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Querri vs Tellius

Tellius is built to explain why the numbers moved. Querri gets you there from the systems you already run.

Same idea: an analyst that works before you ask.

Tellius is a serious enterprise platform, strongest for pharma and consumer goods teams with a warehouse and an analytics team to model it. Querri is the question-first data platform. It starts from the questions your business asks and builds what's needed to answer them, from your business systems, on a price published on our site.

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Answers this week, a bill you can plan from day one, and no warehouse project first

Tellius and Querri share a big idea: an AI that watches the numbers and tells you what changed. The difference is what it takes to get there. Here's what that means for the business.

  1. Answers in days, not a deployment plan

    Tellius puts its own CPG rollout at 12 weeks. With Querri, you connect a system or upload a file and ask the same day.

  2. A bill you can plan from day one

    Both Tellius plans are priced by quote. Querri is one predictable bill: a monthly credit allowance tied to the work your team does, alerts before you reach it, and no automatic overage charges.

  3. No model to build before you ask

    Tellius answers from Business Views that someone builds, approves and keeps current. In Querri, the people who know the business teach the Library what the numbers mean, in plain language, as they go.

  4. Secure, auditable, nothing to rip out

    SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and ISO 27001:2022, and your data never trains a model. Every number shows its query, and if your data already sits in a warehouse, Querri connects to it.

Where each one fits

Pick by the team and the timeline you have

We'd rather you pick the right tool than pick us for the wrong reason. Here's where each one fits.

Choose Tellius when

  • You run commercial analytics at a pharma or consumer goods company and want ready-made agents for prescriptions, payer access, trade promotion or category growth.
  • Your data already lives in a cloud warehouse, with syndicated sources such as IQVIA, Veeva, Nielsen or Circana, and you want queries to run live where it sits.
  • Automated root cause analysis is the job: ranking every driver of a change across dimensions, periods and segments.
  • You want finished deliverables, such as decks on your corporate template, PDFs and memos, delivered on a schedule or when a KPI breaks pattern.
  • You have an analytics team to approve the model and the Missions, and you need customer-cloud or on-premises deployment.

Choose Querri when

  • Your data lives in business systems (CRM, accounting, ERP, payments, spreadsheets) and the hard part is joining them.
  • You want answers this week, without a warehouse or a modeling project first.
  • You want a bill you can plan and a free plan to start, not a quote before you can see the number.
  • The people who know what the numbers mean aren't data engineers, and should be able to teach definitions in plain language.
  • You want nightly insights, Monitors, dashboards, reports, data cleaning and MCP for Claude and ChatGPT in one product, in any industry.

Feature by feature

The detailed comparison

Every row says where each one is stronger. Where Tellius wins, we say so. Facts are current as of October 2026 and linked in the sources.

