--- title: Mode Reviews meta_title: 'Mode Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 330 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Mode works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 330 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-17' parent_category: name: Analytics Tools & Software url: https://www.g2.com/categories/analytics-tools-software --- # Mode Reviews **Vendor:** Mode Analytics, Inc. **Category:** [Analytics Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/analytics-platforms) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 330 ## About Mode Mode is the first BI platform to embrace the way modern data teams work, which enables data leaders to drive more efficient, higher impact analysis and increased data maturity through true self-service. As the unified intelligence layer, Mode maximizes modern data stack ROI and turns data into a competitive advantage for leading businesses across all sectors and stages. ## Mode Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **balance between analytics and self-service exploration** , enhancing visibility and usability across the organization. (1 reviews) - Users value the **customization options** in Mode, enhancing usability for diverse roles and improving feature tracking. (1 reviews) - Users find Mode's **ease of implementation** enhanced by SSO, facilitating organization-wide access and feature tracking. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of use** in Mode, benefiting from its clear interface and seamless implementation. (1 reviews) - Users value the **efficiency** of Mode, benefiting from its clear visibility and useful scheduling options for data tracking. (1 reviews) - Flexibility (1 reviews) - Implementation Ease (1 reviews) - Intuitive (1 reviews) - Options (1 reviews) - Scalability (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find **complex setup** challenging, especially for less technical individuals needing considerable administrator support for integration. (1 reviews) - Users find **complex usage** challenging, particularly for those less technical, needing significant admin support for integration. (1 reviews) - Users find **on-boarding less technical users** challenging, as it requires significant admin support for data integration. (1 reviews) - Users find **difficult learning** for less technical users, requiring significant admin support for effective onboarding. (1 reviews) - Users find **initial difficulty** onboarding less technical users, requiring admin support for source authentication despite easy integration. (1 reviews) - Learning Curve (1 reviews) - Learning Difficulty (1 reviews) - Poor Customer Support (1 reviews) ## Mode Reviews ### 1. Easy to navigate **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Travis F. | Sales Executive, Premier Agent, Automotive, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** Help w/prospecting solid R/E agents to help bring them on board w/ Zillow **What do you dislike about Mode?** Very little downside. It sometimes is difficult to navigate but that is just based on my little experience **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been able to connect with more successful agents in my area ### 2. Great, easy to use, easy to view Analytics **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** Mode is very easy to manipulate to ensure you see the most relevant analytics easily. **What do you dislike about Mode?** Building the initial data sets can be time consuming and not so easy to change once you start using it. **Recommendations to others considering Mode:** Ensure you have a dedicated analyst and fluent DBA to work with **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving our sales Pipeline views and the link between our own Company designed portal and CRM - shows an easy comparison of licences in each platform. ### 3. Great for crunching your database for customer insights **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** Ability and ease of investigating and build reports off of our database **What do you dislike about Mode?** Have to be pretty great at SQL to do more complex things. Not upset about this though. **Recommendations to others considering Mode:** Very powerful tool. Requires SQL knowledge to create reports/dashboards **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Understanding of our customer data, configuration comparison to aide cleanup or migration efforts, some client reporting requirements such as license/usage counts. ### 4. A great tool for big data analysis without much system drain **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Surjan s. | TRON-SME, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** The ability to quickly visualize my data in a appealing and easy to understand manner is just awesome. **What do you dislike about Mode?** Need more and better tutorials for new comers. **Recommendations to others considering Mode:** Have a thorough understanding of the power of mode before you stop considering it as an option **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** we analyze data trends to manage critical performance of 1000+ associates working on a critical system. ### 5. Used Mode to share scientific data and usage analytics for our cloud platform **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexander H. | Quantum Systems Engineer, Research, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** Being able to share re-runnable analytics notebooks with management saves a significant amount of time and frees us to keep working on actual R&D tasks. **What do you dislike about Mode?