Soda
Soda: A broad testing and observability platform for teams managing data contracts. Ranked #3 of 28 in Database Testing Tools by our editors (8.9/10); pricing: Free plan; best for data contracts and observability teams.
At a glance
- Editor score8.9 / 10
- PricingFree plan
- Best forData contracts and observability teams
- Free planYes
- Paid from$750/mo
- Schema migration testsYes
- Founded2019 · Chicago, Illinois, United States; Brussels, Belgium
- Facts checked21 Sep 2026
Where it wins
- Data contracts combine schema and data quality checks.
- Free plan includes pipeline testing, observability, and alerting integrations.
- Managed and self-hosted runners support scheduled and CI/CD verification.
Where it doesn't
- Team starts at $750 per month before additional SPU charges.
- Enterprise-only features include SSO, RBAC, and private deployment.
- Its wide scope may exceed the needs of teams seeking basic database tests.
Our verdict on Soda
Soda is a data quality and observability platform for data engineering, governance, and business teams. It combines proactive testing through data contracts and CI/CD workflows with production monitoring for anomalies, schema changes, freshness, row counts, missing values, invalid values, and duplicates. Soda Core provides open-source local execution, while Soda Cloud and Soda-hosted or self-hosted runners support scanning, scheduling, collaboration, and monitoring across databases, warehouses, and other data sources. Tests can use YAML or SQL, including custom SQL checks and failed-row queries.
Its standout capability is the connection between contract verification and ongoing observability. Teams can check column presence, types, and order, then automate verification on schedules or in CI/CD pipelines. The integration set covers orchestration, warehouses, catalogs, messaging, ticketing, and business intelligence, including Airflow, Databricks, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, dbt, GitHub, Slack, Jira Software, PagerDuty, Atlan, Looker, Tableau, and Power BI. This makes Soda a fit for teams that need testing to operate across engineering workflows and production data operations rather than inside one database alone.
The Free plan costs $0 per month and includes pipeline testing, metrics observability, alerting and ticketing integrations, and no credit card requirement. Team costs $750 per month, adds unlimited users and catalog integrations, and offers pay-as-you-go additional SPUs and add-ons. Enterprise adds collaborative data contracts, a no-code interface, advanced AI-powered data quality features, audit logs, custom roles, RBAC, private deployment, and SSO. Soda suits organizations formalizing data contracts and monitoring multiple systems; teams wanting only lightweight database testing may prefer a narrower tool.
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Soda pricing
Soda fact sheet
| Free plan | Yes |
|---|---|
| Paid from | $750/mo |
| Database support | Athena, BigQuery, Databricks SQL, Dremio, DuckDB, Fabric, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Spark Dataframe, Snowflake, SQL Server, Synapse, Trino |
| Schema migration tests | Yes |
| Stored procedure tests | Not verified |
| Data quality checks | Yes |
| Test execution | Both |
| Test language | YAML, SQL |
| Deployment | Cloud, Self-hosted |
| Platforms | Web, Linux |
| Support | Email, Community, Docs |
| Built for | Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise (editorial estimate) |
| Integrations | 19 integrations: Airflow, Databricks, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Slack, Microsoft Teams … See all → |
| Pricing | Free plan (source) |
| Website | soda.io |
| Facts checked | 21 Sep 2026 |
Soda integrations
Soda lists 19 integrations on its own site.
- Airflow
- Databricks
- Snowflake
- PostgreSQL
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Jira Software
- PagerDuty
- ServiceNow
- Looker
- Tableau
- Power BI
- dbt
- GitHub
- Atlan
- Alation
- Collibra
- Okta
- Azure Active Directory
Alternatives to Soda
- DatafoldA broad database testing platform for migration validation, CI/CD, and data quality monitoring.9.3
- Great ExpectationsA flexible choice for repeatable database and pipeline validation.9.1
- QuerySurgeA broad enterprise data-testing suite with substantial licensing costs.8.7
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