Elementary
A unified platform for data observability, quality assurance, and governance integrated with data pipelines
- Vendor
- Elementary Data
- Also known as
- elementary
Available worldwide
What is Elementary?
A control plane that consolidates metadata, lineage, test results, and health signals to enable reliable data for AI workflows. Available as an open-source self-hosted solution or as a managed cloud service with advanced ML-driven monitoring.
Elementary pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Subscription pricing by seats and environments. Free 30-day trial available. Enterprise pricing requires custom quote.
Essentials
FreeFree trial with access to core features
- seats
- unlimited
- tables
- unlimited
- duration
- 30 days
- environments
- unlimited
- AI Agents
- Automated Monitors
- Anomaly Detection
- Column Level Lineage
- Performance Monitoring
- Data Tests
- BI Integrations
- Incident Management
- MCP Server
- Data Health Scores
- Catalog
- Task & Incident Mgmt Integrations
Scale
Contact salesMid-tier plan with per-table pricing for additional capacity
- tables
- 1000
- All Essentials features
- AI Agents
- Automated Monitors
- Anomaly Detection
- Column Level Lineage
- Performance Monitoring
- Data Tests
- BI Integrations
- Incident Management
- MCP Server
- Data Health Scores
- Catalog
- Task & Incident Mgmt Integrations
Enterprise
Contact salesEnterprise plan with advanced deployment and management features
- tables
- 3000
- All Scale features
- SSO & RBAC
- Advanced Deployment Options
- Custom Enterprise Features
- Dedicated Customer Success Engineer
- Tailored Implementation and Training
- External Catalog Integrations
Add-ons
- AI Layer
What Elementary does
The capabilities that matter for data observability, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Freshness monitoring
- ✓
- Volume monitoring
- ✓
- Schema change detection
- ✓
- Data quality rules
- ✓
- ML anomaly detection
- ✓
- Lineage impact analysis
- ✓
- Root cause analysis
- ✓
- Incident management workflow
- -
- Dbt native
- ✓
- Streaming support
- -
- Deployment model
- -
- Open source
- ✓
- Pricing model
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Cloud / SaaS
- Self-hosted
Integrations (12)
Independently observed- dbt
- Jira
- PagerDuty
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- HubSpot
- PostHog
- Common Room
- OKTA
- Onelogin
- Active Directory
Elementary FAQ
Common questions about Elementary, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Elementary?
An open-source tool that integrates with dbt to monitor data quality, pipeline performance, and anomalies, with an optional cloud version offering advanced ML-based monitoring, data lineage tracking, and AI-powered capabilities. It is indexed under Data Observability.
Source: https://www.elementary-data.com/
How much does Elementary cost?
Elementary does not publish its prices. Pricing is quoted on request, across 3 plans (Essentials, Scale and Enterprise), so the figure depends on your seat count and requirements. We record this as a pricing-transparency signal rather than guessing a number. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
What platforms does Elementary support?
Elementary supports a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Source: https://www.elementary-data.com/
Can Elementary be self-hosted?
Yes. Elementary can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.
Source: https://www.elementary-data.com/
What does Elementary integrate with?
We have confirmed 12 integrations for Elementary, including dbt, Jira, PagerDuty, Slack, Microsoft Teams, HubSpot, PostHog and Common Room, plus 4 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
Source: https://www.elementary-data.com/
What security certifications does Elementary have?
We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and GDPR for Elementary. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Elementary not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Where is Elementary available?
Elementary is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.
Elementary alternatives
Other data observability we track, ranked by the same independent score.
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- BigeyeEnterprise platform for real-time data quality monitoring and AI governancelow · 3%
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- TelmaiAI-driven continuous data quality monitoring for data lakes and lakehouseslow · 29%
- Monte CarloA platform for monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing data and AI systems at scalelow · 7%
- SodaAI-powered data quality platform that automatically detects and fixes data issueslow · 8%
Compare Elementary
Side by side against other data observability, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Elementary, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security posture | 50 | 0.12 | 6.1 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 96 | 0.04 | 3.6 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.04 | 3.3 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 25 | 0.05 | 1.4 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 17 | 0.04 | 0.8 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
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All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 7 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 64% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Dbt native, Open source, Volume monitoring, Data quality rules, Root cause analysis, Freshness monitoring, Ml anomaly detection, Lineage impact analysis, Schema change detection | mediumsource · 2026-09-29 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 3 | mediumsource · 2026-09-29 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | HqCountry: US · PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-19 · 75% |
Pricing
Security
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