** The python notebook interface is still nowhere near as robust (fast, stable, predictable) as a normal jupyter notebook, which slows down debugging. Also ctrl-F does not work the same as a normal notebook. **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Any time we have to create refreshable calculations or content for management we save a ton of time. ### 6. A very helpful tool to query across clusters **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Broadcast Media | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** Mode helped me to query across different redshift clusters. I was able to check the query progress, and in case a query does not get completed, I can log back in, refresh the page to get back my results. I liked this the best about Mode. **What do you dislike about Mode?** Sometimes, too many queries in the same report can make it crowded. **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been able to run quick checks, get results for my analysis. ### 7. A must have quality analytics tool for any startup, far more affordable than it's competitors! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Khantil P. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** Reporting to slack, email is really great. **What do you dislike about Mode?** The queries are ran on the client's SQL server. **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're using mode to analyze the delivery time data for the orders. ### 8. Very good analytics platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Renan A. | Mr., Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** Very flexible and easy to use. High quality dashboards and good performance overall **What do you dislike about Mode?** A little expensive, could be more accessible **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Enabling the business area to access our database and gether insights ### 9. Mode gives you the amo to help break down clients' walls! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** I like being able to tell someone that there is demand in their area and say it knowing that I'm right not just a generic company statistic. **What do you dislike about Mode?** Some of the reports our company has aren't department relevant. (onboarding and sales seeing the same thing) **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Giving clients we are selling confidence that our product works to bring demand. ### 10. Mode for Dummys **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** I enjoy the ability to use mode and customize the data I need. I also like the ability too use the subscription feature. **What do you dislike about Mode?** Mode at times has been unreliable and not updated. **Recommendations to others considering Mode:** Change interface to make more user-friendly to none tech people. **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Looking at customer data trends and understanding their experience, traffic flow, and need. Using this has been helpful to understand the need for staffing as well. ### 11. Data reporting makes your ops more efficient **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** The data reports I receive daily in my inbox help me follow up immediately day-of with any ops related subjects. **What do you dislike about Mode?** No striking dislikes come to mind. Mode's been helpful enough day-to-day for over a year now where I can't think of anything I'm missing in terms of needs. **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Compiling what we need in concise reports improves our team's daily functions. ### 12. Fast and easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Li H. | Business Data Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** Fast running time and easy to connect with database **What do you dislike about Mode?** Graph function not extremely easy to use **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Interact with database and generate reports ### 13. GREAT DATA **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** I really like mode. It gives me all the insights I need to make a great sales call **What do you dislike about Mode?** It takes an awful long time to load which impacts how much I use it **Recommendations to others considering Mode:** Speed up the data collection **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** There are so many problems being solved. It centralizes all the data ### 14. Happy mode customer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 02, 2020 **What do you like best about Mode?** Mode has a simple UI that gets out of the way and helps me be productive **What do you dislike about Mode?** I haven't found much to dislike about Mode aside from maybe some limits of webapps (like not handling huge amounts of data as well as a native app could) **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** New to my company, still exploring how our data is stored. Mode has made that pretty simple. ### 15. Very good produce **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emily W. | Business Analyst, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** I can easily to use it run SQL code, draw chart and do analysis. The learning material is good as well and some of them are interview questions. It does help me on my interview. **What do you dislike about Mode?** The practice excise is not enough, lol. The more the better. **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** learn SQL, run SQL and do analysis. ### 16. Mode has been an effective visualization tool for our team. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** - SQL, Python and R functionality - Different accounts for different users - Use of Spaces - Definitions **What do you dislike about Mode?