A Databox alternative for people whose clients read one page a month
Databox connects your accounts and keeps dashboards live, and its free plan covers one user and three data sources, so it costs nothing to start. Loadout hosts no dashboards and connects to none of your clients' ad, analytics or CRM accounts, which rules it out for anyone who needs a board on a wall. It suits someone who sends a client one page a month and wants the budget to go on the work that page describes.
Prices checked on 1 Nov 2026 from each company's own pages
In Databox
Step 1 of 7A monthly client report, as their pages describe it
- Log in to the platform
- 2Connect the data sources
- 3Build the dashboard
- 4Build the report
- 5Set goals and alerts
- 6Use AI credits for the summary
- 7Share it with the client
In your AI, with Loadout
1 requestMonthly Report, about 12 credits
- Monthly Reportworking
- Scan website
- Check email setup
Starting price
Databox
A free plan, then $71 a month on Analyst, billed annually. Free carries 1 user, 3 data sources, 1 dashboard, 10 custom metrics, 50 AI credits a month and a daily sync, with no MCP server and no API. Analyst carries 1 user, 5 data sources and 150 AI credits. Team Core is $199 a month billed annually for 3 users and 10 sources, Team Scale is $319 for 10 users and 30 sources, and the Agency plan starts at $79 with unlimited users and 20 sources, with account packs at $20 a month each. The page says annual billing saves 20 per cent. Branding and white labelling is an $80 a month add on, and there is a 14 day trial of any plan with no card. The FAQ prints higher figures for the Team and Agency plans than the plan cards do.
Loadout
Announced on 12 November
Best for
Databox
Teams and agencies who want live dashboards built from their own connected accounts, refreshed hourly.
Loadout
Small agencies, freelancers and consultants whose clients read a monthly page, and who want the same money to cover the audits behind it.
Price model
Databox
Free for 1 user and 3 data sources, then $71 a month on Analyst billed annually, priced by users, data sources and AI credits
Loadout
Announced on 12 November
What you get
Databox
Dashboards and reports built from your connected accounts, with goals, alerts and AI credits
Loadout
A published monthly scorecard at about 12 credits a client, plus 61 other powers that do the work the report describes
Dashboards
Databox
Live dashboards, from 1 on the free plan upwards, synced hourly on the paid plans
Loadout
No dashboards and no portal to log into. Reports are published pages you send, and nothing refreshes itself.
Where the data comes from
Databox
Your own connected accounts, including ad, analytics and CRM tools
Loadout
Live outside data read through Loadout's own tools, including Maps rankings, reviews, ad libraries, keyword volumes and site scans, with every report naming its sources
On a schedule
Databox
A daily sync on the free plan and hourly on the paid plans, with alerts when a number moves
Loadout
Nothing runs on a timer. You ask for the report and it runs then.
White labelling
Databox
Branding and white labelling is an $80 a month add on
Loadout
Reports go out under your brand at no extra cost, with your name, logo and colour, and on the paid plan they can sit on a domain of yours
Users
Databox
1 user on Free and Analyst, 3 on Team Core, 10 on Team Scale and unlimited on the Agency plan
Loadout
No team seats. One account, used inside your own AI app.
Where it runs
Databox
A web platform you and your clients log into
Loadout
Inside ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Muse, Claude Code or Codex, as a connector
Trying it
Databox
A free plan the page calls free forever, and a 14 day trial of any plan with no card
Loadout
Sign up is invite only at the moment.
Outside reporting
Databox
Reporting and analysis of numbers you already have
Loadout
Announced on 12 November
Choosing
Databox or Loadout.
Stay with Databox if
- You report on ad spend and site analytics. Loadout connects to no client ad, analytics or CRM account, so it cannot chart what they spent.
- People watch a board. Databox keeps dashboards synced hourly on the paid plans and fires an alert when a number moves, where Loadout has no board to watch and runs nothing on a timer.
- You have one small client.
Look at Loadout if
- The report was never the hard part. The same credits cover the audits, the prospecting and the proposals that the report is about.
- You want your brand on it without an add on. Branding and white labelling is $80 a month at Databox, and here every report goes out under your brand at no extra cost.
- Clients are not a billing unit here.
Other options
Other Databox alternatives people look at.
Starting prices from each company's own page, checked on 1 Nov 2026.
$20 per client a month, billed annually
Client reporting built for agencies, with a white labelled portal on every client.
From $79 a month on Essentials, billed annually
TV dashboards for a team room, with unlimited viewers on every plan.
$140 a month on Base, or $120 a month billed annually
Dashboards with unlimited users and a large integration list, priced by dashboard count.
From 699 euro a month on Max, billed annually, which is the only figure the page prints
Marketing reporting priced by connected data accounts, sold through a demo.
In Loadout
The powers that do this work.
Each one is a proven method your AI follows step by step, with the live data each step needs, and a price shown before it runs.
Opening 12 November
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Questions
Before you run it.
What does Databox cost right now+
Read from their pricing page on 1 Nov 2026. Free is $0 for 1 user, 3 data sources and 1 dashboard. Analyst is $71 a month billed annually, Team Core $199, Team Scale $319 and the Agency plan starts at $79, all billed annually, with a custom tier on request. The FAQ prints higher figures for the Team and Agency plans than the cards do, so check which you are being shown.
Does Loadout connect to Google Ads or Google Analytics+
No. There is no connection to a client's ad, analytics or CRM accounts. What it reads is live outside data, including Maps rankings, reviews, ad libraries, keyword volumes and site scans, and the monthly report power turns that into a scorecard against last month and the baseline for about 12 credits.
Can clients log in and see their numbers+
No. There is no portal and no dashboard. The monthly report is a published page under your brand that you send to the client, and on the paid plan it can sit on a domain of yours.
Does anything here run on a schedule+
No. Nothing runs on a timer, nothing is sent and nothing is spent without your yes. You ask for the monthly report when a client's month ends, about 12 credits, and it reruns the same checks that built their baseline.