The short answer
- → Want premium reporting with custom data shaping: Whatagraph
- → Platform-scale agency reporting with QA and pacing: NinjaCat
- → Want the analysis rather than the report: GoMarble
At a glance
| Tool | Best for | Meta | TikTok | Shopify | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whatagraph | White-label multi-channel client reporting | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| NinjaCat | Unified agency reporting with automated QA and pacing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| GoMarble | AI ad analysis with root-cause diagnosis and in-account execution | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Klipfolio | Custom dashboards built on blended marketing data | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | · |
| Looker Studio | Free custom dashboards on Google Ads data | · | ✓ | · | · | · |
✓ supported · — not supported · · not publicly stated
Why teams look for a AgencyAnalytics alternative
AgencyAnalytics is well-built for its job and per-client pricing maps cleanly onto how agencies bill. Teams reassess when:
- Cost scales linearly with roster size. From $20 per client per month billed annually, it climbs directly with the number of clients.
- It reports, it does not diagnose. It presents data without explaining why performance changed or acting on the account.
- Flat pricing suits some teams better. In-house teams with a handful of accounts pay for a model built around many.
- Analysis lives elsewhere. Most agencies end up running a second tool for the thinking, which is worth pricing in.
Where AgencyAnalytics is still the right answer: When the job is genuinely white-label client reporting across many accounts — portals, scheduled delivery, broad connectors beyond paid media — AgencyAnalytics is the strongest fit here and the BI tools in this list will feel like a build project by comparison.
How we compared the alternatives
We assessed every tool on the same 5 criteria, so the comparison stays like-for-like rather than reflecting whichever feature each vendor leads with.
White-labelling
Is the client portal a core feature or an add-on?
Connector breadth
How far beyond paid media does it reach?
How pricing scales
Per client, per dashboard, per user, or flat?
Analysis
Does it interpret the numbers or only present them?
Build effort
Turnkey, or does someone have to construct it?
The alternatives
Every entry below uses the same structure — best for, platforms, what it does, capabilities, pros, limitations, pricing, ideal customer, verdict — so you can compare like with like.
1. Whatagraph
Best for: White-label multi-channel client reporting
Platforms: Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, Shopify
Whatagraph builds multi-channel marketing reports and dashboards for agencies, with white-labelling, scheduled PDF delivery, custom data transformations, and onward transfer of data to BigQuery or a BI layer.
Key capabilities
- Report creation with custom transformations and aggregations
- White-labelling and automated PDF email delivery
- Goals and alerts on KPI monitoring
- 68 integrations spanning paid media, analytics and ecommerce
- Data transfer to BigQuery and BI tools on higher tiers
Pros
- Unlimited users and reports on published tiers — cost scales with data sources, not headcount
- Custom transformations go beyond what most agency reporting tools allow
- Can act as both the reporting surface and a pipeline into a warehouse
Limitations
- Entry pricing is materially higher than other agency reporting tools in this list
- Annual billing only on published tiers
- A reporting layer — it presents and transforms data rather than diagnosing performance
Pricing: Max from €699/mo (billed annually, from 50 source credits); Prime custom (checked September 2026)
Best suited for: Agencies reporting across many channels and clients
Verdict: A premium agency reporting layer — strongest where custom data shaping matters.
2. NinjaCat
Best for: Unified agency reporting with automated QA and pacing
Platforms: Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, Shopify
NinjaCat unifies and normalises marketing data across providers and accounts, then layers client-ready reporting on top. Its AI agents handle recurring reporting, QA, budget pacing and anomaly alerting.
Key capabilities
- Data unification and normalisation across providers and accounts
- 150+ pre-built connectors spanning search, social, retail media and analytics
- AI agents for reporting, QA, pacing and anomaly alerts
- Client-ready automated reporting
- Natural-language querying of unified data
Pros
- Very broad connector coverage, including retail media and DSPs that most agency tools omit
- Automated QA and pacing address failure modes that pure reporting tools ignore
- Absorbed Shape's PPC budget-management capability into the platform
Limitations
- No public pricing — evaluation requires a sales conversation
- Platform-scale implementation, which is heavy for a small team
Pricing: Not publicly listed — pricing available on request (checked September 2026)
Best suited for: Mid-size and larger agencies managing many accounts across channels
Verdict: A platform-level answer to agency reporting, priced and scoped accordingly.
3. GoMarble
Best for: AI ad analysis with root-cause diagnosis and in-account execution
Platforms: Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, Shopify
GoMarble is an AI agent for paid media. It connects to your ad accounts, explains why metrics moved rather than only charting that they did, and then acts on that diagnosis — GoMarble AI Agents edit bids, budgets and campaign status directly, and Ad Launch ships new campaigns. Both are gated on human approval.
Key capabilities
- Root-cause analysis — decomposes a ROAS or CPA change into spend, CPM, CTR, CVR and AOV contributions
- GoMarble AI Agents — execute against their own diagnosis: bid and budget changes, pausing and scaling ads
- Ad Launch — analyzes creatives, picks the campaign, drafts brand-voice copy and ships it, gated on approval
- Execution across five channels: Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn and Bing
- Creative analysis — connects hooks, formats and angles to performance, and flags fatigue signals
- Cross-channel analysis — Meta and Google in a single account view
- Conversational reporting — ask for the analysis in chat or Slack instead of building a dashboard
- Scheduled reports and anomaly alerts delivered to Slack or email, with no infrastructure to build
- Reports that carry recommended actions, which Agents can then execute on approval
- AI agents + MCP servers — drive the same analysis from Claude or your own tooling
Pros
- Diagnosis and execution in one place — it acts on its own analysis rather than handing you a list
- Reporting is conversational rather than built — you ask a question and get the answer, instead of designing a dashboard and maintaining it
- Reports arrive where the team already works (Slack or email) and carry actions, not just numbers
- Changes are gated on human approval rather than applied silently
- Meta and Google analysed together instead of in separate silos
- Open MCP servers mean the analysis is reachable from Claude and other AI clients, not locked in a dashboard
Limitations
- Not an attribution platform — no multi-touch modelling or incrementality testing, so it complements rather than replaces Northbeam or Triple Whale for measurement
- Creative tagging taxonomy is less granular than a dedicated creative-ops tool like Motion
- Not a white-label client-reporting platform — no branded client portal or per-client packaging, which agencies reporting to many clients will still need elsewhere
- Fewer prebuilt dashboard templates than the incumbent reporting suites
Pricing: See our pricing page for current plans View GoMarble pricing →
Best suited for: Performance marketers, in-house paid media teams and agencies who want diagnosis and execution in one agent
Verdict: The strongest fit when you want the same system to work out why performance moved and then make the change, across Meta and Google together.
