Chartio (discontinued) vs Toucan Toco

Likelihood to Recommend

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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Kyle Epps

Sr. Manager, Business Operations and Technology

Apollo Education Group - Original ProgrammingE-Learning, 5001-10,000 employees

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Great for folks to visualize data with little to no engineering knowledge, once the product is set up by an engineer. However, tweaks and adjustments to the data set still require engineering know-how, and tweaks to the visuals still require a CSS designer. If you need PDF reports, this is not the best option, but it's great for on-screen reporting.

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Kathleen Paluso

Director, Customer Success & Implementation

StorySlabComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Chartio (discontinued)

Toucan Toco

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Chartio (discontinued)

Toucan Toco

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

Chartio (discontinued)

Toucan Toco

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Chartio (discontinued)

Toucan Toco

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

Pros

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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Verified User

Team Lead in Engineering

Internet Company, 11-50 employees

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data visualization
data management
ease of integration

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Kathleen Paluso

Director, Customer Success & Implementation

StorySlabComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Cons

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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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Retail Company, 51-200 employees

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PDF exporting
need SQL and CSS knowledge to make the best use of the product

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Kathleen Paluso

Director, Customer Success & Implementation

StorySlabComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Chartio (discontinued) 8.0

Based on 24 answers

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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Devin Knight

User Researcher

WorkivaFinancial Services, 501-1000 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Usability

Chartio (discontinued) 7.6

Based on 6 answers

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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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Support Rating

No score

No answers yet

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Toucan Toco 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Outstanding support, very communicative. We use Slack and have a joint channel - very easy to get the help we need!

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Kathleen Paluso

Director, Customer Success & Implementation

StorySlabComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Online Training

Chartio (discontinued) 8.2

Based on 1 answer

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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Verified User

Director in Other

Internet Company, 11-50 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Alternatives Considered

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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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Engineering

E-Learning Company, 11-50 employees

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Scalability

Chartio (discontinued) 6.8

Based on 2 answers

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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Asa Pogrelis

Director of Sales and Marketing

VetSourceVeterinary, 51-200 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Return on Investment

No answers on this topic

helps us add new features

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Kathleen Paluso

Director, Customer Success & Implementation

StorySlabComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

$0

Chartio (discontinued) Editions & Modules

Edition

Starter	$40¹
Professional	$60¹
Organization	Contact sales team

per user/per month
none

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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Toucan Toco Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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Rating Summary

Chartio (discontinued)

Toucan Toco

Chartio (discontinued)

Toucan Toco

Chartio (discontinued)

Toucan Toco

Chartio (discontinued)

Toucan Toco

Chartio (discontinued)

Toucan Toco

Chartio (discontinued)

Toucan Toco

Chartio (discontinued)

Toucan Toco

Chartio (discontinued)

Toucan Toco

Chartio (discontinued)

Toucan Toco

Likelihood to Recommend