Alteryx Designer vs Toad Data Point comparison

Alteryx and Quest Software are both solutions in the Data Integration category. Alteryx is ranked #11 with an average rating of 7.6, while Quest Software is ranked #29 with an average rating of 9.0. Alteryx holds a 2.5% mindshare in DI, compared to Quest Software’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 89% of Alteryx users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Quest Software users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Toad Data Point and Alteryx Designer compete in the data preparation and analytics space. Alteryx Designer has an advantage due to its advanced features and versatility, despite its higher cost.

Features: Toad Data Point provides efficient data connectivity, query capabilities, and seamless interaction with various database environments. Alteryx Designer offers powerful data transformation, predictive analytics tools, and extensive data processing capabilities. Alteryx Designer is favored for its broader feature set, offering comprehensive solutions for complex data needs.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Toad Data Point ensures easy deployment with minimal technical intervention and offers robust customer support. Alteryx Designer, while more complex during deployment, provides strong customer service to facilitate the process and supports extensive scalability.

Pricing and ROI: Toad Data Point is noted for its lower setup costs, providing a cost-effective solution with significant ROI for budget-conscious businesses. Alteryx Designer requires a higher initial investment but offers substantial ROI due to superior data management and analytics capabilities, making the investment worthwhile according to many businesses.

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Alteryx Designer vs. Toad Data Point

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Categories and Ranking

Alteryx Designer

Ranking in Data Integration

11th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Toad Data Point

Ranking in Data Integration

29th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Preparation Tools (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Alteryx Designer is 2.5%, down from 3.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Toad Data Point is 0.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Integration

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Ajay Nayak

Senior Data Engineer at Baxter International Inc.

An easy-to-use automation solution with satisfying customer support

Sometimes, while getting data from a third-party product, like data sources that are not present in your system, Alteryx works a bit slowly. Even if you have a good configuration and you are pulling data from an SQL server like SAP, then the solution also has a slow work process. It shouldn't be that much slow if you are pulling ten thousand records, it should not take thirty minutes.

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Aaron Payne

ERP Manager at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Offers power developers the tooling they need

I am not the end user of this solution. I am not close enough to it because I manage the platform that it runs against. The end users who use the Toad tool come against the database that my team manages, so it is hard for me to provide any area for improvement when it comes to the Toad tool. However, in the administration case, cost is a significant issue. The Mac license is incredibly expensive. It is 1,600 dollars each, which is more than the Windows version. Scalability is difficult when it is that costly.

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

Pros

"I like Alteryx's browser tool because you can view how your data is handled live. There are many other valuable tools like transpose and the crosstab. You can quickly pivot your data, and there are connections throughout the database. It's so easy to create a connection. If you connect to sign apps or a more complex database, the tool contains all the tools you need."

"The main valuable aspect is the simplicity of use across all features."

"Alteryx Designer is stable."

"The features I found most valuable are the preparation features – the Join and the Transform."

"It has great UI."

"I believe in the ability to connect to multiple data sources, as well as the ease of use to transform data and output data in a variety of formats."

"Alteryx Designer offers a drag-and-drop interface, making it highly user-friendly. Unlike Python and Apache Airflow, which require coding, Alteryx allows users to accomplish tasks without any programming knowledge. Its simplicity makes it accessible to anyone, even those without coding experience, and this ease of use is one of Alteryx's key advantages."

"Alteryx is quite easy to use, learn, and understand as a product."

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"It provides better SQL development tooling than SQL Developer, which is not a sufficient tool for all development use cases. It offers power developers the tools they need."

"One of the greatest features is that you can get data from anywhere to anywhere with Toad Data Point."

"We love it."

"The most valuable features of Toad Data are you could write a parameterized query and it wouldn't error out, it would give you the parameters that you could input. The auto-formatting feature is useful because it was great for keeping your queries neat and understandable. The auto comment, and uncomment toggles that you could do were convenient."

"I have never experienced any issues with customer service."

"With Toad Data Point, I can automate most steps automatically."

