Astrato vs Looker Studio: Best Alternative for Customer-Facing Analytics
When you need on-brand embeds, mobile-friendly UX, writeback, and the ability to scale beyond a handful of users, Astrato is the best alternative to Looker Studio.
It's fine for a few dashboards, but it doesn't scale
Looker Studio is handy for quick internal reports. But when you need fast interactivity, governed access, and embedded experiences customers actually enjoy, it can feel like the brakes are on.
Astrato is different. Built for the cloud, it connects directly to your warehouse, like BigQuery, Snowflake or ClickHouse. No extracts, no brittle refreshes, no steep learning curve. You get fresh data in a no-code builder that ships stunning data apps rather than read-only reports.
Build premium data experiences with white-label embedded analytics
Your dashboards shouldn’t scream “generic Google template”. With Astrato, you add branded, customer-facing analytics to your product in minutes with SSO, JWT, and tenant controls. Drop in a KPI, a set of charts, or full pages that feel native to your product UI and UX.
Your data stays in the warehouse and governance applies end to end with roles and row or column policies. Live queries (with smart caching) handle spikes, and copy-paste embeds make rollout simple.
From read-only dashboards to real-time collaboration via Writeback
Reports are where insight appears, not where work gets done. Astrato brings writeback and inputs into the same view: approvals, data corrections, notes, and what-ifs that sync to your warehouse. Build these workflows inside your dashboards using our point-and-click UI to enable real data-driven decisions.
Governed and tenant-aware by default
Ship analytics you can trust at scale. Astrato uses your SSO and short-lived JWTs for identity, then enforces access in your warehouse, so row and column policies, threshold privacy, and dynamic session parameters apply on every view and export.
Map users to tenants and entitlements from one place, keep metrics consistent via the semantic layer, and track what’s happening with audits and product-usage telemetry. Secure embedding stays brand-clean while least-privilege connections and optional IP allowlisting keep portals tight.
More reasons to switch to Astrato
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Astrato is a game changer. It integrated directly into our Data Cloud. Security and data privacy are critical for our work with behavioral health, addiction, and recovery support providers. Astrato allows us to maintain our high security in the Snowflake Data Cloud while opening more insights to more levels of care. Astrato is significantly faster with dashboards loading almost instantly.
Before, we had a separate analytics page, and nobody used it. Now, every customer at least checks the analytics, and for some, it’s the main thing they care about
Astrato acts as the shop window for everything happening in Snowflake, while all computation and governance remain in code within our data warehouse. That means anyone can access insights without relying on complex BI tools.
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Astrato is helping us win new customers as a result (of our Self-service embedded dashboard in Astrato), and we are on target to double the number of units (users) this year.
Our customers are already thrilled by the improvement in user experience we have seen from switching to Astrato, which is enabling their non-technical users to self-serve for the insights they need to make informed decisions and be far more productive. This is helping us win and retain more customers.
Astrato offers a 50-75% cost saving over Qlik, with 25-50% faster development, seamless self-service analytics, and easy adoption which enables quick, customizable insights and actions.
Given Astrato is 100% cloud-native live-query, tightly integrated with the speed and scalability of Snowflake, we can now rapidly process a customer's data and build streamlined actionable analytics, in just hours/days compared to weeks/months previously. We have been able to automate almost everything, which just wasn't possible with PowerBI and our skill sets.
Astrato is a game changer. It integrated directly into our Data Cloud. Security and data privacy are critical for our work with behavioral health, addiction, and recovery support providers. Astrato allows us to maintain our high security in the Snowflake Data Cloud while opening more insights to more levels of care. Astrato is significantly faster with dashboards loading almost instantly.
Before, we had a separate analytics page, and nobody used it. Now, every customer at least checks the analytics, and for some, it’s the main thing they care about
Astrato acts as the shop window for everything happening in Snowflake, while all computation and governance remain in code within our data warehouse. That means anyone can access insights without relying on complex BI tools.
Astrato is helping us win new customers as a result (of our Self-service embedded dashboard in Astrato), and we are on target to double the number of units (users) this year.
Our customers are already thrilled by the improvement in user experience we have seen from switching to Astrato, which is enabling their non-technical users to self-serve for the insights they need to make informed decisions and be far more productive. This is helping us win and retain more customers.
Astrato offers a 50-75% cost saving over Qlik, with 25-50% faster development, seamless self-service analytics, and easy adoption which enables quick, customizable insights and actions.
Given Astrato is 100% cloud-native live-query, tightly integrated with the speed and scalability of Snowflake, we can now rapidly process a customer's data and build streamlined actionable analytics, in just hours/days compared to weeks/months previously. We have been able to automate almost everything, which just wasn't possible with PowerBI and our skill sets.