Tableau Cloud vs. ThoughtSpot

Tableau Cloud

551 Reviews and Ratings

ThoughtSpot

202 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
ThoughtSpot	Score8.1 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.	$1,500 per year (5 users)

Pricing

Tableau Cloud

ThoughtSpot

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
Tableau+: Contact Sales

Thoughtspot Analytics - Pro: $50
per month (billed annually) per user (25-1000 users)
Thoughtspot Analytics - Enterprise: Custom

Pricing Offerings
Tableau Cloud	ThoughtSpot
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Tableau Cloud	ThoughtSpot
Considered Both Products	Tableau Kanchana Velaga Sr Software Engineer in Information Technology at Kipi.bi (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose Tableau Cloud Tableau Cloud is ery powerful and user friendly with minimal cost when compared with other BI tools.Its robust features like switching toggles, supporting SQL queries for buiding charts and all stands out as the best.It reduces time in creating difficult and complex dashbords … Incentivized Helpful?	ThoughtSpot Verified User 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. Incentivized Helpful? Kanchana Velaga Sr Software Engineer in Information Technology at Kipi.bi (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees) 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose ThoughtSpot ThoughtSpot was much easier from an end-user perspective. Looker and Tableau allowed for more customization and detailed dashboards. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose ThoughtSpot Great ease of use for business users and self-service capabilites 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

Tableau Cloud

ThoughtSpot

Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Tableau Cloud and ThoughtSpot
Feature	Tableau Cloud 7.0 69 Ratings	ThoughtSpot 7.6 85 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports	7.051 Ratings	6.021 Ratings
Customizable dashboards	8.069 Ratings	9.185 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates	6.058 Ratings	7.725 Ratings

Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Tableau Cloud and ThoughtSpot
Feature	Tableau Cloud 6.9 69 Ratings	ThoughtSpot 7.8 87 Ratings
Drill-down analysis	8.069 Ratings	9.187 Ratings
Formatting capabilities	6.066 Ratings	7.786 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages	6.043 Ratings	5.447 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration	7.567 Ratings	8.985 Ratings

Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Tableau Cloud and ThoughtSpot
Feature	Tableau Cloud 7.1 67 Ratings	ThoughtSpot 8.9 80 Ratings
Publish to Web	7.063 Ratings	8.552 Ratings
Publish to PDF	7.562 Ratings	9.574 Ratings
Report Versioning	7.050 Ratings	7.918 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling	8.055 Ratings	9.261 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers	6.034 Ratings	9.233 Ratings

Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Tableau Cloud and ThoughtSpot
Feature	Tableau Cloud 6.8 65 Ratings	ThoughtSpot 8.1 83 Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)	7.562 Ratings	7.782 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization	6.561 Ratings	8.876 Ratings
Predictive Analytics	6.553 Ratings	8.062 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining	6.52 Ratings	7.710 Ratings

Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Tableau Cloud and ThoughtSpot
Feature	Tableau Cloud 7.0 64 Ratings	ThoughtSpot 8.6 82 Ratings
Multi-User Support (named login)	7.058 Ratings	8.679 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model	7.051 Ratings	8.671 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)	7.054 Ratings	8.575 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control	6.52 Ratings	8.413 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)	7.549 Ratings	8.668 Ratings

Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Tableau Cloud and ThoughtSpot
Feature	Tableau Cloud 6.4 54 Ratings	ThoughtSpot 7.4 50 Ratings
Responsive Design for Web Access	5.552 Ratings	7.048 Ratings
Mobile Application	6.039 Ratings	7.031 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile	7.046 Ratings	6.843 Ratings

Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Tableau Cloud and ThoughtSpot
Feature	Tableau Cloud 6.4 36 Ratings	ThoughtSpot 6.4 48 Ratings
REST API	6.031 Ratings	4.839 Ratings
Javascript API	6.529 Ratings	4.532 Ratings
iFrames	6.529 Ratings	8.231 Ratings
Java API	6.026 Ratings	7.013 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)	6.530 Ratings	6.932 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)	7.029 Ratings	7.115 Ratings

User Ratings
	Tableau Cloud	ThoughtSpot
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (70 ratings)	8.3 (87 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (6 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (23 ratings)	8.7 (82 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (3 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (3 ratings)
Support Rating	8.7 (20 ratings)	8.0 (4 ratings)
In-Person Training	- (0 ratings)	5.0 (1 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	4.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (2 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Data Sharing and Collaboration	8.0 (49 ratings)	7.8 (5 ratings)
Data Sources	8.3 (49 ratings)	8.4 (5 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)