Choose ThoughtSpot
over Tableau

Data intelligence,
not just data viz.

ThoughtSpot's intelligence platform empowers
everyone to instantly explore data and unlock value
that Tableau keeps out of reach.

Customers who choose ThoughtSpot
over Tableau are saying

Jean Mandarin
Senior Manager, Data Insights
Matillion

“Tableau was just too restrictive. We needed a BI solution that was no longer just going to confine data to the data team. Everyone needs access to data and needs to be able to drive their decisions with data. That’s ThoughtSpot.”

Chet Mandair
CIO
Guidewire

“We quickly realized that Tableau is workbook-heavy with legacy client-server technology, and we shifted to ThoughtSpot for delivering real-time actionable insights, ease-of-use and learning, and collaboration.”

Dr. Luke Treglown
Director of Data Science
Thomas International

“We had 160 Tableau dashboards, but were using 4. Only 20% of the business was using Tableau. With ThoughtSpot, we’ve built 4 core Liveboards that then empowered 80% of our business to query their own data and make better decisions.”

ThoughtSpot is self-service the way it was meant to be

Your data team is more than a Tableau viz factory, and your business team needs more than canned insights. Choose data intelligence that brings teams together and drives your business forward.

Insights that connect all teams, not just trained Tableau experts

Tableau restricts you to pre-defined questions and answers; business users can’t even write their own questions on KPIs. Exploring new paths leads straight to dead ends, requiring additional setup from trained experts, which delays insights.

ThoughtSpot is the intelligence platform for everyone. Ask your own natural language questions on any data, anywhere you work. Conversational analytics is built in across the platform - including any visual, Liveboard, and KPI change analyses and alerting - and in your mobile app. ThoughtSpot provides actionable intelligence at every point of decisioning to your whole team - not just a select few.


A smarter AI Agent
that actually works

Real-world data is often messy, and business questions can be complex and ambiguous. So your AI agent should be able to handle more than just the simplest questions. Just showing a BI tool graphing two variables with a date filter is so last decade.

ThoughtSpot Spotter understands your analytical intent and handles business questions that require generating complex, underlying queries on the fly, such as cohort analyses, calculations, compound expressions. It maintains the relevant context of the conversation that you’re currently having, for as long as you want. It can even answer questions about the underlying data model. No one handles real world business and data complexity like we do.


Transparent AI that you
can trust

In today’s world of AI-driven analytics, trusted and verifiable insights are crucial for effective decision-making. ThoughtSpot prioritizes transparency, allowing anyone to easily verify AI-generated insights using intuitive natural language tokens or SQL. All these insights are built on trusted, AI-ready data models with unified metadata, ensuring consistency and reliability.

With ThoughtSpot’s AI, you can quickly verify answers in seconds. With Tableau, you’ll leave the meeting with a list of “I’ll get back to you on that” tasks.


Flexible and powerful
tooling for data teams

Data teams need in-depth training to navigate Tableau-specific interfaces. Analysts are stuck as data preppers and report generators. Why limit yourself and your impact?

Let’s think bigger. With ThoughtSpot Analyst Studio, you can experience the freedom of using Python, SQL, R, and visual analyses to do your most strategic work. The industry-grade IDE and notebooks are fully integrated out-of-the-box, and don’t require extra configurations. Whether you are getting data for AI, profiling and iterating on data, or leveraging advanced analytics and data science techniques, ThoughtSpot helps data teams accelerate data to insights in a collaborative, creative hub.


Unify your data

Getting your data ready for AI in ThoughtSpot takes minutes and gives you control over your data. Mash up data, publish a cached dataset directly to the data workspace, or live query on our cloud-native architecture within ThoughtSpot Cloud, all from your browser. ThoughtSpot offers full control over data strategy and cloud costs with the flexibility of in-memory caching or real-time, zero-copy data solutions.

Doing the same thing in Tableau is a maze that involves switching between different tools, greater complexity, and higher maintenance costs, making it difficult to scale. Tableau requires users to work in Tableau Desktop, create extracts as .hyper files, and then publish both the data and the workbook to Tableau Server or Cloud.


Make your app
a smart app

Tableau’s embedded analytics are undifferentiated, expensive, and static. Static solutions lead to static growth for your business – low user engagement, poor retention, and ultimately, higher churn. Ouch.

ThoughtSpot Embedded is a developer-friendly, low-code, embedded analytics solution that empowers you to transform your apps and portals with tailored experiences—all with just a few lines of code.

We're talking about smart apps with AI and agentic analytics – think interactive, dynamic, and personalized experiences that keep your users coming back for more. Faster time-to-market? Check. New revenue streams? Double-check.

What makes ThoughtSpot
better than Tableau?

ThoughtSpot
Tableau
ThoughtSpot
Tableau
Conversational analytics with agentic AI that handles data complexity and understands business context
Complete mobile app with conversational AI analytics
Out-of-the-box drill anywhere to freely explore any dashboard or visual
Best-in-industry data visualizations
Automated discovery of KPI anomalies, change drivers, trends, and forecasting, with ability to ask questions without restrictions
Unified, complete analytics workflow in one platform, without extra installs
Advanced tooling for ad hoc analysis and data science capabilities for data teams
Fast access to granular and live data without requiring data aggregation
Choice to use extracts or live query
Embed AI-powered analytics experiences with developer-friendly analytics SDK
Integrated across the data stack to maximize your cloud investments
Simple, transparent pricing