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Alteryx vs Alteryx Designer Cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 14, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Alteryx
Ranking in Data Preparation Tools
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
83
Ranking in other categories
Predictive Analytics (1st), Data Science Platforms (5th)
Alteryx Designer Cloud
Ranking in Data Preparation Tools
6th
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Data Preparation Tools category, the mindshare of Alteryx is 20.8%, down from 31.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Alteryx Designer Cloud is 15.0%, up from 6.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Preparation Tools Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Alteryx20.8%
Alteryx Designer Cloud15.0%
Other64.2%
Data Preparation Tools
 

Featured Reviews

Theresa McLaughlin - PeerSpot reviewer
Quick development enables seamless data processing despite occasional support issues
There were times when the product would fail during development without an apparent reason. The support structure changed; initially, we received great support, however, it later became less reliable due to licensing issues and a tiered support system. Licensing negotiations were problematic, affecting our product usage. For instance, our licenses were temporarily lost during negotiations when an agreement couldn't be reached.
reviewer1464411 - PeerSpot reviewer
Robust, great for financial decision making, and very scalable
This product really needs to improve its ease of use. The solution needs to do a better job of promoting and marketing itself. Alteryx is much better at this and as a consequence is more recognizable. Trifacta needs to showcase its technology better. It truly should encompass the A to Z execution of how you execute business process modeling in an intelligent automation form. A future release needs to be something that's easier to handle. I wouldn't say a layman should be able to use the solution as data wrangling is something that somebody has got to really be certified in. I have a friend who's worked at IBM for 30 years, and now he's just getting certified as a data scientist. However, if the solution was designed as something that really could assist a new data scientist or kids coming out of college, something that's easier for them to wrap their heads around, that would be helpful. The interface on Trifacta is way too busy. I used to do UX and it's just awful. It looks a little bit like Excel. I can't stand it. The UI of Alteryx is much, much better.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The tools are built-in. You just plug and play, drag and drop, once you understand how to use the tools, it is easy."
"Alteryx makes it easy for the end customer to see clean data in a structured form."
"The cloud deployment ensures it scales easily."
"The product's initial setup phase is simple and straightforward."
"I have been pretty satisfied with Alteryx's data blending feature as it is quite easy to use as a non-code platform."
"I found Alteryx's ability to modify data on the fly, using in-memory processing, very useful."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The modeling features are very good."
"It works well for data scientists and can really help them drill down on the information in order to give management tangible data points for larger business decisions."
 

Cons

"There are a few imputation techniques which they really need to include."
"I think sometimes the solution doesn't load properly or takes so much time for the workflows. Though the workflow runs and completes the file in Excel, if you use the same formula, it's a bit slow. Also, the image processing is not so good because I tried to do some image processing and they were like, sometimes they put two to eight. In the document, it was two, but the OCR predicted it as eight."
"I honestly can't think of anything that needs to be improved."
"I mostly used it for flat files, but I have many colleagues who reported that to tune a query, in case they want to directly connect to the database, there is no option to optimize the performance of the query, as we have in Informatica."
"The solution could work on the BI side of the tool to make it a bit better."
"The solution just lacks in terms of data visualization. That is why we use Tableau and Qlik in our organization. They help to pick up the slack. If data visualization was added, Alteryx would be a very good tool, and much more complete."
"Deep learning models are not currently supported."
"The data integration component could most likely be improved to increase enterprise scalability."
"This product really needs to improve its ease of use."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"ROI is huge. There are some secondary benefits, like analysts getting their post 5 PM time back or the ability to shorten all closing processes to a half or less."
"The price for Alteryx Designer is reasonable but the price for Alteryx Server for universal collaborations is too expensive."
"The designer license costs 5000 euros. The server edition is 1000 euros."
"The cost of the solution could be reduced."
"It is an expensive solution."
"There are some implementation services and internal effort costs at the beginning but there is nothing else."
"Alteryx is generally more suited for medium—to large companies due to its potentially high licensing costs."
"It has a good price."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
23%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
Retailer
6%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business31
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise51
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Questions from the Community

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