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Birst vs Yellowfin comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 4, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Birst
Ranking in Reporting
28th
Ranking in Embedded BI
19th
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Yellowfin
Ranking in Reporting
24th
Ranking in Embedded BI
15th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (34th), Data Visualization (21st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Reporting category, the mindshare of Birst is 1.0%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Yellowfin is 1.8%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Reporting Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Yellowfin1.8%
Birst1.0%
Other97.2%
Reporting
 

Featured Reviews

SK
Principal Engineering Manager I at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Offers dashboards and self-service reports. The report performance is very slow.
Dashboards and self-service reports. These are widely used by customers in the EPM domain Most of our customers are interested in dashboards and self-service reports. We are able to offer them these features with this solution. Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution The report…
AC
‎IS Executive at SAINS
It is a central source of up-to-date data and information, but needs more charting capabilities
Management information Reporting Statistics Data analysis It reduces sending copies of different report/spreadsheet versions over email, which makes it difficult to access the right report. It is also able to create information dashboards for various users' throughout.  All management…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"This is the best cloud based BI platform/solution out there."
"We have been able to scale pretty quickly and easily; it has been a great experience and I love this product."
"If you are looking for a cloud-based, lightweight data mart and reporting, this tool is good."
"Scalability is one of the core features of this product that makes Birst great."
"It has given us the ability to join all our data sources into one place to streamline reporting and analytics."
"In general, Birst as a cloud VI solution is a user-friendly tool that looks really nice and engages users straight away."
"Its ability to create a complete, end-to-end BI solution using a single software stack product is the most valuable feature."
"The impact of Birst has been felt company-wide."
"Yellowfin doesn’t try to do everything – it is a BI presentation and communication tool, and it does it brilliantly."
"It is able to create information dashboards for various users' throughout."
"It is a central source of up-to-date data and information."
"It reduces time to reproduce reports, provides easy access to organisational data, and has the ability to generate a wide range of reports and analysis."
 

Cons

"Performance was not that great; in-memory processing would help."
"Owing to the above reasons, we could not make use of the Birst tool productively."
"I would want to see some improvement in the user management module."
"Error logging is cumbersome to work through to find issues."
"Release management and version control are poor or not available."
"My own experience just made me think that this was a hidden cost that they tried to hide, but keeping that in mind, it might only be my experience as to how this surfaced for us, because I had this image of Birst that you pay this amount and get everything."
"I would like to see better connection functionality. It is not very intuitive and the UI is kind of neglected."
"Visualization: This aspect of the product is not up to the same level as its competitors in the market."
"It needs more presentation/charting capabilities and integration with GIS."
"The first release was a bit buggy, but they seem to have gotten on top of that very quickly."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Please negotiate on the price and purchase the latest version."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
20%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Marketing Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
20%
Educational Organization
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise12
No data available
 

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