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Toad Data Modeler vs Toad for Oracle comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 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

Toad Data Modeler
Ranking in Database Development and Management
9th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Toad for Oracle
Ranking in Database Development and Management
7th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Database Development and Management category, the mindshare of Toad Data Modeler is 3.1%, down from 3.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Toad for Oracle is 2.4%, down from 4.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Database Development and Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Toad for Oracle2.4%
Toad Data Modeler3.1%
Other94.5%
Database Development and Management
 

Featured Reviews

KQ
Senior engineer at a government with 201-500 employees
Creates intuitive diagrams with comprehensive control over relationships
1) When updating a model after generating a schema, if only a few tables are imported, the tool assumes you want to delete the rest. If you have a large model, you repeatedly have to clarify that you don't want to delete each one. 2) If one could view the same model on physical, logical, and conceptual levels while retaining all information specific to each level (including layout), that would be excellent.
Mark Stocks - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President, Director Enterprise Architecture at JE Dunn Construction
Uses trusted data to support financial forecasting and automate complex calculations through daily development workflows
The best features Toad for Oracle offers are the ability to access the database objects and see them in a very simplified manner. The simplified view helps me in my work as it makes troubleshooting easier. Toad for Oracle has positively impacted our organization because our financial forecasting data set is trusted throughout the company because of the ability for us to debug and analyze the data with Toad for Oracle. This trust in the data set has affected business decisions and efficiency by creating a completely separate data department because of the value that we saw with our data because of how we were able to organize and extract data from Oracle with Toad for Oracle.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Ability to save my custom queries and Macros"
"This product is fast to learn and a user-friendly tool."
"With Toad, all the users have the same database on the server rather than local individual databases which creates a lot of duplication."
"The feature I really like is the graphical part, especially the control of the relationships."
"The feature I really like is the graphical part, especially the control of the relationships, because you can move them around any way you want, which makes it easy to create a comprehensive and easy-to-understand diagram."
"The most valuable features are the database architecture, the good functionality, and the user interface."
"Toad allowed us to run the query on the cloud DB and return data from the query, making things much faster."
"It was immensely helpful in collecting SQL database data, especially as I am not a database admin/engineer."
"Toad for Oracle makes the day-to-day actions easy and reduces some manual work for me."
"For Oracle developers, this solution is a must."
"I find Toad easy to use and I love the Workspace feature, which allows me to set up projects so that I can open SQL files applicable to what I am working on at any particular time."
"The most valuable feature is the navigation within the UI, where you can right-click on an object in an SQL query and go right to it, versus going through all of the menus to find what you are looking for."
"The tool evaluates non-optimized queries and generates the queries in a way that is more optimal - in addition to giving us some good practices for code development."
"One of the most valuable features of Toad for Oracle is its ability to manage sessions by killing those that are hung or blocking other sessions."
"Toad for Oracle has positively impacted our organization because our financial forecasting data set is trusted throughout the company because of the ability for us to debug and analyze the data with Toad for Oracle."
"A quite simple feature that I have not encountered elsewhere is the "Make Code" feature. I can easily export a complex SQL statement to a programming language. This is a great timesaver as I do not have to type in all of the escape/concatenation characters just to create a SQL statement in C# or C++."
 

Cons

"Although a lot of people get deceived by the name “Data Analysis”, it has capacity of any enterprise tool, but not to the point of creating multiple pipes in one integrated work-flow, batching the work-flows and running them parallel for data loads."
"Better documentation would be a benefit."
"We sometimes have issues with multiple nested queries. They take a long time to run, and it would be nice to have them run faster."
"It is not feasible for small businesses. It is not used in a small company."
"Reverse engineering the physical schema is complex and can be made easier."
"Toad crashes sometimes and it will lose all the saved database information."
"It's quite stable but takes a bit of a time to run SQL queries if the database is huge."
"What could be improved in Toad Data Modeler is stability and the complex setup."
"Query optimization is still very resource-intensive."
"The price of this solution should be reduced."
"There could be a tool for automated SQL query functioning."
"I'd like reporting to be more available. If it was a feature that was already installed, more people would take advantage of it."
"An area where the solution could use some improvement is in terms of user-friendliness. During the initial setup phase, the solution was not very intuitive when attempting to establish connections."
"Improvement wise, for the user it should show the minimum features on the screen and not all the features. Toad has a lot of features, but most users will use only 5 or 10 based on their role. Nobody needs all the features, and they should provide the option to choose only the required features. Only minimum requirements should be enabled by default. When all the features are shown, the performance is not good; it loads slowly and has hundreds of popups and unnecessary questions."
"I would like to see an improvement in the performance because opening the browser and the editor should be faster."
"Toad for Oracle does not have a particular resolution within the application."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Price-wise, the lesser it is, the better it is for me, especially in Egypt. I think that the licensing cost ranges from 1,000 to 9,000. Also, it includes maintenance and support for a year."
"Though I'm not involved in the licensing for Toad Data Modeler, I believe it's per user and not cheap."
"The product's pricing is just right because if it were slightly higher, it would not have been as widely adopted as it currently is in our organization."
"I would rate it six, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price."
"Toad for Oracle has a relatively high cost compared to other similar tools."
"In my opinion, this solution is a little expensive, but I understand that good programs cost more money."
"The professional edition is about $1,000 AUD ($700 USD) and the developer version is about twice that much."
"There are paid and free-for-use versions of the product."
"The pricing is okay, it's reasonable."
"My advice is to try to use the three-year maintenance agreement if possible."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Marketing Services Firm
7%
Energy/Utilities Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Construction Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise9
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise11
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Toad Data Modeler?
Considering its functionality, I would rate its pricing as a seven out of ten. It could be cheaper yet is still pretty good.
What needs improvement with Toad Data Modeler?
1) When updating a model after generating a schema, if only a few tables are imported, the tool assumes you want to delete the rest. If you have a large model, you repeatedly have to clarify that y...
What is your primary use case for Toad Data Modeler?
There are two main use cases. One is reengineering an existing model and making changes from a database. The other is making a new model from scratch. These use cases involve all kinds of systems, ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Toad for Oracle?
The licensing cost for Toad for Oracle is relatively high, with their license and DPA suite totaling around five thousand dollars.
What needs improvement with Toad for Oracle?
Toad for Oracle is useful, but I believe it could be enhanced. I think Quest can consider involving AI or adding some plugin like cloud or something in Toad for Oracle. Optimizing the query or doin...
What is your primary use case for Toad for Oracle?
I'm using Toad for Oracle for administration of Oracle databases.
 

Also Known As

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Sample Customers

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