Looker Studio is free and connects to everything Google. PlotSet is what you use when the chart needs to look designed and move.
Choose Looker Studio for free, live-connected dashboards across Google Analytics, Ads, BigQuery and Sheets — it is very hard to beat on price and connectivity. Choose PlotSet when the chart is a publication or a video rather than a dashboard, and design quality and animation matter.
Looker Studio, formerly Google Data Studio, is Google's free reporting tool. It connects natively to Google Analytics, Ads, BigQuery, Sheets and hundreds of partner sources, refreshes live, and shares through the familiar Drive permission model. Reports embed for free. Its visual vocabulary is dashboard-oriented: scorecards, tables, time series, bar and pie charts.
PlotSet produces designed charts: 300+ templates, animated races and moving maps, MP4 video export on every plan, and plugins for Figma, Google Sheets and Chrome.
Looker Studio's job is to keep a marketing or product dashboard current against live sources, and it does that for free. It has no animation engine and no video export, and its chart styling is functional rather than editorial. PlotSet has no live connectors worth the name, but produces charts that hold up in an article, a deck or a video.
功能信息于 2026-08-16 根据公开文档核实。
| 功能 | PlotSet | Looker Studio |
|---|---|---|
| 视频导出（MP4） | 支持MP4; watermarked & limited on Free | 不支持 |
| 动态图表与竞赛图 | 支持Free on every plan | 不支持 |
| 现成模板库 | 支持300+ templates | 部分支持Report templates, not chart designs |
| AI 文本转图表 | 不支持 | 部分支持Gemini assistance in Pro contexts |
| 从截图生成图表 | 不支持 | 不支持 |
| 实时交互式嵌入 | 支持Free on every plan | 支持Free embedding of reports |
| CSV / Excel 导入 | 支持 | 部分支持File upload connector; Sheets is the natural path |
| 地图与地理图表 | 支持 | 支持Google Maps-backed geo charts |
| 实时数据库 / 数据仓库连接 | 部分支持Files & Google Sheets; no warehouse connections | 支持Very strong across Google and third-party sources |
| 团队协作 | 不支持 | 支持Google Drive sharing model |
| 白标 / 无品牌标识 | 付费方案Plus and Enterprise | 不支持 |
| API 访问 | 支持 | 部分支持 |
| AI 智能体控制（MCP） | 支持13-tool MCP server with OAuth | 不支持 |
| Figma 插件 | 支持 | 不支持 |
| Google Sheets 插件 | 支持 | 支持Native Google Sheets connector |
| 免费方案 | 支持5 static charts/day, 2 videos/day | 支持Genuinely free, including embeds |
价格以各厂商公布为准，核实于 2026-08-16。
Connect Analytics, Ads, BigQuery, Sheets or a partner connector.
Drop charts and scorecards onto report pages.
Set dimensions, metrics, filters and date ranges.
Share via Drive permissions or embed the report for free.
CSV, Excel, or a Google Sheet.
Static, interactive and animated options.
Theme, colours and animation timing, previewed live.
Live embed on any plan, MP4 video on every plan.
Looker Studio is free, and for live dashboards on Google data that is close to unanswerable — PlotSet does not compete there and should not pretend to. The two tools separate on output: Looker Studio cannot animate data, cannot render video, and does not produce charts designed for an external audience. Teams commonly use Looker Studio to monitor and PlotSet to publish.
Data races and animated maps, rendered to MP4 on any plan.
300+ templates built for publication rather than dashboards.
Anyone can view an embedded chart; Looker Studio sharing follows Drive permissions.
Figma plugin and Chrome extension alongside the Sheets add-on.
A 13-tool MCP server with OAuth for AI agents.
Both tools read Google Sheets, so the same sheet can feed a Looker Studio dashboard and a PlotSet chart. Keep Looker Studio for live monitoring; use PlotSet for the version that gets published.
Yes. Looker Studio is free to use, share and embed. Looker Studio Pro adds enterprise support and governance for a fee. For live Google-data dashboards on no budget it is an excellent choice.
免费开始，300+ 模板任选。无需信用卡。
