Data Studio vs Kibana
Data Studio
datastudio.google.comKibana
elastic.coSide by side
| Figure | Data Studio | Kibana |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $9/mo | $99/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 5 |
| Spec score · Data Visualization Software | 9.0 (#6) | 8.9 (#9) |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
Plans
Kibana
- Free and openFree
- Standard$99 a month
- Gold$114 a month
- PlatinumPriced on request
- EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
Data Studio
Data Studio has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Kibana
Kibana is an open-source web interface for querying, analyzing, visualizing, and managing Elasticsearch data. Its tools include Discover, Dashboards, Dev Tools Console, Maps, alerting, and developer console capabilities. Interactive dashboards can combine metrics, XY charts, graphs, maps, tables, live data, drilldowns, and reusable saved queries, and dashboards can be embedded. Data sources include Elasticsearch, Elastic Agent, Logstash, Beats, OpenTelemetry, APIs, cloud platforms, files, logs, metrics, traces, and events. Data can be ingested into Elasticsearch through OpenTelemetry, Logstash, and Beats. The self-managed Free and open tier includes Kibana and the full Elastic Stack, with native authentication, role-based access control, and TLS encryption; its support is community-based. Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless offer a free trial. Standard hosted pricing is listed from $99 per month, as low as, based on cloud production configuration. Kibana also offers no-code machine learning for anomalies, rare events, message patterns, and alerting, plus geospatial tools such as distance filters and shape overlays.