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## Compare Cube Core vs. Cube (Platform)

### Features

| Features                                                       | Cube Core                                     | Cube                                           |
|---------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
| Agentic Analytics                                             | Native AI-powered BI frontend                | ✅                                             |
| Natural language querying                                      | ✅                                           | ✅                                             |
| Automated report generation                                    | ✅                                           | ✅                                             |
| Agent orchestration                                           | ✅                                           | ✅                                             |
| Deployment                                                    | Self-hosted on-premises, AWS, GCP, Azure   | ✅                                             |
| Fully managed SaaS on AWS, GCP, Azure                         | ✅                                           | ✅                                             |
| Hybrid hosting on dedicated infrastructure or BYOC            | ✅                                           |                                                |
| Deployment setup (development instances and production clusters) | Single                                       | Multiple                                       |
| Multi-cluster deployments                                      | ✅                                           |                                                |
| Deployment warm-up                                           | ✅                                           |                                                |
| Auto-scaling                                                  | ✅                                           |                                                |
| Auto-suspension                                               | ✅                                           |                                                |
| Blue-green deployment process with automatic rollback          | ✅                                           |                                                |
| Continuous deployment                                          | ✅                                           |                                                |
| Monitoring integrations with log export                       | ✅                                           |                                                |
| Caching                                                       | Pre-aggregation roll-up designer             | ✅                                             |
| Cube Store encryption at rest                                  | ✅                                           |                                                |
| Distributed file storage failovers and consistency checking   | ✅                                           |                                                |
| Cube Store support for blob storage                           | AWS, GCP                                    | AWS, GCP, Azure                               |
| APIs                                                          | SQL API                                     | ✅                                             |
| REST API                                                     | ✅                                           | ✅                                             |
| GraphQL API                                                  | ✅                                           | ✅                                             |
| Orchestration API                                            | ✅                                           | ✅                                             |
| AI API                                                       | ✅                                           |                                                |
| DAX API                                                      | ✅                                           |                                                |
| SSL connection (including SQL API)                           | ✅                                           |                                                |
| Developer Toolkit                                             | Deployment management                        | Command-line                                   |
| Management Console UI                                         | ✅                                           |                                                |
| Workspace IDE                                                | ✅                                           |                                                |
| Git integration                                               | ✅                                           |                                                |
| Orchestration API                                            | ✅                                           | ✅                                             |
| Data model code generation                                    | ✅                                           | ✅                                             |
| Playground 2.0                                               | ✅                                           | ✅                                             |
| Front-end chart code generation                               | ✅                                           | ✅                                             |
| SQL Runner                                                   | ✅                                           |                                                |
| Query History                                                 | ✅                                           |                                                |
| Performance Insights                                          | ✅                                           |                                                |
| Security                                                     | User account management                       |
| Unauthenticated access                                        | Unlimited authenticated users                 | SSO (SAML 2.0)                                |
| Workspace access permissions (role-based access control)     | ✅                                           |                                                |
| Audit Log                                                    | ✅                                           |                                                |
| Compliance                                                   | SOC2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR                    | ✅                                             |
| Annual penetration testing                                     | ✅                                           |                                                |
| Data source support                                          | [Default data source connectors](/content/docs/product/configuration/data-sources/index.html) | ✅                                             |
| Streaming pre-aggregations: ksqlDB                            | ✅                                           |                                                |
| Microsoft Fabric                                             | ✅                                           |                                                |
| SingleStore                                                 | ✅                                           |                                                |
| Elastic                                                     | ✅                                           |                                                |
| [Custom data source integration](/content/docs/product/configuration/data-sources#currently-unsupported-data-sources/index.html) | ✅                                           |                                                |
| Data visualization support                                    | Via PostgreSQL-compliant connector           | ✅                                             |
| Microsoft Excel                                              | ✅                                           |                                                |
| Google Sheets                                                | ✅                                           |                                                |
| Semantic Layer Sync                                          | ✅                                           |                                                |
| Support                                                      | Online resources - Docs and Slack           | ✅                                             |
| Chat/email with support engineers                              | Starter+                                    |                                                |
| Dedicated Customer Success Manager                            | Enterprise +                                 |                                                |
| Support availability - weekdays 8am-8pm ET                   | ✅                                           |                                                |
| Onboarding services                                          | ✅                                           |                                                |
| Option to use professional services from Cube Partner Network | ✅                                           |                                                |

## Latest in Cube

April 28, 2026 [Why semantic layers make LLM analytics reliable: a paired benchmark across three frontier models](/content/blog/why-semantic-layers-make-llm-analytics-reliable-a-paired-benchmark-across-three-frontier-models/index.html)

March 3, 2026 [Cube Recognized in the 2026 Gartner® Market Guide for Agentic Analytics](/content/blog/cube-recognized-in-the-2026-gartner-r-market-guide-for-agentic-analytics/index.html)

February 9, 2026 [Security advisory: Vulnerabilities in WebSocket transport](/content/blog/security-advisory-vulnerabilities-in-websocket-transport/index.html)

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