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Ascend.io vs Domo comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Ascend.io
Ranking in Data Integration
43rd
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.0
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Domo
Ranking in Data Integration
17th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
48
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (6th), Business Performance Management (7th), Reporting (4th), Data Visualization (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Ascend.io is 0.4%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Domo is 0.7%, down from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Integration Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Domo0.7%
Ascend.io0.4%
Other98.9%
Data Integration
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2784462 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Automated data pipelines have transformed complex workloads and now deliver faster, reliable insight
The standout feature is the Data Awareness Engine, in my opinion the intelligent control plane. Unlike traditional orchestrators that run tasks based on schedules or external events, Ascend.io understands the state of the data. If a source file changes or transformation logic is updated, the engine automatically identifies only the impacted data partitions and recalculates exclusively those. This eliminated the need to write complex logic for partial reloads and ensures that downstream data is always consistent with the latest version of the code. Ascend.io impacted my organization positively because it helped me solve my problem by solving our operational maintenance crisis. Previously, every time a Spark job failed, we had to manually intervene to clean up partial data and restart the pipeline. With Ascend.io, infrastructure management and checkpointing are fully automated. It drastically reduced our technical debt, allowing our data engineers to focus on business logic rather than cluster management or writing boilerplate ingestion code. Code reduction eliminated 60% to 70% of custom Spark code. Operational cost saw a 30% reduction in man-hours dedicated to pipeline maintenance and incident management. The meantime to recovery reduced from hours to minutes due to automatic failure tracking. With Ascend.io, you write what you want, not how to do it. It is a declarative approach and reduces code by 80%. This is very important to me. A good feature is the integrated lineage because an instant visualization of data flow across all components is very useful.
RD
Assistant Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Have improved workflow efficiency through custom reports but encountered formatting limitations
The downsides of Domo are that we don't have a feature in the same column. When data comes in a time format, text format, and number format, we cannot segregate and create conditional formatting in that column. If in the future they develop this feature, it will benefit more users. Domo requires maintenance on my end, such as updates. I am maintaining some dashboards on a weekly basis and monthly basis daily reports. Because we need to upload in SFTP, we cannot schedule or auto-schedule due to rate purposes. We manually handle the data sets. If there were an option to reduce the cost, it would be easier to access.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Ascend.io has positively impacted my organization by making getting data much easier; it handles all those delta changes and other details from repeat calls, making the engineering aspect much easier, which means revisions and transformations could happen more frequently because our time was freed up."
"One of the best features Ascend.io offers is Agentic analytics, which applies Agentic AI within systems to verify and operationalize data products, and it is live, allowing you to build systems and visualizations that turn data and different data sets into production-ready workflows."
"With Ascend.io, infrastructure management and checkpointing are fully automated, drastically reducing our technical debt, allowing our data engineers to focus on business logic rather than cluster management or writing boilerplate ingestion code."
"We have seen positive results, particularly in the time spent monitoring and troubleshooting the data pipelines, as Ascend.io has reduced manual investigation effort by approximately 30 to 40% because we can see pipeline dependencies, execution history, and data quality results in one place."
"The tool has some potential, but as of two years ago, it was still a long way from fulfilling on the promise."
"When it comes to Domo, we have one platform for data integration as well as for data modeling, transformations, and creating visualizations such as charts, graphs, and cards, which is beneficial because in Power BI we have multiple modules for these functions."
"With Domo, we can do everything in one place; we don't need a separate database, we can do ETL and the visualization in one location, it is completely cloud-based, and since we are a healthcare provider, we chose the secure PSI-certified instance of the public cloud."
"The main reason my company decided to use Domo is that it's a one-stop shop BI tool, so it solves requirements for all customers."
"Domo is a local company, and I have found it to be rock solid."
"Once the data source has been uploaded to Domo, making graphs is quite easy."
"Data is much more accessible throughout the organization."
"Using the "cards" which function as preconfigured reports or views. I use many of them simultaneously on an organized page, with filters that allow me to see high-level information as well as subsets across the dataset, in a few clicks. Many Excel-challenged users love to use this product for its simplicity."
 

