Amazon QuickSight vs. Looker

Amazon QuickSight

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon QuickSight	Score6.1 out of 10	N/A	N/A	$24 per month per user
Looker	Score8.8 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

Pricing

Amazon QuickSight

Looker

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Pricing Offerings
Amazon QuickSight	Looker
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

No setup fee

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Prospective buyers can also purchase a set number of sessions or questions in lieu of a monthly subscription.

Must contact sales team for pricing.

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Amazon QuickSight	Looker
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS No answer on this topic	Google Verified User Chose Looker Looker is more mailable; it allows more dynamic visualisations, filters, drilldowns etc. It's sharing capabilities are also more streamlined than AWS Quicksight. However in contrast to this AWS Quicksight can leverage AWS IAM roles and policies which can be quite scalable. … Incentivized Helpful? Shelby Bowden Graduate Research Assistant in Research & Development at Western Kentucky University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Looker Looker provides really excellent customer service in comparison to other similar products. The sharing aspect of Looker is also a big plus, which allows multiple users to access the data at the same time. We have also found it to stand out among competitors with its dashboard … Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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Features

Amazon QuickSight

Looker

Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Amazon QuickSight and Looker
Feature	Amazon QuickSight 8.0 5 Ratings	Looker 8.8 117 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports	8.04 Ratings	9.196 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	8.05 Ratings	9.0115 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	8.05 Ratings	8.499 Ratings

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Amazon QuickSight and Looker
Feature	Amazon QuickSight 7.2 5 Ratings	Looker 8.6 116 Ratings
Drill-down analysis	8.05 Ratings	8.2112 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	8.05 Ratings	7.9114 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	6.03 Ratings	8.947 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	7.05 Ratings	9.2116 Ratings

Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Amazon QuickSight and Looker
Feature	Amazon QuickSight 5.8 5 Ratings	Looker 7.0 113 Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	6.05 Ratings	8.2109 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization	8.04 Ratings	8.397 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	3.52 Ratings	4.66 Ratings

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Amazon QuickSight and Looker
Feature	Amazon QuickSight 8.0 5 Ratings	Looker 8.4 112 Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)	8.05 Ratings	8.7106 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	8.05 Ratings	8.393 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	8.05 Ratings	8.2106 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	8.04 Ratings	00 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control	00 Ratings	8.345 Ratings

Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Amazon QuickSight and Looker
Feature	Amazon QuickSight 3.9 4 Ratings	Looker 6.3 84 Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access	4.03 Ratings	7.781 Ratings
Mobile Application	3.52 Ratings	5.01 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	3.84 Ratings	7.675 Ratings

Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Amazon QuickSight and Looker
Feature	Amazon QuickSight 6.0 3 Ratings	Looker - Ratings
REST API	6.12 Ratings	00 Ratings
Javascript API	6.62 Ratings	00 Ratings
iFrames	7.03 Ratings	00 Ratings
Java API	6.12 Ratings	00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)	7.03 Ratings	00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)	3.03 Ratings	00 Ratings

User Ratings
	Amazon QuickSight	Looker
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (5 ratings)	8.7 (117 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	9.5 (7 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (1 ratings)	8.8 (12 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	6.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (1 ratings)	8.8 (14 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Data Sharing and Collaboration	7.1 (4 ratings)	8.5 (51 ratings)
Data Sources	7.1 (4 ratings)	7.3 (51 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Professional Services	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)