What matters Querri Tellius Stronger
Cost and people
How you pay One predictable plan for the whole organization, with a shared monthly credit allowance. A credit is a unit of business work, like a question answered, so usage is easy to plan. AI and unlimited dashboard viewers are included. See plans. Two plans, both "Customized": Premium for up to 10 users and Enterprise with unlimited users. Prices come from sales, with volume discounts and term commitments. Querri
When you use more than you planned Usage alerts at 80% and over the plan, monthly limits per person, and no automatic overage charges. Premium caps live queries at 50M rows, data storage at 10 GB, and Feeds at "Limited." Going past them means moving to Enterprise. Querri
Who runs it A data owner who knows the business, like an ops, RevOps or finance lead. An analytics team to approve Business Views, design Missions and run the rollout. Professional services are available. Querri
Time to the first answer Connect a source or upload a file and ask the same day. Tellius says four to six weeks to production next to an existing warehouse, and its CPG plan runs 12 weeks. Tellius 6.3 says a new user can go from login to a grounded Kaiya conversation in about ten minutes. Querri
Getting your data in
Business systems 125+ connectors, including HubSpot, Salesforce, QuickBooks, NetSuite, Stripe and Shopify. The Connector Agent sets up new REST sources. Warehouses, databases, Salesforce, files and cloud storage. Tellius also lists SAP, NetSuite, Anaplan and Workday for finance. We didn't find HubSpot, QuickBooks, Stripe or Shopify in its connector docs. Querri
Industry data sources Connect the systems and files you have. No pre-built pharma or CPG data models. Connects to IQVIA, Symphony Health, Veeva, MMIT, Nielsen, Circana and retailer data, with pre-built pharma and CPG definitions. Genuinely deep. Tellius
Where the data lives Querri syncs a copy into its own storage on the schedule you set, hourly to monthly, and answers from that copy. Live pushdown queries to your warehouse, or Tellius's in-memory engine. Enterprise can run in your own cloud or on premises. Tellius
Documents and call notes Tables from your systems and files, plus PDFs, Word files and images in the Library, read for the definitions and rules they contain. Querri doesn't search call transcripts alongside the data in one question. Kaiya asks across structured data and documents, such as PDFs, call transcripts and CRM notes, in one question. Tellius
Data quality and meaning
Data cleaning Automatic data cleaning: the Data Audit runs more than 180 checks on every table as it arrives, and the Janitor cleans a table with you. Every fix is a view you can inspect. No-code data prep, Python and SQL transforms, and automated data quality checks. Kaiya Architect profiles nulls and value distributions while it models. Querri
Business definitions The Library: say what a number means once, in plain language, and every answer, dashboard and AI assistant uses it. Setup starts with your business questions. Kaiya Architect drafts a Business View from your warehouse, databases or files, checks the joins, and waits for a person to approve. Kaiya Skills save how your best analyst works. Querri
When a question is ambiguous Querri tells you when a question has more than one reasonable reading, and which one it used. On ambiguous benchmark questions, it flagged the other reading 73% of the time, against 12% for Claude Code. Kaiya answers from the selected Business View and asks for missing periods or measures on "why" questions. Querri
AI and answers
Asking in plain language Ask on every plan, from Free, with forecasts and statistics when the question needs them. Kaiya Agent Mode plans and runs multi-step analyses in SQL and Python: variance, cohorts, anomalies, forecasts and what-if. Even
Explaining why a number moved Ask why, and Querri works through the data. Monitors show which store, rep or region moved, not just the total. Tellius's specialty. A "why" question runs an automated Insight that ranks the key contributors and root-cause drivers of a change. Tellius
Answers you can stand behind Checks the data for gaps and duplicates before it queries, works the answer out two independent ways, checks every number in the summary and shows the query. "LLMs handle language, governed engines handle math," so the same question gets the same answer, traced back to the Business View. Even
Proactive insights Nightly insights work through your Library every night and leave what changed in your Inbox. Nothing changes without your OK. Kaiya Missions run on a schedule or when a KPI breaks pattern and deliver finished briefings to email, Slack or Teams. Feeds track metrics with ARIMA forecasts. Further along than ours on finished deliverables. Even
Claude, ChatGPT and MCP Connect Claude or ChatGPT on any plan. Dashboards and charts appear inside the chat, under each person's own access. An MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, Kaiya in Slack, Teams and the browser, and since 6.4 an MCP client that writes back only after approval. Even
Dashboards and reports
Building dashboards Build or change a dashboard by asking, or paste a screenshot of one you use today and get it back on your own data. Search-driven charts and Vizpads, and a browser extension that answers "why" beside Power BI, Tableau or Qlik dashboards. Querri
Who can view Unlimited dashboard viewers on every plan, including Free. Up to 10 users on Premium; unlimited users on Enterprise. Querri
Finished reports and decks Scheduled projects, formatted Excel workbooks and Wrapped slide decks, delivered on a schedule. Board-ready PowerPoint on your corporate template, PDFs, Word memos and Excel models, timed to arrive before the meeting. Tellius
Analytics in your own product White label and embed on Scale. Each customer sees only their rows. Embedding and white labeling on Enterprise, including embedded search, Insights and Vizpads. Even
Security and deployment
Certifications SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and ISO 27001:2022. Your data is never used to train any model. SOC 2 Type II, announced in 2023. Querri
Identity and access Workspaces, roles and an audit log, with SSO and row-level access policies on Scale that apply in chat, dashboards and MCP alike. SAML single sign-on on Enterprise, row-level security, and writes that run under each user's own permissions. Even
Where it runs Querri's cloud. Each organization has its own database and storage. Tellius Cloud, or on Enterprise, your own cloud or on premises. Also available on the Snowflake Marketplace. Tellius

Tellius doesn't publish prices. Plan limits are from Tellius's pricing page as of October 15, 2026; timelines and capabilities are from Tellius's own site and documentation.

