G2 Vendor Directory

ArcGIS Pro vs. CARTO

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricArcGIS Pro

by Esri

CARTO

by CartoDB

Overall rating4.34.5
Review count19078
Ease of use7.98.9
Ease of setup8.39.3
Quality of support8.49.2
Meets requirements8.68.8
NPS48.55491370.3125
Small Business25.5%47.4%
Mid-Market37.8%21.8%
Enterprise36.7%30.8%
Total page views631576
Total LLM citations2,5986,361

ArcGIS Pro

ArcGIS Pro is Esri’s powerful, single desktop GIS application. Technologically ahead of everything else on the market, ArcGIS Pro supports data visualization, advanced analysis and authoritative data maintenance in both 2D and 3D. ArcGIS Pro is tightly coupled with the ArcGIS platform supporting data sharing across ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise through Web GIS.

Pros

  • User-Friendly
  • Tool Variety
  • Powerful Tools
  • 3D Visualization
  • Ease of Use
  • User Interface

CARTO

CARTO is the leading Agentic GIS platform. Unlike other GIS systems, CARTO removes data fragmentation and technical bottlenecks by letting you build AI Agents, geospatial workflows, and interactive maps directly inside your cloud data warehouse or lakehouse. With CARTO for Agents, those same capabilities extend into the agentic platforms your teams already use, so spatial analysis and reports run at scale without manual effort.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Map Creation
  • 3D Visualization
  • Data Visualization
  • Visualization
  • Data Management