Looker vs. Plotly Chart Studio

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Looker
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Looker is a BI application with an analytics-oriented application server that sits on top of relational data stores. It includes an end-user interface for exploring data, a reusable development paradigm for data discovery, and an API for supporting data in other systems.N/A
Plotly Chart Studio
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Plotly headquartered in Montreal offers Chart Studio, a data visualization tool with an open source and free cloud editions, as well as enterprise editions deployable on-cloud or on-premise. The vendor describes Chart Studio as a sophisticated editor for creating D3.js and WebGL charts.
$99
per month
Pricing
LookerPlotly Chart Studio
Editions & Modules
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Private Hosting
$99.00
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
LookerPlotly Chart Studio
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional DetailsMust contact sales team for pricing.
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Features
LookerPlotly Chart Studio
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Looker
7.9
113 Ratings
3% below category average
Plotly Chart Studio
8.0
1 Ratings
5% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports7.392 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.7112 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.896 Ratings00 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Looker
8.0
113 Ratings
1% below category average
Plotly Chart Studio
9.0
1 Ratings
12% above category average
Drill-down analysis8.0109 Ratings00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.4111 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages7.946 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.7113 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Looker
8.4
109 Ratings
1% above category average
Plotly Chart Studio
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Ratings
Publish to Web8.191 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.797 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Versioning8.072 Ratings00 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling8.894 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Looker
6.6
110 Ratings
18% below category average
Plotly Chart Studio
8.5
1 Ratings
4% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.8106 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.395 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Predictive Analytics4.66 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Looker
8.2
109 Ratings
3% below category average
Plotly Chart Studio
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Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)8.8103 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model7.991 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.2103 Ratings00 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control8.042 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Looker
5.7
82 Ratings
33% below category average
Plotly Chart Studio
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Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access6.579 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Application5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile6.273 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
LookerPlotly Chart Studio
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(114 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.5
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.8
(12 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
6.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.8
(14 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
LookerPlotly Chart Studio
Likelihood to Recommend
Google
It's great for clients who don't have a huge reporting budget and/or want to add voiceover insight and analysis to the report. I love Looker for weekly updates. The client gets a general overview and can compare data against any time period that works for them. Plus, it's a free tool - who doesn't love that?
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Plotly
[Plotly Chart Studio is] a great tool to make visualizations on a web based portal. For python developers, it can ease of some burden of writing code again and again for the same thing and also refreshing visualizations on old scripts when data changes. All in all, a simple yet effective tool for your report generation and visualization needs[.]
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Pros
Google
  • Show visited pages - sessions, pageviews - which programs are viewed the most.
  • Displays session source/medium views to see where users are coming from.
  • It shows the video titles, URLs, and event counts so we can monitor the performance of our videos.
  • It gives a graphic face to the numbers, such as using bar charts, pie graphs, and other charts to show user trends or which channels are driving engagement.
  • Our clients like to see the top pages visited for a month.
  • I like the drop-and-drag approach, and building charts is a little easier than it was before.
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Plotly
  • Connects to almost every kind of data source like SQL, Excel, MS Access, flat files and more.
  • Charts get saved to the repository and are re-used by multiple users.
  • No need of manual intervention in order to refresh the charts every time the data gets changed.
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Cons
Google
  • I’d like a bit more personalization, particularly in the “Style” section (e.g., fonts, paragraph settings, the ability to map the axis labels to shorter names…).
  • Performance can be quite slow when there are many graphs on one page, even making the page unresponsive sometimes.
  • I’d love to be able to easily embed a dashboard in the Google Sheets it comes from (without injecting code to embed the HTML).
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Plotly
  • Lack of customer support
  • Sometimes fails to visualize extremely large datasets ( probably also due to computer resource constraints)
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Likelihood to Renew
Google
We are very haooy with Looker, it provides us with all the funciomalities we need for both the day to day oerformance tracking and longer periods reporting. It is easy to use for account managers, configurable and customizable for soecialists and what is most imoortant, our clinets generally really love it
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Plotly
No answers on this topic
Usability
Google
Looker is relatively easy to use, even as it is set up. The customers for the front-end only have issues with the initial setup for looker ml creations. Other "looks" are relatively easy to set up, depending on the ETL and the data which is coming into Looker on a regular basis.
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Plotly
No answers on this topic
Reliability and Availability
Google
No objections
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Plotly
No answers on this topic
Performance
Google
Somehow resources heavy, both on server and client. I recommned at least 50Mbs data rate and high performance desktop comouter to be abke to run comolex tasks and configure larger amount of data. On the other hand, the client does not need to worry when viewing, the performance is usually ok
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Plotly
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Google
Never had to work with support for issues. Any questions we had, they would respond promptly and clearly. The one-time setup was easy, by reading documentation. If the feature is not supported, they will add a feature request. In this case, LDAP support was requested over OKTA. They are looking into it.
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Plotly
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Google
Very satisfied, easy to implement
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Plotly
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Google
Looker gives you options to integrate external APIs with great ease. Our data analytics team is able to easily use multiple data sources as input to the Looker dashboard, and everything is consolidated in one single Dashboard. You also have an option for Shared folders to be accessed by multiple people. The reporting system is perfect and has a wide range of options/reporting options that can be implemented.
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Plotly
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Google
Perfect price to performance
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Plotly
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Google
  • Looker has a poignant impact on our business's ROI objectives. As an advertising exchange we have specific goals for daily requests and fill, and having premade Looks to monitor this is an integral piece of our operational capability
  • To facilitate an efficient monthly billing cycle in our organization, Looker is essential to track estimated revenue and impression delivery by publisher. Without the Looks we have set up, we would spend considerably more time and effort segmenting revenue by vertical.
  • Looker's unique value proposition is making analytical tools more digestible to people without conventional analytical experience. Other competing tools like Tableau require considerably more training and context to successfully use, and the ability to easily plot different visualizations is one of its greatest selling points.
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Plotly
  • Improvement in productivity as charts can be shared with teams and feedback can be collected, consolidated and incorporated in the design and charts.
  • Charts are aligned with the organization theme and colors and one doesn't need to put in effort every time to do that.
  • No upfront capital expenditure and minimum user criteria helps the organization to keep the costs down.
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ScreenShots

Looker Screenshots

Screenshot of a Looker dashboard with a geo chart.