# Qlik Sense (Qlik Cloud Analytics) — Business Intelligence & Dashboards Qlik Sense (Qlik Cloud Analytics) by QlikTech GmbH holds a panel rating of 2.5/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 3/5), as of 2026-11-01. Provenance: Rest of world; sovereignty: not determined. - Vendor: QlikTech GmbH (https://www.qlik.com/de-de/da/products/qlik-sense) - Category: [Business Intelligence & Dashboards](https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence.md) - Provenance (editorial classification): Rest of world - Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence/qlik-sense - Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence/qlik-sense/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence/qlik-sense/alternatives.md)) - Data as of: 2026-11-06 · evaluated 2026-11-01 · oldest source captured 2026-11-01 **AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology ## At a glance - Vendor: QlikTech GmbH - Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026 - Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026 - Free plan: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026 - Starting price: “Starter Bring industry leading analytics to Small Business. Starting at $300/mo For 10 Users, billed annually (additional individual users a...” (vendor’s words) [S5] ## The panel's verdict Qlik Sense (Qlik Cloud Analytics) scored strongest on data connectivity at 6-7, sharing and embedding at 6-7 and pricing transparency at 6-7; weighted totals run 4.8 to 5.4. Weakest: governance and portability at 3-4, dashboards and visualization at 4-5, self-service and modelling uniformly at 4. Connectivity rests on 461 connector results plus a Connector Factory; embedding includes anonymous public access with no login from the Premium tier, white-labelling and a no-code to pro-code toolkit. Three tiers are publicly priced — Starter Starting at $300/mo For 10 Users, Standard Starting at $825/mo For 25 GB data, Premium Starting at $2,750/mo For 50 GB data, each billed annually — with Enterprise by quote, and we found no public price for capacity packs, additional reports or the self-hosted route. We found no public information on refresh intervals, a semantic layer, row-level security, single sign-on or audit logs. EU regions are a customer-selected option with no stated default, the European Sovereign Cloud on AWS ESC (Brandenburg) is planned, and the group is headquartered in the USA. Scores never differ by more than one point. **Speaks for it:** - The connectors page returns 461 results, with a Connector Factory that can rapidly develop new connectors and a request route for missing ones - Embedding is documented with anonymous public access to websites and portals with no login from the Premium tier, white-labelling, and a no-code to pro-code toolkit with JavaScript libraries and APIs - Three tiers carry exact starting prices with per-tier quotas for reports from 250 up to 25,000 per month, automations, AI questions from 25 up to 1,000, and app sizes - Standard states No cost for additional users - European regions including Frankfurt are selectable, and ISO 27001, ISO 27018 and a German C5 attestation are published **Held against it:** - We found no public information on refresh intervals, incremental loading, live-versus-extract behaviour or a gateway for databases behind a firewall — connector breadth is proven, freshness is not - We found no public information on the chart library, dashboard filters, drill-down, a SQL editor or a semantic layer where metrics are defined once, and dashboards and visualization scored 4-5 - We found no public information on row-level security including per embedded viewer, roles and permissions, single sign-on, audit logs or export of dashboards and definitions on exit - We found no public price for capacity packs, additional reports (which say Contact us), the self-hosted route or Enterprise, so a complete annual cost is not computable from these pages - EU residency is a customer-selected option with no stated default, and we found no public information on subprocessors, a data processing agreement or where extracts and caches are stored **Best for:** - You need to consolidate data from many sources into one dashboard surface and want a documented route to