Chartio (discontinued) vs. Canto

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Chartio (discontinued)
Score 7.5 out of 10
N/A
Chartio is a visualization tool designed to enable anyone to explore, transform and visualize data on the fly through a drag-and-drop interface. Chartio was acquired by Atlassian in February 2021 so that it's capabilities could be integrated into the Atlassian product portfolio's capabilities. Chartio is no longer available to new customers, standalone. Existing customers must migrate to alternatives by March 2022, when the service will be retired.
$40
per user/per month
Canto
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Canto delivers digital asset management capabilities while offering an intuitive experience for teams. Canto's AI Visual Search enables users to search their brand libraries using natural language.N/A
Pricing
Chartio (discontinued)Canto
Editions & Modules
Starter
$40
per user/per month
Professional
$60
per user/per month
Organization
Contact sales team
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Chartio (discontinued)Canto
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsCanto's platform, supported by a flexible and transparent pricing structure, caters to a diverse array of industries. It empowers companies ranging from teams of 50 employees to global enterprises to fuel their content delivery, maximizing their ROI.
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Features
Chartio (discontinued)Canto
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Chartio (discontinued)
6.0
18 Ratings
33% below category average
Canto
-
Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports3.614 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards7.718 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates6.714 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Chartio (discontinued)
5.7
14 Ratings
34% below category average
Canto
-
Ratings
Drill-down analysis6.913 Ratings00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities6.112 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages3.15 Ratings00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration6.513 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Chartio (discontinued)
3.4
17 Ratings
84% below category average
Canto
-
Ratings
Publish to Web2.79 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to PDF6.117 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Versioning2.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling2.712 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Chartio (discontinued)
7.5
15 Ratings
9% below category average
Canto
-
Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.215 Ratings00 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.212 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive Analytics8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Chartio (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Canto
6.6
10 Ratings
1% above category average
Dashboards00 Ratings6.710 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings6.69 Ratings
Content analytics00 Ratings6.59 Ratings
DAM Features
Comparison of DAM Features features of Product A and Product B
Chartio (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Canto
7.1
24 Ratings
13% below category average
Uploading assets00 Ratings7.523 Ratings
Downloading assets00 Ratings8.224 Ratings
Categories00 Ratings7.223 Ratings
Asset storage00 Ratings8.223 Ratings
Asset sharing00 Ratings7.924 Ratings
Asset search00 Ratings7.424 Ratings
Tagging system00 Ratings7.223 Ratings
Content editing00 Ratings6.416 Ratings
Embed codes00 Ratings7.010 Ratings
Metadata00 Ratings6.720 Ratings
Collections00 Ratings7.421 Ratings
User access00 Ratings7.023 Ratings
DAM Integrations00 Ratings6.713 Ratings
DAM API00 Ratings6.88 Ratings
Workflow automations00 Ratings5.69 Ratings
Related asset discovery00 Ratings6.613 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Chartio (discontinued)Canto
Small Businesses
IBM SPSS Modeler
IBM SPSS Modeler
Score 7.8 out of 10
Adobe Bridge
Adobe Bridge
Score 8.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Mathematica
Mathematica
Score 8.2 out of 10
MediaValet
MediaValet
Score 9.9 out of 10
Enterprises
IBM SPSS Modeler
IBM SPSS Modeler
Score 7.8 out of 10
MediaValet
MediaValet
Score 9.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
Chartio (discontinued)Canto
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(30 ratings)
8.0
(253 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(24 ratings)
9.2
(18 ratings)
Usability
7.6
(6 ratings)
8.4
(95 ratings)
Availability
8.6
(2 ratings)
6.4
(1 ratings)
Performance
7.3
(1 ratings)
6.4
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.5
(157 ratings)
Online Training
8.2
(1 ratings)
8.5
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.3
(1 ratings)
8.4
(12 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
3.6
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
6.4
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
6.8
(2 ratings)
6.4
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Chartio (discontinued)Canto
Likelihood to Recommend
Atlassian
Chartio is a great tool for building presentable dashboards. It can export, you can add read-only access, and it has permissions levels by dashboard for users. There are other data analysis tools that help to analyze the data, but few allow for such a nice presentation
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Canto
Canto is an excellent tool for organizing assets and searching for them in one location. I also really enjoy using the mobile version of Canto on my smartphone when I am on the go. Canto is robust and fast and it has been a major advancement in the way that my organization stores and shares assets.
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Pros
Atlassian
  • Direct linkage to our databases. Abstracts away the visualization layer so we can focus on the data and the queries.
  • Host of graphs and tools that permits all types of data visualizations.
  • Haven't quite used this yet, but there is a new embedding feature that will be very helpful so that we can embed the charts into a company central dash.
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Canto
  • Ability to manage several portals and allow different users access to each.
  • Ability to customize each Canto platform or portal to suit all needs.
  • The platform is very easy to use, and while there are more complex components to the platform, users are able to use only the basics and remain very successful.
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Cons
Atlassian
  • There is not a last full month date range option. You can still get the range that you need, but the dashboards will have to be manually updated to exclusively display one whole month.
  • When building a chart, the area which displays your tables and fields is finite. You can't adjust the size to make it easier to see. They do allow a mouse-over to see the entire name of your table/field, but I would prefer to adjust the width.
  • Once you modify a query in the Custom Query tab, there doesn't seem to be a way to go back to using the U.I.
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Canto
  • The brand templates add-on is very difficult to use. It sounds great on paper, but when you actually try to use it you find out it's very clunky and limited.
