Qlik Sense vs. ThoughtSpot

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Qlik Sense
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Qlik Sense® is a self-service BI platform for data discovery and visualization. It supports a full range of analytics use cases—data governance, pixel-perfect reporting, and collaboration. Its Associative Engine indexes and connects relationships between data points for creating actionable insights.
$20
per month per user (10 user minimum)
ThoughtSpot
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
ThoughtSpot is an AI-Powered Analytics company, that aims to create a more fact-driven world with an easy to use analytics platform. ThoughtSpot enables users to leverage natural language search powered by large language models to ask and answer data questions. Users within an organization can limitlessly engage with live data in any popular cloud data platform to create and interact with granular, hyper…
$95
per month
Pricing
Qlik SenseThoughtSpot
Editions & Modules
Standard
$20
per month per user (10 user minimum)
Premium
$2700
per month unlimited basic users & purchased full users
Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows
Contact Sales
Enterprise
Custom Quote
ThoughtSpot Analytics Team
$95
per month flat subscription
ThoughtSpot Analytics Pro
starts at $30,000
per year consumption-based pricing, pay for what you use
ThoughtSpot Analytics Enterprise
contact for pricing
per year consumption-based pricing, pay for what you use
ThoughtSpot Everywhere Pro
contact for pricing
per year consumption-based pricing, pay for what you use
ThoughtSpot Everywhere Enterprise
contact for pricing
per year consumption-based pricing, pay for what you use
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Qlik SenseThoughtSpot
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Qlik SenseThoughtSpot
Considered Both Products
Qlik Sense
Chose Qlik Sense
We selected Qlik Sense because of two main reasons:
  1. Associative Engine
  2. Self Service BI
Chose Qlik Sense
Qlik Sense is an attempt to provide a more user friendly self-service experience and it does well in this and essentially extends the Qlik View experience. Our experience has been positive and would consider Qlik Sense enterprise to formalize our proactive self-service offering …
ThoughtSpot
Chose ThoughtSpot
ThoughtSpot is a contender if you do not have any BI self-service analytical tools. It may complement existing solutions but likely you would choose a roadmap to retire the old service and move onto ThoughtSpot.

