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Where the alternatives stop
Every vendor below answers questions in natural language. The difference is whether they can do it inside a regulated enterprise, on the databases it actually runs.
Versus the cloud giants
ThoughtSpot Spotter 3
Cloud-only
Heavy IT setup
BYOLLM is beta
Databricks Genie
Lakehouse-only
No BYOK LLM
25-table cap
Snowflake Cortex
Snowflake-only
60s+ latency
No charts / memory
Asky
On-prem, multi-DB
Charts + memory
Predictable quotas
Versus OSS & generalists
Wren AI
OSS app EOL (2025)
Governance = paid
No auth / RBAC
Vanna AI 2.0
Not prod-ready
DevOps overhead
No EXPLAIN / i18n
ChatGPT Enterprise
No DB connectors
Stateless
Hallucinates schema
Asky
Fully on-prem
RBAC + audit
Auto exec + charts