request missing connectors - You are embedding analytics into your own product or a public portal and want anonymous access with no login, white-labelling and a no-code to pro-code toolkit from the Premium tier - You want published prices and per-tier quotas before a sales conversation and your workload fits Standard with 25 GB and No cost for additional users - You will actively select an EU region such as Frankfurt at setup and value published ISO 27001 and C5 attestations **Avoid if:** - You need documented row-level security, single sign-on and audit logs before rollout — governance and portability scored 3-4 and we found no public information on them - Your analysts must see the query behind every natural-language answer or define metrics once in a shared layer — ask the vendor: the public pages we read do not show it - You must compute your complete annual cost before signing — capacity packs, additional reports, the self-hosted route and Enterprise are unpriced or quote-based - EU residency must be guaranteed rather than chosen — ask the vendor: the public pages we read do not show it ## Scores by judge and criterion Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price, or the judge found no public information on that criterion. | Criterion | The Finance Controller | The Managing Director | The Data Analyst | The IT Administrator | The SaaS Product Lead | The Skeptic | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Data sources, connectors & refresh | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | | Dashboards, charts & interactivity | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | | Self-service analysis & shared metrics | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | | Sharing, scheduled reports & embedding | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | | Access control, administration & portability | 1.5/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | | European sovereignty | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | | Pricing transparency | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | | **Weighted verdict** | **2.5/5** | **2.5/5** | **2.5/5** | **2.5/5** | **2.5/5** | **2.5/5** | ### The judges - **The Finance Controller** (v1.0): Head of controlling at a 250-person machine builder in Baden-Württemberg. Closes the month from DATEV, the ERP, the CRM and a dozen Excel files that colleagues still mail around, and spends two days a month copying numbers into the management report. Wants the sources connected and refreshed on a schedule, one definition of contribution margin on every page, a report that prints cleanly for the advisory board, and data that stays where the auditors expect it. - **The Managing Director** (v1.0): Runs a 40-person service company with HubSpot, an online accounting tool, a help desk and a project management app, and no one whose job is data. Wants revenue, pipeline, utilisation and open tickets on one screen in the office and on their phone, set up in an afternoon from ready-made connectors, a weekly summary in the inbox on Monday morning, and a price that does not double when the whole team wants to look. - **The Data Analyst** (v1.0): The first data hire at a Hamburg e-commerce scale-up, with orders, marketing spend and customer data landing in a PostgreSQL warehouse every night. Answers the same question three times a week because every department computes revenue differently. Wants a SQL editor and a query builder for colleagues, metrics defined once in a model that lives in Git, natural-language questions that show the query they ran, and a way out that does not mean rebuilding every dashboard. - **The IT Administrator** (v1.0): IT lead at a mid-sized healthcare supplier whose reports touch customer, pricing and employee data. Is asked to approve a BI tool after a department has already started a trial. Reads where extracts and caches are stored, whether the tool reaches the ERP database through a gateway or wants it opened to the internet, whether sales sees only its own region, and whether single sign-on and an audit log come with the plan or behind a sales call. Prefers an edition they can run themselves. - **The SaaS Product Lead** (v1.0): Product lead at a Vienna software company selling fleet