"The Connectivity and Connection Manager supports a broad number of connection types, and it is trivial for end-users to set up their own connections to sources."

"The best thing about it is its automation features."

Cons

"The price of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."

"When configuring the Logix, the UA could be improved."

"Based on my experience, the tool could be improved by providing sample reports or pre-configured workflows tailored to specific industries, like finance. It needs to integrate an AI chatbot as well."

"Its cost can sometimes be a drawback."

"Alteryx could move faster to create a cloud equivalent of the desktop version of Designer."

"The conditional join feature should be improved."

"For smaller clients with ten to 15 employees, Alteryx can be expensive."

"We discontinued using Alteryx's data science studio because it was not very user-friendly."

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"It's not user-friendly. Once you start using it, you eventually get to know the features."

"I used their report writing a little bit, however, it could improve since it's not a really good report writer and it's a little clunky."

"The Mac license is incredibly expensive. It is 1,600 dollars each, which is more than the Windows version. Scalability is difficult when it is that costly."

"On the scheduling server, some scheduled reports just sit there and never execute for the first time. After manually executing the first time, they run with no issues."

"Toad Data could improve by having additional features, such as query prediction. This could help someone who's not the strongest programmer. If the software could help them write queries correctly it would be very helpful, especially for small development teams or teams that lack the input skills necessary to write and program efficiently."

"I used their report writing a little bit, however, it could improve since it's not a really good report writer and it's a little clunky."

"The Mac license is incredibly expensive. It is 1,600 dollars each, which is more than the Windows version."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Alteryx Designer is an expensive solution."

"Each license is something like $4,000."

"Alteryx is a little bit expensive compared to competing solutions."

"It is too expensive for our country. We are a small country, so it is too difficult to sell this solution. With Alteryx Designer, if you want to automate the data and run the flows, you have to pay more money. We were trying to automate the flows, and we found out that people have to pay 600 more for this feature, which makes it even more expensive. We are a partner for Tableau, and we are working with Tableau Prep, which is like a mini Alteryx. In Tableau Prep, you can drag and drop and make new connections with the different data sources. You can make all the connections. You can also publish a source. You don't have to pay more money with Tableau. You pay like $5 per user per month to access it."

"Alteryx Designer is a very expensive solution."

"I rate the product's pricing a two to three out of ten."

"The pricing is bit expensive."

"I rate the price of Alteryx Designer as a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is extremely expensive, and ten is a highly cheap product."

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"The cost of this product is reasonable."

"The price of Toad Data Point was approximately $500 annually."

"The Mac licenses are expensive, costing 1,600 dollars each. This is much higher than for the Windows version. I maintain a very limited number of licenses due to this cost."

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Top Industries

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Educational Organization

22%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

36%

Healthcare Company

13%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Alteryx Designer?

When you open a raw Excel file, it can be hard to look at everything in detail. Alteryx makes it much easier to go through the data, summarize it, and use different tools for analysis.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Alteryx Designer?

It's cheaper than Palantir, but even Alteryx is too much for small clients. It is expensive, considering the server capabilities.

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What needs improvement with Alteryx Designer?

For smaller clients with ten to 15 employees, Alteryx can be expensive. The server capabilities are costly too. The technical support could also improve by being quicker in response times.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Toad Data Point?

The pricing for Toad Data Point is where it gets into trouble. Microsoft is free, so if you get SQL Server, you get all the other stuff with it. You have to use several Microsoft tools that don't a...

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What needs improvement with Toad Data Point?

I used their report writing a little bit, however, it could improve since it's not a really good report writer and it's a little clunky.

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What is your primary use case for Toad Data Point?

When I use it, I'm using it for writing SQL or testing SQL code. I used to use it for moving data, loading files into database tables, from tables to other tables.

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Toad Data Point is a cross-platform, self-service, data-integration tool that simplifies data access, preparation and provisioning. It provides nearly limitless data connectivity, desktop data integration, visual query building and workflow automation.

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