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Knowage vs Plotly Dash Enterprise comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 8, 2026

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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

Knowage
Ranking in Reporting
23rd
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (32nd)
Plotly Dash Enterprise
Ranking in Reporting
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.2
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Knowage is 2.0%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Plotly Dash Enterprise is 1.6%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Reporting Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Plotly Dash Enterprise1.6%
Knowage2.0%
Other96.4%
Reporting
 

Featured Reviews

AM
Margin Assurance Analyst at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
A stable open source suite for modern business analytics with a useful replication feature
It would be better if more resources were available to help us learn how to use it. I wanted to use Knowage for a more extended period, but learning materials around the product were not really available and were not really straightforward. I've also seen inconsistencies between versions. For example, under the tools, especially in the cockpit, the way you create reports is now different. You will also find some configurations within a particular state, like a line chart, which differs from version to version. I think consistency is an essential feature in a product, especially for business intelligence products.
reviewer2835996 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Analyst at a non-profit with 51-200 employees
Interactive dashboards have transformed reporting and now speed up team decision making
One area where Plotly Dash Enterprise can be improved is the learning curve for beginners. It can take time to understand the callbacks and app structures. Debugging can sometimes be tricky, especially for complex apps. Improving documentation and providing more built-in templates or examples would make it easier for new users to get started. Another improvement could be around performance optimization in Plotly. For example, with a large dataset, a dashboard can sometimes become slow. Better built-in support for handling big data efficiently would help. Additionally, smoother integration with other data tools and cloud services would make it easier to fit into different tech stacks.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"SpagoBI makes delivering reports to our clients very easy."
"Instead of just relying on emails to disperse our reports, having a central server to do this for us has helped our organization and has pushed us into a better place."
"Nice features available in SpagoBI compared with other open-source BI are Auditing, Collaborative BI, Query By Example, and User Profiling."
"It improves sales and products, which motivates employees."
"I am satisfied with the product in general given what the company invested in it, which was just our time."
"It's very easy to get the historical reports you need based on the business requirements and this helps our executives for taking decisions."
"I would use SpagoBI if a company wants to use a free tool that has enough features."
"The concept of engines is quite powerful allowing the user to work with report authoring/provisioning tools of their choice."
"I literally save about one month of development time using Plotly Dash Enterprise and around thirty percent of costs compared to other three-tier architectures."
"My main use case with Plotly Dash Enterprise is equally comparable to Power BI and Tableau for creating dashboards."
"Plotly Dash Enterprise is amazing because it makes excellent dashboards."
"Development and deployment time typically shows a 50 to 80% faster time to production, and there is also a 60 to 90% reduction in repetitive reporting work because organizations have self-serve dashboards and scheduled reports where one internal app often replaces hours of weekly manual work."
"The best features that Plotly Dash Enterprise offers are that it is a great no-code solution if you want interactive visualizations without using the tools within Python or R."
"The positive impact of Plotly Dash Enterprise includes the speed to production, the accessibility it provides, and the enhanced security and compliance."
"I have been using it to turn raw data into interactive, presentation-ready visuals with no extra effort, making exploratory data analysis faster and stakeholder communication far more effective."
"When reviewing and interpreting data, I typically examine it in a tabular form to understand its structure. However, when explaining or presenting the findings to others, I often use visualization tools such as Plotly. These tools allow me to create visual representations of datasets."
 

Cons

"We had stability issues."
"As all software and especially the open-source ones have always something that can work better, in this case, SpagoBI is slightly difficult to implement."
"I encountered a lot of issues when I tried to integrate the map in order to realize Intelligent Location Dashboards."
"There are additional features such as Data Integration, Data Visualization, MobileBI, Cloud BI, Data enrichment and massaging should be implemented in the next release."
"The support is very meager: We had to break our heads to figure out everything"
"Development of SpagoBI has now been moved to Knowage. Users interested in further developments of the platform will have to look there."
"I faced difficulties when using the email feature and documentation was scant."
"Tomcat configuration was tricky in earlier versions."
"One area where Plotly Dash Enterprise can be improved is the learning curve for beginners."
"The tool needs to improve its pie charts. Regarding Plotly, I find the online documentation somewhat challenging to navigate, especially when dealing with many parameters. Searching through thousands of parameters can be a tedious and less straightforward process. While the documentation is available online and serves its purpose, I often encounter difficulties in finding the information."
"We need to use fewer processes because we have a great opportunity to improve the dynamic graphics as they use a lot of processors and computer clusters, which over the years become very expensive for the business."
"While the documentation for Plotly Dash Enterprise is commendable, it can pose challenges for individuals new to Dash or Plotly, as the customizations and optimizations can be complex, requiring significant time from developers."
"I sometimes find that the documentation is not comprehensive and more detailed documentation should be available for the benefit of other companies using it."
"Plotly Dash Enterprise works well for most cases, but for some large data sets, it can be a bit laggy."
"Adding documentation AI to Plotly Dash Enterprise would be more useful than trying to figure it out through certain AI, LLM, or chatbots for certain functions that I would prefer to use in custom cases."
"I would say scalability of Plotly Dash Enterprise is low when I used it; it was not easy to adapt to different data volumes or needs."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It allows the implementation of an effective reporting system using internal skills at a limited upfront cost."
"Knowage is open-source, and an enterprise edition is also available."
"I only use the free tier of the product."
"It is an open-source tool. My company hasn't explored Plotly's premium services yet, but I believe the prices could be on the premium side."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
20%
University
9%
Marketing Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
University
17%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise21
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Plotly?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that I was not completely involved in those aspects. My involvement was mainly from the user and dashboard deployment side rather than procu...
What needs improvement with Plotly?
I found Plotly Dash Enterprise very useful, but there are a few areas that could be improved. The main limitation was the learning curve during the setup and deployment. Building visualizations in ...
What is your primary use case for Plotly?
My use has been focused on building and working with interactive dashboards for data visualization to make findings easier to communicate. I was not the main administrator, but I used it from the a...
 

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Sample Customers

FIAT Group, Italian air navigation service provider, Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Telecom Italia, ASL Genovese, San Giovanni Battista University Hospital
Google, Goji, VIT, Smpl Bio, U.S. Air Force, C12 Energy, New York University
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