CARTO Reviews & Product Details

CARTO is the leading Agentic GIS platform. Unlike other GIS systems, CARTO removes data fragmentation and technical bottlenecks by letting you build AI Agents, geospatial workflows, and interactive maps directly inside your cloud data warehouse or lakehouse. With CARTO for Agents, those same capabilities extend into the agentic platforms your teams already use, so spatial analysis and reports run at scale without manual effort. Every team gets Location Intelligence that lives inside your existing, governed cloud infrastructure, and powers use cases like network planning, risk assessments, and identifying growth opportunities. 100% CLOUD-NATIVE: YOUR DATA NEVER MOVES CARTO runs natively on top of the cloud data warehouse you already use, including Google BigQuery, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Databricks, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. Every action, from querying a table to running an AI Agent, happens inside your warehouse. There is no data replication, no separate spatial database to maintain, and no ETL to move geospatial data in and out. Many platforms claim to be cloud-native but still ask you to copy or process data externally. CARTO operates where your data already lives. AGENTIC GIS: TWO WAYS TO PUT AI AGENTS TO WORK CARTO AI Agents bring conversational spatial analysis to business users inside CARTO Builder maps and deck.gl applications. Users ask questions in plain language and get back answers, maps, and analysis, without waiting on a specialist. CARTO for Agents brings the platform into the agentic tools your teams already work in, including Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Snowflake Cortex, plus coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini CLI. It is built on the open Agent Skills and Model Context Protocol (MCP) standards, and delivered through the CARTO MCP Server, the CARTO CLI, and CARTO Agent Skills. There is no lock-in to a single agent stack. The platform is model-agnostic. You use your own approved LLMs and endpoints, so your data never has to move into a vendor's AI environment. Because agents call versioned CARTO Workflows rather than generating one-off SQL, results are deterministic and any analyst can open the workflow and see exactly how an answer was produced. WHAT YOU CAN BUILD CARTO Builder: interactive maps, dashboards, and map-based applications with no code required, including maps with AI Agents built in. CARTO Workflows: hundreds of low-code, drag-and-drop components for spatial analysis and data preparation. Workflows can be scheduled, versioned, and published as MCP Tools for AI Agents to call. Analytics Toolbox: advanced spatial SQL functions installed and run natively in your data warehouse, covering Spatial Indexes such as H3 and Quadbin, clustering, statistics, routing, and spatial data science. Data Observatory: public and premium spatial datasets, including demographics, mobility, points of interest, and environmental data, delivered straight into your warehouse. CARTO for Developers: deck.gl based libraries, APIs, and templates for building custom geospatial applications at any data volume. Integrations: QGIS plugin, embedding in BI tools, and connections across your wider cloud and AI stack.

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CartoDB

Discussions

CARTO Community

Languages Supported

English

Solution Type

All-in-One

Overview by

Daria Kolarczyk

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Time to Implement

1 month

Perceived Cost

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Verified User in Online Media

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/11/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Simple UI for Powerful Maps"

4.5/5

What do you like best about CARTO?

The UI is really user friendly. The layering system works really well to choose what data you want to show and how you want it to be displayed. I also like the option to use SQL even with CSV uploaded data. It is also very easy to share maps with a link. These links never have to change and always include every update. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CARTO?

The pricing system. Unfortunately, we can't store very much data per user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sergio G.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/10/2020

"Great value out of the box"

4.5/5

What do you like best about CARTO?

It was extremely easy to create powerful map based insights and it was possible with some effort to create customized ad-hoc dashboards with maps. Interactive reports with filtering capabilities created added value. Available external datasets where also very useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CARTO?

It was not that easy by that time to provide non map based charts together with the maps. Licensing schema was not so flexible for some use cases, especially in on-premise deployments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CARTO:

Start with Builder but consider API based integrations if the case requires it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CARTO solving and how is that benefiting you?

Time ago, IoT and data based smart city solutions. The most important benefit was to introduce geographical analysis and representations easily and create map based solution without a GIS platform behind. On the other hand, integrating external open data was easy and provided a great way to extract value from public administrations open data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/12/2020

"CARTO REVIEW"

3.5/5

What do you like best about CARTO?