Pricing

A quote is predictable once you have it

Tellius prices both of its plans by quote, so the number comes from a sales conversation, a contract and often a services scope. Once signed, an annual contract is a known cost. The catch is everything around it: the warehouse its live queries run on, the plan limits on Premium, and the team that builds and keeps the model current.

How Tellius is priced

  • Two plans, both "Customized": Premium for up to 10 users, and Enterprise with unlimited users.
  • Premium includes up to 50M rows in live mode, 10 GB of data storage, "Limited" Feeds and 5 concurrent AutoML and pipeline jobs.
  • SAML single sign-on, APIs, embedding and white labeling, and customer-cloud or on-premises deployment are Enterprise features.
  • Tellius describes its pricing as capacity-based, with no per-user fees, and says "Volume discounts and term commitments are available."
  • Live queries push down to your warehouse, so they run on warehouse compute you pay for separately.
  • A 30-day free trial, with professional services available for the rollout.

When an enterprise contract is the better deal

If you're a pharma or consumer goods commercial team with a modeled warehouse, syndicated data and dozens of people who need a finished brief every Monday, a Tellius contract can be very good value: the industry definitions and missions are already built, and one annual number covers it. Bayer, by Tellius's account, runs 12 certified Missions in production. If that's your team, the guides below are where to start.

What to plan for on the Tellius path

  • Four to six weeks, by Tellius's own estimate

    Tellius says it is production-ready in four to six weeks next to an existing Tableau, Power BI or Snowflake stack, with "First value delivered in days" once Kaiya Architect builds the model.

    Tellius (vendor site summary)

  • "Full deployment by week 12"

    Tellius's own CPG plan: data integration in weeks 1 to 3, semantic layer configuration in weeks 4 to 6, user training in weeks 7 to 9, and production in weeks 10 to 12.

    Tellius (vendor)

  • The answer is only as good as the model

    From Tellius's 6.4 release: "A traced number is only worth tracing if the Business View behind it was modeled right." Someone has to own that model as the data changes.

    Tellius (vendor), Sep 2026

  • The 10,000-row envelope

    Tellius's Mission guidance says agentic runs fetch up to 10,000 rows per query, and advises: "Design for the 10,000-row envelope." Aggregate early, and drill down in a follow-up Mission.

    Tellius docs

  • Priced for the enterprise

    A G2 reviewer at a 51 to 1,000 person company: the pricing "might not be suitable for small businesses or startups, as it caters more to enterprise-level users."

    G2, Nov 2023

Choosing Tellius? Start with the model.

If Tellius is the right call for you, these are its own guides to getting the model, the questions and the Missions right.

How Querri keeps the bill predictable

  • One bill, no surprises. One plan for the whole organization, with the AI, storage and unlimited dashboard viewers included. See plans and pricing.
  • One simple credit. A credit is a unit of business work, like answering a question or syncing a source, so usage is easy to understand and easy to plan for.
  • Unlimited dashboard viewers on every plan. Viewing, uploads, exports and the Library never cost credits.
  • Usage alerts at 80% of the plan, when it's over and on a spike, plus a monthly limit for any person.
  • No automatic overage charges. We tell you as you approach your limit, and you decide what happens next.
  • No warehouse to run underneath. Storage, the engine and the AI are in the plan.

Total cost

What it takes to get the first answer

Tellius is built to sit on top of data that's already been gathered and modeled. Before a business user gets a trusted answer, someone does that work. Here's the typical Tellius path, next to Querri.

Layer Tellius path Querri
Warehouse Usually an existing Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery or Redshift account. Vendr's median Snowflake contract alone is about $100,000 a year Not needed. Querri stores and queries its own copy
Data in Pipelines into the warehouse, plus syndicated feeds such as IQVIA or Nielsen where you use them 125+ connectors and file uploads, set up by the Connector Agent
Model Business Views drafted by Kaiya Architect, approved and kept current by your team The Library, taught in plain language
License Premium or Enterprise, priced by quote One predictable plan. See plans
Deployment Four to six weeks by Tellius's estimate, 12 weeks in its CPG plan, with services available Self-service. Ask the same day
Dashboards Vizpads, or your existing BI tool with Tellius's browser extension Dashboards included, with unlimited viewers
People An analytics team to own the model, the Missions and the rollout A data owner who knows the business
Per year, roughly A Tellius quote, plus the warehouse and the analytics team behind it One predictable plan with AI, storage, dashboards and unlimited viewers included. See plans

Tellius doesn't publish prices, so we haven't estimated its license. The warehouse figure is Vendr's contract data and the timelines are Tellius's own, not a quote. If you already run the warehouse and the team, those are costs you've already chosen.

