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Tellius
Agentic and augmented analytics platform for governed natural-language search, automated root-cause insights, and decision workflows on enterprise data.
Mid-market and enterprise analytics teams that need automated driver analysis, NLQ, and agentic workflows on curated metrics and do not want to start from blank notebooks.
Teams that want transparent self-serve seat pricing like Hex, or classical drag-and-drop prep depth as the primary job.
Verdict
Tellius fits organizations that want AI to investigate why metrics moved and to push guided insights to business users without rebuilding every dashboard by hand. Pricing is Custom on Premium and Enterprise with no published list rates, so you will need a sales cycle before you can budget precisely. Practitioners like the root-cause and narrative layers; setup of the semantic model and sales-gated evaluation are the usual friction versus product-led notebook tools.
Score Breakdown
How Tellius scores in the categories that matter to its buyers.
Pricing
Tellius publishes Premium and Enterprise plan names on tellius.com/pricing but does not list dollar amounts. Both tiers are sales-quoted; Premium is positioned for mid-size teams with row and user caps, and Enterprise adds AutoML, SSO, APIs, embedding, and flexible deployment.
Model: Premium (capped users/data, Tellius Cloud) and Enterprise (unlimited scale, AutoML, SSO, APIs, customer cloud or on-prem). No public USD rate card as of September 2026; third-party per-user guesses are not treated as list prices here.
The Field at a Glance
Where Tellius ranks among Analytics & decision automation vendors we reviewed, by Overall Score and relative typical engagement cost.
Tellius scores 6.9, behind Hex (8.2), Dataiku (7.4), and Alteryx (7.1) in this analytics peer set. Relative cost falls between Hex seat packaging and denser enterprise quotes from Alteryx and Dataiku.
Use-case matrix
| Use case | Fit | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Automated root-cause / driver analysis | Strong | Root-cause analysis is Tellius' core product. |
| Governed NLQ for business users | Strong | Semantic layer plus Kaiya agentic flows. |
| Collaborative SQL/Python notebooks | Mixed | Possible; Hex still sharper for notebook-first teams. |
| Classic visual data prep at Alteryx depth | Weak | Tellius is not built around visual data prep. |
Review Excerpts
Representative buyer views drawn from public information about Tellius. Paid reviews and pay-for-play sites were excluded.
“Business users ask questions in plain language and get driver analysis without writing queries.”
Representative buyer view
“We pointed it at our governed semantic layer so answers match the numbers finance reports.”
Representative buyer view
“Packaging is Premium and Enterprise only, both quoted, so we could not price a small pilot up front.”
Representative buyer view
Where customer reviews couldn't be found, our analysts attempted to give a voice to buyer sentiment, drawing on real information from review sites, forums, and product documentation.
Based on: Tellius’ website
Company Facts
- Founded
- 2015 (CB Insights)
- Headquarters
- Herndon, Virginia, United States (CB Insights)
- Total funding raised
- $34.85M (CB Insights)
- Key investors
- Sands Capital, Veraz Investments, Grotech Ventures, Sands Capital Ventures, Baird Capital (CB Insights)
- Customers
- Novo Nordisk, PepsiCo and eBay (CB Insights)
- Website
- tellius.com
Key Leadership
Ajay Khanna
Founder and CEO
Methodology
This page is an independent evaluation of Tellius for buyers comparing options in analytics & decision automation. AI Industry Reviews accepts no sponsorships, advertising, or pay-for-placement fees. Tellius did not pay for this review.
What we scored
The headline number is an Overall Score on a 0-10 scale. Eight criteria fall under it in two groups.
- Buyer outcomes (for analytics & decision automation)
- Automated insights & NLQ
- Decision & analytic workflows
- Governance & semantic layer
- Time-to-value / learning curve
- Company & commercial
- Innovation & product leadership
- Project management & communication
- Pricing
- Contract fairness
Pricing measures whether the price looks fair for the value delivered, including packaging and renewal friction that show up in real buying cycles.
Score Composition
| Input | Weight | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Reviews | 40% | A proprietary read of what practitioners say about likes, complaints, and day-to-day use, including public review sites, forums, and private chat rooms. Paid reviews and pay-for-play sites are out of scope. |
| Product | 35% | Hands-on look at screens and workflows. |
| Pricing | 15% | Whether the price looks fair for what you get. |
| Docs & training | 10% | Docs, tutorials, and training material. |
How we balanced the evidence
The Overall Score is the simple average of the eight criteria. Recommendation language follows that score and the use-case matrix above.
Scope
Tellius is graded here as analytics & decision automation. Criteria scores can move as more review volume and product checks are added.