Keboola
The governed data foundation finance teams deploy before AI.
By Keboola · HQ Prague, Czech Republic · 4.8/5 Value-Position score (estimate)
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Multi-entity finance teams consolidating 5-100+ ERPs, entities and currencies into one governed reporting layer
- PE, M&A and group CFO offices that need portfolio roll-ups and post-acquisition integration without rip-and-replace
- Franchise and multi-plant operations needing per-location P&L, cost and margin reporting
- Data teams that want AI agents and LLM assistants to query governed financial data with lineage
- Finance organisations that need audit trails, RBAC and EU/US data residency before deploying AI
Ideal size: Finance/data teams of 5-50 people · Scale-up or enterprise with 5+ entities and a data engineer or analytics lead
Not for
- Companies wanting an ERP or accounting system of record - Keboola sits on top of them
- Teams with no data engineering capacity to run and maintain pipelines
- Single-entity businesses with one ERP and simple reporting needs
- Buyers expecting fully self-serve published per-seat pricing; Enterprise is quote-based
- Real-time transactional workloads; the focus is analytical pipelines and reporting
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
~8 weeks to board-ready
~56 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
On request
Free tier with monthly compute minutes; paid usage via Time Credits billed at $0.14 per compute minute. Enterprise contracts scale with data volume, not seats.
Implementation Friction
2/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Value-Position score
out of 5 · model estimate
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
No seat-based tiers: Free plan plus quote-based Enterprise; pricing scales with data volume, not seats
Add-on costs
- Additional compute credits at $0.14 per minute, topped up from the project billing page
- Enterprise add-ons: private/VPC deployment, dedicated TAM, tailored CDC and streaming
Company & support
Who is behind Keboola, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- 2008 · 18 yrs in business
- Headquarters
- Prague, Czech Republic
How you get support
- PhoneNot listed
- EmailNot listed
- Live chatAll plans
- Support portal / ticketsAll plans
- Community forumNot listed
- Help centre / docsAll plans
- Dedicated account managerEnterprise only
- In person / on-siteNot listed
- Hours
- Not recorded
- Response time
- Not stated
Support is reached via the dialog inside your project, chat on the site, or the contact form. Enterprise tier includes a Dedicated Technical Account Manager (TAM). Public documentation and help centre are available.
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
Where Keboola sits against its closest alternatives. Pick any two of cost, speed, friction and buyer score, and up to 9 companies to compare.
Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
The lines cross at the median of the solutions shown, so about half sit on each side of each line.
Companies on the chart 6 / 10
- Keboola
- Everstage
- CaptivateIQ
- Choco
- GoodData
- Qobra
Add or change companies
Up to 10 companies including Keboola. Listed closest first.
Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
Ships an official MCP server. Connects to Claude Code, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT connectors and Cursor out of the box.
AI & MCP readiness
What Keboola ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
MCP Server turns natural-language prompts into governed pipelines, job debugging and documentation; finance AI agents monitor postings, budget drift and reconciliations around the clock. Security architecture lists anomaly detection under monitoring and audit.
Your data & models
- Trains on your data
- Not recorded — ask the vendor
- Runs on
- Anthropic
- AI pricing
- Billed by usage or credits
In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Official MCP server
- Model key
- Not recorded
- AI usage audit
- Not recorded
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
Keboola is a governed data foundation for finance teams: it connects 1,500+ sources including NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, Workday, QuickBooks and Salesforce, harmonises charts of accounts and currencies, and publishes board-ready reporting with lineage back to the journal entry. Keboola claims an 8-week path from connection to production, with FP&A and controlling agents, a business glossary and an MCP server for AI assistants. A free tier is available; Enterprise is quote-based and priced by data volume rather than seats.
Frequently asked questions
How quickly can we get to first value with Keboola?
Keboola positions an 8-week path: weeks 1-2 connecting ERPs, CRM, warehouse and spreadsheets; weeks 3-5 harmonising chart of accounts, currency conversion and intercompany eliminations; weeks 6-8 putting the first production use case live. A published franchise customer reported delivering its first use case in under 15 days. Keboola states the work needs 1-2 of your data engineers and no DevOps, and that systems are added to, not replaced.
What does Keboola cost?
There is a free plan with unlimited pipelines and 120 free compute minutes in month one and 60 minutes per month afterwards; extra compute is topped up at $0.14 per minute and credits never expire. Enterprise pricing is quote-based, and Keboola states that pricing scales with data volume rather than seats, on the basis that most finance teams replace one to two FTE-equivalents of manual reporting in year one.
Do we have to replace our ERP or data warehouse to use it?
No. Keboola is explicitly connect-and-govern rather than rip-and-replace: it sits on top of your ERPs (NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, Workday, QuickBooks), CRM and warehouse, with 1,500+ catalogued sources and an option to generate a custom integration from a prompt or have Keboola build one. You can also bring your own database so data stays in your own Snowflake or BigQuery account.
What security and compliance certifications does Keboola hold?
Keboola states SOC 2 Type II annual certification (available via its Trust Center), GDPR compliance since May 2018 with a DPA and Standard Contractual Clauses, CCPA support, and HIPAA with Business Associate Agreements as an Enterprise-tier feature. ISO 27001 is cited for its cloud infrastructure partners rather than for Keboola itself. Data at rest is AES-256 encrypted and in transit TLS 1.2+.
Can our AI assistants query Keboola data?
Yes. Keboola ships an open-source MCP Server that connects assistants such as Claude and Cursor to Keboola storage, transformations and jobs, so an agent can build or update pipelines, debug failed jobs, generate documentation and run data-quality checks. The server itself is free to enable, uses OAuth, does not store your data, and actions it performs are billed as standard Keboola usage.