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Alteryx Designer vs Upsolver comparison

Alteryx and Upsolver are both solutions in the Data Integration category. Alteryx is ranked #11 with an average rating of 7.5, while Upsolver is ranked #40 with an average rating of 8.5. Alteryx holds a 1.8% mindshare in DI, compared to Upsolver’s 0.4% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Alteryx users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Upsolver users who would recommend it.
Alteryx Designer
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90% willing to recommend
Upsolver
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100% willing to recommend
 

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Categories and Ranking

Alteryx Designer
Ranking in Data Integration
11th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
31
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Upsolver
Ranking in Data Integration
40th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Streaming Analytics (20th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Alteryx Designer is 1.8%, down from 3.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Upsolver is 0.4%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Integration Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Alteryx Designer1.8%
Upsolver0.4%
Other97.8%
Data Integration
 

Featured Reviews

Ajay Nayak - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Snehasish Das - PeerSpot reviewer
Allows for data to be moved across platforms and different data technologies
The most prominent feature of Upsolver is its function as an ETL tool, allowing data to be moved across platforms and different data technologies. Upsolver does this in a quick time, unlike traditional processes which are time-consuming. Additionally, it offers scalability for large volumes of data, with performance and ease of cloud-native integration.
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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

"Alteryx Designer is easier to use for machine learning models. However, I am not very good at Python scripts which you will need to make the machine learning scripts."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"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."
"The main valuable aspect is the simplicity of use across all features."
"It helps them to create customized workflows, transform data, perform calculations, and consolidate multiple data sources into a target database."
"The product offers very good analytics."
"The product is very stable. The performance is reliable."
"I have been using Alteryx Designer only for data modeling and data structuring."
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"The most prominent feature of Upsolver is its function as an ETL tool, allowing data to be moved across platforms and different data technologies."
"Customer service is excellent, and I would rate it between eight point five to nine out of ten."
"It was easy to use and set up, with a nearly no-code interface that relied mostly on drag-and-drop functionality."
 

Cons

"Alteryx Designer is not as fast as SSIS and is not good for large datasets. It also needs to improve database procedures. Though it is easy to use, it is limited in terms of technical aspects."
"For smaller clients with ten to 15 employees, Alteryx can be expensive."
"Alteryx could move faster to create a cloud equivalent of the desktop version of Designer."
"Alteryx's data science and machine learning capabilities are where it loses out to DataIQ."
"When it comes to the pivoting part, the drill-through option is not there in Alteryx."
"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."
"I would like to be able to include small snippets of code inside of the solution. The tool has only drag-and-drop features to make it easy to use, but sometimes I feel like this makes it more complicated."
"Optimizing processing times is one area I would like to see improved in Alteryx Designer. Sometimes, the workflows take an extremely long time to run. There are days when I have had to wait two to three hours for a single process to complete. There needs to be a functionality to split the processes."
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"Upsolver excels in ETL and data aggregation, while ThoughtSpot is strong in natural language processing for querying datasets. Combining these tools can be very effective: Upsolver handles aggregation and ETL, and ThoughtSpot allows for natural language queries. There’s potential for highlighting these integrations in the future."
"On the stability side, I would rate it seven out of ten. Using multiple cloud providers and data engineering technologies creates complexity, and managing different plugins is not always easy, but they are working on it."
"There is room for improvement in query tuning."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"Each license is something like $4,000."
"I rate the product's pricing a two to three out of ten."
"Alteryx is a little bit expensive compared to competing solutions."
"I rate Alteryx Designer a six out of ten for pricing."
"Alteryx Designer is an expensive solution."
"The pricing is bit expensive."
"The solution is expensive. It has license fees, which are renewable every year."
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"Upsolver is affordable at approximately $225 per terabyte per year."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Computer Software Company
8%
Energy/Utilities Company
6%
No data available
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise17
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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 Upsolver?
Upsolver is affordable at approximately $225 per terabyte per year. Compared to what I know from others, it's cheaper than many other products.
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What needs improvement with Upsolver?
There is room for improvement in query tuning. Upsolver could do a more in-depth analysis in employing machine power, such as CPU and memory, to enhance query performance. Furthermore, allocating C...
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What is your primary use case for Upsolver?
I am working as a consultant and currently have my own consultancy services. I provide services to companies that are data-heavy and looking for data engineering solutions for their business needs....
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Upsolver's mission is to turn engineering-intensive data lakes into easy-to-use repositories that serve 50X more data professionals compared to the status-quo today. Upsolver cuts 95% from the tedious process of preparing event data for analytics and machine learning, using a visual SQL-based interface, a cloud-native data platform and deep technology for stream-processing, indexing and eventually-consistent file systems.

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