management to 600 business customers, each of whom asks for reports the team keeps building by hand. Wants dashboards embedded in the product under its own brand, every customer seeing only their own rows, customers building their own views without a ticket, and an embedding licence whose cost they can put into the product's price before signing. - **The Skeptic** (v1.0): Has seen "connect any data source" on a tool with eight connectors and a CSV upload, "self-service" that ends with every department defining revenue its own way, "free viewers" that need a paid licence to open a shared link, and "AI insights" that never show the query. Asks where the extracts are stored, whether dashboards and definitions can be exported in a format another tool reads — and what leaving would cost. ## European sovereignty — proven facts Built only from facts on the vendor's own pages; a dimension we could not prove is left open, never scored as zero. Headline: not determined. | Dimension | Finding | Points | Source | |---|---|---|---| | Legal entity | Not determined | — | — | | Hosting location | Not determined | — | — | | Hosting options | Not determined | — | — | | Open source | Not determined | — | — | | Data processing agreement | Not determined | — | — | | Transfer impact assessment | Not determined | — | — | ## Key facts Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources). **Compliance** - C5: C5 attestation (BSI cloud security criteria, Germany) [S7] - Cjis: CJIS Attestation [S7] - Cyber essentials: Qlik · yes [S7] - Cyber essentials plus: Qlik · yes [S7] - Disa il2: IL2 · Qlik Cloud Government - DoD · yes [S7] - Disa il4: IL4 · Qlik Cloud Government - DoD · yes [S7] - GDPR: GDPR alignment via security- and privacy-by-design processes [S7] - Govramp: Moderate Authorized · Qlik Cloud Government · yes [S7] - HIPAA: Qlik · yes · SOC 2 Type 2 + HITRUST CSF [S7] - Irap: Qlik Cloud · yes [S7] - ISO 27001: Qlik · ISO 27001:2022 · yes [S7] - ISO 27017: Qlik · ISO 27017:2015 · yes [S7] - ISO 27018: Qlik · ISO 27018:2019 · yes [S7] - ISO 42001: Qlik · ISO/IEC 42001:2023 · yes [S7] - Itar: ITAR compliance support; US-located environment restricted to US Persons [S7] - Security artifacts access: security artifacts available via Qlik Security Trust Center [S7] - SOC 1: SOC 1 Type 2 · Qlik · yes [S7] - SOC 2: SOC 2 Type 2 + HITRUST CSF · Qlik · yes [S7] - SOC 3: Qlik · yes [S7] - Talend cyber essentials: Talend Cloud · yes [S7] - Talend cyber essentials plus: Talend Cloud · yes [S7] - Talend HIPAA: Talend Cloud · yes [S7] - Talend ISO 27001: Talend Cloud · ISO 27001:2022 · yes [S7] - Talend ISO 27017: Talend Cloud · ISO 27017:2015 · yes [S7] - Talend ISO 27018: Talend Cloud · ISO 27018:2019 · yes [S7] - Talend SOC 1: SOC 1 Type 2 · Talend Cloud · yes [S7] - Talend SOC 2: SOC 2 Type 2 · Talend Cloud · yes [S7] - Talend SOC 3: Talend Cloud · yes [S7] - Talend UK gcloud: Talend Cloud · v14 · yes [S7] - TISAX: TISAX assessment for European automotive industry [S7] - Tx ramp: Level 2 · Qlik Cloud Government · yes [S7] - UK gcloud: Qlik Cloud · v14 · yes [S7] - Vulnerability disclosure: Responsible Disclosure with Security Bulletins for High/Critical vulnerabilities [S7] **Hosting** - Apac regions: Asia-Pacific (Singapore) · Asia-Pacific (Sydney) · Asia-Pacific (Tokyo) · Asia-Pacific (Mumbai) [S6] - Europe regions: Europe (Dublin) · Europe (Madrid) · Europe (London) · Europe (Frankfurt) · Europe (Paris) · Europe (Sweden) [S6] - Gov cloud regions: US Gov Cloud West (Oregon) · yes [S6] - Other regions: Middle East (UAE) · Middle East (Tel Aviv) · Brazil (Sao Paulo) · Canada (Montreal) [S6] - Sovereign cloud planned: AWS ESC (Brandenburg) · planned [S6] - Stitch cloud regions: US East (North Virginia) · US West (Oregon) · Europe (Frankfurt) · Europe (Dublin) [S6] - Talend cloud regions: Azure US West (California) · Azure US East (Virginia) · US East (Northern Virginia) · US West (Ohio) · Europe (Frankfurt) · Europe (Dublin) · Europe (London) · Asia-Pacific (Sydney) · Asia-Pacific (Tokyo) · Asia-Pacific (Mumbai) · Asia-Pac… [S6] - US east regions: disaster recovery available · US East (North Virginia) · US East (Ohio) [S6] **Integrations** - Comparison pages: Tableau · Power BI [S1] - Connector count: 461 [S4] - Connector factory: Connector