Reveal vs. ThoughtSpot

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Reveal
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Reveal embedded analytics enables teams and customers to drive data insights with embedded intelligence, transforming the user experience of apps. Built with embed in mind first, on modern architecture, Reveal’s API aims to remove the complexity of embedding analytics into applications. Reveal’s native SDKs can be integrated into applications on any platform and tech stack including: .NET Core, Java, NodeJS (coming soon), and front-end technologies such as React, Angular, WebComponent,…
$0
ThoughtSpot
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
ThoughtSpot 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.
$50
per month (billed annually) per user (25-1000 users)
Pricing
RevealThoughtSpot
Editions & Modules
Embedded Analytics - Contact Us!
$0.00
Thoughtspot Analytics - Pro
$50
per month (billed annually) per user (25-1000 users)
Thoughtspot Analytics - Enterprise
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
RevealThoughtSpot
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
RevealThoughtSpot
Considered Both Products
Reveal
Chose Reveal
No much difference compared to major competitors regarding the cost. However, I find Reveal better equipped with lots of features. It also offers better data collaboration features which is a plus.
Chose Reveal
While understanding and using Reveal takes time to learn, it offers leading industry features. It is also a little bit expensive. However, the benefits are worth the trouble.
Chose Reveal
One reason why I would still consider Reveal despite being expensive is because it is more versatile. There are tons of features and there is so much a business can achieve with Reveal.
Chose Reveal
Reveal is more detailed and offers multiple features. However, it does not come cheap but I still consider it the best in BI.
Chose Reveal
Reveal is more affordable compared to most competitors. Most importantly, there are no compromises on capabilities and therefore a better choice for business.
Chose Reveal
I tested these other platforms, but for what we are needing, they didn't have all the features that Reveal does. Reveal allows for more personalization and modifications. The other platforms also didn't have the plethora of templates that Reveal does.
Chose Reveal
Lacks ability to generate analytics as complex as Tableau and not as easy to embed and interface with other software and databases as Looker. But a very good option for those not needing the complexities found in other products.
Chose Reveal
Reveal promised a less steep learning curve and delivers on that promise, but that is partly because it does not provide the same depth of functionality which is available from Power BI. With Power BI, there is deeper drilling available and a wider range of tasks which can be …
Chose Reveal
The only alternative I have ever used have been internally built portals that are obviously flexible but don't have the portability and cross-platform support that Reveal has. We used ReportPlus, but it didn't have an Android alternative for my other handheld. In looking for …
Chose Reveal
The infrastructure and licensing costs are much smaller when compared to others.
Chose Reveal
Tableau was extremely difficult for our team to try and use--a lot of us aren't data experts. It was more expensive too.
Chose Reveal
Reveal's integrated .NET component approach is interesting. Many solutions have an iFrame only option, which limits your applications ability to interact with dashboards.
Chose Reveal
Reveal, compared to its competitors, has a much lower cost if we consider an audience of 100-130 end users. Not only is the initial/annual cost the advantage of Reveal, but also the simplicity of configuration, use and production of the reports. The other competitors have wider …
ThoughtSpot
Chose ThoughtSpot
I think PBI was terribly slow and clunky. UI was outdated. Solution was expensive for what we needed. ThoughtSpot was worlds different (in a better way).
Chose ThoughtSpot
They’re for different use cases. When I want a dynamic way to quickly obtain the data I need, I’d go with 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 …
Chose ThoughtSpot
ThoughtSpot's user friendly interface, faster and accurate results, low-code support for building insights and vast availability of native charts, AI powered dashboards helps in faster decision making and helps in driving better business results. The mobile APP that ThoughtSpot …
Chose ThoughtSpot
It is more cost effective when compared to Tableau and more easy to use. ThoughtSpot integrates well with modern cloud data platforms like Snowflake, Google, and Bigquery, making it easy to analyze large datasets in real time. Sync insights into cloud tools. Users can sync …
Chose ThoughtSpot
ThoughtSpot provided a twist on the typical Analytics / report builder interface. The natural language query building is just so much easier to use.
