Qlik Sense

Qlik Cloud Analytics currently operates on a subscription model with capacity-based pricing, including custom enterprise plans, and uses “Data for Analysis” capacity as its primary value metric rather than relying primarily on the number of users. It is available in four tiers: Starter, Standard, Premium, and Enterprise. Published prices start at $300 per month for the Starter plan when billed annually, $825 per month for the Standard plan, and $2,750 per month for the Premium plan, while the Enterprise plan is based on a custom quote. As for Qlik Sense Client-Managed, Qlik does not publish a fixed price and requests that you contact the sales team. Qlik does not currently offer a permanent, standalone free plan among its four Qlik Cloud Analytics plans, but it does offer the option to start a free trial to explore Qlik Sense, according to the official website. The Starter plan is not free and starts at $300 per month when billed annually, It includes 10 users and 10 GB of Data for Analysis according to the current pricing page, along with Qlik Community Support and a standard application size limit of 5 GB. The Starter plan starts at $300/month with annual billing; it is designed for small businesses and includes 10 users and 10 GB of Data for Analysis, AI-powered analytics, access to Qlik Answers Agents and MCP Server, connectivity to hundreds of data sources via standard connectors, interactive dashboards and visualizations, data migration to Qlik Cloud Analytics via Qlik Talend Cloud for relational and SaaS sources, sharing and collaboration, automated report generation and distribution, and the No-code Automation Builder, with a 5 GB application size limit. Additional users are available for purchase, but no additional data capacity can be purchased for this plan. The Standard plan starts at $825/month billed annually and includes 25 GB of Data for Analysis, with the option to purchase additional capacity in 25 GB increments, It includes all Starter capabilities, with no additional cost for extra users, plus the use of unstructured data and GenAI, access to additional Qlik Answers Agents, managed and shared spaces, additional Qlik Talend Cloud sources—including the cloud, SAP, mainframe, and legacy systems—enhanced and advanced analytics, and 24/7 first-level support. The Premium plan starts at $2,750/month billed annually, and starts with 50 GB of Data for Analysis, with the option to purchase additional capacity in increments of 25 GB or 250 GB. It includes all Standard capabilities, plus predictive analytics using automated machine learning via Qlik Predict, additional capacity for generative AI, additional Answers agents, anonymous/public access, data extraction from SAP to Qlik Cloud, Data Lineage connectors, a 10 GB application size limit, and Guided Customer Success Onboarding. The Enterprise plan is available via a custom quote, starts with 250 GB of Data for Analysis, and includes Premium capabilities with a broader scope for enterprise deployment, as well as larger quotas for Reporting, Automations, Public Access, AI Assistant, machine learning models, and dataset sizes, standard applications of 15 GB, support for larger applications up to 40 GB, the ability to purchase additional capacity allowing for up to 50 GB per application, multi-region tenants, and a customer success plan with custom onboarding. Qlik’s official comparison shows that the Starter, Standard, Premium, and Enterprise plans all include Qlik Answers and MCP Server, with differences in the number of included questions and knowledge base page capacity, while Qlik Predict and deployable models are available in the Premium and Enterprise plans, The number of included questions for Answers and MCP is 25 in Starter, 200 in Standard, and 1,000 in Premium and Enterprise; indexed knowledge base pages are also available in Standard, Premium, and Enterprise with varying capacities. As for automation, the plans include different quotas for Standard Automations and third-party app automations; the official comparison lists 50,000 Standard Automations in Starter, 100,000 Standard Automations with 100 third-party automations in Standard, 200,000 with 1,000 third-party automations in Premium, and 400,000 with 5,000 third-party automations in Enterprise. App limits and reload limits also vary: the standard app size limit is 5 GB in Starter and Standard, 10 GB in Premium, and 15 GB in Enterprise, while the daily limit for scheduled reloads per app is 48 in Starter and Standard and 192 in Premium and Enterprise. As for Qlik Sense Client-Managed, Qlik states that pricing is not publicly available and that customers must contact the company for a custom quote. Additionally, Qlik Sense Enterprise SaaS and Qlik Sense Business follow a user-based subscription model, whereas the newer Qlik Cloud Analytics is based on a capacity model.