--- title: Sigma Reviews meta_title: 'Sigma Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 558 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Sigma works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 558 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-09' parent_category: name: Analytics Tools & Software url: https://www.g2.com/categories/analytics-tools-software --- # Sigma Reviews **Vendor:** Sigma Computing **Category:** [Analytics Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/analytics-platforms) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 558 ## About Sigma Sigma is the AI runtime layer for analytics, agents, and apps built on live warehouse data. It is a cloud analytics and business intelligence platform that helps business and technical teams explore live data, build reports and applications, and deploy AI agents directly on a cloud data warehouse, using a familiar spreadsheet interface alongside SQL, Python, and AI. - Analytics: Use Sigma for classic business intelligence workloads like pixel-perfect reporting, embedded analytics, and self-service access to data in an Excel-like interface. Build with AI, spreadsheet functions, SQL, or Python. - Agents: Deploy AI agents that act on live data and run multi-step workflows. Build them with natural language and your choice of enterprise LLM or warehouse AI. - Apps: Build AI Apps for operational work like planning and forecasting, scenario modeling, and approval routing, with writeback and governance automatically configured. Every artifact in Sigma inherits the security, permissions, and row-level access already set in the cloud data warehouse. Because governance is enforced at the source, anything a team builds is IT-approved from the start. Sigma solves a persistent tradeoff in enterprise data work. Business teams typically wait on a central data team to build reports and tools, while ad hoc AI and app-building tools produce work that sits outside IT's control. Sigma removes that tradeoff by keeping analysis, reporting, applications, and agents on live warehouse data under one set of permissions, so non-technical users build what they need while IT keeps a single, auditable system of control. Founded in 2014, Sigma is a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in New York, London, and Sydney. More than 2,000 companies trust Sigma, including DoorDash, Blackstone, JPMorgan Chase, and Figma. Sigma is the business intelligence partner of the year for both Snowflake (2023-2026) and Databricks (2025-2026). ## Sigma Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of Sigma, finding it intuitive and simple to learn and navigate. (68 reviews) - Users love the **user-friendly interface** of Sigma, making it easy to create and manage metrics and dashboards. (28 reviews) - Users value the **responsive customer support** from Sigma, ensuring timely resolutions and effective assistance for their needs. (25 reviews) - Users find Sigma's **data handling capabilities** invaluable, simplifying processing and visualization for daily projects. (25 reviews) - Users appreciate how Sigma provides **clear and interactive data visualizations** , making complex datasets easy to analyze and understand. (24 reviews) - Users highlight the **intuitive design** of Sigma, making it easy for anyone to understand and utilize effectively. (24 reviews) - Data Analysis (22 reviews) - Easy Integrations (19 reviews) - Customization (18 reviews) - Integrations (18 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users report that **loading times can be slow** , causing inefficiencies and frustration during use of Sigma. (23 reviews) - Users experience **slow performance** with Sigma, especially when handling complex tasks or larger datasets. (22 reviews) - Users find **limited customization** options in Sigma, restricting advanced visualizations and flexible formatting for their needs. (19 reviews) - Users find the **learning curve steep** , struggling to navigate dashboard building and limited resources for support. (17 reviews) - Users note the **missing features** in Sigma, such as limited visualizations and lack of scripting integration, affecting flexibility. (12 reviews) - Design Limitations (9 reviews) - Learning Difficulty (9 reviews) - Update Issues (9 reviews) - Dashboard Issues (8 reviews) - Performance Issues (8 reviews) ## Sigma Reviews ### 1. Easy to Use Tool Falls Short in Almost Every Other Area **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joshua B. | Data Engineering Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 12, 2024 **What do you like best about Sigma?** Sigma was one of the first BI platforms to utilize a spreadsheet and formula approach, which does make it more accessible for non-technical users. There are plenty of other tools in the space now offering similar functionality (Hex and Omni to name a few) and said tools have. **What do you dislike about Sigma?