| No per-user licences | ●yes You pay for the work and hosting; viewer count does not change the price. | ○no Pro / Premium Per User — a licence for everyone who views reports. | ●yes Free to view; only third-party connectors cost money. | ○no Creator / Explorer / Viewer — a paid seat per user. | ◐partly Open source is free; Cloud and Pro are billed per user. |
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| Your brand, domain and design | ●yes Your domain, logo, colours and fonts — fully on-brand. | ◐partly Report themes exist; own domain and UI only via Embedded. | ○no Reports live on lookerstudio.google.com with Google UI. | ◐partly Limited branding; own portal via Embedded / Server. | ◐partly White-label and own domain in paid plans or self-hosted. |
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| AI assistant on your data | ●yes The assistant answers questions about your own metrics and changes. | ◐partly Copilot — on higher Fabric / Premium capacities. | ◐partly Gemini features are arriving, mostly in Looker (Pro). | ◐partly Tableau Pulse / Agent — on higher tiers. | ◐partly Metabot exists but needs setup and a paid plan. |
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| Telegram reports | ●yes Scheduled digests and alerts in Telegram — built in. | ○no Email and Teams subscriptions; Telegram only via Power Automate. | ○no PDF delivery by email; no messengers. | ○no Email and Slack subscriptions; Telegram only via integrations. | ◐partly Email and Slack; Telegram via webhooks and extra work. |
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| You own the data and code (self-hosting) | ●yes Code and database deploy on your server (Docker) or cloud. | ◐partly Report Server exists, but it is mostly Microsoft cloud. | ○no Google cloud only, no access to the code. | ◐partly Tableau Server can be self-hosted, but is licensed. | ●yes Open source — fully self-hostable. |
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| Self-service ad-hoc exploration | ◐partly Filters, sorting and export yes; free-form drag & drop no. | ●yes Full self-service data exploration. | ●yes Drag-and-drop report builder for anyone. | ●yes The strongest tool for free-form analysis. | ●yes No-code question builder and SQL editor. |
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