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IoT analytics platform for personal and commercial use

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ThingSpeak - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: March 2026

ThingSpeak overview

What is ThingSpeak?

ThingSpeak is a cloud-based internet of things (IoT) analytics platform designed to help organizations across a variety of industry verticals including energy, education, farming, and more collect, visualize, and evaluate data in real-time. The platform enables enterprises to create, edit or delete private channels and define custom fields with public or private views to collect and analyze data from multiple sources.

ThingSpeak includes TimeControl, an event scheduling module, which allows organizations to schedule various recurring tasks like running specific codes, connecting to web servers, reading or writing data, and posting tweets on a weekly, daily or hourly basis. Administrators can also collect and store temperature, air pressure, humidity, and other data using sensors in homes, industrial equipment, and automobiles in a centralized repository.

Users can utilize the analytics tools in ThingSpeak to explore patterns, relationships, and trends among various data elements and display the information through plots, gauges, and charts. It also supports integration with various third-party applications such as MATLAB, Beckhoff, Arduino, Senet, ESP8266 Wifi Module, LoRaWAN, and more.

Starting price

79per feature /
per month

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ThingSpeak reviews

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  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend1.00/10
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ThingSpeak's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from ThingSpeak users:

Prototype creation
Real-Time monitoring
Third-Party integrations
Asset tracking
Visual analytics
API
Data management
Configuration management

All ThingSpeak features

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Activity dashboard
Activity tracking
Analytics
API
Asset tracking
Configuration management
Connectivity management
Data collection
Data extraction
Data import/export
Data management
Data storage management
Data synchronization
Data visualization
ETL
Monitoring
Multiple data sources
Prototype creation
Real-Time analytics
Real-Time data
Real-Time monitoring
Secure data storage
Status tracking
Third-Party integrations
Trend analysis
Visual analytics
Visualization

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ThingSpeak pricing

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Starting from

79

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Per Feature

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ThingSpeak support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Email/Help Desk
Knowledge Base
Phone Support
FAQs/Forum

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