| Price from | — | €500/mo |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 4 | 4 |
| Spec score · Location Intelligence Software | 8.1 (#8) | 7.6 (#16) |
| Headquarters | New York, United States | Utrecht, Netherlands |
| Integrations | CARTO connects to Google BigQuery, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, PostgreSQL, Databricks, and Oracle data warehouses. | The MCP server can be used with assistants including Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, and GitHub Copilot. |
| Privacy | CARTO states that it complies with GDPR, CCPA, and other applicable data privacy laws. | The built-in assistant sees query results such as scores and forecasts rather than underlying store, customer, or transaction records. |
| Security | CARTO is SOC 2 Type II certified and undergoes annual audits by an independent third-party certified auditor. | IRIS says customer data is hosted and processed in the EU, is not resold, and is not used to train another customer's model without permission. |
| Support | CARTO offers support options ranging from onboarding to ongoing platform guidance, plus professional services for spatial data science, app development, GIS, and cloud architecture. | IRIS Market does not include paid human support, while IRIS Studio includes support from the people who built the models. |