Built in, not assembled

Everything between your data and the answer, in one product

Tellius is built to sit on a warehouse someone else fills and models. In Querri, getting the data in, cleaning it and defining it are part of the same chain: new data rebuilds the views on it, KPIs recompute and every dashboard refresh replays its saved query, so any number traces back to its source.

The Querri Library: collections of data with the questions asked of them and the views built to answer them
The Library: your data, what it means, and the questions it already answers.

125+ connectors

CRM, accounting, ERP, payments, ads and databases, plus spreadsheets and files.

Automatic data cleaning

More than 180 checks on every table, and the Janitor to fix what they find.

The Library

A business-first semantic layer: definitions, KPIs and rules, taught by saying them.

Dashboards

Built by asking or from a screenshot, shared with unlimited viewers.

Nightly insights and Monitors

Querri works through your data overnight and shows what changed.

MCP for Claude and ChatGPT

Every assistant answers from the same definitions, under each person's access.

Reports and Excel

Scheduled projects, formatted workbooks and decks, delivered for you.

White label and embed

Bring the same understanding inside your own product, under your brand.

Using both

How Tellius and Querri work together

Plenty of teams could run both. A central analytics team might keep Tellius for industry analysis on the warehouse, while operations, finance and RevOps teams use Querri for the business systems that never made it into the model. Querri doesn't connect to Tellius itself; the two can read the same warehouse.

Keep in Tellius

  • Pharma and CPG analysis on syndicated data
  • Root cause analysis on the modeled warehouse
  • Missions that deliver decks before the meeting
  • Questions across documents and call notes

Do in Querri

  • Questions across HubSpot, QuickBooks, Stripe and other business systems
  • Definitions the business owns, in plain language
  • Dashboards for everyone, with unlimited viewers
  • Nightly insights for teams outside the analytics group

How they fit together

  1. Querri connects to Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery and Redshift, so it can sync the same modeled tables Tellius reads, using a read-only connection to the tables you choose.

  2. Querri syncs a copy on the schedule you set, from hourly to monthly, rather than querying live. Only the sync touches your warehouse.

  3. Both run MCP servers, so Claude or ChatGPT can reach each one under that person's own access.

  4. Querri never writes back to your sources, and your data is never used to train any model.

See Querri's connectors

FAQ

Questions people ask when comparing Querri and Tellius

How much does Tellius cost?

Tellius doesn't publish prices. It lists two plans, both "Customized": Premium for up to 10 users and Enterprise with unlimited users, with volume discounts and term commitments available and a 30-day free trial. Querri starts free and runs on one predictable plan; see current plans.

What is Tellius?

Tellius is an agentic analytics platform. Its AI analyst, Kaiya, answers questions, runs multi-step analyses in SQL and Python, explains why a metric changed, and through Kaiya Missions delivers finished briefings on a schedule. Its customers are concentrated in pharma and consumer goods, and Tellius reports five straight years as a Visionary in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Analytics and BI Platforms.

What is Tellius Kaiya?

Kaiya is Tellius's AI analyst. It answers plain-language questions against a Business View, turns "why" questions into automated root cause analysis, runs multi-step Agent Mode analyses, and works in Slack, Teams, the browser and through MCP. Kaiya Missions are scheduled or triggered jobs that deliver decks, PDFs and memos.

How long does Tellius take to implement?

Tellius says four to six weeks to production next to an existing warehouse, and its CPG deployment plan runs 12 weeks, from data integration through training to full rollout. The time depends on how ready your data is. With Querri, you connect a system or upload a file and ask the same day.

Does Tellius need a data warehouse?

Not strictly. Tellius can load files and databases into its own engine, and Kaiya Architect can model from uploaded files. Its live queries, its industry data and most of its positioning assume a cloud warehouse such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery or Redshift. Querri doesn't need one: it stores and queries its own copy of your data.

