ThoughtSpot vs. Cyfe, by Traject

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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)
Cyfe
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Cyfe is all-in-one dashboard software for analyzing data from online services like Google Analytics, Salesforce, AdSense, MailChimp, Amazon, Facebook, etc, from Traject.
$29
per month
Pricing
ThoughtSpotCyfe, by Traject
Editions & Modules
Thoughtspot Analytics - Pro
$50
per month (billed annually) per user (25-1000 users)
Thoughtspot Analytics - Enterprise
Custom
Starter
$29
per month
Standard
$39
per month
Pro
$65
per month
Premier
$119
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ThoughtSpotCyfe
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
ThoughtSpotCyfe, by Traject
Considered Both Products
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 UI was outdated.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.
Cyfe
Chose Cyfe
Klipfolio probably had a lot of cool features, but it was SO user-UNfriendly that we never got to use them. We had high enough turnover in our company that people always needed Klipfolio training, and it was rarely completed to the satisfaction of trainees or trainers. It was …
Chose Cyfe
These other reporting tools are much better for an agency that is under the scrutiny of cleaner reports with more in-depth analytics and specific KPI's. However, you can use both and provide a Cyfe board as a live additional to the weekly static reporting that many agencies …
Chose Cyfe
Sprout has better reporting for social analytics but doesn't cover as many activities across a company and the reports are only for social...not even web analytics. It's also way more expensive. We're actually evaluating whether or not Cyfe will continue to be our tool of …
Chose Cyfe
My company already subscribed to Cyfe when I began, so for me there wasn't any shopping around. While Cyfe does pull straight from the "back end" side of many social media platforms, or from Google Analytics for websites, the benefit is that you can see all the stats in one …
Chose Cyfe
Cyfe is cheaper than Geckoboard; and I believe (??) has more integrations you can pull data from. I liked Geckoboard a tad better visually.
Chose Cyfe
We used RavenTools in the past as our monthly reporting tool. At the time there wasn't a one-page dashboard available in RavenTools, every single element we incorporate in our reports was included on a separate page. It became very unwieldy for our clients and led to a lot of …
Chose Cyfe
Compared to other tools like Jasper Reports, Cyfe has ZERO impact on the server since it is a totally hosted solution, plus it has several connectors that allow for interacting with no coding at all. It gives the user total freedom on which language to use to provide custom …
Chose Cyfe
We were using different tools to do pieces of what Cyfe does. I was never keen on the idea of spending $150, $200, or even $500+ for an analytics tool so we were pulling analytics directly from each source and creating our own reports. It was a beast of a project to manage and …
Chose Cyfe
Cyfe more than holds its own vs the competition. The capabilities are strong - especially for the price.
Chose Cyfe
Hootsuite is good for tracking online activity. Cyfe has the same capabilities and more.
Chose Cyfe
Remember that Cyfe is not a true Business Intelligence tool it is a data visualization tool. It is great because it let's you change the time series. It will not let you drill down on the data. You cannot map different data sets together. It is a great tool to pull basic data …
Chose Cyfe
Cyfe really shines by pulling in only the relevant data you want to see while being logged in to multiple accounts.
Chose Cyfe
The price was a big selling point but more importantly the third-party integrations that are offered were the deciding factor. Offering support for services that we use regularly like Google Analytics, Apple's iTunes Connect, Facebook, etc., allow us to get real time access to …
Chose Cyfe
I investigated a number of options for a digital dashboard, to be honest Cyfe was so much cheaper than the alternatives I was a bit sceptical, but it was so much better once I had mastered adding data sources.
Chose Cyfe
The Salesforce dashboard is comparably flexible and intuitive, but designed more to its internal CRM focus. SumAll shares the social media dashboard capabilities, but lacks all others. Its interesting feature is side-by-side graph analysis for cross-channel performance. Cyfe …
Chose Cyfe
Cyfe's pricing model makes it affordable for a small company like mine.
Chose Cyfe
Yet to find a comparative product that can offer the same pricing, service and capabilities
Chose Cyfe
Have not tried other products.
