From Data to Insight in Just a Few Steps
Deliver astonishing analytics in your product in a 4 step process.
Power BI is great for internal dashboards.
It’s widely used by data teams for reporting and analysis inside organizations.
Toucan is built to embed.
When analytics need to live inside a SaaS product and be used by customers, Toucan focuses on delivering a native, white-labeled experience with faster setup and no constraints.
No per-user licenses. No complex cloud dependencies. Just embedded analytics designed for product teams who want to ship, iterate, and scale with confidence.
This comparison highlights how Toucan helps teams avoid licensing complexity, reduce infrastructure overhead, and deliver analytics that feel native to their product rather than adapted from internal dashboards.
Deliver astonishing analytics in your product in a 4 step process.
Connect
Compute
Visualize
Embed
Dozens of connectors
Native connectors for state of the art data warehouses and data bases on the market and a web service connector to connect to any API using Rest.
Built-in Storage
Store your metrics Toucan to reduce calls to your data stack. Automate refreshes and combine with live connection if you need the freshest data.
No-Code Data Preparation
Prepare your datasets without writing a single line of code, using YouPrep™ for data joins, filtering, aggregation, and more.
SQL expert? Create your own optimized and complex queries, you can jot down some SQL in our editor.
Comprehensive DataHub
Manage all your datasets in one place. Easily create, edit, duplicate, tag, retrieve and delete datasets.
Intuitive Dashboard Builder - Fully Customizable
Create stunning, user-friendly dashboards with our intuitive drag-and-drop interface.
Tailor every chart to your brand with customizable colors, layouts, and styles to match your brand.
Data Storytelling
Transform your charts into compelling stories, by enriching them with contextual text, tips, glossaries, medias and more.
Manage multiple languages to reach a global audience.
Effortless Product Integration
Embed your dashboards into your product with a few lines of code. Provide your users with real-time, interactive insights—right where they need them.
Security down to row-level
Ensure the right people see the right data with granular access controls, personalized views, and a built-in token management system that keeps users on your side without replication.
Connect
Dozens of connectors
Native connectors for state of the art data warehouses and data bases on the market and a web service connector to connect to any API using Rest.
Built-in Storage
Store your metrics Toucan to reduce calls to your data stack. Automate refreshes and combine with live connection if you need the freshest data.
Compute
No-Code Data Preparation
Prepare your datasets without writing a single line of code, using YouPrep™ for data joins, filtering, aggregation, and more.
SQL expert? Create your own optimized and complex queries, you can jot down some SQL in our editor.
Comprehensive DataHub
Manage all your datasets in one place. Easily create, edit, duplicate, tag, retrieve and delete datasets.
Visualize
Intuitive Dashboard Builder - Fully Customizable
Create stunning, user-friendly dashboards with our intuitive drag-and-drop interface.
Tailor every chart to your brand with customizable colors, layouts, and styles to match your brand.
Data Storytelling
Transform your charts into compelling stories, by enriching them with contextual text, tips, glossaries, medias and more.
Manage multiple languages to reach a global audience.
Embed
Effortless Product Integration
Embed your dashboards into your product with a few lines of code. Provide your users with real-time, interactive insights—right where they need them.
Security down to row-level
Ensure the right people see the right data with granular access controls, personalized views, and a built-in token management system that keeps users on your side without replication.
Turn your data into an engaging and accessible experience. Discover how Toucan can help you integrate interactive dashboards and enhance your analytics effortlessly.
Toucan and Power BI serve different purposes. Power BI is primarily designed for internal business intelligence and reporting within organizations. Toucan is built specifically for customer-facing embedded analytics, helping SaaS product teams deliver analytics that feel native to their application.
Power BI supports embedded analytics through Power BI Embedded, but it relies on Azure infrastructure, capacity-based pricing, and licensing models that can add complexity for SaaS products. Toucan focuses on simplifying embedded analytics with predictable deployment and product-first integration.
Toucan allows product teams to enable dashboard creation and customization for end users directly within the embedded experience. Power BI dashboard creation is mainly designed for analysts and internal users, with more limited options for embedded external users.
Both platforms offer AI-powered features. Toucan enables natural language queries that can be turned into charts, helping users explore data visually using plain language. Power BI provides AI features such as Q&A, Copilot, and automated insights within the Microsoft ecosystem.
Yes. Toucan is designed for multi-tenant SaaS environments, with built-in governance and access control patterns for external users. Power BI can support multi-tenant scenarios, but it often requires more complex Azure configuration and capacity management.
Yes. Toucan offers a free trial so you can explore its embedded analytics capabilities, customization options, and AI-powered features before committing.