ThoughtSpot
Search- and agent driven BI platform where users ask questions of warehouse data and get AI dashboards.
Best for Business users self serving answers from cloud warehouses
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What it does
ThoughtSpot is an analytics platform that connects directly to cloud data warehouses and business applications. Users query data using natural language prompts or conversational AI agents and receive interactive dashboards, charts, and automated insights. It is designed for business teams, data analysts, data engineers, and developers who need accessible data exploration.
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Spotter conversational analytics agent
Answers business questions posed in plain language by reasoning through multi step analysis, forecasting, and displaying the rationale behind calculations.
Use caseA business team member asks a question in plain English to obtain instant answers and trace numbers without waiting in an analyst queue.
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SpotterViz dashboard generation
Interprets business queries, validates key metrics against governed semantic models, and builds interactive Liveboards through conversation.
Use caseA project manager creates custom Liveboards tailored for four distinct client personas using conversational prompts.
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Liveboard drilldowns and change analysis
Surfaces major metric shifts using AI Highlights, detects anomalies, and lets users right click any data point to drill down through attributes without predefined paths.
Use caseA team member opens a Liveboard to review major metric movements and drills down into underlying data attributes to determine the cause of an anomaly.
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SpotterCode embedded analytics
Configures software development kits, sets up authentication, applies themes, and embeds interactive charts, Liveboards, or chat directly into external applications.
Use caseA developer configures SDK authentication and custom styling to embed analytics natively into a customer facing product within weeks.
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Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Per | What it includes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essentials | Not listed | $25 | per user, 5 to 50 users | Up to 25M rows, interactive dashboards |
| Pro (per user) | Not listed | $50 | per user, up to 1,000 | 250M rows, 25 Spotter AI agent queries/user/month, natural language search, Analyst Studio |
| Pro (usage based) | Not listed | Not listed | credits, from $0.10/credit | Up to 1,000 users, 250M rows, Spotter agents |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | Not listed | custom | contact sales; unlimited users/data, SSO, RLS, VPC |
| Embedded Developer | Free | Not listed | per account | Up to 10 users, 25M rows, REST API + Visual Embed SDK (free 1 year on per user version) |
| Embedded Enterprise | Contact sales | Not listed | custom | contact sales |
From ThoughtSpot's own pricing page, checked . Prices are in US dollars per month; "billed yearly" is the monthly price when you pay for a year up front. A few figures (often the yearly price) are derived rather than printed on the page.
Before you pay
- GDPR
- Yes
Only what ThoughtSpot's own pages state, with the quote behind each answer. Anything they don't publish is left out rather than guessed.
Getting started with ThoughtSpot
- Choose Search and analyze data to help inform my business decisions on the initial welcome screen.
- Click Try a search to open the search data panel.
- Enter a search in the search bar and click Go.
- Click the Pin button to create a Liveboard of your Answer.
- Choose whether to add it to an existing Liveboard or create a new Liveboard, then click Pin again.
- Click View Liveboard at the bottom of the screen to view your Liveboard.
Tips
- Repeat your onboarding experience at any time by selecting Profile from the user icon in the upper right corner and clicking Revisit onboarding experience under Experience.
- Find your Liveboards by hovering over the menu in the upper left part of the screen and clicking Liveboards in the slide out panel.
- Contact your administrator to configure onboarding for you and other new users if you did not experience it upon initial sign in.
Written from ThoughtSpot's own help pages: docs.thoughtspot.com/cloud/26.10.0.cl/user-on...
ThoughtSpot video tutorials
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The free trial
Trial only: Free trial on Essentials/
Questions people ask about ThoughtSpot
Is ThoughtSpot free?
There is a free trial but no free plan: Free trial on Essentials/Pro (length not stated); Embedded Developer plan free for up to 10 users, 25M rows.
Does ThoughtSpot have an API?
Yes.
Works with
- Integrations
- Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift
Where this came from
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- thoughtspot.com/trust
- thoughtspot.com/sql-tutorial
- docs.thoughtspot.com/cloud/26.10.0.cl/
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- thoughtspot.com/faqs
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