Factory: expanding access to data from hundreds of applications and data sources, with ability to rapidly develop new connectors [S4] - Connector request: yes [S4] - Connectors: data source connectors and technology partner integrations [S2] - Custom plan self hosted: yes [S5] - Documentation links: Qlik Sense Client Managed · Qlik Cloud Analytics · Qlik Data Integration Client-managed · Cloud Data Integration · Qlik Application Automation · Qlik Lineage Connectors · Talend Cloud · Talend Studio · Stitch [S4] - Hundreds of sources: hundreds of data sources [S3] - Mcp server: MCP (Model Context Protocol) support for enterprise AI [S2] **Legal** - Copyright: QlikTech International AB [S5] - Copyright entity: QlikTech International AB [S4] - Copyright holder: QlikTech International AB [S1] **Pricing** - Enterprise capacity: 250 [S5] - Enterprise price: yes [S5] - Premium capacity: 50 · 25 GB packs · 250 GB packs [S5] - Premium price: annually · 50 GB data · 2750 [S5] - Standard additional users: yes [S5] - Standard capacity: 25 · 25 [S5] - Standard price: annually · 25 GB data · 825 [S5] - Starter capacity: yes · 10 · 10 · no [S5] - Starter price: annually · 10 Users · 300 [S5] **Product** - Accessibility commitment: commitment to accessibility for users of all abilities [S7] - Agentic AI: AI-driven insights, trusted data products and agent-based automation [S1] - Agentic framework: data monitoring and action · task/workflow automation · embedding into AI assistants · Agentic Framework [S2] - AI assistant included: 1000 questions/6000 pages indexed · 25 questions · 200 questions/500 pages indexed · 1000 questions/20000 pages indexed [S5] - Analytics engine: fast contextual calculations · supports agentic reasoning at scale · Qlik Analytics Engine [S2] - Anonymous public sharing: yes [S3] - Automations runs: 200000 · 50000 · 100000 · 400000 [S5] - Aws private link: yes [S5] - Capabilities listed: agent-based analytics · conversational AI · predictive AI · AI anomaly detection · visualizations and dashboards · embedded analytics · enterprise reporting · automation and orchestration [S1] - Continuous release cycles: yes [S3] - Custom branding whitelabel: yes · yes [S3] - Data consolidation: Manage and consolidate data from various tables and sources into a dashboard surface [S1] - Data integration: Connects to nearly any data source [S1] - Embed anywhere: embedded Agentic AI assistants in applications and workflows [S2] - Embed automations: yes · yes · yes [S3] - Embedded analytics: Automation and embedded analytics support taking action in workflows [S1] - Embedded analytics: yes [S5] - Embedded analytics description: Embeds data analysis and reporting into popular business apps [S3] - Enterprise app sizes: 40 · 15 · 50 [S5] - Enterprise multi region: yes [S5] - Feature list: Agentic AI Assistant · MCP Server · Anomaly Detection · Predictive AI · Visualization and Dashboards · Reporting · Automation and Orchestration · Embedded Analytics · Data Products [S2] - Flexible data products: Create trusted data products and adapt them as data sources, AI tools and business requirements change [S1] - Fortune500 usage: 75% of the Fortune 500 use Qlik, based on 2025 list with recurring revenue during 12 months ending June 2025 [S2] - Free trial: yes [S2] - Free trial available: yes [S1] - Free trial available: yes [S3] - Genai insights: plain-language questions · insights via Qlik Analytics Engine · combine with unstructured content · AI-powered analysis on demand [S2] - Gov cloud authorizations: yes [S6] - Large apps: 40 · purchasable [S5] - Mcp support: MCP for enterprise AI listed as platform capability [S1] - Mobile app: yes [S5] - Natural language assistant: Natural Language Assistant [S2] - Natural language queries: Natural-language questioning with agentic reasoning, without writing code [S1] - No code to pro code: no-code to pro-code · yes [S3] - Predict models: 5 deployed Models/10M Data Set Size · 10 deployed Models/100M Data Set Size [S5] - Premium anonymous access: yes [S5] - Premium app size: 10 [S5] - Premium ml: yes [S5] - Premium sap extraction: yes [S5] - Qlik embed native experience: yes [S3] - Reporting included: reports/month · 5000 · 250 · 1000 · 25000 [S5] - Standard talend sources: yes [S5] - Starter