** - Cannot use two y-axis when Python is used **Recommendations to others considering Mode:** Take your time to learn all of the features. **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** - We are bringing together data from various vendors and using Mode to create charts and reports ### 17. I used it as a PM. Quite impressed with UI and ux and the fact that nothing is to be installed. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prakash A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** User interface is too good. Support of R and python too **What do you dislike about Mode?** The tool is Little too expensive especially after the latest price revision **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data analysis and visualization ### 18. Mode is great for both SQL and non SQL savvy users **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** Interface is great and so is data visualization. I think it's the most accessible and transparent data analytics tool out there. **What do you dislike about Mode?** I think the charts can be slow some times to load. **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Dashboarding, general analytics and data exploration, overall more comfort with using SQL ### 19. Sleek, User-Friendly Analytics Software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** User Interface is sleek and user friendly. Makes it easy to track data and create complex reports. **What do you dislike about Mode?** Sometimes the software is slow to update and run reports. **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Occasionally the software is slow to run reports. Also, multiple people viewing same report can make things difficult. ### 20. Great BI tool! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** Nice dark mode editor, autocomplete, clean interface. **What do you dislike about Mode?** Would be nice for loading times to be shorter. More intuitive chart / graph functionalities. **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Surfacing actionable data insights. ### 21. Mode **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** It's great. I like how much better it performs than metabase. **What do you dislike about Mode?** I wish the UI were more intuitive as far as figuring out how to name new files and projects. **Recommendations to others considering Mode:** Make sure to set up your workspace appropriately **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running SQL queries. Good performance ### 22. One of the best platforms used for reporting **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** The visuals are great, And I enjoy the ease to use **What do you dislike about Mode?** I wish there was forecasting added to it and also more options to create visuals **Recommendations to others considering Mode:** Add more options to plot graphs and visuals **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monthly users, identify production issues in our app ### 23. Mode review. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** Easy to create dashboards and make visualizations from the various SQL queries. **What do you dislike about Mode?** Visualization tools are limited and editing massive dashboards can be cumbersome. **Recommendations to others considering Mode:** Good data visualization tool. **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using it as my main data visualization tool for work. ### 24. Great tool for technical growth marketers with a little SQL know-how **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alan H. | Email Marketing Manager, Internet, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** - Ability to turn queries into dashboards and reports - Beginner friendly tutorials for those just getting started with SQL - Easily shareable with teammates **What do you dislike about Mode?** - When there is an error in your query, the hints/error messages aren't always very clear what and where the error is. **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Unlocks data needs for growth marketing team without being overly reliant on analytics team (by using our own product Personas to turn Mode SQL queries into custom audience traits for downstream marketing tools). ### 25. Fast, high quality **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** Overall mode is great. It's very convenient, on the cloud and is very fast which allows for quick insights. **What do you dislike about Mode?** There isn't really anything that I can say I dislike. It's just a good product **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** BI ### 26. Mode makes data easy **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** Clean UI. Great UX. Easy drag and drop, editing, and building. **What do you dislike about Mode?** Lack of customization. Minimal charts (e.g. no Sankey). **Recommendations to others considering Mode:** Careful when selecting themes - there is inconsistent capitalization on graph axes when using Mode theme "Subway" **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our back end team uses it for all sorts of purposes, and front end uses it for products we provide to clients. ### 27. Good experience with mode analytics **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luis M. | Business Intelligence Engineer, Entertainment, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** Best part about Mode is that I can not only run multiple queries at once but also run them and go offline without worrying about internet. **What do you dislike about Mode?** Ability to make better charts/visualizations **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick analysis. QAing data ### 28. Easy dashboards **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** Easy to query database and visualize that data quickly. **What do you dislike about Mode?