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Looker vs. Tableau Public

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Looker

426 Reviews and Ratings

Tableau Public

288 Reviews and Ratings

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Looker

    Score8.8 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

    Tableau Public

    Score9.7 out of 10
    		N/ATableau Public is a free edition of the Desktop product. With this edition, data can only be published to the Tableau public website and does not allow work to be saved or exported locally.

    $0

    per month

    Pricing
    LookerTableau Public
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    LookerTableau Public
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsMust contact sales team for pricing.—
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    LookerTableau Public
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    Verified User
    Chose Looker
    It takes forever sometimes to have data ready in Tableau dashboard, and also it takes effort to maintain each dashboards. We do not have so many efforts to maintain all. Also, we need to be able to see data faster and therefore take actions and work faster. With Looker we might …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose Looker
    Looker was selected because of their willingness to work with us. They built a custom demo for us and showed us our data within the application.
    Incentivized
    Jennifer Lamas
    Analista in Information Technology at FONDO DE COMPENSACIÓN INTERTERRITORIAL (Financial Services, 201-500 employees)
    Chose Looker
    Looker is easier to use, faster helps save time at work, Robust data connections with R Studio are very important because we use this application in the company and other applications do not allow it, it has a scalable machine learning with integration of Google TensorFlow, …
    Incentivized
    Tableau
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    Key User Insights
    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
    LookerTableau Public
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Looker and Tableau Public
    Feature
    Looker
    8.8
    117 Ratings
    Tableau Public
    9.8
    12 Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports9.196 Ratings9.710 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards9.0115 Ratings10.012 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates8.499 Ratings9.712 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Looker and Tableau Public
    Feature
    Looker
    8.6
    116 Ratings
    Tableau Public
    9.7
    12 Ratings
    Drill-down analysis8.2112 Ratings9.812 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.9114 Ratings9.712 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages8.947 Ratings9.59 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration9.2116 Ratings9.811 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Looker and Tableau Public
    Feature
    Looker
    8.9
    112 Ratings
    Tableau Public
    9.5
    11 Ratings
    Publish to Web8.594 Ratings10.011 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.1100 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Report Versioning8.775 Ratings9.89 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling9.297 Ratings9.69 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.17 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Looker and Tableau Public
    Feature
    Looker
    7.0
    113 Ratings
    Tableau Public
    9.8
    11 Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.2109 Ratings9.811 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.397 Ratings9.811 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics4.66 Ratings9.79 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Looker and Tableau Public
    Feature
    Looker
    8.4
    112 Ratings
    Tableau Public
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.7106 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model8.393 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.2106 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control8.345 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Looker and Tableau Public
    Feature
    Looker
    6.3
    84 Ratings
    Tableau Public
    -
    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.781 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.675 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    LookerTableau Public
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (117 ratings)
    8.5
    (14 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.5
    (7 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.8
    (12 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (14 ratings)
    9.6
    (6 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    8.5
    (51 ratings)
    8.2
    (9 ratings)
    Data Sources
    7.3
    (51 ratings)
    8.8
    (9 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)