Is Tellius only for pharma companies?

No. Tellius also targets consumer goods, healthcare, financial services, software and FP&A teams, and its agent library includes RevOps and finance missions. Its deepest work is in pharma and CPG, with connectors to IQVIA, Veeva, Nielsen and Circana and named customers such as Novo Nordisk, Bayer and PepsiCo. Querri isn't built for any one industry.

Is Tellius good for small businesses?

Tellius is built and priced for enterprise teams. Premium covers up to 10 users, prices come by quote, and a G2 reviewer wrote that its pricing "might not be suitable for small businesses or startups." Querri starts free, runs on one predictable plan and includes unlimited dashboard viewers.

Tellius vs Querri: which is better at explaining why a number changed?

Tellius has made automated root cause analysis its specialty: a "why" question ranks the drivers of a change across dimensions and segments, and it's further along than Querri on finished briefings. Querri works out why a number moved when you ask, and its Monitors show which store, rep or region moved. If driver analysis on a modeled warehouse is the whole job, Tellius is strong.

How do Kaiya Missions compare to Querri's Nightly insights?

Both work before anyone asks. Kaiya Missions run a defined analysis on a schedule or when a KPI breaks pattern and deliver a finished deck or memo. Querri's Nightly insights work through your Library every night, check your rules against the data and leave what's new in your Inbox, and nothing changes without a person's OK.

Does Tellius work with Claude and ChatGPT?

Yes. Tellius runs an MCP server that Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor can call, and since 6.4 Kaiya is also an MCP client that can write back to connected systems after a person approves. Querri connects to Claude and ChatGPT on every plan, including Free, and its dashboards and charts appear inside the chat under each person's access.

Can Tellius connect to HubSpot or QuickBooks?

We didn't find HubSpot, QuickBooks, Stripe or Shopify in Tellius's connector documentation. It lists warehouses, databases, Salesforce, files and cloud storage, and its site names SAP, NetSuite, Anaplan and Workday for finance. Querri has 125+ connectors, including HubSpot, QuickBooks, NetSuite, Stripe and Shopify.

What's the best Tellius alternative for a team without a data warehouse?

One that brings in the business systems directly instead of starting from a modeled warehouse. Querri connects your systems, cleans the data automatically, learns your definitions in plain language and works through the data every night, on one predictable plan. You can start on the free plan.

Can I try Tellius and Querri for free?

Tellius offers a 30-day free trial. Querri has a free plan with no credit card. Or bring your hardest question to a 20-minute walkthrough.

Sources

Where these facts come from

Checked October 15, 2026. Tellius updates its product and plans often; if something here is out of date, tell us and we'll fix it.

  1. Tellius pricing (plans, limits, Enterprise features, 30-day trial) Tellius (vendor)
  2. Tellius homepage (industries, customers) Tellius (vendor)
  3. Tellius site summary (deployment estimate, connectors, pricing model, Bayer Missions) Tellius (vendor site summary)
  4. AI analytics for CPG (12-week deployment plan) Tellius (vendor)
  5. AI agents and Kaiya Missions Tellius (vendor)
  6. Tellius 6.4: MCP client, approved writes, Kaiya Architect Tellius (vendor), Sep 2026
  7. Tellius 6.3: Kaiya Everywhere, Kaiya Skills, Day 1 onboarding Tellius (vendor), Jun 2026
  8. Tellius 6.2: Kaiya Architect Tellius (vendor), 2026
  9. Tellius launches Agent Mode PR Newswire (Tellius release), Oct 2025
  10. Tellius a 5x Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant Tellius (vendor), Jun 2026
  11. Tellius announces SOC 2 Type II certification Tellius (vendor), Aug 2023
  12. Create a new data source (connector list) Tellius docs
  13. Kaiya Architect: creating a new Business View workflow Tellius docs
  14. Create a new Business View Tellius docs
  15. Best practices: data Tellius docs
  16. Triggering Insights with "why" questions Tellius docs
  17. Understanding the types of Insights Tellius docs
  18. Kaiya Missions best practices Tellius docs
  19. What is a Feed in Tellius Tellius docs
  20. Tellius reviews G2, Nov 2023
  21. Snowflake contract data (median contract) Vendr
  22. Querri pricing Querri
  23. Predictable credit use Querri docs

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