Domo vs Planful comparison

Domo and Planful are both solutions in the Business Performance Management category. Domo is ranked #13 with an average rating of 7.3, while Planful is ranked #15. Domo holds a 1.6% mindshare in BPM, compared to Planful’s 2.8% mindshare. Additionally, 82% of Domo users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Planful users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Domo and Planful are tools used for business intelligence and financial planning. Planful appears to have an advantage in financial planning and analysis, providing comprehensive budgeting and forecasting capabilities, while Domo shines in data visualization and reporting.

Features: Domo offers versatile data visualization options, custom dashboards, and real-time updates, making it ideal for data clarity and presentation. Planful supports financial consolidation, multi-scenario planning, and provides specialized tools for financial processes.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Domo is cloud-based, enabling seamless integration with existing systems and offers robust customer support. Planful provides both cloud and on-premise solutions, recognized for thorough onboarding and timely support. Domo's deployment is generally quicker and less resource-intensive.

Pricing and ROI: Domo typically involves lower upfront costs with a subscription-based pricing model, resulting in faster ROI for data visualization focused companies. Planful, though involving higher initial setup costs, offers significant ROI through its financial planning features, beneficial for finance-focused teams.

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Categories and Ranking

Domo

Ranking in Business Performance Management

13th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (40th), BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (13th), Reporting (10th), Data Visualization (10th)

Planful

Ranking in Business Performance Management

15th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Financial Close Software (20th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Business Performance Management category, the mindshare of Domo is 1.6%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Planful is 2.8%, down from 3.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Sumit Chakraborty

Vice President at Indium Software - Independent Software Testing Company

Fast installation, reliable, with proven results for small to mid-size companies

The scalability is excellent. We have input close to fifty billion rows in Domo, and this is where we saw the cards winded in pretty slowly. So we had a performance issue there, but say maximum up to twenty-five to thirty billion, this product is flawless. But when we talk about big data analytics with too many self-service components, this is where we see some performance depreciation. We have more than two hundred using the solution.

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reviewer1110591

Financial Planning & Analysis - Finance Manager at a engineering company with 501-1,000 employees

It has helped us speed up the turnaround time on our consolidation, and we haven't had anything come up that the program has not been able to solve

The part that we liked about Excel is that it had a better interface in terms of just graphical illustration of our results. So, if we wanted to look at our financial trends and put it into some type of graphical interface for people to look at, we still have to leverage Excel for that. The dashboards aren't as usable as maybe some of the other solutions, such as Tableau or other BI tools. The application that we use today for our BI tools is Tableau. That's how people absorb information. We don't really use the functionality or dashboards within Planful because of the robustness of Tableau. That's our single source of data. If Planful was better or more comparable in terms of features and functionality, we could probably leverage that in Planful.

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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

"The dashboarding itself was pretty easy. So both the front and the back end were positive in this case."

"The fact that you can add any data source is valuable. The entire data handling suite they have, all the apps, etc., is pretty amazing. One of the key things, not being a techie or a data-warehouse guy, is that you can connect data sources, and do all kinds of pretty amazing things."

"Domo is not a difficult tool to learn. All you need to know is the SQL for the ETL part. You don't need to write much code. That's the great part. It uses legacy languages, like SQL, which is very common among developers who then don't have to go and learn Domo's own syntax. Therefore, you don't have to learn another hard language to use Domo."

"The ability to create custom connectors was useful because you never know, with customers, what platform they want to utilize or what data they have. It gave us a lot of flexibility in being able to bring data in from different places."

"The best thing is that the data storage is pretty much free. I can store as much data as I want, from different sources."

"It has the best GUI. And it already has an ETL tool embedded in it..."

"Domo's real-time insights and customizable alerts are one of their better features."

"Domo has a lot of connections using APIs where you can use data from different databases, such as NoSQLs, SQL databases, and other connections. These connections exist to obtain data and transform whatever that you want."

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"It has helped us speed up the turnaround time on our consolidation. We don't have to do reporting in Excel anymore, which has cut down on the errors and the efficiency of our close time."

Cons

"One of the biggest problems is that end users require a license to run their own reports and dashboards, which are fairly expensive."

"Their STK is not up to date and you can't access it on their website. They have a private STK to access resources in Domo."

"I would like to see better data intake."

"Data integration is okay, but not the best."

"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."

"They should include service-based reporting features."

"I would like to see more dashboard creation options."

"There's a learning curve before you can get used to the solution."

More Domo cons

"The part that we liked about Excel is that it had a better interface in terms of just graphical illustration of our results. So, if we wanted to look at our financial trends and put it into some type of graphical interface for people to look at, we still have to leverage Excel for that. The dashboards aren't as usable as maybe some of the other solutions, such as Tableau or other BI tools."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is expensive compared to one of its competitors."

"I'm not sure about pricing, but I believe Domo is quite costly. Prior to joining this organization, I had a Domo license with my former employer and I think that license was around $500 to $600 annually. That was for a single license. I think it varies, depending on the organization that is acquiring Domo."

"Because it's software as a service, it's more expensive on the face of it. But there are a lot of variables. I don't have to pay for servers or for infrastructure. I don't have to pay labor for my IT organization to set up or maintain the environment. I don't have to pay for them to upgrade the software, and test it, etc., because when it rolls out, it is transparent and seamless for us. But, because of that, it costs more, I imagine, than Sisense, or Yellowfin, or Power BI. A lot of those make it sound like they're inexpensive, but when you add in all the hidden costs and all of the overhead, it's probably comparable."

"I think it is reasonable."

"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 started out at about $600 a seat. However, then as we started to grow, it scaled that down to about $330 or 3$50 a seat, if I'm not mistaken."

"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."

"For about 100 users our cost is $95,800."

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"Right now, everything is on a three-year term contract, and that is our main cost."

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University

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Computer Software Company

11%

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20%

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Questions from the Community

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Domo is expensive compared to other solutions.

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Overview

Domo is a cloud-based, mobile-first BI platform that helps companies drive more value from their data by helping organizations better integrate, interpret and use data to drive timely decision making and action across the business. The Domo platform enhances existing data warehouse and BI tools and allows users to build custom apps, automate data pipelines, and make data science accessible for anyone through automated insights that can be shared with internal or external stakeholders.

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You need a financial planning solution that meets the structured demands of standardized financial planning and reporting requirements and regulations. Structured Planning with Planful automates labor-intensive planning activities in a complete cloud-based platform – giving your finance team control, consistency, and confidence in corporate financial plans.

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