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Overview

Product Information on Looker

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Looker?

Looker is a software that enables organizations to explore, analyze, and share real-time business analytics and data insights. It provides a browser-based interface for data exploration and reporting, allowing users to create interactive dashboards and visualizations without requiring deep technical knowledge. The software supports integration with multiple data sources and enables data modeling using a flexible language, thereby facilitating customized analysis aligned with business requirements. Looker assists businesses in transforming raw data into actionable insights, supporting data-driven decision-making across various departments such as finance, sales, and operations. The software offers features designed to simplify data governance, ensure consistent metrics, and foster collaboration among teams.

Looker Pricing

Looker software offers a pricing model based on custom quotes, which typically considers factors such as the size of the organization, the number of users, and required features. Looker software is generally offered as a subscription, with tiered pricing to accommodate different business needs and usage levels. No publicly available fixed pricing is provided.

Overall experience with Looker

INGENIERO DE PROYECTOS
<50M USD, Telecommunication
FAVORABLE

“Looker Offers Flexible Data Source Integration and Dashboard Creation with Cloud Support”

5.0
Apr 10, 2026
Looker is an excelent tool for creating dashboards for data analytics, and it is very useful that you can provide data from many sources, including from the cloud. It provides all the tools you need to create a very professional report for your enterprise projects or for personal use. It's free and you can collab with other google accounts. You can export the report in different formats or you can have it on the cloud and it updates the data in real time.
It Associate
50M - 250M USD, Manufacturing
CRITICAL

“Good for it's price”

3.0
Mar 31, 2026
Managing social media performance in looker can be problematic sometimes - it looks great, the visualizations are fantastic but the performance sometimes... its taking too much time. Also, the learning point for Looker is sometimes too hard and not so popular - so it's difficult to find help sometimes along the way.

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Gartner Peer Insights recognizes vendors who meet or exceed both the market average Overall Experience and the market average User Interest and Adoption score through a Customers’ Choice distinction.
2025
For Market:
Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms

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Market Presence: Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms, Agentic Analytics

About Company

Company Description

Updated 25th July 2024

Googlers is a company that creates products intended to create opportunities for an extensive audience, regardless of their location across the globe. The company values diverse perspectives, imaginations and non-conformity to predefined norms and impossibilities. The goal is to build products while incorporating uniqueness of each individual involved in this process, aiming to make their products accessible and useful to all.

Company Details

Updated 11th November 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1998
Head office location
Mountain View, CA, United States
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
Website
www.google.com

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Looker Likes & Dislikes

Like

I like it that is free to use, and you can use it on any computer without having to install extra applications. I like that you can upload data from multiple type of sources. You can also use templates already created for you just to customize with your own data.

Like

The price ;) This is what makes this tool good enough.

Like

When set up correctly, Looker is extremely user-friendly even for non-technical users. It specifically excels at defining a 'single source of truth'. We are able to reach alignment on how to measure a metric, then build a Looker configuration for all users. Ensuring all teams are on the same page on exactly what a metric is representing has long been a difficulty for our company.

Dislike

I noticed that it doesn't work very well on other browser like Mozilla, sometimes it crashes or it does not save your current work and you can lose information. Also that sometimes the database sources don't update the data as it should, even if you refresh the web multiple times. It takes some time to update the data.

Dislike

That it's not easy to use at first. Once you approach it with patience it's a good tool for the job and (price) but the starting entry point could be too hard for some.

Dislike

We had to segment specific technical resources for the implementation, and our business teams were not able to easily do their own customization and configuration.

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2025
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  • INGENIERO DE PROYECTOS
    <50M USD
    Telecommunication
    Review Source

    Looker Offers Flexible Data Source Integration and Dashboard Creation with Cloud Support

    5.0
    Apr 10, 2026
    Looker is an excelent tool for creating dashboards for data analytics, and it is very useful that you can provide data from many sources, including from the cloud. It provides all the tools you need to create a very professional report for your enterprise projects or for personal use. It's free and you can collab with other google accounts. You can export the report in different formats or you can have it on the cloud and it updates the data in real time.
  • Senior Product Manager
    10B+ USD
    Telecommunication
    Review Source

    Ease of Use for Non-Technical Teams with Initial Technical Setup Required

    4.0
    Apr 3, 2026
    While we are migrating away from Looker due to contractual reasons, this is an extremely effective tool that's remarkably easy for non-tech users to draw insights from. We had to have a dedicated technical team for setup, and found that since they were providing enough value, we continued using them for customization and ad-hoc requests for Looker.
  • Systems Infrastructure Administrator
    50M-1B USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    Steep Learning Curve Balanced by Powerful BI Features and Centralized Business Logic

    4.0
    Apr 1, 2026
    The software is a very powerful, enterprise grade BI platform and we've had some great success with it. There is definitely a steeper learning curve than with other BI platforms, but we find it extremely useful once you figure out your way around it.
  • Engineer
    1B-10B USD
    Hardware
    Review Source

    Steep Learning Curve But Powerful Data Modeling Features in Looker Dashboard Tool

    4.0
    Apr 9, 2026
    I have been using Looker for the last year, I mainly use it for creating dashboards and data analytics. Overall I had a positive experience, but it took quite some time invested to get to the level I am today.
  • It Associate
    1B-10B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Looker Integrates Seamlessly With Google Cloud But Demands Analytical Expertise

    5.0
    Apr 8, 2026
    As a BI solution its not as business friendly as other top solutions but its tight integration with Google cloud ecosystem (including BigQuery), makes it well suted for our organization. Platform allows us real-time data analysis without data replication, improving our raports (freshness and reliability).
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4.3

(37 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
41%
4 Star
49%
3 Star
11%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
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Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.0

Integration & Deployment

4.4

Service & Support

4.2

Product Capabilities

4.3

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