidation, planning, reporting and dashboards built on top of the spreadsheets you already use, with governed data behind them.",
 "best_for": "Excel-bound finance teams that have outgrown the spreadsheet plumbing but not the spreadsheets — consolidating several entities or data sources into one governed set of numbers, with planning, reporting and dashboards on top, while the models stay in Excel",
 "skip_if": "you are a single-entity company whose budget lives in one workbook, or a team of two that just needs a dashboard — the quote-only sales motion and the tier caps cost more in elapsed time than the problem is worth at that size",
 "honest_knock": "You cannot find out what it costs without talking to sales, and the entry plan is smaller than it looks: Professional covers 2 users and 1 integration, so a finance team of three, or one that needs both the ERP and the CRM connected, is priced into the next tier before the conversation starts. There is no free plan, no free trial and no self-serve signup anywhere on the site — every path ends at Request Demo — so there is no way to try it quietly before procurement is involved.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "quote_only",
  "entry_price": null,
  "entry_price_terms": null,
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": [
   {
    "name": "Professional",
    "price": "no published price",
    "includes": "1 integration and 2 users with standard support"
   },
   {
    "name": "Premium",
    "price": "no published price",
    "includes": "2 integrations and 5 users, premium support, adds AI Storyboards"
   },
   {
    "name": "Expert",
    "price": "no published price",
    "includes": "3 integrations and 15 users, premium support, plus one additional product included"
   }
  ],
  "plans_source": "summarised from pricing.notes; every plan name and amount appears verbatim in those notes",
  "notes": "(read 2026-08-25 on www.datarails.com/pricing) There is no public price. Datarails publishes three plans — Professional, Premium and Expert — and every one of them carries a Request Quote button where the number would be. The page frames that as a feature: “Get a custom quote tailored to your needs. Complete cost transparency, with no consultant fees—ever.”\n\nWhat the page does publish is the shape of the ladder, and it is unusually explicit about what changes between tiers. The comparison table lists the same feature set on all three plans: reporting, planning, dashboards, Data Mapper, Lookups, Workflows, Submit Button, File Boxes, Filters, version control, the Datarails AI Suite, the FinanceOS AI Connector and permissions. Only two rows differ. Professional gives 1 integration and 2 users with standard support. Premium, marked most popular, gives 2 integrations and 5 users with premium support, and adds AI Storyboards, described as board decks in one click. Expert gives 3 integrations and 15 users with premium support, plus one “additional product included” — the line beyond FP&A runs to Datarails Month-End Close, Datarails Cash, Datarails Spend Control and Datarails Desk, and the page does not say which of those the extra slot may be spent on.\n\nSo the meter is seats and connected systems, not features. The page states no currency, no billing period, no minimum term and does not say whether a quote is annual, and there is no free plan, no free trial and no self-serve signup: the only entry point on every page of the site is Request Demo or Request Quote. Treat any Datarails figure you have seen quoted elsewhere as unverified — on 25 August 2026 the vendor's own pricing page contains no amount at all.\n\nOne of those unpublished terms the vendor will answer if you ask. On 31 August 2026, through its partner team, Datarails told us that customers typically commit to an annual term, that billing can run monthly across that year, that users can be added as a team grows, and that adding modules or capabilities beyond the core platform can carry an extra cost that depends on the scope of the expansion. That is the vendor's own account rather than a published rate, so it belongs in your quote in writing — but it does answer the term question the pricing page leaves open.",
  "verified_at": "2026-08-25",
  "source_url": "https://www.datarails.com/pricing/"
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "quote_only",
   "label": "Quote-only pricing",
   "evidence": "No published price: Professional, Premium and Expert all route to a Request Quote button, no amount on the page (read 25 Aug 2026)",
   "verified_at": "2026-08-25",
   "source_url": "https://www.datarails.com/pricing/"
  },
  {
   "id": "addons_extra",
   "label": "Key features are paid add-ons",
   "evidence": "On 31 August 2026, through its partner team, Datarails told us that customers typically commit to an annual term, that billing can run monthly across that year, that users can be added as a team grows, and that adding modules or capabilities beyond the core platform can carry an extra cost that depends on the scope of the expansion.",
   "verified_at": "2026-08-25",
   "source_url": "https://www.datarails.com/pricing/"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Cube or Vena",
  "why": "the honest comparison is against the other Excel-native FP&A platforms rather than against Excel itself; what is distinctive here is that every tier carries the same feature set — consolidation, planning, dashboards, the AI suite and the connector — so the ladder buys seats, integrations and, at the top, a second product from the wider line rather than capabilities"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/datarails.json",
  "review": "https://officesoftwaremarketplace.com/datarails-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/datarails/",
  "vendor_site": "https://datarails.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://datarails.partnerlinks.io/jfaezjgqrnua",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Pricing status is 'quote_only': no single public entry price.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "datarails:public_price",
   "key": "public_price",
   "question": "Can you publish a price, or a starting price, for the plans that are quote-only?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "datarails:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "datarails:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "datarails:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "datarails:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
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}