Ability to quickly map hot spots and take a screen shot to communicate to customers our coverage areas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CARTO?

Zip codes too small when zooming in and out. I'm often mapping zip codes for logistics. Need a visual indicator for sharing - if locked and not able to be shared, then it should say so. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kitty K.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/10/2020

"Carto is the best mapping solution"

5/5

What do you like best about CARTO?

We love how flexible Carto is, but also the quality of the maps we are able to deploy. Trying to create a real-time updated mapping solution without a product like Carto is gigantic time suck, and Carto has made it much easier than other solutions we reviewed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CARTO?

We've had a very good experience with Carto and don't have any negative comments at this point. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CARTO:

Find developers that know how to use it and it's a fantastic product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CARTO solving and how is that benefiting you?

We rapidly launched a tool to allow the public to submit details about Covid-19 symptoms they are experiencing to alert local officials. The data gets posted to a live Carto map that is used by first responders, city managers, mayors and public health officials. The tool has given us to foolproof way to display the scope and location of new outbreaks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/12/2020

"Black Germany"

4.5/5

What do you like best about CARTO?

This platform allowed my class to create a sustainable e-platform for users to learn about the rich history of notable Black German citizens who haven’t been represented throughout world history as contributors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CARTO?

It’s a little sensitive to navigate. I had trouble with publishing updates to our map and the images showing up in tandem with the information as user hovered over “plots” on the map Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gregory A.

Head of Product

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/7/2017

"Great mapping platform for beginners and GIS alike"

4/5

What do you like best about CARTO?

CARTO is incredibly easy to use, and the platform makes advanced location-based analytics accessible even to those without a GIS background or training. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CARTO?

CARTO's pricing can be a bit steep, and their different pricing packages can be a bit confusing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/12/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Great web-mapping tool!"

5/5

What do you like best about CARTO?

Easy to use, the interface is intuitive. The widgets add nice features and a lot of functionalities. The integration of Jupyter Notebooks and CartoFrames makes it a powerful tool for spatial data science. The data observatory also adds almost unlimited possibilities with the addition of great datasets from reliable data providers. This allows analysts to push the insights to the next level and conveniently add external data sources to their maps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CARTO?

Limited API functionalities to access data and features stored in Carto. It would need better GIS capabilities for more advanced users without relying on external tools. Carto Builder should be a key product in their offering and development efforts seem to be towards other products for the last few years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CARTO:

Great tool to easily publish and share maps to a large audience. The visualization features are nice and make intuitive maps. Not the traditional GIS tool, it lacks some spatial analysis features typically found in desktop tools but it makes a great tool for businesses looking at entry-level web-based software. If you're looking for an entry-level SaaS software to share maps and data across an organization it's a great tool to consider. I would recommend it to an organization that has a limited number of users, maybe not a solution for 1000+ people to share data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CARTO solving and how is that benefiting you?

Doing map visualization, finding insights between customers, markets, transactions, and store locations. Creating maps to share internally and externally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Eliana C. M.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/30/2020

"Very good treatment and willingness to solve problems."

4/5

What do you like best about CARTO?

Product personalization. In support cases it is debited quite quickly and efficiently Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CARTO?

The impossibility of viewing the website in all versions of some platforms, such as mobile phones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Isaac P.

IT, Risk and Models Partner

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/17/2020

"really good tech platform and great team that follows and understand the needs of their clients"

4.5/5

What do you like best about CARTO?

The agility and evolution. The technical solution and the integration capacity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CARTO?

The commercial offer should have a pay as you go in cloud hosting like azure, aws, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vicente O.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/17/2020

"Great product and awesome team"

3.5/5

What do you like best about CARTO?

What I like the most is the Team Support helping us with all issues and doubts. And the flexibility they have with us in order to scale our collaboration with Carto according to our necessities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CARTO?

Carto Builder limitations. Carto Builder has the possibility to create a lot of geospatial analysis easily. But sometimes we need more, we would like to personalize it even more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.