clariBI Lite ($19/month) is the entry-level paid tier. It's designed for solo operators and very small teams who want manual, deterministic dashboards on top of more data sources than the Free tier allows — without paying for AI features they don't intend to use.
What Lite includes
- 5 data sources — connect any combination of OAuth integrations (Google Analytics, Google Ads, Meta Ads, Jira, Confluence), database connections (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.) and file uploads.
- 2 GB of storage — uploaded CSVs and Excel files, plus cached metadata.
- Manual dashboards — drag-and-drop dashboard builder with the full chart library (bar, line, pie, treemap, scatter, heatmap, KPI cards, tables).
- Auto-generated data insight dashboards — every connected source automatically gets a "[Source] - Data Insights" dashboard via clariBI's preprocessing pipeline.
- 1 user — Lite is a single-seat plan. Add seats by upgrading to Starter or higher.
- OCR file processing — limited monthly page allotment for PDF extraction.
What Lite excludes
- No AI credits. Lite explicitly excludes LLM-powered features. Conversational Analytics, AI report generation, and AI-recommended chart selection are not available.
- No MCP catalog. The 30+ Model Context Protocol integrations (Stripe, HubSpot, Linear, Notion, GitHub, etc.) require Starter or higher.
- No goals/OKR tracking. Available from Starter up.
- No team workspaces. Real-time collaboration features require multi-user tiers.
Who Lite is for
Lite is the right fit if you want clariBI's dashboard engine but don't yet have a use case for AI analytics. Typical Lite customers include:
- Solo founders who want a single source of truth for the metrics they manually update.
- Freelance analysts building deliverables for a single client.
- Operators in compliance-sensitive environments where LLM-powered analysis is off the table.
- Customers in evaluation mode who want a paid sandbox before committing to Starter.
Common upgrade triggers
Customers typically move from Lite to Starter when one of these happens:
- You want to ask questions in plain English. Conversational Analytics is Starter-and-up.
- You connect a vendor that's only in the MCP catalog. Stripe, HubSpot, Linear and 27 others require Starter.
- You add a teammate. Lite is 1-seat. Starter includes 3 users.
- You exceed 5 data sources. Starter includes 10; Professional includes 50.
Pricing details
- Monthly: $19 / month, billed monthly.
- Annual: $190 / year ($15.83 / month effective), saving ~17%.
- Upgrade path: any prorated upgrade to Starter, Professional or Enterprise takes effect immediately. Your existing dashboards, data sources and settings carry over.
See the pricing page for the full feature matrix across all 7 tiers, or read the companion Free tier deep dive if you're not ready to pay yet.