The modern
data comparison
platform.
Validate any source against any target. Catch data issues before they hit production. Cloud or self-hosted — your choice, same price.
Data validation is stuck in 2010.
Three patterns most enterprise data teams know all too well.
Months to deploy
Legacy tools demand weeks of professional services, classroom training, and consultant time before you generate a single comparison.
Brittle, hand-rolled scripts
When tools fall short, teams write custom Python or SQL to compare data. It drifts, breaks silently, and nobody owns it once the author leaves.
No path off legacy ETL
Hundreds of Alteryx, Informatica, or SSIS workflows mean years of manual rebuilding to switch tools. Migration cost kills the business case.
From data source to verified output
in four steps.
Built in the UI for hands-on review. Run from your pipelines when it's time to automate.
Connect
Databases, files, cloud storage, REST APIs, or COBOL copybooks. Test the connection, browse the schema, save it. Isolated per workspace.
Compare
Build in the SQL editor, the no-code wizard, or plain language. Five strategies. Run on demand, on a schedule, or from a webhook.
Validate
Wire comparisons into pipelines on a 30+ node canvas. Watch runs stream live. Anomaly detection flags drift on its own.
Integrate
Plug into your CI/CD, orchestrator, or BI stack. MCP server, email, Slack, Teams, webhooks — with a full audit trail behind it.
Built for the realities
of enterprise data.
A handful of the 60+ features already in production.
30+ node workflow canvas
Fuzzy join plus a full Alteryx-parity prep, parse, and transform toolkit. Live execution, wire-data preview, multi-tab workspace.
Five comparison strategies
Cell-level, row-count, aggregate, schema, and custom SQL. Auto-spills to DuckDB past 500K rows. Snapshot mode for current, as-of, or range.
19 connectors today
PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, Synapse, SAP HANA, REST API, COBOL, files, S3, Azure.
Test generation and NL → SQL
Four LLM providers. Turn a mapping document into a test suite, ask for a comparison in plain language, get root-cause analysis on failures.
Anomaly detection
Distribution-shift, null-rate spike, and volume-change detectors with rolling baselines. Catches drift before anyone opens a dashboard.
Data profiling
Per-column cardinality, null percentage, distinct count, min, max, mean, median, standard deviation, and 10-bucket histograms on any source.
Immutable audit trail
Append-only, enforced at the database level — updates and deletes are denied outright. Every login, edit, run, and export is captured.
5-role RBAC and workspaces
Viewer, Tester, Author, Admin, Super Admin, with custom permissions per membership. SAML 2.0 and OIDC single sign-on.
Alteryx and dbt import
Upload a .yxmd or manifest.json and get back working connections, comparisons, and a test suite. Over 80% of common tools map one to one.
Enterprise capability.
Modern experience.
The category leaders, side by side, on the things buyers actually ask about.
| Capability | TRACe | QuerySurge | Datafold | Alteryx | iceDQ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visual workflow canvas | 30+ nodes | None | None | Full | None |
| AI test generation | Full | Full | Full | Partial | Anomaly only |
| Natural language → SQL | Full | Full | None | Partial | None |
| COBOL / mainframe support | Full | Full | None | Via ODBC | Via conversion |
| Workflow import (Alteryx, dbt) | Full | Manual | Manual | n/a | None |
| On-prem deployment | No upcharge | Available | Cloud only | Available | Available |
| Immutable audit trail | Full | Full | Partial | Basic | Partial |
| Connector breadth | 19 | 40+ | 15 | 50+ | 150+ |
| Time to first comparison | <15 min | Weeks | Hours | Hours | Days |
Comparison based on public documentation and product availability as of June 2026.
Teams where data correctness
can't be optional.
Financial services & banking
Reconciling mainframe core banking against cloud warehouses. Trade-by-trade validation, regulatory reporting integrity, and drift flagged between reconciliation cycles.
Daily reconciliation · 1M–100M rows per cycleInsurance & claims
Policy migration off legacy admin systems. Claims validation across the new and old system overlap, plus premium calculation engine checks.
Migration cycle · 10M–500M rows totalHealthcare & pharma
Clinical trial data integrity and EHR migration validation, with PHI-aware mismatch display and an immutable audit trail. On-prem at no extra cost.
Multi-source integrity · HIPAA + GxPModern data platform teams
Validating dbt models against source systems, detecting drift between staging and production, and gating deploys on data quality.
Continuous · Plugs into dbt, Airflow, DagsterBuild it in the UI.
Automate it through the API.
Every action in the interface is an API call. The comparison you review by hand is the same one your pipeline runs at 3am.
REST API
44+ endpoints with an auto-generated OpenAPI spec.
CI/CD blocking run
Returns pass or fail with an exit code, so you can gate a deploy on data quality today.
POST /ci/comparisons/{id}/run-blocking
MCP server — 6 tools
list_connections, run_comparison, nl_to_sql, and more. Connect TRACe to any MCP-compatible AI agent.
Webhooks and live events
Run complete, comparison failed, threshold breached. Real-time run progress over SSE. HMAC signing ships Q3.
# Fails the build if the warehouse doesn't match source POST /ci/comparisons/{id}/run-blocking Authorization: Bearer trace_sk_live_xxx → { "status": "passed", "exit_code": 0, "summary": { "matched": 521748, "mismatched": 12 } } # 0 = pass, 1 = fail. Blocks until the run finishes.
Enterprise capability
without enterprise gatekeeping.
Priced for predictability and adoption. Here's the shape of it — we'll walk through specifics on the call.
Per user, per workspace
Pricing scales with people, not data volume. Your finance team can forecast it.
No per-run metering
Run a million comparisons or run one — the price is the same. Nobody has to ration coverage.
No professional-services tax
Self-serve onboarding by design, first comparison in under 15 minutes. No mandatory implementation package.
On-prem at no upcharge
Same product, same price, running inside your environment. There's no premium tier to climb to keep data where it is.
Run your first comparison
in under 15 minutes.
A live demo against your own data. No professional-services upsell, no six-week onboarding.

