Looker vs. Tableau Cloud

Looker

426 Reviews and Ratings

Tableau Cloud

551 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
Tableau Cloud	Score7.9 out of 10	N/A	Tableau Cloud (formerly Tableau Online) is a self-service analytics platform that is fully hosted in the cloud. Tableau Cloud enables users to publish dashboards and invite colleagues to explore hidden opportunities with interactive visualizations and accurate data, from any browser or mobile device.	$15 per month per user

Pricing

Looker

Tableau Cloud

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Tableau Viewer: $15
per month billed annually per user
Enterprise Viewer: $35
per month billed annually per user
Tableau Explorer: $42
per month billed annually per user
Enterprise Explorer: $70
per month billed annually per user
Tableau Creator: $75
per month billed annually per user
Enterprise Creator: $115
per month billed annually per user
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Pricing Offerings
Looker	Tableau Cloud
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

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Key User Insights
	Looker	Tableau Cloud
Considered Both Products	Google Verified User Chose Looker The learning curve for Tableau Cloud was too steep for our team. After watching a couple of YouTube videos, anyone can begin connecting data sources and creating reports with Looker. Looker is also free with Google Workspace, making the decision between Looker and Tableau a … Incentivized Helpful? Thomas Holland Senior Manager of Digital Paid Marketing in Marketing at BAYADA Home Health Care (Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees) Chose Looker Looker Studio is not as robust as Tableau or Microsoft BI. So it does not provide quite as much insight or depth and it has more limitations overall then the other major reporting products. However, it is also free and connects perfectly with other Google products. Plus, all of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Looker I don't remember much about Tableau, but it was chaotic and poorly set up for our company. Incentivized Helpful? Rajender Singh Senior PLM engineer in Manufacturing at IGW (Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Looker Looker is a great fit for our company because we have collaborative analytics workflows and complicated data ecosystems and because of its strengths in data modeling, integration, and collaboration. Brand name and peer recommendations also helps us to select Looker against … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Looker I choose Looker when I need quick charts. It is easier to start and configure, browser-based, and easy to connect with Google Sheets. This gives it a good competitive advantage when comparing pricing—other similar tools have expensive licenses. In a corporate Google … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Looker We use both Looker and Tableau. It depends on the specific team. However, there is a clear correlation that we use Tableau more often when there are more data sources, including financial data. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Looker Looker is considerably easier to learn than any of the other tools listed above. For example, Tableau does offer a robust selection of visualizations, however setting them up and plotting the data correctly is considerably harder than in Looker. Another major advantage of … Incentivized Helpful? Anson Abraham Data Lord in Engineering at PlaceIQ (Internet, 51-200 employees) Chose Looker Looker was easier to use, better integration with non-standard datastores, such as Prestodb, and Snowflake, and BigTable. Ease of manageability. Creation of reports faster and easier compared to QlikView. Tableau has better heat maps, however, Looker has better drill down in … Incentivized Helpful? Joe Hughes Senior DevOps Engineer in Information Technology at Simpli.fi (Online Media, 201-500 employees) Chose Looker Looker is cheaper, by far. Easier to manage. In the end, Looker was a better choice for us, even with its maintenance warts and the headaches with the APIs. Tableau licensing is difficult to manage, at the very least, whereas Looker is not. User management is much easier to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Looker Looker is a lot easier to connect with our data pipelines and for users to create their own scalable Explores. Before, analysts would have to create separate Tableau dashboards for each ask, but now with Lookers Explores, some teams are able to self serve and create their own … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Looker Looker empowers users to create their own views/dashboards from its web application. The last time I used Tableau (in 2015), only certain license holders could create content from the desktop application. Everyone else was a view only user. On that theme, we found Looker to be … Incentivized Helpful? Purav Vaidya Vice President, Mobile technology in Information Technology at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Looker Looker stacks up very well against the other tools we have evaluated and used. All the tools have their own pros and cons. Looker had a better edge in terms of visualizations when we chose to use it. After several updates, other tools began to have newer features. Looker still … Incentivized Helpful? Scott Schaen Vice President of Analytics at Bounce Exchange (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) Chose Looker Tableau is also a great BI tool, but it felt a lot less flexible to me in terms of customization of data. As a visual platform, Tabluea is incredible; it can produce unbelievably rich visualizations and dashboards. It's also easier to get set up on Tableau too, but ultimately … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Looker If you company is using Google suite products, Looker is a no-brainer. Tableau is probably the most flexibly but as a result it has the least governance capabilities. Power BI is kind of old-school in terms of how it feels to use it. I think in general, Looker brings a lot of … Incentivized Helpful? John Beadle Director of Product Management in Product Management at Code and Theory (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) Chose Looker Tableau provides additional visual functionality and is great for more in-depth visuals or further data exploration, but it is costly and an extremely robust solution for simple data reporting. Looker can't be beat when it comes to integrating with other G-Suite tools. All in … Incentivized Helpful?	Tableau Verified User Chose Tableau Cloud It seems more robust then the other platforms. There is a lot you can do from merging many different data sets together by joining them at like points, to creating visualizations of the data, or by showcasing some important data to any number of people within your organization. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Cloud Looker ended up as the winning product due to its easy to use and flexibility. It's easy for nontechnical stakeholders to learn how to create their Explores. But Tableau gives us more flexibility in creating highly customized visualizations so analysts still rely on it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Cloud I like Looker's interface a little more and it updates quicker. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Cloud I would say that Tableau Online has the most sophisticated capabilities, but not the most straightforward UI or path to learn and operate within it quickly. It felt more technical than the other products I used and did not look as good, but I also found that it could answer a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Tableau Cloud Tableau has a wider adoption than the competition. Tableau Online can support interfaces built on Tableau. Incentivized Helpful? Mark Chiles Senior Vice President of Digital/Chief Digital Officer in Corporate at BPA Worldwide (Information Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Tableau Cloud Tableau Online is much faster to get data sets integrated and being used, accordingly. From almost day one, we were able to integrate our data warehouse and pull data directly into Tableau Online. This made us aware of some of the data details that we had been missing and were … Incentivized Helpful? Kruti Vaidya Financial Analyst in Information Technology at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Tableau Cloud Tableau does a great job compared to all of these mentioned tools. Other tools also have a great shape-up of dashboards but obviously all have their advantages and disadvantages. The reason Tableau has an edge over all the other tools is because of its excellent visual design … Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Looker