** Custom plots aren't as customizable as I would like **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Good for tracking trends over time in repeatable ways. Makes analysis transparent to all involved. ### 29. One of the best apps **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** Its ease to use and so user friendly. Most employees love using it. **What do you dislike about Mode?** I wish there was a possibility of working with more options in visuals. **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Measurement of Key Performance Metrics ### 30. Strongly recommend Mode for advanced analytics users/analysts **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** Tightly integrate with SQL scripts, Python and R Notebooks. **What do you dislike about Mode?** Report Builder has room to improve - the graphs could be easier to use and customize; Moving reports between public and private spaces is a pain It's hard to search across reports **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** All kinds of business data analysis ### 31. Mode Report Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** The user-friendly interface and ability to export excel sheets of data **What do you dislike about Mode?** the inconsistent wait time for running data **Recommendations to others considering Mode:** Highly Recommend **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Overall data for Lyft pick ups and drop offs ### 32. Mode for analytical dashboards **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** We mostly use Mode Analytics for building team reports and dashboards, that can be easily used by a non Data Science person. **What do you dislike about Mode?** Mode has preconfigured graphs and those are limited in what they can do at times. Luckily we can configure JS to update **Recommendations to others considering Mode:** Mode is great at making customizable graphics/dashboards **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to create dashboards that use user input as parameters to make the dynamic ### 33. Switch SQL-Python-Visualization faster **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** Python integration and an easy switch across the SQL, table and python code. **What do you dislike about Mode?** Better interface and a dedicated app cross platform. **Recommendations to others considering Mode:** It is an easy integration to your database and you can start getting insights soon. **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use SQL to pull data and Python to do analysis. Therefore, both at 1 place helps to write and understand better. ### 34. perfect tool to fill the gaps of Looker ( or any other BI tool) **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Apparel & Fashion | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** Combined package of a powerful SQL editor, ability to quickly create pivot tables and chart, and shareable python notebooks. **What do you dislike about Mode?** Nothing as such. But I have to put a pessimist hat, then using mode becomes a hard sell when you are already using Databricks. **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sharing neatly formatted analysis via slack ### 35. Great **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** The flexibility of the tool which we use extensively **What do you dislike about Mode?** Some minor bugs which aren't documented. **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reporting out to a wider organization with custom visuals. ### 36. Mode helps me make better decisions **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** The wide variety of reports Mode offers really allows me to pin point the essentials data. **What do you dislike about Mode?** Mode is so robust that I'd like it to be more users friendly or have better tutorials for users. **Recommendations to others considering Mode:** Use it when looking for important data from your company. **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mode allows me to have the right data when making important decisions. ### 37. Gioele **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** I like the user experience and the intuitive way of showing data and reports. Mode is easy to use fast and practical. **What do you dislike about Mode?** For a new user it takes time to get used with the platform and the customization is pretty limited **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having the e-commerce sales data every day ### 38. Quite useful and effective **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** Easy to create and better for plotting the data. Very good visualization results. **What do you dislike about Mode?** Might not allow complicated computation. **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly displaying data in BigQuery and it helps identify any issues. ### 39. I am useing mode in my every day work **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** That I can extract data from database and use R or Pyton notebooks to perform analysis **What do you dislike about Mode?** Sometime the report builder does not show data **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** I automize many processes ### 40. Mode review for SQL **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** User friendly, easy to present and use. Great customer experience. Like the interface and think its clean. **What do you dislike about Mode?** Hard to invite friends, have to manually type their emails. **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was trying to teach a SQL class. Mode solved my need and was easy to learn/use ### 41. Great Analytics Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** It is very easy to use and also powerful **What do you dislike about Mode?