Chose ThoughtSpot
ThoughtSpot is easy to build charts and it is probably the easiest tool to build things quickly. The quality of the charts is middle if not lower pack compared to others. The dbt integration is wildly oversold and does not add any value.
Chose ThoughtSpot
ThoughtSpot can handle large datasets A LOT better.
Chose ThoughtSpot
ThoughtSpot was much easier from an end-user perspective. Looker and Tableau allowed for more customization and detailed dashboards.
Chose ThoughtSpot
Thoughtspot is a fairly new tool when compared to Tableau. I'll just list the benefits of each one of threse below -
Tableau -
1. Much more customizable the Thoughtspot
Chose ThoughtSpot
Have not used as much, tried ThoughtSpot out for the first time for evaluation and testing purposes to see if this type of software would be helpful.
Chose ThoughtSpot
we were looking for something which provides self service capabilities and something which very eay to use from users perspective.
Chose ThoughtSpot
I liked thought spot because of the ad-hoc capabilities and their search functionality.
Chose ThoughtSpot
ThoughtSpot is more powerful of a tool than something like QlikView or QlikSense with the correct training.
Chose ThoughtSpot
ThoughtSpot is my top choice from the above two as the UI is the most modern and user-friendly as well.
Chose ThoughtSpot
ThoughtSpot is the leader in embedded analytics and is much easier to work with massive volumes of data. None of the other tools listed had both of those functionalities, which were most important to us. There are other features that they have such as easier drill down, …
Chose ThoughtSpot
much more extensible and much easier to embed
Chose ThoughtSpot
Compare to Kibana, which was we used previously, ThoughtSpot is definitely better in terms of UI, visualizations, usability, and the SpotIQ/ML components. The only disadvantage for ThoughtSpot is the lack of drill-down function/click-on filters.
Chose ThoughtSpot
The main reason for selecting Thoughtspot was to share reporting with other external vendors and ease of doing business.
Chose ThoughtSpot
We have been using tableau as the enterprise reporting tool and felt sending data to external people had few restrictions hence we tried with ThoughtSpot.
Chose ThoughtSpot
ThoughtSpot can similarly generate tables, visuals, and dashboards in Tableau, but in a faster and easier way.
Chose ThoughtSpot
We liked the support we were getting in the sales process (this has continued to be fantastic), I personally knew several people in the company. In the pilot we ran, our devs enjoyed working with ThoughtSpot.
Chose ThoughtSpot
We have multiple BI Applications that are used based on the needs of the different business users.
Chose ThoughtSpot
We selected ThoughtSpot with the promise that it would evolve into a Google search for business insights. To date, it has not gotten close in my opinion.
Features
RevealThoughtSpot
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Reveal
7.0
Ratings
0% above category average
ThoughtSpot
7.6
Ratings
7% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports6.50 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards7.40 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Reveal
7.3
Ratings
6% below category average
ThoughtSpot
7.7
Ratings
5% below category average
Drill-down analysis7.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.30 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings5.40 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Reveal
7.6
Ratings
1% above category average
ThoughtSpot
8.0
Ratings
0% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.50 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.50 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Predictive Analytics7.70 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Reveal
6.7
Ratings
12% below category average
ThoughtSpot
8.5
Ratings
0% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)6.60 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model7.10 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)7.60 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)5.60 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Reveal
6.0
Ratings
22% below category average
ThoughtSpot
6.5
Ratings
18% below category average
REST API2.60 Ratings5.10 Ratings
Javascript API7.20 Ratings4.80 Ratings
Java API6.40 Ratings7.00 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Reveal
-
Ratings
ThoughtSpot
8.8
Ratings
6% above category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Reveal
-
Ratings
ThoughtSpot
7.5
Ratings
4% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
RevealThoughtSpot
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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8.4
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Likelihood to Renew
8.2
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10.0
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Usability
8.3
(0 ratings)
8.6
(0 ratings)
Availability
8.2
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Performance
7.3
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(0 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
4.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.3
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
Configurability
7.3
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
6.4
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
6.4
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
7.3
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8.0
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Vendor pre-sale
7.3
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9.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
RevealThoughtSpot
Likelihood to Recommend
As a company responsible for people money we have to deal with following challenges every day: Clients who want to track the status of their transfers. Licensing agencies who need to ensure professional standards are met. Internal team managers who need to track client and staff progress to ensure company progression and success. Reveal does a good job as self-service tool enabling the accountable parties to have full access to important insights 24/7. The prebuilt dashboard themes save time and investment as we don’t need to hire a dedicated data analyst. The interactive dashboards give full transparency. The ability to easily create, analyze and report keeps clients, partners and stuff on the same page.
