Google Charts vs. Looker Studio

Google Charts

298 Reviews and Ratings

Looker Studio

295 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Google Charts	Score7 out of 10	N/A	Google Charts provides a way to visualize data on your website - for free. From simple line charts to complex hierarchical tree maps, the chart gallery provides a large number of ready-to-use chart types. The most common way to use Google Charts is with simple JavaScript that you embed in your web page.	N/A
Looker Studio	Score7.6 out of 10	N/A	Looker Studio is a data visualization platform that transforms data into meaningful presentations and dashboards with customized reporting tools.	$9 per month per user per project

Pricing

Google Charts

Looker Studio

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Looker Studio Pro: $9
per month per user per project
Looker Studio: No charge

Pricing Offerings
Google Charts	Looker Studio
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Google Charts	Looker Studio
Considered Both Products	Google Diego Reyes Practice Director in Human Resources at Smile Doctors (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Google Charts In comparison to Microsoft Power BI, Google Charts has more ease of use for businesses who simply need a way to visually display their data from their reports. Although Power BI may be more robust in more complicated data compilation, Google Charts can still be able to do some … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Google Charts We selected Google Charts because it is a free tool and is a part of the GSuite. Incentivized Helpful?	Google Rachel Walters Director of Financial Operations in Finance and Accounting at GayTravel (Marketing & Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose Looker Studio We have used Google Charts as well which works just as great as Google Data Studio for our team. We love both of these tools. Incentivized Helpful? Scott Walker Director of Digital Marketing in Marketing at 407 Marketing (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose Looker Studio Obviously, Google Data Studio is an improvement over Google Charts, which I believe powers the chart modules used in Data Studio. I think of Data Studio as a convenient way to combine multiple Google Charts in one, easy-to-read report. In many ways it is similar to SmartDraw's … 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

Google Charts

Looker Studio

Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Google Charts and Looker Studio
Feature	Google Charts 8.8 50 Ratings	Looker Studio 8.0 53 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports	8.145 Ratings	7.037 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	9.548 Ratings	8.552 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	8.844 Ratings	8.451 Ratings

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Google Charts and Looker Studio
Feature	Google Charts 9.3 51 Ratings	Looker Studio 7.6 52 Ratings
Drill-down analysis	8.645 Ratings	9.544 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	9.551 Ratings	8.048 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	9.537 Ratings	4.024 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	9.646 Ratings	8.951 Ratings

Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Google Charts and Looker Studio
Feature	Google Charts 9.0 51 Ratings	Looker Studio 8.2 52 Ratings
Publish to Web	9.549 Ratings	7.546 Ratings
Publish to PDF	9.646 Ratings	9.545 Ratings
Report Versioning	8.643 Ratings	8.033 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	8.737 Ratings	7.436 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers	8.830 Ratings	8.818 Ratings

Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Google Charts and Looker Studio
Feature	Google Charts 8.8 50 Ratings	Looker Studio 7.1 51 Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	8.949 Ratings	9.551 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization	8.847 Ratings	9.048 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	8.839 Ratings	5.026 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining	00 Ratings	5.02 Ratings

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Google Charts and Looker Studio
Feature	Google Charts 8.8 45 Ratings	Looker Studio - Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)	8.844 Ratings	00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	8.839 Ratings	00 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	8.841 Ratings	00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	8.831 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Google Charts and Looker Studio
Feature	Google Charts 9.0 48 Ratings	Looker Studio - Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access	9.546 Ratings	00 Ratings
Mobile Application	9.629 Ratings	00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	8.744 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Google Charts and Looker Studio
Feature	Google Charts 8.8 40 Ratings	Looker Studio - Ratings
REST API	8.932 Ratings	00 Ratings
Javascript API	8.839 Ratings	00 Ratings
iFrames	8.826 Ratings	00 Ratings
Java API	8.926 Ratings	00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)	8.828 Ratings	00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)	8.828 Ratings	00 Ratings

User Ratings
	Google Charts	Looker Studio
Likelihood to Recommend	8.9 (61 ratings)	8.9 (54 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	7.3 (8 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	8.9 (33 ratings)	8.5 (5 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	5.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.3 (33 ratings)	6.7 (10 ratings)
Online Training	5.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Data Sharing and Collaboration	9.4 (22 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Data Sources	8.3 (22 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)