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Fabric Data vs Palantir Foundry comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

Fabric Data
Ranking in Data and Analytics Service Providers
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Palantir Foundry
Ranking in Data and Analytics Service Providers
1st
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
60
Ranking in other categories
Data Integration (3rd), IT Operations Analytics (4th), Supply Chain Analytics (1st), Cloud Data Integration (4th), Data Migration Appliances (2nd), Data Management Platforms (DMP) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Data and Analytics Service Providers category, the mindshare of Fabric Data is 0.7%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Palantir Foundry is 7.6%, down from 12.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data and Analytics Service Providers Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Palantir Foundry7.6%
Fabric Data0.7%
Other91.7%
Data and Analytics Service Providers
 

Featured Reviews

PV
Data Engineer at IRT Dogotal ANlytics
Automation of complex data workflows has reduced processing time and improves project delivery
The best features Fabric Data offers include Fabric Data Shortcut as the main feature, and also the integration of all the components like ingestion, transformation notebooks, and the deployment pipeline for CI/CD, which are game-changing. The visualization features are also great, and the features Fabric Data offers are different. The feature I find myself using the most is the time travel feature because I mainly work with data transformation. Whenever bad updates happen, I use the time travel feature the most. There is a high concurrency feature that can be applied in pipelines; we just need to add the high concurrency tag, and the pipeline will not start a new cluster each time the notebook runs. Fabric Data will use the same cluster for the notebook run, and this feature is a game-changer. Fabric Data positively impacts my organization by bringing us more projects and work to do and also reduces the time significantly. Nearly 20 to 30 hours per week were reduced by using Fabric Data, and it is also very cost-optimized.
reviewer2846265 - PeerSpot reviewer
PALANTIR DATA ENGINEER at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Unified healthcare pipelines have improved data trust and accelerated operational decisions
One challenge regarding how Palantir Foundry can be improved is the learning curve. Foundry has a very broad ecosystem with Ontology, Pipeline Builder, Code Repositories, and AI integrations. For new engineers or business users onboarding, it can take time, especially if they are coming from more traditional data platforms. Better documentation, simplified onboarding paths, and more beginner-friendly examples would help accelerate adoption. Another area is debugging complexity. While lineage and monitoring are strong features, troubleshooting deeply interconnected pipelines can still become difficult in a large enterprise environment. Sometimes error logs and pipeline failure messages could be more descriptive or developer-friendly, especially for distributed PySpark jobs. Another pain point is customization limitations in certain UI-driven components. While low-code tools are great for rapid development, highly customized workflows sometimes still require engineering workarounds or deeper technical implementation. The platform is extremely capable, but improvements around usability, debugging experience, DevOps flexibility, and ecosystem openness would make it even more effective for enterprise engineering teams.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I enjoy working with the pipelines since they provide a full end-to-end use case for me to take the data and report everything in one place instead of going back and forth with databases and engineers, allowing me to feel as a data scientist, data engineer, and business analyst in one location, giving me full authority to control everything."
"Fabric Data has positively impacted my organization by decreasing the storage-level cost, and we now have different teams, including a data analytics team and a data engineering team, all on one platform, allowing us to directly check the data analytics part."
"Fabric Data offers several standout features that are best in class."
"The unified workspace is the biggest advantage I experienced while building those data pipelines and working with OneLake storage."
"Fabric Data has positively impacted our organization as it has been our go-to tool for data integration with the help of Microsoft services."
"Fabric Data has impacted my organization positively because collaboration has been better and deployments have been faster."
"I reduced around 60% latency using Fabric Data and created one single source of truth on the Microsoft ecosystem when working with a pharmaceutical industry."
"Fabric Data has allowed us to change that and put the entire solution in one package and one environment, and that also makes things much more stable."
"We believe that the client has improved their efficiency compared to their previous working model; they have more clarity and, above all, more control over the data."
"Palantir Foundry is not just a data platform; it actually connects data engineering, analytics, operations, and decision-making all into one ecosystem."
"From my experience with Palantir Foundry, the most useful feature is its no-code, low-code environment, allowing me to develop applications without extensive coding, unlike my past as an Oracle developer where I had to write code for various functions."
"Combining data sources and hosting models in Palantir Foundry has helped my work because it is convenient to work in one environment rather than moving from one application to another, as Palantir Foundry allows for that one-stop shop where I can accomplish much of the work."
"Compared to other SaaS tools, Palantir Foundry is definitely a time-saver, though I do not have specific metrics to share."
"The predictive analytics capability within Palantir Foundry impacts financial forecasting strategies through its AIP functionality, which includes numerous pre-built models, LLMs, and data science application libraries."
"Palantir Foundry has positively impacted my organization by providing good support from Palantir teams, facilitating the development of many new solutions, building our UI and web applications, and significantly enhancing our productivity."
"This product has all the various components for getting data, transforming it and visually creating the dashboards without the need to integrate things and no need to check the compatibility."
 