Chose Cyfe
Domo was vastly overpriced compared Cyfe and it was far less friendly to use and get used to. I was able to jump right in with Cyfe and get the data I wanted setup right away. When I had a question I was able to get an immediate response directly from Deven without hesitation. …
Features
ThoughtSpotCyfe, by Traject
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
ThoughtSpot
7.6
Ratings
7% below category average
Cyfe, by Traject
6.9
Ratings
17% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports6.00 Ratings6.80 Ratings
Customizable dashboards9.00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.70 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
ThoughtSpot
7.7
Ratings
5% below category average
Cyfe, by Traject
8.5
Ratings
5% above category average
Drill-down analysis9.00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.60 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages5.40 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration8.90 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
ThoughtSpot
8.8
Ratings
6% above category average
Cyfe, by Traject
9.2
Ratings
10% above category average
Publish to Web8.50 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Publish to PDF9.40 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Report Versioning7.90 Ratings6.80 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling9.10 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers9.10 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
ThoughtSpot
8.0
Ratings
0% above category average
Cyfe, by Traject
8.9
Ratings
11% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.70 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.80 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Predictive Analytics8.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining7.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
ThoughtSpot
8.5
Ratings
0% above category average
Cyfe, by Traject
8.6
Ratings
1% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)8.60 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model8.60 Ratings6.30 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.50 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)8.60 Ratings9.70 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
ThoughtSpot
7.5
Ratings
4% below category average
Cyfe, by Traject
9.3
Ratings
17% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access7.10 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Mobile Application7.20 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
ThoughtSpot
6.5
Ratings
18% below category average
Cyfe, by Traject
8.4
Ratings
7% above category average
REST API5.10 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Javascript API4.80 Ratings10.00 Ratings
iFrames8.30 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Java API7.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)7.00 Ratings5.90 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)7.10 Ratings5.80 Ratings
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User Ratings
ThoughtSpotCyfe, by Traject
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(0 ratings)
9.4
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.6
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
5.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
4.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.0
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Configurability
8.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.0
(0 ratings)
-
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Vendor pre-sale
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
ThoughtSpotCyfe, by Traject
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Cyfe might be for you if you are looking for a cost-effective way to display all of your marketing metrics in one place. If you are looking for a detailed, fine-tuned, niche, or extremely specific metrics, this might not be the best solution. Cyfe is good for a general health check-up of marketing, but not a finely tuned examination.
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Pros
  • 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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  • Cyfe makes it easy to create a professional looking dashboards in a short amount of time. With so many built-in data sources and the intuitive nature of the interface, you can have beautiful looking charts and graphs in no time!
  • One of the best features of Cyfe is the many data sources built-in and that each dashboard is not constrained to one source. One of the drawbacks I've seen in other tools is the limited ability to pull from multiple Google Analytics profiles, multiple AdWords accounts or from both AdWords and Bing in one dashboard. Cyfe has no such limitation.
  • Google Spreadsheets - if the data you need to show is not available via an API, being able to pull from Google spreadsheets is a great solution. Once set up, you can add data whenever you need to the spreadsheet and your widgets in the Cyfe dashboard are automatically updated. Huge time saver!
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Cons
  • 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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  • Sometimes the percentages in Cyfe seem off. We'll review the numbers month over month in Google Analytics and the same numbers are pulled into Cyfe, and yet Cyfe reports a different percentage
  • It would be nice if Cyfe had more styling and layout choices to brand it more to our company's style and look
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Likelihood to Renew
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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It has become a part of our internal tools so unless a competitor comes out with similar functionality as a similar price point it is unlikely that we would not renew. One area that would cause us not to renew would be if a competing service came out with more third-party integrations that match our needs. Price at this point is no longer an issue as it would allow us to automate a somewhat manual process that we have now connecting Cyfe widgets to Google Sheets.
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Usability
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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I gave it a rating of 7 because it does a good job at what it does, but there are missing that are missing which I would have benefited from. For instance, if I was able to drill down more on the specific metrics I was able to see, that would have been helpful.
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Reliability and Availability
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
It does what it is supposed to. Would be nice to have a bit more insights
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No answers on this topic
Support Rating
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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Because I had a very minor question and I was able to speak directly to the founder through LinkedIn and through email. I know that as they grow this may not always be an option but the fact that he made himself available to answer my questions said a lot about his passion for the product.
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In-Person Training
inhouse in-person training. Took a bit to long to get the basics.
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No answers on this topic
Online Training
poor instructions
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No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Understand use case and model and design accordingly
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Cyfe is a 15 minutes implementation, then some time to get your data sources created. This is an easy one person job that will not result in down time or unnecessary wasted man hours.
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Alternatives Considered
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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My company already subscribed to Cyfe when I began, so for me there wasn't any shopping around. While Cyfe does pull straight from the "back end" side of many social media platforms, or from Google Analytics for websites, the benefit is that you can see all the stats in one place rather than having to log in to so many other platforms to grab those metrics.
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Scalability
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
  • 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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  • Cyfe allows us to provide real time data to our clients
  • Cyfe allows us to provide detailed analytics to our clients showing actual results
  • Cyfe reduced our need to provide monthly "reports" to our marketing clients
  • Cyfe allows us to have better situational awareness and know what is going on throughout our multiple organizations
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ScreenShots

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