About Mode

Mode is a cloud-based collaborative analytics platform that helps users manage and create fresh data, perform ad hoc analysis and review critical business segments with custom reports. Features of Mode include R analysis, built-in charts, unlimited and private space collaboration, collaborative report editing, external distribution, visual data exploration, single sign-on, schedule automation and webhook automation. Its analysis functionality helps manage test reports, histogram demos, email campaigns and regional sales. Additionally, it provides an application programming interface automation tool that enables customization software using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Mode integrates with various third-party software such as Amazon Services, Google BigQuery, Hive, Impala, MariaDB, MemSQL, Microsoft Azure SQL, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Presto, SQL Server, Treasure Data, Vertica and more. Mode is available on a monthly subscription.
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Mode pricing

Mode has a free version and offers a free trial.

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Free Version:
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Free trial:
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Mode Reviews

Feature rating

Value for Money
4.5
Functionality
4.4
Ease of Use
4.4
Customer Support
4.6
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Gaurav
Gaurav
  • Industry: Market Research
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 25/02/2023

Good tool for attribution modelling.

Overall experience is postive but the can be made little more simple

Pros

Best way to track independent teams performanceHas multiple functions and features and can be used by multiple people from different teams at the same time.

Cons

Is expensive to use and gives error when queries are run multiple timesTracking can be some times buggy if some other team implements something from engineering endsRequires very proper data science modellingIntial Definitions are sometimes tough to understand, so most of the data is to be added to confluence

Nathaniel
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 10/12/2019

Mode is a powerful tool for your business

10/10 we couldn't have run our business without it. All of our production reports and alerting happen through Mode and it hasn't ever let us down. Mode works great with other tools in its space and fits nicely in to the modern data stack. Two thumbs way up from our team.

Pros

- You can query database tables directly using SQL
- The visualizations are easy to set up and beautiful
- you can literally style ANYTHING on your report using CSS, Javascript, and HTML
- the Python notebook is powerful and easy to use, you can use Plotly along with a whole bunch of other great libraries for working with data.
- There is a Mode API so you can use report results in tools like zapier to help build alerting around your business metrics
- flexable parameterization for reports

Cons

This is minor, but the UI can get the tiniest bit glitchy, on occasion. That said I've seen the Mode team address lots of the issues over the years.

Alternatives Considered

Looker

Reasons for Switching to Mode

Our team would be lost without the Python and R libraries. We also use the Mode API to power a ton of alerting and reporting for product, finance, customer success, and sales.
Filippo
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
3
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
4

3
Reviewed on 25/06/2024

Extremely powerful data reporting tool

Mode is used in the org to primarily to manage and create quick reports used to quickly access and review data as starting point for new product development. The ease to share and collaborate is critical in this scenario, and Mode has been perfect for this. The learning curve is steep and slowed down onboarding of new collaborators not familiar with it.

Pros

The possibility to apply several filtering options to dissect data across multiple dimensions.

Cons

Lack of customization of the interface. User interface can be rather clunky and not as user friendly as it could be, with the result that the learning curve for independent work is steeper than it should be

Mike
  • Industry: Sports
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
4

5
Reviewed on 23/12/2019

Solves the problems we need it to

Mode clearly cares about the success of their users with their product and it’s shown in the features of the offer and the support that they have. Mode has helped us eliminate the need for a two or three step business process by allowing us to set up SWL reporting for any college to run, as required. This product is worth exploring if you have a team that needs data to be run re time or on a scheduled basis in order to provide insights that will help them with their day-to-day activities.
Reporting that is real time or on a scheduled basis in order to provide insights has been helpful in streamlining day-to-day activities that are data dependent.

Pros

The thing that we liked most is that any employee who is familiar with SQL could set up reporting that can be run by all of our staff (technical or otherwise) to solve problems and avoid directly contacting developers when common data issues come up. For example, when our clients call and ask a common question, the team can immediately run a Mode report and provide the answer in real time, leading to a simple business process and effective solution for the client.

Cons

Certain SQL functions are not available in Mode. Organizing reports was hard to manage, and we had many legacy reports from past colleagues that had no context unless the user opened the report, which became time consuming.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft SQL Server

Reasons for Switching to Mode

Mode was easier to set-up for non-Technical staff.
Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Consumer Goods
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4

5
Reviewed on 17/12/2019

Great Data Science Platform - Great Value

Great company. I have had several in-person and phone interactions. Seem to be headed in the right direction and they are interested in talking with their customers.

Pros

Great value for the price. Clearly a tool built for analysts.

Cons

The self-service BI is not as good as tableau. However - I hear they plan to make this better.

Alternatives Considered

Sisense

Reasons for Choosing Mode

We wanted software that has the ability to support python and R

Switched From

Tableau

Reasons for Switching to Mode

Much better price point than periscope at the time of our evaluation.

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