Plotly vs Yellowfin comparison

Plotly and Yellowfin are both solutions in the Reporting category. Plotly is ranked #18 with an average rating of 7.7, while Yellowfin is ranked #30. Plotly holds a 1.2% mindshare in RT, compared to Yellowfin’s 0.3% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Plotly users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Yellowfin users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 4, 2025

Yellowfin and Plotly compete in the business intelligence and data visualization markets. Yellowfin seems to have the upper hand with its emphasis on accessibility and user-friendliness, appealing to general business users.

Features: Yellowfin provides comprehensive analytics, data governance, and embedded BI capabilities, enhancing user efficiency through automated insights and collaborative tools. Plotly offers advanced charting options, interactive dashboards, and complex visualizations with Python, R, and JavaScript integration, strongly appealing to technically adept users due to its powerful customization and scripting capabilities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Yellowfin offers a straightforward cloud-based or on-premises implementation, focusing on non-technical ease with robust hands-on customer support. Plotly provides flexible deployment options through cloud and local environments, focusing on advanced configuration capabilities and technical guidance, requiring a more initial technical setup.

Pricing and ROI: Yellowfin is known for competitive licensing costs, providing strong ROI with low barrier to entry and rapid deployment, making it cost-effective for general businesses. Plotly’s pricing reflects its advanced capabilities, leading to higher setup costs yet delivering high ROI due to powerful visualization features, justifying expenses for data-driven organizations.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Plotly

Ranking in Reporting

18th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Yellowfin

Ranking in Reporting

30th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (42nd), Data Visualization (26th), Embedded BI (13th)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Plotly is 1.2%, down from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Yellowfin is 0.3%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Hassan Kamkar

Data Analyst at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

An interactive and easy-to-use solution that can be used to create dashboards

The solution cannot be deployed on the website and shared with others through its own platform. We need a third-party platform to share the application that we develop. In Tableau and Power BI, we can simply share the website with others as long as we use the paid version. However, for Plotly, we need to deploy our app on a cloud-based service like AWS or other third-party websites to share with others.

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it_user86469

Director with 51-200 employees

Very scalable design and easy to implement. It can reside alongside more complex enterprise systems.

I have been involved with the implementation of many BI products; many products are expensive, require complex and difficult implementations, and once installed it is only the start of a lengthy consulting engagement to get the installation to where the customer wants it to be. Yellowfin is the antithesis of this; it installs easily, the configuration is done quickly, and the user can come up to speed quickly (especially if they have used other BI products). As an implementer, this changes how we operate, because we can focus on providing the customer what they want, not just on technical wizardry to get the product operational.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"When reviewing and interpreting data, I typically examine it in a tabular form to understand its structure. However, when explaining or presenting the findings to others, I often use visualization tools such as Plotly. These tools allow me to create visual representations of datasets."

"It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine to ten out of ten."

"The level of interactivity that the product provides is valuable to me."

"It is able to create information dashboards for various users' throughout."

"It reduces time to reproduce reports, provides easy access to organisational data, and has the ability to generate a wide range of reports and analysis."

"It is a central source of up-to-date data and information."

Cons

"The solution cannot be deployed on the website and shared with others through its own platform."

"I believe that the prices of the tool's paid services could be on the premium side, so the pricing model can be considered for improvement."

"The tool needs to improve its pie charts. Regarding Plotly, I find the online documentation somewhat challenging to navigate, especially when dealing with many parameters. Searching through thousands of parameters can be a tedious and less straightforward process. While the documentation is available online and serves its purpose, I often encounter difficulties in finding the information."

"It needs more presentation/charting capabilities and integration with GIS."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is an open-source tool. My company hasn't explored Plotly's premium services yet, but I believe the prices could be on the premium side."

"I only use the free tier of the product."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

13%

University

Computer Software Company

28%

Educational Organization

13%

Government

10%

Insurance Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Plotly?

It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine to ten out of ten.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Plotly?

It is an open-source tool. My company hasn't explored Plotly's premium services yet, but I believe the prices are on the premium side. I rate the product price as five or six on a scale of one to t...

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I believe that the price of the tool's paid services is on the premium side, so the pricing model can be considered for improvement.

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Overview

Plotly creates leading open source tools for composing, editing, and sharing interactive data visualization via the Web.

Our collaboration servers (available in cloud or on premises) allow data scientists to showcase their work, make graphs without coding, and collaborate with business analysts, designers, executives, and clients.

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Yellowfin offers a business intelligence (BI) platform that allows users to interact with big data in a variety of ways. Yellowfin works to provide big data access to companies of all sizes, from small business to billion-dollar enterprises. It is designed for providing data quickly and allowing users to filter for specific results, maximizing gain from big data. Yellowfin has a variety of dashboards so the user can filter, drill to detail, and have data analysis in the same browser. The data can also be easily shared with others via email, wiki embed, and reports. There is a mobile app as well, which works automatically with the desktop dashboards to allow users to access their data on the go, and alerts can be set up to notify a user via email or push to a mobile device if the data is indicating a critical event taking place. Yellowfin also can map data to locations, providing not only the what of data, but also the where. Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust provides its community in England with mental health and community care services. Using Yellowfin's mobile business intelligence capabilities to deliver reporting and analytics to approximately 6000 clinicians, Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust was able to greatly improve the quality of its patient care. Yellowfin allowed the Trust to access and share independent data from mobile devices as well as create a Balanced Scoreboard to quickly gather and report information on the company's performance to its executives, management, and directors.

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Sample Customers

Google, Goji, VIT, Smpl Bio, U.S. Air Force, C12 Energy, New York University

NCS, Universitat Konstanz, AT&T, PG&E, SingTel, InternetStores

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