Extending our vision for analytics in the AI era
Since bringing Data Studio to the Google Cloud family five years ago, customers have continued to innovate with Data Studio as a place to visualize and share their data assets. Meanwhile, as AI becomes a critical component of practically every business, we’ve heard from our customers that they need a single place to save, organize and browse their data assets.
As part of this reintroduction, with Looker as our enterprise business intelligence platform, we are evolving Data Studio to complement the Looker platform, independently. As we have redesigned Data Studio, Looker has also recently seen significant investments in its self-service and visualization offerings, including agentic capabilities for use cases that demand trusted, governed data powered by a central semantic model.
We believe the new Data Studio is the ideal choice for personal data exploration — a place to craft ad-hoc reports, and quickly visualize data across Google’s ecosystem, from BigQuery to Google Sheets and Ads. This strategic differentiation ensures customers have the right tool for the right job.
Two flavors: Data Studio and Data Studio Pro
The new Data Studio experience is available in two editions.
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Data Studio continues to offer powerful, no-cost individual analysis and visualization, serving as the on-ramp for creating and sharing ad-hoc reports, transforming data to an interactive dashboard in minutes.
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Data Studio Pro is designed for scaling teams and organizations that need more agility and control, including AI features and deep integration with Google Cloud for enterprise-grade security, management, and compliance capabilities. Pro licenses can be purchased directly from the Google Cloud console or the Google Workspace Admin Console.
Upgrading to the new Data Studio should be largely transparent for the many users who count on this product in their daily work. All existing reports, data sources, assets and users will be transitioned to the new experience with no action on your part. Learn more about what’s coming to Data Studio and our vision for Data Cloud and Analytics at Google Cloud Next ‘26 later this month.