** - Poor data governance: if you opt to write SQL code instead of building everything with Sigma's built in functions, the data lineage that Sigma provides breaks down completely. If your data team is making changes to a data model, you lack the visibility to identify all of the locations where this model is used if said model is used in any workbook SQL query. We have had to disable custom SQL within our instance due to all of these SIGNIFICANT limitations. - Difficult to Troubleshoot/Maintain Dashboards: if a column or data model is broken, Sigma will replace that column with a hardcoded error, which makes it nearly impossible to resolve. Moreover, there is no unified view to surface errors in Workbooks-- you have to search through every single workbook page and look for red X's on each table/chart to identify what's wrong. Instead of being able to proactively resolve errors, you'll constantly have business stakeholders raising these issues since the tool doesn't surface these to your data team members in any meaningful way. - Poor DBT integration: DBT integration is almost non-existent, outside of surfacing column descriptions in a few select areas of the UI. These columns descriptions will not persist, however, if you use Sigma's dataset or data model functionality. There is no semantic layer integration. - Lack of Simple Polish: Grouping columns of a dataset into logical sections is not available, so you're constantly sifting through a large list of columns to find what you need. Sigma metrics are incredibly basic, cannot be reordered/organized, and don't work with their new data model functionality. Schema refreshes are not performed at any set cadence and there is no ability to schedule a daily schema refresh, leading to data modeling displaying stale views of the data without manually refreshing each one individually. - Limited API: The API has no functionality to manage Sigma metrics, datasets, or data models. It also lacks the ability to trigger a refresh of a workbook, which would allow our team to build out some functionality to address the lack of data governance within the product. Sigma seems more concerned with flashy marketing and sponsorships and launching half-baked AI functionality than they are in making meaningful improvements to their product. **What problems is Sigma solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sigma was adopted by our organization to drive alignement on key business metrics and reporting throughout the organization. It has been effective at helping our organization become more data-driven, but the difficulties our team has faced with scaling our use of the tool and the lack of data governance functionality is extremely disappointing. ### 2. Great concept, without the glitz and functionality **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Sigma?** I like that Sigma is able to aggregate all of the data I need in one dashboard/report. It's fairly easy to use as well. **What do you dislike about Sigma?** It takes forever to load reports and that is very frustrating. It makes it almost a useless service for me. Also, the dashboards aren't very pretty. Geckoboard has a much nicer design. **Recommendations to others considering Sigma:** I would look at all of your options. **What problems is Sigma solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am experience problems with load time. It takes forever to load reports and they sometimes time out. Benefits are that the information is useful and digestable. ## Sigma Discussions - [What is the best way to use SQL queries that you previously had?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-best-way-to-use-sql-queries-that-you-previously-had) - 1 comment, 2 upvotes - [What is Sigma used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-sigma-used-for) - 1 comment - [View Sigma pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/sigma-computing-sigma/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=1§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-10+00%3A41%3A28+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=9016c447-21cf-4f50-87a4-425c23e68698&secure%5Btoken%5D=06fb48b554982731ded0e31cafc5e2b4b52ae8b0b4de6c987a70b724466b561b&format=llm_user) ## Sigma Integrations - [Alation](https://www.g2.com/products/alation/reviews) - [Amazon Redshift](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-redshift/reviews) - [Atlan](https://www.g2.com/products/atlan/reviews) - [Azure SQL Database](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-sql-database/reviews) - 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[Snowflake](https://www.g2.com/products/snowflake/reviews) - [Starburst](https://www.g2.com/products/starburst/reviews) ## Sigma Features **Reports** - Reports Interface - Steps to Answer - Graphs and Charts - Score Cards - Dashboards - Customizable Reports - Marketing Reports - Sales Reports - Activity Dashboard - Interactive Reports - Customizable Reports - Customizable Reports - Activity Dashboard - Customizable Dashboard **Additional Functionality** - Tagging - Natural Language Processing - Data Extraction - Multi-Language - Predictive Analytics - Drag & Drop - Speech Recognition - Reporting/Analytics - Data Storage Management - Virtual Personal Assistant (VPA) - AI Copilot - Customer Segmentation - Collaboration Tools - Data Import/Export - Generative AI - For eCommerce - Role-Based Permissions - Customizable Branding - Search/Filter - Monitoring - Document Management - API - Data Visualization - Trend Analysis - Machine Learning - Access Controls/Permissions - Alerts/Escalation - Performance Metrics - Real-Time Data - Third-Party Integrations - Mobile App - Multiple Data Sources - For Sales Teams/Organizations - Sentiment Analysis - Activity Dashboard - Chatbot - Workflow Automation **Additional Functionality** - Code Generation - Text to Image - Generative AI - API - Natural Language Processing - Virtual Characters and Avatars - Content Generation - Personalization and Recommendation - Conditional Generation - Transformer Model - Automated Image & Video Editing - Interactive and Co-Creative Systems - Text Summarization - Data Augmentation - Variation Autoencoder Models - Adversarial Training - Transfer Learning and Fine-tuning - Simulation and Scenario Generation - Creative Design - AI Copilot - Prompt Engineering - Foundation Model **Third-Party Integration** - Third-Party Integration **Scalability** - Scalability **Iteration Management** - Iteration Management **Backend Logic Creation** - Backend Logic Creation **Prompt Understanding** - Prompt Understanding **Application Development** - Application Development **Full-Stack Output** - Full-Stack Output **API Integration** - API Integration **Contextual Guidance** - Contextual Guidance **Customizable User Interface** - Customizable User Interface **Design Customization** - Design Customization **Out-of-the-Box Functionality** - Out-of-the-Box Functionality **Data Preparation** - Connectors - Data Governance **Generation and Interpretation - AI App Builder** - Prompt Understanding - Backend Logic Creation - UI Generation - Context Awareness **Data Modeling and Blending** - Data Querying - Data Filtering - Data Blending - Data Capture and Transfer **Generated Application Quality - AI App Builder** - Scalability - Out-of-the-Box Functionality - Design Customization - Data & API Integration **Generative AI** - Generative AI **Agentic AI - Analytics Platforms** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making - Third-Party Integrations **Self Service ** - Calculated Fields - Data Column Filtering - Data Discovery - Search - Collaboration / Workflow - Automodeling - Natural Language Search - Visual Discovery - Data Blending - Data Blending **Deployment & Integration - Analytics Platforms** - No-code Dashboard Builder - Report Scheduling and Automation - Embedded Analytics and White-labeling - Data Source Connectivity - Multiple Data Sources - Query Builder **Advanced Analytics** - Predictive Analytics - Data Visualization - Big Data Services - Real-Time Analytics - Reporting/Analytics - Real-Time Analytics - Reporting/Analytics - Visual Analytics **Performance & Scalability - Analytics Platforms** - Large data handling and Query Speed - Concurrent User Support - Database 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 **Personalized Intelligence - Analytics Platforms** - Behavioral Learning for Contextual Query Refinement - Role-based Insight Personalization - Conversational and Prompt-based Analytics - Ad hoc Query - Visual Analytics **Building Reports** - Data Transformation - Data Modeling - WYSIWYG Report Design - Integration APIs - Real-Time Data - Real-Time Data - Third-Party Integrations - Third-Party Integrations **Platform** - Mobile User Support - Customization - User, Role, and Access Management - Internationalization - Sandbox / Test Environments - Performance and Reliability - Breadth of Partner Applications - Mobile Access - Metadata Management **Additional Functionality** - Drag & Drop - Secure Data Storage - Data Import/Export - Customizable Branding - Dashboard Creation - Access Controls/Permissions - Real-Time Reporting - Metadata Management - Forecasting - Data Storage Management - Ad hoc Analysis - Ad hoc Reporting - Data Migration - AI Copilot - Self Service Data Preparation - Search/Filter - Data Mapping - Monitoring - Sentiment Analysis - User Management - Sales Trend Analysis - Charting - Reporting & Statistics - Performance Metrics - Alerts/Notifications - Data Extraction - Widgets - Storytelling - Trend Analysis - Collaboration Tools - Financing Management - Self-service Analytics - KPI Monitoring - Dashboard - API - Data Integration - Scorecards - Data Management - Task Management - Progress Tracking - Data Connectors - Data Visualization - Profitability Analysis - Project Tracking - Strategic Planning - Goal Setting/Tracking - Publishing/Sharing - Predictive Analytics - Real-Time Monitoring - Templates - Mobile Access - Customizable Templates - Workflow Management - Financial Reporting - Audit Management - OLAP - Single Sign On - Data Synchronization **Additional Functionality** - Generative AI - AI Copilot - Access Controls/Permissions - Mobile Reporting - Data Mapping - Multiple Data Sources - Forecasting - Customizable Branding - Charting - Customization - Role-Based Permissions - Real-Time Analytics - Workflow Management - Collaboration Tools - Ad hoc Query - Data Extraction - Data Synchronization - Application Development - Real-Time Reporting - Reporting & Statistics - Geographic Maps - Widgets - SSL Security - Reporting/Analytics - Self-service Analytics - Ad hoc Analysis - Data Capture and Transfer - Integration into Third Party Applications - Ad hoc Reporting - Visual Workflow Management - Visual Analytics - Single Sign On - Trend Analysis - Predictive Analytics - Data Visualization - Data Connectors - Benchmarking - Alerts/Notifications - Streaming Analytics - Mobile Access - Drag & Drop - Dashboard Creation **Additional Functionality** - Customizable Branding - Natural Language Processing - Data Extraction - AI Copilot - Ad hoc Reporting - Real-Time Reporting - Publishing/Sharing - Collaboration Tools - Strategic Planning - Self Service Data Preparation - Trend Analysis - Text Analysis - Real-Time Monitoring - Data Synchronization - Widgets - Benchmarking - Performance Metrics - Data Mapping - Generative AI - Trend/Problem Indicators - Customizable Templates - Access Controls/Permissions - Data Import/Export - Profitability Analysis - OLAP - Alerts/Notifications - Search/Filter - Drag & Drop - Data Connectors - Multiple Data Sources - Key Performance Indicators - Dashboard Creation - Role-Based Permissions - Data Mining - Forecasting - Ad hoc Query ## Top Sigma Alternatives - [Tableau](https://www.g2.com/products/tableau/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (3,680 reviews) - [Looker](https://www.g2.com/products/looker/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (1,592 reviews) - [ThoughtSpot](https://www.g2.com/products/thoughtspot/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (327 reviews)