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By using the power of cloud platforms like bigquery or snowflake, ThoughtSpot can deliver performance at scale ensuring that even the largest organization can quickly analyze and visualize data. The ability to seamlessly share live dashboards fosters collaborations, ensuring everyone in the organization is working from the same data source and aligned in decision making.
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Pros
  • Ease of Use - Reveal is super intuitive when it comes to creating dashboards. You don't need to be a data expert, which is key for me.
  • Sharing - The ability to share across our teams, locations, and with clients is great. We create teams for our different clients and share dashboards there that also are connected to our company dashboards.
  • Support and Roadmap - Reveal support has been great. They care about the needs of their customers. They have released 3 updates in the last few months, and they are adding a lot of value.
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  • 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
  • There are a limited number of templates, but this is something they say they are working on.
  • Cost is reasonable for individual personal use, but prohibitive to small companies looking to embed their services in their own App.
  • Responses to emails for support can be delayed, but what else is new?
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  • 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
As a developer of the project, I feel comfortable with this tool for its peculiarities: acceptable costs, simple configuration, creation and maintenance of simple reports, fairly complete account management, also, not least, I appreciate the work done by their technical support always timely intervention and, above all, resolutive.
Furthermore, as far as end users are concerned, I found a good appreciation of the proposed reports
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We have had success with the initial use cases and there are more use cases that can receive return on investment. I don't give it a 10 because other products like Tableau are building functionality that may start to compete in the coming years.
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Usability
There's a little setup initially, but it's very simple. I would only ask for a few more options in font size. My iOS app screenshots perfectly, while the Android version is hard to get all the data to show in the field. I typically show total sales and percentage to LY as my primary team reports...as well as seeing how I'm doing versus the other Area Managers.
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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
This assessment is due to the fact that I have not yet found Reveal not available for use. Apart from some problems of development crash, then fixed by the product assistance service, I have not found any particular problems or loss of time caused by the instrument.
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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
The pages load rather quickly even in the presence of several elevations in the same dashboard that insist on different data sources and with visualizations that insist on different types of graph. I can only be satisfied with these performances.
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It does what it is supposed to. Would be nice to have a bit more insights
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Support Rating
No answers on this topic
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
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inhouse in-person training. Took a bit to long to get the basics.
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Online Training
No answers on this topic
poor instructions
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Implementation Rating
None in particular, however, would be welcome if improvements were made in the personalization of the prospects and in the connection between them (perhaps being able to transfer the selections present in one prospect to another recalled by the first).
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Understand use case and model and design accordingly
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Alternatives Considered
I tested these other platforms, but for what we are needing, they didn't have all the features that Reveal does. Reveal allows for more personalization and modifications. The other platforms also didn't have the plethora of templates that Reveal does.
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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 information, ThoughSpot is much better.
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Scalability
This evaluation is the result of the fact that I have not had the opportunity to deepen the Reveal interface with other tools and / or other software, so the evaluation that I am giving follows what I have been able to read regarding the characteristics of the product online.
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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
  • We have the best platform for visualizing data for better understanding
  • The drag and drop features saves time
  • With data from multiple sources, we get the right intelligence to drive our business forward.
  • While it is expensive, the benefits outweighs the high cost
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  • 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

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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