Keen IO vs. ThoughtSpot

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Keen IO
Score 6.9 out of 10
N/A
Keen (or keen.io) is an embedded analytics tool from the company of the same name headquartered in San Antonio, that is built an Apache Kafka and focuses on event data. Keen’s presentation library can be used to embed and deliver metrics within a UI.N/A
ThoughtSpot
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
ThoughtSpot is an Agentic Analytics Platform for enterprises where users ask data questions using natural language and get answers with AI. Code-first for data teams and code-free for business users, ThoughtSpot can handle large, complex cloud data at scale.
$50
per month (billed annually) per user (25-1000 users)
Pricing
Keen IOThoughtSpot
Editions & Modules
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Thoughtspot Analytics - Pro
$50
per month (billed annually) per user (25-1000 users)
Thoughtspot Analytics - Enterprise
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Keen IOThoughtSpot
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Keen IOThoughtSpot
Considered Both Products
Keen IO
Chose Keen IO
They have minor similarities, so they are not easily comparable. Keen is one of a kind and does not have a great alternative. It just needs a little work and developers will be addicted to it.
Chose Keen IO
Keen IO is powerful and comparable to many of these programs. I have personally found the Google alternatives best for my company because they are much more user-friendly and have a familiar interface for most users. Pendo.io, Optimizely, and Segment are great as well but …
Chose Keen IO
Overall I think Keen IO is generally easier to use and more friendly towards new or novice users than other platforms. If you are just looking for a quick and easy solution, Keen IO might be the way to go. The cost of obtaining the software is a con when compared to some other …
ThoughtSpot
Chose ThoughtSpot
Great ease of use for business users and self-service capabilites
Chose ThoughtSpot
It stacks up well against these modern BI tools. These are the most popular tools and its ability to perform well with live connections gives it an advantage. However, having more control over formatting/customization would allow it to go further. Plus, developing a stronger …
Chose ThoughtSpot
I think PBI was terribly slow and clunky. UI was outdated. Solution was expensive for what we needed. ThoughtSpot was worlds different (in a better way).
Chose ThoughtSpot
They’re for different use cases. When I want a dynamic way to quickly obtain the data I need, I’d go with ThoughtSpot.
Chose ThoughtSpot
It is more flexible and PowerBI, easier work online, and share information with many users. Also the dashboards and beautiful, and the user experience is better. Performance used to be faster.

