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Sigma
Sigma is a cloud analytics platform for querying warehouse data, building dashboards and apps, and deploying AI agents.
Sigma connects directly to cloud data warehouses for analysis, dashboards, reports, embedded analytics, data models, and AI-powered applications. Users can work with spreadsheets, SQL, Python, natural-language queries, and agents in one workspace.
It is used by finance, operations, analytics, and data teams to explore live data, model scenarios, automate workflows, and embed analytics in products. Sigma offers a free trial, while subscription pricing and credit costs are handled through sales.
Features
- Query live warehouse data without extracts
- Build dashboards, reports, and spreadsheet-style workbooks
- Create governed data models and reusable metrics
- Use natural-language queries with Sigma Assistant
- Create AI columns to classify, extract, and summarize data
- Deploy agents that trigger workflows and external actions
- Embed white-label analytics with React SDK and SSO
- Use REST API access and the Sigma CLI
Use cases
- Analyze finance and operational data from a cloud warehouse
- Build live dashboards and pixel-perfect reports
- Model budgets, forecasts, pricing, or compensation scenarios
- Create AI apps that write back to warehouse data
- Automate alerts and actions across business systems
- Embed analytics and self-service data tools in a product
Pros
Cons
Latest updates
- Assistant in workbooks: new build mode capabilities
Sigma Assistant in build mode supports treemap charts, dynamic chips, and Move column and Swap column actions on pivot tables.
- Assistant in workbooks: governed metric timelines in KPIs
Sigma Assistant applies a governed metric’s configured timeline, precision, and comparison period when building a KPI from that metric.
- Anthropic as an AI provider (GA)
Add an Anthropic API key to use models from Anthropic with Sigma AI features.
- Assistant in build mode: new capabilities
Assistant in build mode supports dynamic layouts, page duplication, background images, waterfall charts, progress bars and rings, and layout settings.
- Assistant in build mode: reuse data model metrics
Sigma Assistant in build mode preserves data model sources you attach and reuses their metrics instead of recreating tables and calculations.
Capabilities
- Ask in plain language — “Agents answer everyday data questions in plain language from your governed warehouse, so analysts stop fielding the same requests every week.” source
- Charts and dashboards — “Start with a question and end with a dashboard, a report, an app, or an agent, all on the same governed data.” source
- Connects to your data — “Plug in your warehouse and AI models.” source
- Spreadsheets — “Enter, edit, and submit in a familiar spreadsheet grid” source
- Python and notebooks — “Run Python on submitted rows without leaving the workbook” source
- Builds models — “Input Tables help the team build predictive models and run scenario planning in Sigma.” source
- Real-time data — “Query live data with no extracts and no copies” source
- Single sign-on — “No servers to stand up or logins to generate. Apps go live under the SSO, teams, and permissions you already have.” source
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Pricing
- Prices checked
- 2026-11-06