Qlik Sense vs. ThoughtSpot

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Qlik Sense
Score 7.4 out of 10
N/A
Qlik Sense® is a self-service BI platform for data discovery and visualization. It supports a full range of analytics use cases—data governance, pixel-perfect reporting, and collaboration. Its Associative Engine indexes and connects relationships between data points for creating actionable insights.
$200
per month
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
Qlik SenseThoughtSpot
Editions & Modules
Starter
$200
per month
Standard
$825
per month
Premium
$2,750
per month
Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows
Contact Sales
Enterprise
Custom Quote
Thoughtspot Analytics - Pro
$50
per month (billed annually) per user (25-1000 users)
Thoughtspot Analytics - Enterprise
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Qlik SenseThoughtSpot
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Qlik SenseThoughtSpot
Features
Qlik SenseThoughtSpot
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Sense
8.5
Ratings
4% above category average
ThoughtSpot
7.6
Ratings
7% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports8.30 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.90 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates8.20 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Sense
8.6
Ratings
7% above category average
ThoughtSpot
7.7
Ratings
5% below category average
Drill-down analysis8.90 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Formatting capabilities8.20 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages8.40 Ratings5.40 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration9.00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Sense
8.8
Ratings
6% above category average
ThoughtSpot
8.8
Ratings
6% above category average
Publish to Web8.80 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Publish to PDF8.80 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Report Versioning8.80 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling8.80 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers8.80 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Sense
8.7
Ratings
9% above category average
ThoughtSpot
8.0
Ratings
0% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.50 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.80 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Predictive Analytics8.70 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
Qlik Sense
9.0
Ratings
6% above category average
ThoughtSpot
8.5
Ratings
0% above category average
Multi-User Support (named login)9.20 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model9.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.80 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)8.90 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Sense
7.4
Ratings
6% below category average
ThoughtSpot
7.4
Ratings
6% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access8.30 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Mobile Application8.20 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.20 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Qlik Sense
8.6
Ratings
10% above category average
ThoughtSpot
6.5
Ratings
18% below category average
REST API8.80 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Javascript API8.40 Ratings4.70 Ratings
iFrames8.50 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Java API8.60 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)8.60 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)8.40 Ratings7.10 Ratings
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User Ratings
Qlik SenseThoughtSpot
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(0 ratings)
8.4
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.4
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(0 ratings)
8.6
(0 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.3
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(0 ratings)
5.0
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(0 ratings)
4.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.3
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Qlik SenseThoughtSpot
Likelihood to Recommend
Qlik Sense is a program whose purpose is to greatly improve all your operations and use of all data in an organic way. The mission will always be to increase the economic and commercial processes of the company in a short time. I recommended it for its high technology, which was Created for this area, the results are successful. We have noticed how it has increased relationships with our clients thanks to the credibility and security that we provide.
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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
  • Self-Service Visualization and Discovery
  • Fullstack BI from ETL to Visualization, its built-in ETL engine can transform disparate data sets into a common data structure
  • Uses HTML5 based responsive design which visualization automatically adapt to the screen size and orientation of the users device
  • Actively engaged community and resources to help you learn this software in the best possible manner
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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
  • Not a lot of room for customization as we were used to in QlikView
  • UI and default navigation can be very clunky and not user friendly
  • Although the backend is fantastic, the front end experience leaves a lot to be desired. As a developer you don't have a lot of options to customized your app unless you turn to Javascript, CSS and HTML. This is not a common stack you would find in most BI developers
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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
Qlik Sense is a constantly improving it's software and working with its' users to make it better. They are great at keeping their users informed of progress and care about delivering a quality product
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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
Qlik Sense has a better and easy to learn user interface compared with other analytics tool which always help us to create regular and adhoc reports within the stipulated time frame and can be easily refreshed at a scheduled time and sent to multiple stakeholders for timely update regarding the Key metrics indicator.
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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
No answers on this topic
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
No answers on this topic
It does what it is supposed to. Would be nice to have a bit more insights
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Support Rating
Not only can you ask the support team for help, but you can also ask the community. Also with the community there is a vast amount of problems that have already been solved. The problem you are encountering has a likely chance of already being discussed and even solved in the community section saving you time from reaching out.
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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
The instructor was very knowledgeable.
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inhouse in-person training. Took a bit to long to get the basics.
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Online Training
The online instructor was very knowledgeable.
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poor instructions
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Implementation Rating
Hire Qlik consultants. It's better done by them or with their aid.
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Understand use case and model and design accordingly
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Alternatives Considered
The customization of the platform opens up plenty of other options depending on the use cases. The API layer is incredibly rich and makes integration of Qlik based visualization into web pages a simple and effective pattern. It's been very easy to use with a great community made up of professionals. Qlik Sense has introduces artificial Intelligence into my data visualization and reporting activity.
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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
No answers on this topic
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
  • The impact has undoubtedly been positive, it is difficult to quantify it, however in terms of effectiveness or efficiency I give it a 90%.
  • I don't give it 100% because to use the complete package you have to pay, and it's not that cheap and on the other hand because it has some deficiencies, such as technical support and some issues like windows that are not so friendly and easy to work with.
  • Still, I can't stop using it.
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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

Qlik Sense Screenshots

Screenshot of Qlik Sense Cash Flow DashboardScreenshot of Qlik Sense Global Smart SearchScreenshot of Qlik Sense Smart Data Compression - Get immediate insight on large dataScreenshot of Extend, mix and mash-up with our APIsScreenshot of Add "External data" with Qlik DataMarket - Data as a ServiceScreenshot of Visualization Bundle

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