Soda

Soda is a data quality platform built around SodaCL, a human-readable language for writing data quality checks. Analysts define checks — freshness, completeness, validity, and custom rules — in plain text files that live in version control, and Soda runs them against your warehouse, alerting you when data fails. It is data quality testing for teams that like the dbt-style, code-first approach.

Key Features

• SodaCL: human-readable data quality checks
• Checks live in version control like code
• Free open-source Soda Core
• Data contracts for data products
• Integrates with major cloud warehouses
• Soda Cloud for dashboards and incident management

Pricing

Prices as listed in 2026 research. Always check the official site for the latest price — plans change. Free plan: Yes — it has a free plan.

How it works

The open-source Soda Core is free and runs checks from the command line or CI, while Soda Cloud adds a hosted platform with dashboards, alerting, incident management, and data contracts. It integrates with Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, and other warehouses, and it supports data contracts that define the quality guarantees a data product must meet.

Soda Core is free open-source software, and Soda Cloud is priced by quote. It is a strong pick for data teams that want code-based, testable data quality checks, though it requires SQL and configuration effort, and the cloud platform's pricing is not public.

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