Alteryx Designer vs Upsolver comparison

Alteryx and Upsolver are both solutions in the Data Integration category. Alteryx is ranked #16 with an average rating of 7.1, while Upsolver is ranked #38 with an average rating of 8.3. Alteryx holds a 1.5% mindshare in DI, compared to Upsolver’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Alteryx users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Upsolver users who would recommend it.

Alteryx Designer

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90% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between Alteryx Designer and Upsolver based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Alteryx Designer

Ranking in Data Integration

16th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Upsolver

Ranking in Data Integration

38th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Streaming Analytics (20th)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Data Integration category, the mindshare of Alteryx Designer is 1.5%, down from 2.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Upsolver is 0.7%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Data Integration Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Alteryx Designer	1.5%
Upsolver	0.7%
Other	97.8%

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Prince Raju

Lead Data Analyst at Ernst & Young

Powerful tool for cleansing, formatting, and transforming data – especially unstructured files

When you open a raw Excel file, it can be hard to look at everything in detail. Alteryx makes it much easier to go through the data, summarize it, and use different tools for analysis. So, Alteryx Designer have significantly reduced the time I spend on data analysis tasks. Moreover, the drag-and-drop interface of Alteryx Designer improved our overall workflow.

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reviewer2784462

Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Streaming pipelines have become simpler and onboarding new data sources is now much faster

One of the best features Upsolver offers is the automatic schema evolution. Another good feature is SQL-based streaming transformations. Complex streaming transformations such as cleansing, deduplication, and enrichment were implemented using SQL and drastically reduced the need for custom Spark code. My experience with the SQL-based streaming transformations in Upsolver is that it had a significant positive impact on the overall data engineering workflow. By replacing custom Spark streaming jobs with declarative SQL logic, I simplified development, review, and deployment processes. Data transformations such as parsing, filtering, enrichment, and deduplication could be implemented and modified quickly without rebuilding or redeploying complex code-based pipelines. Upsolver has impacted my organization positively because it brings many benefits. The first one is faster onboarding of new data sources. Another one is more reliable streaming pipelines. Another one is near-real-time data availability, which is very important for us. It also reduced operational effort for data engineering teams. A specific outcome that highlights these benefits is that the time to onboard new sources is reduced from weeks to days. Custom Spark code reduction reached 50 to 40 percent. Pipeline failures are reduced by 70 to 80 percent. Data latency is improved from hours to minutes.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I like Alteryx's browser tool because you can view how your data is handled live. There are many other valuable tools like transpose and the crosstab. You can quickly pivot your data, and there are connections throughout the database. It's so easy to create a connection. If you connect to sign apps or a more complex database, the tool contains all the tools you need."

"Alteryx Designer is a tool that is pretty much easy to install."

"It has an easy setup process."

"Alteryx Designer is stable."

"The product offers very good analytics."

"The solution is user-friendly."

"For my daily analytics needs, the entire Alteryx Designer platform is beneficial."

"When you open a raw Excel file, it can be hard to look at everything in detail. Alteryx makes it much easier to go through the data, summarize it, and use different tools for analysis."

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"A specific outcome that highlights these benefits is that the time to onboard new sources is reduced from weeks to days, custom Spark code reduction reached 50 to 40 percent, pipeline failures are reduced by 70 to 80 percent, and data latency is improved from hours to minutes."

"Customer service is excellent, and I would rate it between eight point five to nine out of ten."

"The most prominent feature of Upsolver is its function as an ETL tool, allowing data to be moved across platforms and different data technologies."

"It was easy to use and set up, with a nearly no-code interface that relied mostly on drag-and-drop functionality."

Cons

"When configuring the Logix, the UA could be improved."

"The price of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."

"When it comes to the pivoting part, the drill-through option is not there in Alteryx."

"The product could offer more connectors and more databases with support for the in-database function."

"Alteryx Designer's pricing and support could be improved."

"Optimizing processing times is one area I would like to see improved in Alteryx Designer. Sometimes, the workflows take an extremely long time to run. There are days when I have had to wait two to three hours for a single process to complete. There needs to be a functionality to split the processes."

"Alteryx Designer's cost should be improved."

"The conditional join feature should be improved."

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"There is room for improvement in query tuning."

"Upsolver excels in ETL and data aggregation, while ThoughtSpot is strong in natural language processing for querying datasets. Combining these tools can be very effective: Upsolver handles aggregation and ETL, and ThoughtSpot allows for natural language queries. There’s potential for highlighting these integrations in the future."

"On the stability side, I would rate it seven out of ten. Using multiple cloud providers and data engineering technologies creates complexity, and managing different plugins is not always easy, but they are working on it."

"I think that Upsolver can be improved in orchestration because it is not a full orchestration tool."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Alteryx Designer is an expensive solution."

"Alteryx Designer is a very expensive solution."

"The pricing is bit expensive."

"I rate the price of Alteryx Designer as a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is extremely expensive, and ten is a highly cheap product."

"The solution is expensive. It has license fees, which are renewable every year."

"I rate the price of Alteryx Designer a ten on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."

"The product is a bit expensive, it should be looked into."

"Alteryx Designer is an expensive solution."

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"Upsolver is affordable at approximately $225 per terabyte per year."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

20%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Energy/Utilities Company

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Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	17

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Alteryx Designer?

When you open a raw Excel file, it can be hard to look at everything in detail. Alteryx makes it much easier to go through the data, summarize it, and use different tools for analysis.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Alteryx Designer?

It's cheaper than Palantir, but even Alteryx is too much for small clients. It is expensive, considering the server capabilities.

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What needs improvement with Alteryx Designer?

For smaller clients with ten to 15 employees, Alteryx can be expensive. The server capabilities are costly too. The technical support could also improve by being quicker in response times.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Upsolver?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was a very good experience, but it is not a direct experience because it was not my responsibility. It was in charge of the customer. However, ...

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What needs improvement with Upsolver?

I think that Upsolver can be improved in orchestration because it is not a full orchestration tool. I believe it could be better in this regard. The cost needs attention at a very large scale. I th...

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What is your primary use case for Upsolver?

My main use case for Upsolver is during an IT consulting project for a large enterprise running a cloud-native data platform on AWS. I used Upsolver to ingest and process high-volume stream data fr...

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Upsolver's mission is to turn engineering-intensive data lakes into easy-to-use repositories that serve 50X more data professionals compared to the status-quo today. Upsolver cuts 95% from the tedious process of preparing event data for analytics and machine learning, using a visual SQL-based interface, a cloud-native data platform and deep technology for stream-processing, indexing and eventually-consistent file systems.

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