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 Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/30/2017

"Carto makes web based GIS and interactive mapping fun and easy"

5/5

What do you like best about CARTO?

Ability to drag & drop various GIS data formats into their interface (they're auto-magically imported into a PostGIS database); robust set of APIs such as the SQL API; Javascript library for integration with web mapping libraries such as Leaflet and Google Maps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CARTO?

The new Builder interface takes some getting used to, but Carto has plenty of tutorials to help you learn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CARTO:

If you have large amounts of GIS data and either want to avoid or don't have access to other online services such as ArcGIS online, it's a great solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Mapping environmental contamination in north Brooklyn, New York; mapping over 1 million automobile crashes and their attributes for all of New York City. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Michael G.

Director

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/9/2017

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

"Great Cloud Mapping Platform"

5/5

What do you like best about CARTO?

The ease of dropping in ESRI Shapefiles, Open Street Map data or all the other supported formats to quickly be able to visualize the information in a variety of ways. Their BI tools are great and constantly getting better and better through their continues integration. I also like that CARTO can be a database to manage projects and not only geospatial data. I also like that there are integration tools to many programming languages as well as QGIS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CARTO?

Faster response when working with 50 million records or more. The ability to not be able to directly connect to the PostGIS database direction via IDE's. There are many wonderful drivers and libraries to help get data in and out but does cause some workarounds when need to deal with many database changes. These issues are not faults of the SaaS but more on us, trying to push the limits of what is possible with their service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CARTO:

Really read over the docs and make sure you understand that there is many more things than just the BI dashboard that makes CARTO a great service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We help customers in many industries. We focus on scientific modeling via dynamic interactive visualizations., using CARTO for near real-time maps for thousands of viewers, interactive touch screen maps in lobbies, site location and many other uses. We have realized that while it is great as a BI/LI tool, the API interface allows clients and developers like us build limitless possibilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bobby S.

Maps

Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/13/2017

"CARTO = New Generation of Location Intelligence"

5/5

What do you like best about CARTO?

CARTO is hands-down the best geo-visualization tool in the industry. Beyond their stellar product, the executive and senior management team is one of the most thoughtful and engaged teams that I've collaborated work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CARTO?

CARTO is on the cutting edge of technology and their product evolves quickly. Like most young companies, quality issues come up from time to time due to the rapid nature of product evolution. That said, they respond immediately and allow for open-source contribution, so bugs/issues never last long. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CARTO:

Collaborate! CARTO is a dynamic team that is growing quickly...they want to work together and/or hear your feedback! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are using CARTO to bring Location Intelligence to the decision makers of the world. We focus on delivering a simple search-and-visualize application that provides macro insights, data discovery, and workflow for executing research and investment actions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Architecture & Planning

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/13/2017

"Excellent product!!!"

5/5

What do you like best about CARTO?

Our organization appreciates that the platform makes very technical information available to the community since it creates a bridge between the traditional geographical systems and the communication part of this information.

It also has several and suitable options to categorize information, as well as to put layers, images, and text in the maps which is usually very difficult to incorporate in an online platform without coding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CARTO?

We would like the possibility to put more layers of information per map and more space for datasets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Government Administration

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/24/2018

"Carto Review"

5/5

What do you like best about CARTO?

Carto has a very user-friendly interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CARTO?

It doesn’t have all the features of its map making competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Paula J.

Analista de datos

Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/14/2017

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

"Awesome platform"

5/5

What do you like best about CARTO?

CARTO is easy, intuitive... CARTO is a super powerful tool that allows people to interact with spatial data in a wide range; from simple maps visualizations to great location intelligence algorithms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CARTO?

Sometimes I miss a raster integration, but it's not really a big deal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

David B.

Executive Director

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/30/2017

"Carto helps our local land trust preserve open space"

4.5/5

What do you like best about CARTO?

Visually appealing and user friendly nature of maps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CARTO?

Nothing. But I am not engaged with the technical side of the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fawzi B.

Software Engineer

Telecommunications

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/11/2016

"a competitor to eqlim"

5/5

What do you like best about CARTO?

one of the rare companies that do data visualization. they utilize a powerful tool with drag and drop tool from multiple of formats. price is a bit steep but governments can really use this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CARTO?

offer data extraction like datasift for a better and more complete package Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.