4. Klipfolio
Best for: Custom dashboards built on blended marketing data
Platforms: Meta, Google
Klipfolio builds customisable dashboards and reports from blended data sources, with data modelling and joins, scheduled PDF reports and shareable published links. It is a BI layer aimed at marketing teams and agencies.
Key capabilities
- Highly customisable dashboards for internal teams and clients
- Data modelling and joins across sources
- Scheduled reports and PDF delivery
- Published view-only links for sharing
- 130+ data integrations including Google Ads, Google Analytics and Facebook
Pros
- Data modelling and joins go further than most marketing dashboard tools
- Flat tier pricing rather than per-client, which suits in-house teams
- Published links make sharing straightforward without extra seats
Limitations
- Tiers are capped by dashboard count, which constrains agencies with many clients
- A visualisation and modelling layer — it does not interpret performance or act on accounts
- Requires someone to build and maintain the dashboards
Pricing: Base $120/mo; Grow $190/mo; Team $310/mo; Team+ $600/mo (billed annually) (checked September 2026)
Best suited for: Marketing teams and agencies that want to build their own dashboards
Verdict: A capable BI layer for teams willing to build — not a turnkey paid-media view.
5. Looker Studio
Best for: Free custom dashboards on Google Ads data
Platforms: Google
Looker Studio is Google's dashboarding and reporting layer. It connects directly to Google Ads and builds shareable reports at no cost. A paid Pro subscription adds enterprise content management, team workspaces and per-user licensing.
Key capabilities
- Native Google Ads connector, including manager (MCC) accounts with up to 50 sub-accounts per data source
- Custom dashboards and shareable reports at no cost
- Built-in and partner connectors for non-Google sources
- Pro subscription adds team workspaces, content management and project-level permissions
Pros
- Free for the core product, which makes it the default starting point for Google Ads dashboards
- First-party Google Ads connector — no third-party pipeline needed for Google data
- Fully customisable, with no per-client or per-account fee
Limitations
- A visualisation layer only — it charts data and does not analyse, diagnose or act
- Non-Google sources generally need a paid partner connector such as Supermetrics, so a true cross-channel view is not actually free
- Someone has to build and maintain the reports; there is no out-of-the-box paid-media template
- Auction Insights fields are no longer available to Google Ads data sources
Pricing: No-cost version; Pro subscription priced per user (figure not published in Google's docs) (checked September 2026)
Best suited for: Teams that want custom Google Ads dashboards and have someone to build them
Verdict: The default free option for Google Ads dashboards — strongest when you need custom views and weakest when you need interpretation.
Full capability comparison
The capability matrix, so you can answer questions like "which of these do both Meta and Google, with creative analysis?" without rereading the list.
| Tool | AI analysis | Root-cause analysis | Executes changes | Creative analysis | Attribution | Reporting | Automation | AI agents | Budget recommendations | Multi-account | Starting price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whatagraph | ✓ | · | — | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | €699/mo |
| NinjaCat | ✓ | · | · | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Custom |
| GoMarble | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | See pricing |
| Klipfolio | · | — | — | — | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | — | ✓ | $120/mo |
| Looker Studio | · | — | — | — | · | ✓ | · | · | — | ✓ | Custom |
✓ supported · — not supported · · not publicly stated. Pricing as published on each vendor's site; see the methodology note for dates.
How the tools differ
The list above tells you what each option does. This section answers the decision question — which one fits the job you were using AgencyAnalytics for.
If you want premium reporting with custom data shaping
Whatagraph
If you need platform-scale agency reporting with QA and pacing
NinjaCat
If you want the analysis rather than the report
GoMarble
If flat pricing suits you better than per-client
Klipfolio, Looker Studio
Best alternative by use case
Not a ranking — a mapping. Most teams need one of these jobs done well rather than the highest overall score.
| Use case | Recommended tools |
|---|---|
| Premium client reporting | Whatagraph |
| Large agency operations | NinjaCat |
| Explaining why a client's numbers moved | GoMarble |
| In-house dashboards on flat pricing | Klipfolio |
| A free starting point on Google data | Looker Studio |
What to consider before choosing a client reporting tool
FAQ
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Methodology & sources
Product capabilities and pricing were reviewed from publicly available product documentation and pricing pages, with the check date shown against each tool above. Features and pricing change — verify details with the vendor before purchasing. Capability marks reflect what each vendor states publicly; where a capability is not publicly documented we mark it "·" rather than assuming it is absent.
- Whatagraph: https://whatagraph.com/pricing
- NinjaCat: https://www.ninjacat.io/pricing
- GoMarble: https://www.gomarble.ai/pricing
- Klipfolio: https://www.klipfolio.com/pricing
- Looker Studio: https://docs.cloud.google.com/data-studio/connect-to-google-ads
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