Soda Reviews & Product Details

Most companies struggle to operationalize data governance and quality. Business teams don’t want to manually enforce rules, and engineers get buried in pipeline issues — eroding trust in data and slowing innovation. Soda fixes this with the only end-to-end data quality platform that automates the entire workflow — from detection to resolution — with AI built for data quality. We meet users where they are: - Engineers manage everything as code in Git. - Business users create and review data contracts in a collaborative interface. - Together, they work in a shared, AI-powered workflow to define quality expectations, monitor metrics, and isolate and remediate bad data directly in their environment. By uniting teams, automating with AI, and securing trust at the source, Soda helps organizations like Disney, Nubank, and HelloFresh restore confidence in their data and decisions. Why Soda? - Best AI for Data Quality — purpose-built, faster, and more accurate, with 70% fewer false positives than traditional monitoring. - Unite Business and Engineering — collaborative data contracts that bridge governance and technical workflows. - Securely Isolate and Fix Bad Data — record-level anomaly detection and remediation inside your own environment. Soda brings width and depth to data quality — from every dataset across multiple warehouses to every individual record in a dataset. Join us in building a world where teams trust their data, decisions, and AI.

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Soda

Discussions

Soda Community

Languages Supported

English

Solution Type

Best-of-Breed

Overview by

Natasha Lauer

Pricing

Pricing provided by Soda.

Free

$0.00

3 Production Datasets Per Month

Team

$750.00

20 Production Datasets Per Month

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Implementation Time

3 months

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Kavyansh P.

Software Engineer - II

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

Updated 4/16/2023

Originally submitted 4/15/2023

"Data monitoring and validation using Soda.io"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Soda?

1. Soda.io also provides integrations with various data sources and platforms, such as Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Snowflake, and more, allowing organizations to monitor and manage their data quality across multiple sources in a single platform

2. The platform uses a variety of data validation techniques, including schema validation, and anomaly detection, to identify issues and alert users when data quality problems arise Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Soda?

It is a little complex and not for someone from a non-IT or computer background. If someone wants to use this platform efficiently, needs to have some programming knowledge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Soda solving and how is that benefiting you?

One common problem that organizations face is ensuring the accuracy of their data. With Soda.io, users can set up data monitoring and validation rules to catch errors or inconsistencies in their data as soon as they occur. This can help prevent costly mistakes and ensure that data is accurate and reliable.

Soda.io can helped me to get deeper insights into their data by providing data profiling and visualization tool and helped for making the right decision. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Thais A.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/18/2023

"Soda is a great tool for building a data culture"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Soda?

Soda is an easy tool to use daily. Soda Core and Soda Cloud are an amazing combo for testing data and creating data contracts with business partners. What I like most about Soda is how easy it is to start testing. Setting up Soda Core is very straightforward and it offers a few things I consider essential when adopting a new tool: API's, support and community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Soda?

I believe the documentation could be better versioned so users could know which page to use as a reference for the current version in production. It would save significant time in understanding what changed in the documentation updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Fernando V.

Data Analyst

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/25/2023

"Great Product, great company"

5/5

What do you like best about Soda?

I love the great integration of soda with tools like Slack Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Soda?

I think it's a great product, I didn't had any issue with it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Natasha Lauer of Soda

Thank you for this great review, Fernando! Wishing you continued success with Soda.

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Deepanshu J.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/12/2023

"great data quality tool"

5/5

What do you like best about Soda?

SODA integration, notifications and ease of use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Soda?

still developing. less mature maybe. Changes very quiickly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Natasha Lauer of Soda

Thank you, Deepanshu - stay up to date with our releases; there's lots more on its way.

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Anup J.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/28/2023

"Very interesting premise but could have been better"

2/5

What do you like best about Soda?

The reusability of SodaCL and its incredible scope and completeness of the tool is amazing. The central concept of testing-as-code with its associated tools is brilliant as well. I appreciate the very complete and professional nature of the docs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Soda?

Simply, put its too much work. Introducing the tool to your teammates is almost impossible, as most people look at learning a new language and say no thanks. The level of setup required to get SodaCL going does not help either Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Soda solving and how is that benefiting you?

We generally integrate SodaCL into our data ingestion pipeline. We receive data from multiple clients whom we often don't have too much control over. So we setup automated serverless functions which do data quality checks and flag the devs for issues. We use these reports to compare with clients on if this is expected behaviour Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Mahdi K.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/15/2023

"The ideal option to implement data quality at scale"

5/5

What do you like best about Soda?

Soda is a great option to implement data quality checks thanks to its user-friendly syntax (can be understood by a wide range of personas and not only data engineers) and wide range of built-in checks and metrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Soda?

Nothing comes to mind. Using the open-source package requires some engineering work but that can be avoided via the managed/cloud version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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David M.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/10/2023

"Data Quality made easy"

5/5

What do you like best about Soda?

I like the ease of use of the tool and how quick it is to get started. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Soda?

It's a new tool and there is some functionality left to develop. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Natasha Lauer of Soda

Love to hear that we're making data quality easy for you, David. Feel free to provide any specific functionality feedback in our Community or contribute.

See how Soda improved

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Kamal H.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/13/2023

"Custom data quality and validation rule"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Soda?

custom data quality and validation rule and ease of use/setup. easy to follow and good documentation is very much useful as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Soda?

definitely expectation from data engineering perspective is evolving, so far loving it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Natasha Lauer of Soda

Thank you, Kamal - we are happy that you are loving using Soda.

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Sujeeth G.

Senior Software Developer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/20/2023

"Streamlining data monitoring"

5/5

What do you like best about Soda?

Soda.io tools helped managing analyzing the data. It also helped me resolve issues while managing the data. The tool helped me to data profiling and do periodic data quality checks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Soda?

There nothing to dislike. Soda.io provides open source tools to monitor the data which not every company do that. We can ensure data Quality using the tools provided by soda.io Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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NIKHIL G.

GCP Data Engineer at TCS

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/19/2023

"About Soda.io"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Soda?

One of the best tools for data operations. It mainly identifies the issues and alerts the right people. It is very useful for data engineers to find data issues where automation cannot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Soda?

Nothing as of now. It would be great if we can get good documentation about the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.