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Palantir Foundry vs Zapier comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Palantir Foundry
Ranking in Cloud Data Integration
10th
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (12th), IT Operations Analytics (4th), Supply Chain Analytics (1st), Data Migration Appliances (3rd), Data Management Platforms (DMP) (1st), Data and Analytics Service Providers (1st)
Zapier
Ranking in Cloud Data Integration
9th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
41
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Cloud Data Integration category, the mindshare of Palantir Foundry is 4.2%, up from 3.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zapier is 2.1%, down from 2.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Data Integration
 

Featured Reviews

Manilal Kasera - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 22, 2022
Transparent with good reliability and good data visibility
The initial setup had a medium level of difficulty. If we go through the documentation, we can learn about what to do. In Palantir, they had a section called Academy, and that Academy was quite useful. If you go through that as a new user, it makes the process easier as you learn what to do. Initially, we didn't have many sources that would help us learn things, so we struggled a bit. In contrast, with Azure and Amazon Cloud, you have many sources from where you would be easily able to learn. You could just Google what you needed with them, as there's so much available documentation online. What was easy was the fact that everything was in one place. With AWS Cloud, there are many applications to support. You can use Glue or Athena, and you have all these other applications. However, with Palantir, everything is easy due to the fact that it is centralized. It's drag and drop and everything is very transparent.
Dimitris Goudis - PeerSpot reviewer
May 16, 2023
A tool for automation purposes requiring an easy initial setup while offering a very helpful technical support team
Zapier is not able to set up different modules. When automation doesn't work, it's not that easy to find why it didn't work. So, it's not about the automation process but the triggers that trigger an automation to start running. Sometimes if you set up an automation trigger on a specific application, we wouldn't know if Zapier received data to start running. So we cannot understand whether the problem is in Zapier or the steps before. Branching scenarios is something I want to add to the solution to make my life easier. We want to apply a logical workflow with a yes or no condition. On Zapier, you can have a condition, but you can build the actions after one value on this condition. So, the question can be responded to with a yes-no option or not answered. In your scenario, you have only the actions after yes get chosen. A second scenario is needed for the answer, no, and a third one for not answered. While in Make, we create a diagram, according to which if the response is yes, then do follow this path, and if it's no, then follow another path.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The virtualization tool is useful."
"Encapsulates all the components without the requirement to integrate or check compatibility."
"The solution offers very good end-to-end capabilities."
"The AI engine that comes with Palantir Foundry is quite interesting."
"It's scalable."
"Great features available in one tool."
"The solution provides an end-to-end integrated tech stack that takes care of all utility/infrastructure topics for you."
"Live video sessions enhance the available documentation and allow you to ask questions directly."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that it is very intuitive and has a very flat learning curve."
"There are a few valuable features, like the stability that it comes with and also the number of features that it offers. I've used other services like Pabbly, but they don't offer similar numbers of applications that Zapier has or allows to integrate with – it's maximum."
"Zapier's interface, for me, is the solution's greatest value proposition. It is designed and developed for people who don't have a clue about what they're trying to do. It has a very user-friendly interface."
"What's most valuable in Zapier is its simplicity, seamlessness, and smooth plug-in, so you won't need to build code for every action. I'm not a developer, but I can use Zapier."
"Zapier’s most valuable feature is its ability to interconnect applications or devices."
"Webhooks are the most valuable feature of Zapier."
"The connection between Facebook lead forms and MailChimp integrations is the most valuable feature."
"The initial setup is pretty easy to do."
 

Cons

"The solution’s data security could be improved."
"The frontend capabilities of Palantir Foundry could be improved."
"It would be helpful to build applications based on Azure functions or web apps in Palantir Foundry."
"The data lineage was challenging. It's hard to track data from the sources as it moves through stages. Informatica EDC can easily capture and report it because it talks to the metadata. This is generated across those various staging points."
"The solution's visualization and analysis could be improved."
"They do not have a data center in Europe, and we have lots of personally identifiable information in our dataset that needs to be hosted by a third-party data center like Amazon or Microsoft Azure."
"Difficult to receive data from external sources."
"If you want to create new models on specific data sets, computing that is quite costly."
"The pricing could be a little cheaper."
"At the moment, they allow a limited number of apps. I look forward to getting more apps for each package."
"Some recent changes to the solution have made it bulky and not as intuitive to use as it previously was."
"After mapping them out, and they'd worked for a while, I've had Zapier fail."
"Zapier needs more YouTube or video tutorials or more training for people. That would help a lot. In particular, Zapier should have documentation for every connector. Its documentation needs to be more detailed and visual."
"Being able to share Zaps and organize them with teammates would allow sharing and refining scenarios and even combining steps that require different people's credentials."
"It could support various languages along with Python."
"The solution does not work properly when we apply filters and we get errors."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Palantir Foundry has different pricing models that can be negotiated."
"It's expensive."
"The solution’s pricing is high."
"Palantir Foundry is an expensive solution."
"The product is reasonably priced."
"It's very affordable."
"The price of Zapier is approximately $75 monthly."
"Think your Zaps through to make sure you don't use more Zaps than you need."
"Zapier's price is good."
"Per task, there is a monthly plan involving 15 euros...Also, in different forms, they just give you the ability to use different features. They charge 18.58 euros for the first standard plan, which includes 750 tasks. So, it is about 25 cents per task."
"There is a free plan that is, of course, limited. However, it allows you to understand and check true scenarios for a while."
"It's very straightforward licensing. There's only one cost you have to pay, and if you want a relevant pricing plan, I think you have two or three different models or packages which include the number of notifications or Zaps, as they call it, that you can program."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
10%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
22%
University
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Palantir Foundry?
Palantir Foundry is a robust platform that has really strong plugin connectors and provides features for real-time integration.
What needs improvement with Palantir Foundry?
The solution’s data security could be improved. We cannot use many Python packages with the solution. We were able to use only a few compatible Python packages.
What is your primary use case for Palantir Foundry?
Our use cases are mostly related to data analytics. We are building some dashboards and ETL pipelines on the Palantir side. Palantir Foundry is a low-code/no-code platform with a user-friendly UI. ...
What do you like most about Zapier?
The product's most valuable feature is automation.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zapier?
The pricing is suitable. It's not cheap, but not expensive.
What needs improvement with Zapier?
The pricing could be a little cheaper.
 

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Sample Customers

Merck KGaA, Airbus, Ferrari,United States Intelligence Community, United States Department of Defense
BuzzFeed, Groupon, Spotify, Columbia University, FOX
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