AI features: AI-powered analytics · Answers Agents · MCP Server [S5] - Starter app size: 5 [S5] - Successor positioning: Qlik Sense is positioned as the predecessor; Qlik Cloud Analytics builds on it [S1] - Trial available: yes [S4] - Trusted data products: high-quality curated datasets available in real time for AI access · Trusted Data Products [S2] **Support** - Community available: yes [S1] - Customer success: 24x7 critical customer Qlik Community · 24x7 critical customer support & digital onboarding · Standard + guided customer success onboarding [S5] - Documentation available: yes [S1] - SLA document: Qlik Service Level Agreement resource available [S7] - Standard 24x7: 24x7 sec 1 support [S5] - Starter community: Qlik Community Support [S5] - Status page: system status / operational uptime page [S7] - Training available: yes [S1] ## Questions ### Is Qlik Sense (Qlik Cloud Analytics) European? No. whats-best.ai classifies Qlik Sense (Qlik Cloud Analytics) as Rest of world. ### Where does Qlik Sense (Qlik Cloud Analytics) store data? Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026. ### Does Qlik Sense (Qlik Cloud Analytics) have a free plan? Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 1 Nov 2026. ### What are the best alternatives to Qlik Sense (Qlik Cloud Analytics)? As of 1 Nov 2026, the panel rates [Metabase (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence/metabase), [Preset (Apache Superset) (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence/preset) and [Holistics (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence/holistics) highest among the other 15 Business Intelligence & Dashboards products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [Luzmo](https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence/luzmo) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [Qlik Sense (Qlik Cloud Analytics) alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence/qlik-sense/alternatives). ## Head-to-head - [Qlik Sense (Qlik Cloud Analytics) vs Microsoft Power BI](https://whats-best.ai/compare/microsoft-power-bi-vs-qlik-sense.md) ## What this page leaves out - 15 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 6 compliance facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 6 hosting facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 6 integrations facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 5 data facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 1 pricing fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material. - 2 sovereignty dimensions could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and are shown as unknown. - 6 of the readings below were written against an earlier fact sheet — a fact has been corrected, added or pulled since. Until the panel next runs on this product you are reading the older judgement. ## Sources - [S1] Vendor product page: https://www.qlik.com/de-de/da/products/qlik-sense (checked 2026-11-01) - [S2] Features page (Qlik Cloud Analytics): https://www.qlik.com/us/da/products/qlik-cloud-analytics (checked 2026-11-01) - [S3] Features page (embedded analytics): https://www.qlik.com/us/da/capabilities/embedded-analytics (checked 2026-11-01) - [S4] Integrations page (data sources and connectors): https://www.qlik.com/us/platform/data-sources-and-connectors (checked 2026-11-01) - [S5] Pricing page: https://www.qlik.com/us/da/pricing (checked 2026-11-01) - [S6] Documentation (cloud regions): https://www.qlik.com/us/regions (checked 2026-11-01) - [S7] Security / trust page: https://www.qlik.com/us/company/trust (checked 2026-11-01) - [S8] Security / trust page (privacy): https://www.qlik.com/us/company/trust/privacy (checked 2026-11-01) - [S9] Privacy policy (product): https://www.qlik.com/us/legal/product-privacy-notice (checked 2026-11-01) - [S10] Privacy policy: https://www.qlik.com/us/legal/privacy-and-cookie-notice (checked 2026-11-01) - [S11] Legal notice: https://www.qlik.com/de-de/legal/impressum (checked 2026-11-01) --- Cite as: whats-best.ai, "Qlik Sense (Qlik Cloud Analytics) — Business Intelligence & Dashboards", AI panel analysis, as of 2026-11-06. https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence/qlik-sense Corrections: https://whats-best.ai/correct/1259?target=page