Databricks vs Looker
What each one’s own pages state, side by side. Every value is a quote AirStack found on that product’s pages; “Not observed” means AirStack has not found it on that product’s pages.
| Databricks | Looker | |
|---|---|---|
| What it says it does | Databricks is a unified data and AI platform that runs both analytical and operational workloads on one open, governed foundation. databricks.com | The agentic BI platform built on a trusted semantic layer cloud.google.com |
| Starting at | Not observed | Not observed |
| Platforms | AWS, Azure, GCP databricks.com | Not observed |
| Integrations | Microsoft Teams, Slack databricks.com | BigQuery, AlloyDB, Cloud SQL, Spanner, Amazon Redshift, Databricks, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake cloud.google.com |
| Free plan | Yes databricks.com | Yes cloud.google.com |
| Plans | Business, Mission Critical, Production databricks.com | Standard, Enterprise, Embed cloud.google.com |
| Pricing basis | Databricks pricing is based on your compute usage. databricks.com | Looker pricing has two components: platform pricing and user pricing. cloud.google.com |
| Customers (their claim) | Over 20,000 customers across the globe databricks.com | Not observed |
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