Looker Review
★★★★☆4.4Google Cloud's modern BI platform built on a semantic modeling layer.
Key features
- LookML modeling layer for governed metrics
- Embedded analytics/Embed Edition
- Real-time in-database queries
- Scheduled data actions/alerts
Pros / Cons
- + Strong single source-of-truth semantic layer
- + Robust API/embedding
- + Deep Google Cloud integration
- - LookML has a real engineering learning curve
- - Opaque/high pricing requiring sales negotiation
Pricing: Fully custom/quote-based via Google Cloud sales — Standard Edition (<50 users) roughly $50K–75K/yr, Enterprise ~$100K–200K/yr, large enterprise $200K–500K+/yr; BigQuery compute billed separately · Best for: Data-engineering-mature orgs on Google Cloud wanting a governed semantic layer for embedded/self-serve BI