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Amazon QuickSight vs Qlik Sense comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 27, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
4.4
Amazon QuickSight provides competitive pricing, significant time savings, and value, though ROI varies based on usage effectiveness.
Sentiment score
6.3
Companies achieve quick and substantial ROI with Qlik Sense, citing cost savings, increased revenue, and enhanced decision-making efficiency.
In my organization, we moved from OBI to Qlik Sense due to limitations with OBI, resulting in very high ROI.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
5.8
Amazon QuickSight's support experiences vary, with helpful Enterprise Support, useful documentation, but inconsistent general assistance based on issues.
Sentiment score
5.3
Users appreciate Qlik Sense stability, community resources, and consulting services, despite mixed reviews on technical support response times.
I would say out of all the support experience I've had, only 5% took quite a long time to respond to the support message.
While tech support is comprehensive, the stability of Qlik Sense means I generally do not need it.
In Turkey, the consultant firms are very professional, and they support you.
I think they lack in the support system.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.2
Amazon QuickSight offers scalability for various organizations but faces mixed reviews regarding performance with large datasets.
Sentiment score
7.7
Qlik Sense efficiently scales with ease of adding RIM nodes, though licensing is costly, favored by large enterprises.
Qlik Sense helps analyze data and can handle larger amounts of data compared to other BI tools.
It performs well in terms of performance and load compared to others.
It is easily scalable with Microsoft, with other services Azure and other tools they provide.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
6.7
Amazon QuickSight is stable and reliable, with occasional issues quickly resolved, but lacks maturity compared to Tableau and Power BI.
Sentiment score
7.6
Qlik Sense is highly stable with reliable performance, minor setup issues, but excellent support and consistent updates.
The stability is very good.
 

Room For Improvement

QuickSight users seek improved features like data integration, visualizations, machine learning, user design, cost efficiency, and documentation.
Qlik Sense needs enhanced statistical functions, data integration, ETL, customization, visualization, governance, efficiency, and user-friendly interfaces.
Understanding how AWS charges for Amazon QuickSight usage is critical for all users wanting to visualize their data effectively.
There should be more comprehensive documentation and explanatory videos available to help clients understand and calculate capacity-based pricing, making it easier to predict costs before implementing Qlik Sense Cloud.
Power BI has better visualizations and interactions with updates in 2023 that provide ease of use.
Providing an API feature to access data from the dashboard or QEDs could be beneficial.
 

Setup Cost

Amazon QuickSight offers cost-effective, flexible pricing, ideal for AWS users, with potential savings through pay-as-you-go options.
Qlik Sense offers competitive pricing with flexible, scalable licensing, offsetting initial costs for enterprises considering its fast implementation.
It is not expensive, but it is also not cheap.
It is just about how expensive it is to implement.
Among the BI tools and data analytics tools, Qlik is the most expensive.
For small or large organizations needing many or few licenses, pricing varies.
 

Valuable Features

Amazon QuickSight offers seamless AWS integration, ease of use, cost efficiency, fast visualizations, and advanced analytics features for diverse needs.
Qlik Sense excels in user-friendly data visualization, rapid integration, and insightful analytics with advanced features like GeoAnalytics and AI.
The natural language query is very important, and natural language processing is crucial for disseminating dashboards across multiple formats and mechanisms.
From an end-user perspective, it's convenient and performance-oriented, providing something meaningful from all the organization's data.
It has an interactive interface with Qlik graphs, pivot, and interactivity, which makes it easier to use than other tools.
It is a single product that I can use as an ETL database, BI, and more.
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon QuickSight
Average Rating
7.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (5th)
Qlik Sense
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
120
Ranking in other categories
Data Visualization (4th), Embedded BI (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Business Intelligence solutions, they serve different purposes. Amazon QuickSight is designed for BI (Business Intelligence) Tools and holds a mindshare of 6.3%, down 9.0% compared to last year.
Qlik Sense, on the other hand, focuses on Data Visualization, holds 7.4% mindshare, down 9.1% since last year.
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools
Data Visualization
 

Featured Reviews

Mohd Farhan - PeerSpot reviewer
Has seamless data filtering and visualization for client satisfaction
One area for improvement is the cost, as it's a bit expensive. The caching mechanism also charges too much if I need to cache any data. Sometimes it takes time to display data, suggesting a need for enhancement in data visualization speed. Additionally, the role-level security is challenging to implement, and it could be improved to allow access control per department more easily.
Vishal_Goyal - PeerSpot reviewer
In-memory data storage boosts performance
The advantages compared to other BI tools show architectural differences. The main feature is that it keeps all the data in memory. It doesn't retrieve the data from data sources when I need it on the dashboard; instead, it quickly provides the desired data, making it very fast compared to other BI tools. The ROI is very high using Qlik Sense. It offers many benefits of BI. It is flexible from a developer's point of view, allowing me to accomplish many tasks compared to other BI tools. From an end-user perspective, it's convenient and performance-oriented, providing something meaningful from all the organization's data.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Government
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon QuickSight?
The integration is very seamless. We stored our result CSV files in S3 and connected directly from there.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon QuickSight?
Amazon QuickSight charges $250 per user, which becomes expensive when managing multiple departments. However, this cost is offset by the advantages it provides.
What needs improvement with Amazon QuickSight?
Because I didn't use Amazon QuickSight extensively, I don't think I would be in the best position to recommend improvements. I was searching and wasn't getting the help I wanted with what I wanted ...
Seeking lightweight open source BI software
It depends on the Data architecture and the complexity of your requirement. Some great tools in the market are Qlik Sense, Power BI, OBIEE, Tableau, etc. I have recently started using Cognos Enter...
Seeking lightweight open source BI software
There are many...It would rather depend what System BI architecture or Enterprise legacy you have at your end...I would recommend as follows: 1) If you have legacies of SAP, Oracle - look for SAP...
What do you like most about Qlik Sense?
The most valuable features of Qlik Sense are its speed and seamless development of web technologies.
 

Also Known As

QuickSight
QlikSense
 

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Sample Customers

MLB Advanced Media, Infor, HotelBeds, Gemini, Jivochat, Edmunds.com
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