A Looker Studio alternative for company-wide reporting, with AI and permissions built in.
Looker Studio is a popular free tool for marketing reports on Google data. Klayara is the Looker Studio alternative for when finance, operations and sales share one dashboard: each person sees their own rows, sources include databases and ERPs, Klayara AI answers questions and drafts dashboards, and reports arrive on WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram or email.
Simple per-user pricingKlayara AI built inCloud or your own serversArabic and English
What teams gain moving from Looker Studio.
One dashboard, each person's own rows
Row and column rules per person or team, applied to every dashboard, download, scheduled report and AI answer — one report for every audience.
Databases and ERPs, live and fast
Klayara connects live to PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server and the databases behind common ERPs, and stays fast on tables with more than 100 million rows — acceleration included on every plan.
Klayara AI that builds with you
Ask a question and get a real chart, describe a dashboard and get a draft, and click "Why did this change?" to hear what moved a number.
Delivered where people read
Scheduled PDFs and images to email, WhatsApp, Slack and Telegram, rendered per recipient.
Looker Studio and Klayara, in general terms.
Written October 2026 from public documentation, describing each product in general terms; features and plans change, so check the current position with each vendor.
| Aspect | Looker Studio | Klayara |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Free, with paid options for wider needs | Published per-user prices: Builders who build, lower-priced Viewers who read; Enterprise quoted per organisation |
| AI | AI features through the vendor's wider cloud products | Klayara AI built in on Growth and Enterprise: ask your data, AI chart and dashboard builder, dashboard summaries and "why did this change", formula and query assistants, automations from a sentence — runs only when you click, within each person's permissions |
| Sources | Strongest on the vendor's own marketing and analytics products | Databases, warehouses, ERPs, business apps, spreadsheets and REST APIs — 150+ data sources, live or imported per table |
| Row-level permissions | Handled at the data-source level, report by report | Set once per person or team, applied to every dashboard, download, scheduled report, embed and AI answer |
| Speed on big tables | Depends on the connected source | Built-in acceleration on every plan; dashboards stay fast on tables with more than 100 million rows |
| Where it runs | Vendor cloud | Our hosted cloud, or your own servers with Enterprise (even offline) |
| Scheduled delivery | Email, WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram and webhooks, rendered per recipient with their own rows | |
| Arabic, right to left | Depends on how each report is built | Full right-to-left Arabic interface and English, chosen per user |
| Done-for-you dashboards | Agencies | Our own BI developers build the dashboards and hand them over |
Who should stay on Looker Studio.
Some teams are well served where they are, usually because their work is built around Looker Studio and its wider ecosystem.
- Teams whose analysts are deeply invested in Looker Studio and whose reports are finished and working well.
- Marketing teams reporting only on the vendor's own advertising and analytics products, where a free tool covers the job.
Who chooses Klayara instead.
The teams that get the most from Klayara from the first week.
- Teams that want AI to answer questions and draft charts, dashboards and formulas — inside their own permissions
- Companies sharing dashboards widely that want a lower-priced Viewer seat for everyone who reads
- Groups that need one dashboard across several companies or branches, with each reader limited to their own rows
- Companies that want the data to stay on their own servers, in their own country
- Teams with no analyst that want the first dashboards built for them and handed over
- Businesses that read in Arabic and English on the same day
Looker Studio alternative questions, answered.
Something else on your mind? Ask us directly — a person answers.
Can Klayara read Google Analytics and Google Sheets?
Yes. Google Sheets stays in sync on a schedule and Google Analytics comes in through the connector area, so marketing data sits next to revenue from your own systems.
Is Klayara an affordable Looker Studio alternative?
Yes. Klayara is priced simply per user, with a lower-priced Viewer seat for everyone who only reads and speed on big tables included on every plan. Plans start at $10 per Viewer and $20 per Builder a month, billed yearly; Enterprise and self-hosted plans are quoted. Prefer it built for you? Our done-for-you service has our developers build the dashboards. See the plans.
Is Klayara a Looker Studio alternative with AI?
Yes. Klayara AI is built into the product on Growth and Enterprise: ask a question and get a real chart, describe a chart or a whole dashboard and get a draft, summarise a dashboard or ask why a number changed, write and fix formulas and queries, and set up automations from a sentence. It runs only when someone clicks, stays within each person's row and column permissions, and Growth includes 150 AI credits a month for the workspace. On Enterprise it can also run on your own AI provider or a private model. See Klayara AI.
What does Klayara add for company-wide reporting?
Row and column permissions applied everywhere, live connections to databases and ERPs, Klayara AI that answers questions and drafts charts and dashboards, scheduled delivery to WhatsApp, Slack and Telegram, Arabic and English interfaces, and self-hosting on Enterprise.
Other comparisons
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See Klayara next to your Looker Studio reports.
Bring one dashboard you rely on today. We'll rebuild it live on your data, with your permissions, and you can judge the difference yourself.
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