Tableau Cloud

Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Looker and Tableau Cloud
Feature	Looker 8.8 117 Ratings	Tableau Cloud 7.0 69 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports	9.096 Ratings	7.051 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	9.0115 Ratings	8.069 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	8.499 Ratings	6.058 Ratings

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Looker and Tableau Cloud
Feature	Looker 8.6 116 Ratings	Tableau Cloud 6.9 69 Ratings
Drill-down analysis	8.2112 Ratings	8.069 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	7.9114 Ratings	6.066 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	8.947 Ratings	6.043 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	9.2116 Ratings	7.567 Ratings

Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Looker and Tableau Cloud
Feature	Looker 8.9 112 Ratings	Tableau Cloud 7.1 67 Ratings
Publish to Web	8.494 Ratings	7.063 Ratings
Publish to PDF	9.1100 Ratings	7.562 Ratings
Report Versioning	8.775 Ratings	7.050 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	9.297 Ratings	8.055 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers	00 Ratings	6.034 Ratings

Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Looker and Tableau Cloud
Feature	Looker 7.0 113 Ratings	Tableau Cloud 6.8 65 Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	8.2109 Ratings	7.562 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization	8.297 Ratings	6.561 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	4.66 Ratings	6.553 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining	00 Ratings	6.52 Ratings

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Looker and Tableau Cloud
Feature	Looker 8.4 112 Ratings	Tableau Cloud 7.0 64 Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)	8.7106 Ratings	7.058 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	8.393 Ratings	7.051 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	8.2106 Ratings	7.054 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control	8.345 Ratings	6.52 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	00 Ratings	7.549 Ratings

Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Looker and Tableau Cloud
Feature	Looker 6.3 84 Ratings	Tableau Cloud 6.4 54 Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access	7.781 Ratings	5.552 Ratings
Mobile Application	5.01 Ratings	6.039 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	7.675 Ratings	7.046 Ratings

Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Looker and Tableau Cloud
Feature	Looker - Ratings	Tableau Cloud 6.4 36 Ratings
REST API	00 Ratings	6.031 Ratings
Javascript API	00 Ratings	6.529 Ratings
iFrames	00 Ratings	6.529 Ratings
Java API	00 Ratings	6.026 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)	00 Ratings	6.530 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)	00 Ratings	7.029 Ratings

User Ratings
	Looker	Tableau Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend	8.7 (117 ratings)	8.0 (70 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.5 (7 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	8.8 (12 ratings)	8.0 (23 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	6.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.8 (14 ratings)	8.7 (20 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 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)	8.0 (49 ratings)
Data Sources	7.3 (51 ratings)	8.3 (49 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)