Cons

"I felt some features, particularly around the Dataflow Gen2 error handling and pipeline monitoring, lacked clear documentation at the time of my study."
"I cannot say that the analytics and reporting capabilities of Fabric Data are good enough because it only provides compatibility with Microsoft Power BI."
"I have observed some limitations with Fabric Data, especially when it comes to bringing data from private networks."
"I feel that the Copilot in Power BI is very weak; for example, if you power it with the cloud, it is much more powerful than the Copilot in Power BI, which I believe could offer much better insights since it is a Microsoft tool."
"Customer support receives a rating of six out of ten because they themselves are trying to figure out what is new and what the issue is."
"Fabric Data can be improved because it tends to be run by Fabric Capacity, which is basically the compute cycles, and it is not very clear on how and what that is going to be used."
"Fabric Data could be improved in the future by increasing the size capability from terabyte to petabyte for deeper integration."
"I believe Excel sheets have some issues when creating a data frame; however, JSON data works fine for Fabric Data. When using an Excel sheet, we need some extra libraries, and that feature would be useful because most e-commerce sites store data in Excel."
"The widgets are pretty limited."
"The data lineage was challenging. It's hard to track data from the sources as it moves through stages. Informatica EDC can easily capture and report it because it talks to the metadata. This is generated across those various staging points."
"It requires a lot of manual work and is very time-consuming to get to a functional point."
"I believe that the AI or agent needs improvement because sometimes we face difficulties when looking for solutions, and when we ask the agent, AIP, it does not understand our queries and occasionally provides wrong solutions."
"Palantir Foundry's stability is sometimes good and sometimes not; there are blunders and issues."
"For example, exporting data from Palantir Foundry is very difficult and has many limitations."
"I would add that live data streaming is very hard and it keeps breaking, so it is not very stable and depends a lot on the satellite network."
"Always having to work with a Palantir representative creates severe bottlenecks and increases costs, making it desirable for me as the end user to perform tasks without constant requests for support."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Palantir Foundry is an expensive solution."
"Palantir Foundry has different pricing models that can be negotiated."
"The solution’s pricing is high."
"It's expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
16%
University
14%
Healthcare Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Government
7%
University
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise16
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise50
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fabric Data?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that pricing and those aspects are a different matter. It is not a concern for me because it matters to the client. Compared to other option...
What needs improvement with Fabric Data?
One area Fabric Data can be improved is the semantic model refresh. Though it says it is a direct link, the refresh times of the semantic model sometimes need explicit refresh. This takes a bit of ...
What is your primary use case for Fabric Data?
My main use case for Fabric Data is building data solutions for one of the retail firms in the US. I use Fabric to process source data, perform data processing, and provide analytical reports for e...
What needs improvement with Palantir Foundry?
I think the things that I do not like about Palantir Foundry is not a Palantir issue so much as it is from my company side and what they have commissioned for and have not commissioned for. With Pa...
What is your primary use case for Palantir Foundry?
I use Palantir Foundry to ingest data and create visualizations for decisions.
 

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Sample Customers

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Merck KGaA, Airbus, Ferrari,United States Intelligence Community, United States Department of Defense
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