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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Looker

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ALooker 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

    ThoughtSpot

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AThoughtSpot 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.

    $1,500

    per year (5 users)

    Pricing
    LookerThoughtSpot
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Thoughtspot Analytics - Pro
    $50
    per month (billed annually) per user (25-1000 users)
    Thoughtspot Analytics - Enterprise
    Custom
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    LookerThoughtSpot
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredOptional
    Additional DetailsMust contact sales team for pricing.—
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    Community Pulse
    LookerThoughtSpot
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    Chose Looker
    I choose Looker when I need quick charts. It is easier to start and configure, browser-based, and easy to connect with Google Sheets. This gives it a good competitive advantage when comparing pricing—other similar tools have expensive licenses. In a corporate Google …
    Incentivized
    Chose Looker
    There are some specific use cases where other tools are not useful in our organization. Some software solutions are shared with other organizations inside the company and Looker is the only tool where we can collaborate good enough.
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    ThoughtSpot was much easier from an end-user perspective. Looker and Tableau allowed for more customization and detailed dashboards.
    Incentivized
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    Great ease of use for business users and self-service capabilites
    Incentivized
    Chose ThoughtSpot
    Compared to most reporting and analytics tools of a similar nature, ThoughtSpot seems to work particularly well with financial and sales related data. In terms of ease of use, ThoughtSpot ranks above average. On the other hand, there are dozens of basic features (esp. …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
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    86%
    Would buy again
    37 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    75 Answers
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    29 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    87 Answers
    86%
    Happy with the feature set
    37 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    55 Answers
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    69 Answers
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    29 Answers
    Features
    LookerThoughtSpot
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Looker and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Looker
    7.4
    134 Ratings
    10% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.3
    89 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports6.4110 Ratings6.021 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.2133 Ratings8.089 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.5115 Ratings7.725 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Looker and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Looker
    6.8
    132 Ratings
    16% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.4
    91 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Drill-down analysis6.3128 Ratings8.390 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities6.6130 Ratings6.990 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages5.555 Ratings5.849 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.8131 Ratings8.888 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Looker and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Looker
    7.9
    128 Ratings
    4% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    8.1
    84 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Publish to Web7.7105 Ratings8.155 Ratings
    Publish to PDF7.8113 Ratings8.378 Ratings
    Report Versioning8.084 Ratings7.918 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.2110 Ratings8.264 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings7.935 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Looker and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Looker
    6.6
    128 Ratings
    20% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.1
    86 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.7124 Ratings7.485 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.5110 Ratings6.979 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics4.66 Ratings7.465 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings6.813 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Looker and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Looker
    7.3
    128 Ratings
    15% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    8.0
    86 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)7.5120 Ratings8.282 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model7.2105 Ratings7.974 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)7.2122 Ratings7.678 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control7.360 Ratings7.816 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.672 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Looker and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Looker
    5.2
    95 Ratings
    39% below category average
    ThoughtSpot
    7.2
    53 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access4.891 Ratings7.051 Ratings
    Mobile Application5.01 Ratings6.734 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile5.885 Ratings6.746 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Looker and ThoughtSpot
    Feature
    Looker
    -
    Ratings
    ThoughtSpot
    7.3
    51 Ratings
    6% below category average
    REST API00 Ratings7.442 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings6.935 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings8.034 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings7.013 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.235 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.115 Ratings
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    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Zendesk Explore
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Zendesk Explore
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Sisense
    Score6.7 out of 10
    Sisense
    Score6.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    LookerThoughtSpot
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (134 ratings)
    8.4
    (91 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (8 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    8.8
    (12 ratings)
    8.1
    (85 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (14 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.5
    (51 ratings)
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    Data Sources
    7.3
    (51 ratings)
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Professional Services
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    LookerThoughtSpot
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    When data drives potential for new orders, Looker earns its place in our tech stack. If, on the other hand, we are hoping for pipeline generation, Looker is useful if you are willing to repeatedly go check customer utilizations .... it is not appropriate if you are hoping to automate data analysis for this purpose.
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    ThoughtSpot
    It is well suited when the same data is consumed by many different people with different analytics and visualization requirements because, if you have the data available in ThoughtSpot, every user can prepare different views. Also, it is a good reporting tool, you can get rid of slides if you have a good dashboard prepared, gaining flexibility and agility.
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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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    ThoughtSpot
    • 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
    Google
    • Documentation is scarce, and very difficult to find when you need it.
    • Pricing is unclear, particularly as you look to scale your reports across the business.
    • Data from other sources is not represented in the system as well as first party Google services.
    Incentivized
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    ThoughtSpot
    • 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
    Google
    I give it this rating because it deems as effective, I am able to complete majority of my tasks using this app. It is very helpful when analyzing the data provided and shown in the app and it's just overall a great app for Operational use, despite the small hiccups it has (live data).
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    ThoughtSpot
    I give it just waiting because passport is brilliant and it has helped our organisation In advancing to the next stage in the age of AI. It has allowed or non-tech people to better service and clients in a cost-effective way. George port has allowed us to create new products for us and for our clients increasing our revenue streams and reducing clients churn
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    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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    ThoughtSpot
    The rating is because of the ease of use of the interface as it has a no code interface that makes it easy to setup data pipelines without extensive programming. Cloud native integration: It integrates seamlessly with cloud based data warehouses. Automated data loading, Scalability, Cost Effective, Transformations, Data Governance and security.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Google
    No objections
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    ThoughtSpot
    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
    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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    ThoughtSpot
    It does what it is supposed to. Would be nice to have a bit more insights
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    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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    ThoughtSpot
    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
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    inhouse in-person training. Took a bit to long to get the basics.
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    Online Training
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    poor instructions
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    Implementation Rating
    Google
    Very satisfied, easy to implement
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    ThoughtSpot
    Understand use case and model and design accordingly
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Looker Studio, you can easily report on data from various sources without programming. Looker Studio is available at no charge for creators and report viewers. Enterprise customers who upgrade to Looker Studio Pro will receive support and expanded administrative features, including team content management. So it's good.
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    ThoughtSpot
    We also explored Tableau Ask Data. Tableau is our standard for BI in our organization. We want to use the smallest amount of tools in our company to have the best adaption. ThoughSpot will fill a few gaps that we have with our current set up and will also enhance out offering for our employees in the transition of being more data driven within in near future
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Google
    Perfect price to performance
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    ThoughtSpot
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    ThoughtSpot
    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
    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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    ThoughtSpot
    • 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

    Looker Screenshots

    Screenshot of a Looker dashboard with a geo chart.

    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