Five Palantir alternatives compared for mid-market companies: what each one actually is, who it fits, what it publishes about price, and where it falls short.
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Most mid-market companies do not set out to find a Palantir alternative. They set out to find what Palantir costs, and start looking for alternatives shortly afterwards.
The public reference points explain why. Palantir's FY2025 Form 10-K reports that its top twenty customers averaged $93.9 million in revenue each over the trailing twelve months. Its UK G-Cloud 14 pricing document, published in May 2024, lists a Foundry term licence at £66,000 per server core per year, discovery packages at £50,000, £125,000 and £250,000, and implementation and engineering services at £150,000 per person per quarter. None of those figures are aimed at a company with 300 employees.
The second cost is easier to miss. Palantir's delivery model leans on forward deployed engineers — staff embedded in the customer's organisation who build the data model and the applications on top of it. Everest Group's assessment is that the model is highly effective in the right context and risky in the wrong one. Either way it means a project, a timeline and a team: for a large enterprise with a transformation budget that is the point; for a 400-person manufacturer it is the obstacle. Eurostat figures extracted in December 2025 show roughly 55% of large EU enterprises using AI against roughly 30% of medium-sized ones — not a gap in ambition, but in what the market has been willing to sell at that size.
Palantir for Builders is the umbrella programme, with a dedicated Palantir for SMBs sub-page whose stated purpose is "empowering small & mid-sized businesses to go beyond dashboards and deploy state of the art AI across their organization." It lists four benefits: unifying siloed systems through Foundry's Ontology, automating processes with AIP, building on infrastructure that can meet standards including GDPR, SOC 2 and HIPAA, and building custom AI applications over existing systems. Named customers include Selkirk Sport, ECN and Identco, and a separate sub-page covers startups.
This is a real programme with real customers, and Foundry and AIP are serious products. What the pages do not say is the part to plan for: neither publishes a price, a timeline, a minimum commitment or a free tier — the route in is a contact form. The figures above describe the enterprise and public-sector end of the business, not the SMB programme.
Five questions separate these products, and every entry below is written against them.
Full disclosure: this is our product. Read this entry with that in mind, and hold it to the same standard as the rest.
Adaptrix is a decision engine — an organizationally-aware analytics platform that connects to your existing systems, builds a semantic layer of your business automatically from what it finds there, and answers operational questions against it.
The numbers are side by side in the full Palantir vs Adaptrix cost breakdown.
DataWalk is the most direct competitor to Palantir Gotham and says so openly — its own site runs a page titled "The Palantir Alternative."
One Data is a German vendor founded in Passau in 2013 as One Logic and renamed in 2023. German coverage of the Palantir debate names it regularly as a domestic alternative.
itemis is a German software company positioning itemis ANALYZE explicitly as Europe's sovereign alternative to Palantir.
The build-it-yourself route, and for some companies the right one.
| If your priority is | Look at |
|---|---|
| A published price before the first call | Adaptrix (Databricks publishes a model, not a rate) |
| Investigative and link-analysis work | DataWalk |
| Data governance and data products at scale | One Data |
| A sovereign platform for security and defence | itemis ANALYZE |
| Full control and a team to exercise it | Databricks plus a consultancy |
| Something operational running in days | Adaptrix |
| Air-gapped operation today | None of the above as described — ask each vendor |
Three cases where we would tell you not to buy Adaptrix. At government or defence scale you need accreditation and a supplier relationship we do not offer — Palantir and itemis are the serious options. If you want a bespoke multi-year transformation with embedded engineers who rebuild how your organisation works, that is Palantir's model, and it exists because it genuinely works for some organisations. And if your core problem is tracing relationships between people, accounts and transactions, buy purpose-built link analysis; DataWalk is designed for that and we are not.
The gap we built Adaptrix to fill is the one in the middle: connected operational data for a commercial company of a few hundred people, priced and delivered so a company that size can absorb it.
There is no single answer, because Palantir sells two different things. To replace Gotham-style investigative work, DataWalk is the closest direct alternative. To replace Foundry-style connected operational data in a European mid-market company, look at Adaptrix, or itemis ANALYZE for public-sector and defence buyers. To build it yourself, Databricks plus an integrator.
Not in a form that will run a business. Open-source components — warehouses, orchestration, notebooks, open-weight models — let a capable data team assemble a great deal at no licence cost. What you pay instead is engineering time, which for most mid-market companies is the more expensive of the two. Databricks offers a free trial, and Palantir's G-Cloud 14 rate card lists trial software licences at a nominal £1.
Palantir does not publish general commercial pricing, so it depends on the deal. The public reference points are the G-Cloud 14 rates quoted above, a single-organisation Foundry licence listed there at £3,000,000 per year, and the FY2025 10-K figure of $93.9 million average revenue across the top twenty customers. Those describe large public-sector and enterprise deals rather than a mid-market quote, and the SMB programme may be priced very differently.
Yes. Palantir for Builders, and its Palantir for SMBs sub-page, exist specifically to open Foundry and AIP to startups and small and mid-sized companies, and the page names customers in that bracket. What neither page publishes is a price, a timeline, a minimum commitment or a free tier — so the size question is answered and the affordability question is not.
No. itemis ANALYZE is explicitly a non-invasive layer over existing systems, and One Data governs data that other tools consume. If Palantir is already deployed and working, the useful question is which additional problems are uneconomic to solve there — not whether to rip it out.
For price and delivery model specifically, the numbers are in the full Palantir vs Adaptrix cost breakdown. If you would rather see it than read about it, book a demo and we will connect it to one of your systems.
Third-party claims here come from the vendors' own published materials and public documents, checked in August 2026. Positioning and pricing change — verify current terms with each vendor. Where a vendor does not publish pricing, we have said so rather than estimated.
Martin Walter
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Martin Walter is a Co-Founder at Adaptrix with over 15 years of experience in business intelligence and data analytics. He has helped enterprises transform their data strategies and is passionate about democratizing analytics through AI.
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