** The cost is quite a big thing for me, it is very expensive. **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Mode to report on day to day operations and it allows us an insight into these statistics. ### 42. Mode review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** Very helpful in pulling data from different areas of the business **What do you dislike about Mode?** Depending on report needed, it can be slow at times **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping to lower repair scopes in particular categories ### 43. My Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Mode?** Extremely easy to switch between clusters **What do you dislike about Mode?** Limit on the number of rows returned. Also, expensive may be. **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data Engineering , analytics and testing ### 44. Nible and user Friendly SQL based BI tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2018 **What do you like best about Mode?** "Democratic" tool to empower analysts to access our data warehouses. Sleek and easy to use UI makes SQL based reporting easier. Great tutorial and open source data for training. **What do you dislike about Mode?** Requires specialized internal resources to support. Online training and tutorials may not be sufficient for novices to SQL based BI tools. **Recommendations to others considering Mode:** Build out internal support such as "office hours" for users to get hands on training and help. Due to the self service nature of the tool it's important to have well defined schemas and definitions for data analyzed in Mode. **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Nimble and fast reporting. Fully customizable solutions allows to het data we need fast and easy. ### 45. Good tools for writing SQL **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ryan L. | Student Ambassador - Affiliate, Internet, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Mode?** Mode contains features that make it easy to write SQL queries and collaborate on analyses. Table viewer lets you view fields and data types before writing the query, and you get all the features you'd expect from an IDE, like autocomplete, autoformat, placeholders, etc. **What do you dislike about Mode?** A lot of features that I could use are paywalled behind a more premium subscription that includes more seats than we need. **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Doing data analytics and generating reports at scale ### 46. We love Mode! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2018 **What do you like best about Mode?** At my place of work we use Mode for all of our analytics needs. As someone who is not incredibly technical myself, I find Mode to be a great way to view all of our data in a well-presented way. **What do you dislike about Mode?** I dislike the Edit function. I find it very difficult to edit any of our dashboards without negatively affecting the other boards. I've tried multiple time and it feels very convoluted. **Recommendations to others considering Mode:** Mode is a great tool, but you'll definitely need members on your team who are familiar with SQL and have a very good understanding of how to construct graphs and display data. To a non-data analyst, some items are confusing, but once figured out, Mode is a great tool for visually displaying data. **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have not been a data driven company until the last few years. With a fully staffed data team, Mode has been a huge help in getting us the insights we need, while meeting the needs of both product and data teams. ### 47. Perfect for extremely limited and specific use cases; needs work to scale for larger orgs **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mihir T. | Senior Data Analyst, Internet, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Mode?** Mode is incredibly lightweight (in-browser app) and easy to learn for novice SQL users. It has a relatively friendly query editor that allows quick switching between different data sources, simple plotting, and easy drag-and-drop report generation. The product is most suited for data analysts and scientists to perform quick-turnaround analysis and share insights. **What do you dislike about Mode?** Mode is missing several key features that hold it back from scaling in our organization. Fundamentally, analysts and scientists support other business-unit customers, many of whom need regularly-updating dashboards with the ability to perform interactive drill-downs and post-query calculations. Mode supports neither use case. Even though it is geared towards quick analysis and report-sharing, Mode is limited to 10,000 rows per query and quickly becomes buggy and unstable for larger record sets, or for reports with many (20+) queries. This puts it in an unfortunate intersection of being neither flexible enough for non-analysts nor powerful enough for analysts. There is no staging / development environment or Github integration, making version control difficult. We have taken to using a stack of SublimeText / Github / Mode for versioning and reproducibility, which adds overhead to every analyst's workflow and makes modification especially difficult for non-analyst stakeholders. We also find that feature releases are haphazard and their product roadmap remains a mystery. I'm not clear what Mode's vision is for their product: whether they are trying to capture the non-analyst space, or maximize utility within the limited analyst and non-analyst intersection described above. Feature releases are