  • Adding fonts to style guides is difficult. Would love to see some sort of integration with Adobe and Google fonts.
  • Duplicate finder only finds exact duplicates, so if a file has been run through processing of any sort it doesn't find it (ie Photoshop, Lightroom). Would be great if it could have some sort of optical duplicate finder.
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Likelihood to Renew
Atlassian
Great customer support: You will receive an answer by email usually within 20-30 minutes. Not only that but our CSMs for Chartio go out of their way to help, they have even created charts for some of the less experienced users that wanted an example to work from. We have had nothing but great experiences with this team.
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Canto
It's a fantastic product and we get a lot of mileage out of Canto. I would 100% say that we plan to renew our subscription and have not explored any other digital asset management tools. It has all the tools we need, seamlessly connects with Adobe products (out primary design tool) and continues to innovate.
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Usability
Atlassian
I really like using Chartio. I use it on a daily basis for pulling data from different sources and combining data (the explore tab was a great idea for this use). I think I would give it 8/10 because there needs to be more documentation or maybe blog posts about things people are doing with it. I only have my own ideas about what to do /how to graph things. I know there are some articles, but it would be awesome to have a section on the neat dashboards people are building or how they show data in different ways. Another complaint is how much time it takes to load. I know our databases aren't set up precisely for Chartio and I have been creating data stores. But the data stores have so many more limitations that adds a whole new layer of frustration. Love the product, keep up the good work and the fast fixes.
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Canto
Canto is about as easy to use as it gets. I have personally trained a handful of employees who are unfamiliar with DAM/marketing SaaS technology on how to use the platform for their needs. These trainings only take about half an hour (given they are using a very limited set of Canto's features), and afterward, they are pretty well-equipped to use the platform.
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Reliability and Availability
Atlassian
No answers on this topic
Canto
Canto is usually available, though sometimes goes down for 30 min - 1 hr. Usually resolved quickly
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Performance
Atlassian
No answers on this topic
Canto
I've satisfied with the performance
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Support Rating
Atlassian
No answers on this topic
Canto
I think Canto's onboarding process was really helpful. Our employees were able to utilize the system without excess training sessions which isn't always the case with some software. I also think that their customer support has proven to be super helpful when minor issues arise
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Online Training
Atlassian
I use self learning materials. Pretty helpful. I find myself having to go back to the "drilldown" instructions though, and have a hard time finding hidden variables on a dashboard, so perhaps there is room for intuitive improvements (or maybe I'm just being lazy)
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Canto
Very knowledgable and accommodating trainers who listen to what you're asking and provide detailed yet simple instructions.
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Implementation Rating
Atlassian
No answers on this topic
Canto
We didn't have a thorough enough plan for ownership of uploading and tagging and some of our tags were inconsistent which led to some regression in our usage. We tightened up that plan on our end and spoke with support team on Canto's end to establish some best practices and have a much better workflow now.
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Alternatives Considered
Atlassian
Chartio so far has been the easiest BI tool to setup and has also been the most affordable. There are some other, great, BI tools out there but they were a bit to heavy handed for what we needed. Also - despite the high cost per user in Chartio, the other tools were still more expensive.
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Canto
Dropbox is not as organized as Canto is. This is very impactful to help us stay consistent and to stay proper when managing our digital assets. Moreover, the ease of navigation is a lot better than Dropbox ever was, this is a big reason why our company has been using Canto for SEVERAL years.We do not want to leave Canto!
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Scalability
Atlassian
Chartio has worked well as our datawarehouse has rapidly expanded, and the usability/performance hasn't seemed to have suffered. What we haven't yet realized is additional savings from additional users. We have some dashboard needs for users who truly just view of a few charts, and the licensing structure hasn't yet been structured in a way that would support that type of approach...having 50 "core" licenses, and then potentially several hundred view only licenses for partners that would use the application infrequently.
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Canto
Canto is based on the West coast, so occasionally patches and planned outages happen during East coast working hours
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Return on Investment
Atlassian
No answers on this topic
Canto
  • Covid: We all worked from home. It was a major impact for us to stop using a sketchy VPN that is slow and painful. We all became so much more efficient in our work.
  • Sharing assets: Our company has grown substantially in the past 3 years. Having Canto means that we can easily share assets with our worldwide divisions. We are leading the way on this as the companies we acquired are using archaic servers. We will bring everyone in the Canto world to better manage our assets.
  • Control: Prior to Canto, people were misusing images - not using the right ones, not using watermarks. Now it's all preventable and we are seeing better quality images used appropriately.
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ScreenShots

Chartio (discontinued) Screenshots

Screenshot of Sample Executive DashboardScreenshot of Sample Zendesk DashboardScreenshot of Chartio's SQL Mode Chart CreatorScreenshot of SQL EditorScreenshot of Query BuilderScreenshot of Data Pipeline

Canto Screenshots

Screenshot of the Canto AI Visual Search to discover digital assets faster.Screenshot of asset discovery with AI Visual Search, using natural language to instantly find the most relevant images and videos in Canto.Screenshot of Canto's integrations, including Adobe Creative Suite, Hootsuite, Canva, and monday.com.Screenshot of sharing tools to push on-brand digital content to teams, channels, and platforms while maintaining control with access controls and digital rights management.Screenshot of the organized, searchable content hub, where everyone can always find what they need, when they need it.