C 
Cube
Semantic layer that defines metrics once and serves them to every downstream tool.
NOT REALLY
why this verdict
Keep it — OpenAI has not replaced it
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the data & BI job, so this one is still worth keeping open.
- A named launch, not a vibe named, unlinked
- Text-to-SQL letting anyone query the warehouse directly with no semantic layer in between. OpenAI, July 8, 2025 — no announcement link recorded yet.
- How much of the job it covers not the job editorial call
- Parts of it. The job still needs the tool to get finished.
- Is there a free way to do it? paid only
- 3 replacements listed, all paid.
- What the call is worth nothing to cancel
- No paid entry tier tracked, so there is no subscription to cancel.
Reason composed from the fields above missing: announcement linked missing: free replacement listed recorded: two or more escape hatches
- Threatened by
- OpenAI
- Since
- July 8, 2025
- List price
- free
- Per year
- —
The backstory
Cube exists so that revenue means the same thing in the dashboard, the API and the spreadsheet, by defining metrics once in a governed layer above the warehouse. Text-to-SQL looks like it makes this unnecessary, since anyone can just ask. It makes it essential instead: a model asked to compute revenue will confidently invent a definition, and a semantic layer is the only thing that constrains it to the company's real one. Cube repositioned around exactly that argument.