often buggy or poorly communicated, resulting in breakages (e.g. graphs suddenly look weird) and requiring more reactive maintenance than desired. **Recommendations to others considering Mode:** Identify your use cases and workflows, and think critically about whether Mode will handle them. Ask questions about whether Mode will also scale to handle where your workflows might go. **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mode solves the problem of quick analysis very well. A prior workflow of: - SQL query in editor of your choice - Export to computer - Analyze locally in R or Python - Drop into PowerPoint has been almost. completely eliminated with Mode, which performs an end-to-end solution for the above (provided that the data sets are small, and no post-hoc drilldowns are needed). In that sense, it enhances productivity. But its limitations have also suppressed productivity and opened conversations about whether another product is more appropriate for the scale of our org. ### 48. Easy-to-set-up web-based SQL BI tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Mode?** - fast setup - easy to onboard new people - can create definitions - web-based means you can share URLs to dashboards easily - Slack integration - Github integration **What do you dislike about Mode?** - drill-downs are limited - have to pre-define filters - cheaper than alternatives - much less implementation than alternatives **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building dashboards quickly in a shareable way. ### 49. The perfect Decision Science Toolkit (SQL, Python & Data Viz) all thrown into one! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Mode?** You can do SQL, Python, Github and Data Viz all in the same environment and share your code with others. The best part is reusability and ease of correcting code for your teammates. **What do you dislike about Mode?** They should also add the functionality for R as well as work on Machine Learning capabilities (Such as creation and deployment of REST APIs). Also try building integrations for D3 and ShinyApps. Also, keep adding more & more libraries with time. **Recommendations to others considering Mode:** If you have a Data team (3+ people), I would highly recommend investing on Mode over other Data Visualization and computing environments! **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Enterprise-wide Statistical Data Analysis and building of executive dashboards. Being able to query so many tables and also run statistical functions on the same is awesome. ### 50. Headed in the right direction, but still a long way to go **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arvind R. | Data Scientist, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2017 **What do you like best about Mode?** It's query editor is very easy to use, and allows people to quickly get access to the database and start writing queries. There are helpful views of the schemas and columns that allows new users to familiarize themselves with our data model rather quickly. The ability to set parameters on reports (essentially filters that allow users to change query values) allows for very flexible queries that can be adjusted based on the end user. Definitions are another great feature that allow me to save commonly-used snippets of SQL. This allows for more consistent analysis across our org, and also saves me a lot of time since I don't have to re-write the name subqueries over and over. Also, their Customer Support team is super responsive and always incredibly helpful. **What do you dislike about Mode?** It's fundamentally not a BI tool. Mode is more of 'nice-to-have' tool that makes lightweight analysis more convenient, and allows people to share cool insights with each other. That said, it falls short in some areas when compared to other BI tools on the market. Here are some examples of things that are missing: 1. No separation of Development and Production environments. This can make it tricky to collaborate on dashboards and reports with other people, since changes will get overwritten when working on things simultaneously. 2. Lack of a GitHub Integration. It is not currently possible to set up a peer-review process, since there is no concept of opening a PR in GitHub to merge changes into production. At my prior company, we would have modifications to dashboards and reports reviewed by at least one other member of the analytics team to help catch mistakes. This is not possible with Mode, since there isn't a GitHub integration. This also makes it difficult to make global changes across all your queries (for example if a table name changes). 3. Limited post-query modifications. I have worked with other BI tools that allow you to do things like add running totals, row sums, column sums, etc. by allowing you to perform calculations on query results themselves. With Mode, you have to specify every additional calculation you want in the query itself, which leads to a lot of unnecessarily complicated and redundant queries. 