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Domo vs Microsoft Power BI

Domo and Microsoft Power BI are both business intelligence software. Domo is a commercial product from Domo, Inc. Microsoft Power BI is a commercial product from Microsoft.

Which to pick

Pick Domo when
An executive team wants dashboards across many SaaS sources without a dedicated data warehouse team.
Pick Microsoft Power BI when
An organisation on Microsoft 365 wants low-cost BI that Excel users can pick up.

Side by side

What it does

Cloud BI platform with data connectors, ETL, dashboards and app building, aimed at business users.

Microsoft's BI tool for modelling data, building reports and dashboards, and sharing them through Microsoft 365 and Fabric.

Watch out

Consumption-based pricing is hard to predict, and the company has had financial pressure.

The desktop authoring tool is Windows-only, and capacity licensing through Fabric can get confusing.

Ready for

Production-ready (both)

Runs as

Cloud service and mobile app

Desktop app and cloud service

Built with

Not published

DAX and Power Query

Source code

Closed source, sold by Domo, Inc.

Closed source, sold by Microsoft

What the license allows

Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code. (both)

How widely known

353 Wikipedia readers a month on phones

2.5k Wikipedia readers a month on phones

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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.