You have little access to the algorithms used but ThoughtSpot can …
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Qlik SenseThoughtSpot
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Sense
8.4
312 Ratings
2% above category average
ThoughtSpot
6.8
77 Ratings
19% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports8.3213 Ratings6.021 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.9310 Ratings6.877 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates8.1225 Ratings7.725 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Sense
8.6
323 Ratings
6% above category average
ThoughtSpot
6.9
78 Ratings
16% below category average
Drill-down analysis8.8319 Ratings7.778 Ratings
Formatting capabilities8.2312 Ratings5.877 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages8.3152 Ratings6.345 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.9296 Ratings7.976 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Sense
8.7
275 Ratings
4% above category average
ThoughtSpot
7.7
73 Ratings
8% below category average
Publish to Web8.7207 Ratings7.647 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.7254 Ratings8.168 Ratings
Report Versioning8.6174 Ratings7.918 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling8.7180 Ratings8.656 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers8.7106 Ratings6.629 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Sense
8.5
311 Ratings
5% above category average
ThoughtSpot
7.2
74 Ratings
12% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.4304 Ratings8.073 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.7281 Ratings7.569 Ratings
Predictive Analytics8.5193 Ratings6.657 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings6.86 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Sense
8.9
294 Ratings
3% above category average
ThoughtSpot
8.3
73 Ratings
4% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)9.2273 Ratings8.371 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model9.0270 Ratings8.364 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.7272 Ratings8.468 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)8.9216 Ratings8.260 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.56 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Sense
7.5
220 Ratings
6% below category average
ThoughtSpot
7.7
45 Ratings
4% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access8.5214 Ratings7.943 Ratings
Mobile Application8.2132 Ratings7.427 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.3184 Ratings6.939 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Sense
8.5
143 Ratings
7% above category average
ThoughtSpot
7.0
43 Ratings
12% below category average
REST API8.7123 Ratings7.134 Ratings
Javascript API8.392 Ratings6.828 Ratings
iFrames8.592 Ratings7.026 Ratings
Java API8.569 Ratings7.013 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)8.695 Ratings7.127 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)8.482 Ratings7.115 Ratings
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User Ratings
Qlik SenseThoughtSpot
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(327 ratings)
8.2
(78 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.4
(7 ratings)
9.7
(6 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(11 ratings)
8.5
(73 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(3 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
7.3
(8 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
4.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.3
(5 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Qlik SenseThoughtSpot
Likelihood to Recommend
Qlik
Qlik Sense is a program whose purpose is to greatly improve all your operations and use of all data in an organic way. The mission will always be to increase the economic and commercial processes of the company in a short time. I recommended it for its high technology, which was Created for this area, the results are successful. We have noticed how it has increased relationships with our clients thanks to the credibility and security that we provide.
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ThoughtSpot
Well suited for my clients for a Macro view of business insights, credit risk, ESG insights, etc. However, I think ThoughtSpot needs to make exploring underlying data easier, adding a feature where you can click on charts and filters will help users and especially business users to easily understand the granularities as well.
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Pros
Qlik
  • Flexibility in data recording, from the app, as well as in handling them. Allowing you to view reports quickly and effectively.
  • Easy to generate dynamic graphics according to our needs.
  • It is very easy to use, intuitive, so it does not generate costs in the learning process compared to the tool with collaborators
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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
Qlik
  • Scalability is RAM limited, all data is associative and in-memory so server's RAM is directly proportional to performance
  • Limitation on advanced analytics capabilities in the form of R integration to perform complex statistical and analytical calculations
  • Can have more intuitive interface
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ThoughtSpot
  • Ability to build a single dashboard tile containing the main value, a sparkline, and a percent change over time
  • Easy way to build a user experience that allows for selecting different metrics to trend from a drop-down on a multi-axis graph
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Likelihood to Renew
Qlik
Qlik Sense is a constantly improving it's software and working with its' users to make it better. They are great at keeping their users informed of progress and care about delivering a quality product
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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
Qlik
Standard user interface and powerful analytic functions is GREAT. As technical person working in the background there are more things to do to make this a completely great tool. Some functions that should be standard requires consult scripting and hours. Now we are using it quite advanced and with many servers and in combination with QlikView. So overall I love the tool. But it could be better and user friendly and powerful in the background
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ThoughtSpot
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
Qlik
No answers on this topic
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
Qlik
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
It does what it is supposed to. Would be nice to have a bit more insights
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Support Rating
Qlik
Not only can you ask the support team for help, but you can also ask the community. Also with the community there is a vast amount of problems that have already been solved. The problem you are encountering has a likely chance of already being discussed and even solved in the community section saving you time from reaching out.
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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
Qlik
The instructor was very knowledgeable.
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ThoughtSpot
inhouse in-person training. Took a bit to long to get the basics.
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Online Training
Qlik
The online instructor was very knowledgeable.
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ThoughtSpot
poor instructions
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Implementation Rating
Qlik
Hire Qlik consultants. It's better done by them or with their aid.
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ThoughtSpot
Understand use case and model and design accordingly
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Alternatives Considered
Qlik
The customization of the platform opens up plenty of other options depending on the use cases. The API layer is incredibly rich and makes integration of Qlik based visualization into web pages a simple and effective pattern. It's been very easy to use with a great community made up of professionals. Qlik Sense has introduces artificial Intelligence into my data visualization and reporting activity.
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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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Scalability
Qlik
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
Qlik
  • Once an app is published and running good, we can quickly see the time we save to analyze data.
  • It's hard sometimes to realize the money we save by using this system.
  • People start understanding the power of data and asking more questions.
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ThoughtSpot
  • Positive ROI immediately seen for first POC.
  • Saved an immense amount of time for a sole analyst on a team by enabling the end-users to ask their own questions instead of always turning to her, allowing her to focus on other priorities.
  • Immediate answer to question on second POC that led to personnel changes.
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ScreenShots

Qlik Sense Screenshots

Screenshot of Qlik Sense Cash Flow DashboardScreenshot of Qlik Sense Global Smart SearchScreenshot of Qlik Sense Smart Data Compression - Get immediate insight on large dataScreenshot of Extend, mix and mash-up with our APIsScreenshot of Add "External data" with Qlik DataMarket - Data as a ServiceScreenshot of Visualization Bundle

ThoughtSpot Screenshots

Screenshot of ThoughtSpot home screenScreenshot of A Liveboard for drill downScreenshot of Live query, to connect to cloud data platformsScreenshot of Search to analyze and visualize dataScreenshot of A look at queries runScreenshot of Consuming insights on iOS app