4. No way to drill down into charts. A very common request when looking at a chart is to see the underlying data. For example, when looking at a chart that shows the number of churned customers every month, people often want to know the 'actual' customer list that churned on a given month. In BI tools at past companies, people have been able to access this data with a click (i.e. click on a data point to see the line items that make up that data point). The lack of this feature in Mode leads to additional workload for the analytics team since people ask for the underlying data fairly often. Outside of these areas, Mode does tend to be a little buggy, with the UI not responding as expected, tooltips freezing on the screen, and other minor issues that pop up from time to time. **Recommendations to others considering Mode:** Mode is headed in the right direction, but they are so far behind other BI tools in key areas I can't recommend them as the main BI tool for any size of company. They lack of a GitHub integration is a huge pain, and gets very difficult to easily create beautiful dashboards (it's possible, but everything has to be custom CSS and JS). They have no data modeling laying, which makes queries unnecessarily complicated. They have addressed some of these gaps over the past few months, but they still have a long way to go. **What problems is Mode solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mode allows us to provide widespread transparency into our business. We have a set of basic dashboards that keeps people up to date on many of our key metrics. In addition, the existence of answers to basic data questions encourages people to think more deeply about what drives our business forward. It also reduces the number of redundant requests our analytics team gets, and gives us time to dig into the more meaningful problems we can solve. ## Mode Discussions - [How do i average on charts without averaging averages](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-i-average-on-charts-without-averaging-averages) - 2 comments, 1 upvote - [Why do companies choose Mode over Periscope Data?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/why-do-companies-choose-mode-over-periscope-data) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Why do companies choose Mode over Tableau?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/why-do-companies-choose-mode-over-tableau) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Why do companies choose Mode over Looker?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/why-do-companies-choose-mode-over-looker) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Can we make a dashboard out of mode analytics?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/27856-can-we-make-a-dashboard-out-of-mode-analytics) - 2 comments - [View Mode pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/mode-mode/reviews?page=6§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-31+04%3A54%3A56+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=738ef9bd-a5dd-4744-ada3-a4d0670332f9&secure%5Btoken%5D=087f13738e52a3927b546359672946eef9a9aaa3b17f7f21bc2de452f6604447&format=llm_user) ## Mode Integrations - [Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-relational-database-service-rds/reviews) ## Mode Features **Reports** - Reports Interface - Steps to Answer - Graphs and Charts - Score Cards - Dashboards **Metrics** - Sessions - Digital Analytics - Engagement - Entry and Exit Pages - Standard Event Tracking - Custom Event Tracking - Retention - Return - Conversions - Funnels **Data Preparation** - Connectors - Data Governance **Reporting** - Real-Time Reporting - Trending - Retroactive Reporting - Segmentation - Mobile Reporting - Unification Across Devices - Custom Reports and Dashboards **Marketing Operations** - ROI Tracking - Data Collection - Customer Insights - Multi-User Access **Data Modeling and Blending** - Data Querying - Data Filtering - Data Blending **Other** - User Data - Site Search Reporting - Load Time Monitoring - Campaign Tracking - E-Commerce - Promotional Messages - Administration Alerts **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Campaign Activity** - Campaign Insights - Reports and Dashboards - Campaign Stickiness - Multichannel Tracking - Brand Optimization - Predictive Analytics **Agentic AI - Marketing Analytics** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Proactive Assistance **Agentic AI - Digital Analytics** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Agentic AI - Analytics Platforms** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Self Service ** - Calculated Fields - Data Column Filtering - Data Discovery - Search - Collaboration / Workflow **Deployment & Integration - Analytics Platforms** - No-code Dashboard Builder - Report Scheduling and Automation - Embedded Analytics and White-labeling - Data Source Connectivity **Advanced Analytics** - Predictive Analytics - Data Visualization - Big Data Services **Performance & Scalability - Analytics Platforms** - Large data handling and Query Speed - Concurrent User Support **Advanced Analytics & Modeling - Analytics Platforms** - Data Modeling and Governance - Notebook and Script Integration - Built-in Predictive and Statistical Models **Agentic AI Capabilities - Analytics Platforms** - Auto-generated Insights and Narratives - Natural Language Queries - Proactive KPI Monitoring and Alerts - AI Agents for Analytical Follow-ups **Administration** - API / Integrations - QA Testing - Performance and Reliability - User, Role, and Access Management **Personalized Intelligence - Analytics Platforms** - Behavioral Learning for Contextual Query Refinement - Role-based Insight Personalization - Conversational and Prompt-based Analytics **Building Reports** - Data Transformation - Data Modeling - WYSIWYG Report Design - Integration APIs **Platform** - Mobile User Support - Customization - User, Role, and Access Management - Internationalization - Sandbox / Test Environments - Performance and Reliability - Breadth of Partner Applications ## Top Mode Alternatives - [Looker](https://www.g2.com/products/looker/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (1,590 reviews) - [Tableau](https://www.g2.com/products/tableau/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (3,677 reviews) - [Sisense](https://www.g2.com/products/sisense/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (986 reviews)