We use Looker for different use cases but, when it comes to reporting and sharing …
Chose ThoughtSpot
ThoughtSpot's user friendly interface, faster and accurate results, low-code support for building insights and vast availability of native charts, AI powered dashboards helps in faster decision making and helps in driving better business results. The mobile APP that ThoughtSpot …
Chose ThoughtSpot
It is more cost effective when compared to Tableau and more easy to use. ThoughtSpot integrates well with modern cloud data platforms like Snowflake, Google, and Bigquery, making it easy to analyze large datasets in real time. Sync insights into cloud tools. Users can sync …
Chose ThoughtSpot
ThoughtSpot provided a twist on the typical Analytics / report builder interface. The natural language query building is just so much easier to use.
Chose ThoughtSpot
ThoughtSpot is easy to build charts and it is probably the easiest tool to build things quickly. The quality of the charts is middle if not lower pack compared to others. The dbt integration is wildly oversold and does not add any value.
Chose ThoughtSpot
ThoughtSpot can handle large datasets A LOT better.
Chose ThoughtSpot
ThoughtSpot was much easier from an end-user perspective. Looker and Tableau allowed for more customization and detailed dashboards.
Chose ThoughtSpot
Thoughtspot is a fairly new tool when compared to Tableau. I'll just list the benefits of each one of threse below -
Tableau -
1. Much more customizable the Thoughtspot
Chose ThoughtSpot
Have not used as much, tried ThoughtSpot out for the first time for evaluation and testing purposes to see if this type of software would be helpful.
Chose ThoughtSpot
we were looking for something which provides self service capabilities and something which very eay to use from users perspective.
Chose ThoughtSpot
I liked thought spot because of the ad-hoc capabilities and their search functionality.
Chose ThoughtSpot
ThoughtSpot is more powerful of a tool than something like QlikView or QlikSense with the correct training.
Chose ThoughtSpot
ThoughtSpot is my top choice from the above two as the UI is the most modern and user-friendly as well.
Chose ThoughtSpot
ThoughtSpot is the leader in embedded analytics and is much easier to work with massive volumes of data. None of the other tools listed had both of those functionalities, which were most important to us. There are other features that they have such as easier drill down, …
Chose ThoughtSpot
much more extensible and much easier to embed
Chose ThoughtSpot
Compare to Kibana, which was we used previously, ThoughtSpot is definitely better in terms of UI, visualizations, usability, and the SpotIQ/ML components. The only disadvantage for ThoughtSpot is the lack of drill-down function/click-on filters.
Chose ThoughtSpot
The main reason for selecting Thoughtspot was to share reporting with other external vendors and ease of doing business.
Chose ThoughtSpot
We have been using tableau as the enterprise reporting tool and felt sending data to external people had few restrictions hence we tried with ThoughtSpot.
Chose ThoughtSpot
ThoughtSpot can similarly generate tables, visuals, and dashboards in Tableau, but in a faster and easier way.
Chose ThoughtSpot
We liked the support we were getting in the sales process (this has continued to be fantastic), I personally knew several people in the company. In the pilot we ran, our devs enjoyed working with ThoughtSpot.
Features
Keen IOThoughtSpot
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Keen IO
6.3
Ratings
13% below category average
ThoughtSpot
7.3
Ratings
11% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports5.90 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards7.40 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates5.50 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Keen IO
6.1
Ratings
25% below category average
ThoughtSpot
7.5
Ratings
7% below category average
Formatting capabilities7.60 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration6.60 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings5.80 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Keen IO
7.0
Ratings
10% below category average
ThoughtSpot
7.3
Ratings
9% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.70 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.10 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Predictive Analytics4.20 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Keen IO
4.7
Ratings
48% below category average
ThoughtSpot
8.1
Ratings
5% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)4.10 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model5.40 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)4.40 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Keen IO
6.9
Ratings
5% below category average
ThoughtSpot
7.2
Ratings
7% below category average
REST API4.80 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Javascript API9.00 Ratings6.70 Ratings
iFrames6.10 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Java API8.10 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)6.70 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Keen IO
-
Ratings
ThoughtSpot
8.2
Ratings
0% above category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Keen IO
-
Ratings
ThoughtSpot
7.3
Ratings
5% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings6.80 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings6.80 Ratings
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User Ratings
Keen IOThoughtSpot
Likelihood to Recommend
6.9
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8.5
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Likelihood to Renew
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10.0
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Usability
-
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8.2
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Availability
-
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9.0
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Performance
-
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8.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
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8.0
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
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5.0
(0 ratings)
Online Training
-
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4.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
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9.0
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
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8.0
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Vendor pre-sale
-
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9.0
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User Testimonials
Keen IOThoughtSpot
Likelihood to Recommend
Keen IO is well suited for a young company with employees who are quick learners. It may still take some time to get the hang of using the program, but it will be a much speedier and more efficient endeavor if the employees are already on top of that. It is not as appropriate for older employees because they are likely already used to other programs and it will be a big jump for them. The data representations can be excellent if you just have some time to fiddle with the settings.
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By using the power of cloud platforms like bigquery or snowflake, ThoughtSpot can deliver performance at scale ensuring that even the largest organization can quickly analyze and visualize data. The ability to seamlessly share live dashboards fosters collaborations, ensuring everyone in the organization is working from the same data source and aligned in decision making.
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Pros
  • Very fast and significantly shortens work time
  • Easy user interface
  • Excellent output of analytical data
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  • Beautiful visualizations. The visuals are distinct, clean, and easy to discern from one another.
  • Intelligent querying functionality. When looking to manipulate the data, the search function makes it easy to manipulate the features in the data, along with aggregating them in the way you'd like.
  • Embedding! It has been a smooth process thus far for our product & technical teams to work with ThoughtSpot and bring it into our product.
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Cons
  • Customer service.
  • Slightly overpriced.
  • Customer service does not seem to understand every aspect well enough to effectively help.
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  • It would be great if ThoughtSpot can add the feature to filter by clicking on visualizations. i.e if I click on a particular data point in the chart if the full dashboard can filter just for that particular data point.
  • Color coding the heatmap with different colors like green to orange to red.
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Likelihood to Renew
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We have had success with the initial use cases and there are more use cases that can receive return on investment. I don't give it a 10 because other products like Tableau are building functionality that may start to compete in the coming years.
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Usability
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The tool is easy to use if you know what you are doing and looking for. I know as they work towards improvements and simple language it will become even easier, but as of now they are doing a great job but there is room for improvement.
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Reliability and Availability
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it's available unless there is a server or system update etc. sometimes the timing of this is bad (for example during a month end close)
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Performance
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It does what it is supposed to. Would be nice to have a bit more insights
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Support Rating
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I give it this meeting because the team is not only help able to help us in the current solutions but also amazing and taking feedback and feeding it back to their development team which includes more products and features into ThoughtSpot
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In-Person Training
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inhouse in-person training. Took a bit to long to get the basics.
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Online Training
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poor instructions
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Implementation Rating
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Understand use case and model and design accordingly
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Alternatives Considered
They have minor similarities, so they are not easily comparable. Keen is one of a kind and does not have a great alternative. It just needs a little work and developers will be addicted to it.
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It is more flexible and PowerBI, easier work online, and share information with many users. Also the dashboards and beautiful, and the user experience is better. Performance used to be faster. We use Looker for different use cases but, when it comes to reporting and sharing information, ThoughSpot is much better.
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Scalability
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Because it is very reliable, inside the situation, we need strong internet connection to access a lot of data but easily never had any downtime except during the upgrades
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Return on Investment
No answers on this topic
  • Time to market ROI is massive vs hiring the full-time dedicated team to build and maintain a frontend multi-tenant SaaS data viz product.
  • It will be interesting to see over time how the advanced features play out in terms of usability and end value, such as Natural Search, which we are very excited about, and the machine learning tools.
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ScreenShots

ThoughtSpot Screenshots

Screenshot of the ThoughtSpot home screenScreenshot of SpotIQ, which offers AI-driven insightsScreenshot of the Spotter AI agent that surfaces insights through natural language queriesScreenshot of AI Assist producing SQL in real timeScreenshot of SpotIQ, which offers AI-driven insightsScreenshot of the integration with dbt models and metrics