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AltFTool's Excel to Chart turns an XLSX or CSV file into an interactive chart in the browser, free. Microsoft Power BI Pro is US$14.00 per user/month paid yearly — and its free account can already build reports; Pro is what you buy to share them. Tableau Creator is US$75.00 per user/month billed annually, or US$900.00 per user/year.
Prices checked
| Comparison point | AltFTool Excel to Chart | Microsoft Power BI Pro (opens in a new tab) | Tableau Creator (opens in a new tab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost to start | Free | US$14.00 per user/monthChecked | US$75.00 per user/monthChecked |
| Billing | No plan and no billing — there is no paid tier | paid yearly; Pro is the cheapest paid tier and the one that unlocks sharing | billed annually, Tableau Standard edition of Tableau Cloud |
| Annual figure | — | — | US$900.00 per user/year, shown directly by Tableau's selector as the 1-license subtotal |
| Their free tier | The whole tool. Nothing is held back behind an upgrade. | Free account with no card required — but you must upgrade to Pro to share a report. | No free tier of the paid platform, but Tableau Desktop Free Edition and Tableau Public exist. |
| Price checked | — |
Sources (each opens in a new tab): Microsoft Power BI Pro — www.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/products/power-bi/pricing · Tableau Creator — www.tableau.com/product-and-pricing-selector, www.tableau.com/pricing/cloud, www.tableau.com/pricing. Software pricing drifts. If a figure here disagrees with the vendor's page, trust theirs.
Most of these products have a free plan, and whether you need to pay at all depends entirely on where its ceiling sits. Here is each one in the vendor's own terms.
Plenty of people should keep paying for these, and these are the reasons why.
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"Excel to Chart: what you'd pay elsewhere." AltFTool, 28 July 2026, www.altftool.com/deals/excel-to-chart.BibTeX
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}Each price is transcribed from the vendor's own page on the date shown and is never converted between currencies, so quote that date alongside any figure you take from here. Software pricing drifts: if a number here disagrees with the vendor's page, trust theirs. The vendor links are plain links - no affiliate tracking, no referral IDs, no paid placement.