Cons

"Ascend.io can be improved because it is very expensive to scale on top of utilizing Snowflake, which itself is exceptionally expensive, making it very hard for any small to medium-sized business to validate that expense."
"Ascend.io can be improved by perhaps expanding its reach beyond small industries to get into big industries or large investment companies and big financial industries, revolutionizing how data plays certain roles in leadership and decision-making."
"Ascend.io can be improved regarding the initial learning curve because for those used to writing pure Spark code, a mindset shift is required to trust the tool's automation."
"Ascend.io could be improved by making the initial setup and onboarding more straightforward, especially for teams that are new to data engineering platforms."
"Domo's pricing is high compared to other BI tools, and it is costly."
"One of the improvements that could be made is related to improved storage options."
"The preconfigured apps need to be more relevant to allow one, out of the box, to load data in order to use pre-set reports/views."
"If your ETL runs more than 24 hours, it always fails because we are logging a lot of historical data, and there is a restriction on the amount of data (in rows) that you can run. The technical support has not found a solution for this yet."
"If Domo had a Copilot feature, you could interact with the graphs and talk to the graphs and tables."
"I would like to be able to drill down more when there is a particular area where there is a problem. I don't clearly see that in Domo at the moment."
"It was pretty expensive. The cost didn't justify keeping it around when you look and compare it to other existing tools in the business."
"There are areas to improve on like visualization options, and there are areas I think would be valuable for Domo to explore, such as data governance, and providing sandbox or development instances, but updates are frequent and smooth, and the value of the tool in its simplicity and ability to drive user adoption far outweighs any missing visualization features."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"We are making money from Domo, and all our clients are happy with the information that they receive from it."
"They've built an "app economy." Some of them are really expensive, so they're not for startups and smaller companies. They're more like enterprise tools. We couldn't afford some of them, because they were so crazy expensive. But if I was working for a bank, insurance company, or some bigger corporation then, for sure, you could justify those prices... It was silly expensive back then and it probably still is, or even more expensive."
"No matter if you're a developer or an end-user, the licensing cost is around $12 per user per month."
"Domo has more than one licensing model. You can choose between the yearly subscription and the per-user licensing model. The tool is flexible in terms of licensing. As for the cost, Domo is an end-to-end BI tool so its pricing is a little higher than other players in the market, for example, non end-to-end BI tools such as OBIEE and Tableau specific only for business intelligence and presenting data to the end users, unlike Domo which handles everything. You want to get Domo as an integration tool, an ETL tool, etc. As the tool is end-to-end, its cost is always going to be a little higher than other BI tools, but it's worth paying because you won't have to spend extra for other activities. After all, Domo can do those activities."
"I believe that the investment in Domo was worthwhile because it allowed for the organization to jump in quickly, with little training. There are different plans available based on the requirements."
"It is on the pricier end."
"The solution is expensive compared to one of its competitors."
"The price that they offered was around $200 per user license. It was pretty cheap at that time compared to other companies. I think they have revamped their pricing structure since then."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
33%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Government
8%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
University
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business17
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise20
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Ascend.io?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was that the setup was fine and good, licensing was okay, but the pricing was the most challenging part, especially because Ascend.io used our ...
What needs improvement with Ascend.io?
Ascend.io could be improved by making the initial setup and onboarding more straightforward, especially for teams that are new to data engineering platforms. This could include more guided tutorial...
What is your primary use case for Ascend.io?
My main use case for Ascend.io is testing and validating data pipelines and integrations, where I use it to monitor data flows from source to destination, verify the transformations are working cor...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Domo?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that there was very little.
What needs improvement with Domo?
I'm not sure how Domo can be improved overall, as it's a really good experience.
What is your primary use case for Domo?
My main use case for Domo involves building different tables and different cards so I can look at different data points. A quick specific example of a table I have built or a data point I often loo...
 

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Capco, SABMiller, Stance, eBay, Sage North America, Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana, Telus, The Cliffs, OGIO International Inc., and many more!
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