Open-source alternatives to Tableau

Tableau by Salesforce in the Data & BI category. These are the open alternatives we recommend looking at.

Apache Superset

BI platform for dashboards and SQL exploration from the Apache Software Foundation.

Apache-2.0Permissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

GitHub stars
75.0k
Deployment
Docker, Helm
Login/SSO
OIDC/OAuth, LDAP

Metabase

Easy BI for business users: questions, dashboards and subscriptions.

AGPL-3.0Network copyleft (AGPL)Open core

SaaS: Yes, with conditionsClosed product: No

GitHub stars
49.5k
Deployment
JAR, Docker
Login/SSO
Google + LDAP (OSS); SAML/JWT (paid)

Redash

SQL queries and visualisations; community-maintained.

BSD-2-ClausePermissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

GitHub stars
28.8k
Deployment
Docker
Login/SSO
Google, SAML

Lightdash

BI built around dbt models.

MITPermissiveOpen core

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

GitHub stars
6.2k
Deployment
Docker, Helm
Login/SSO
OIDC (Okta/Google/Azure)

Evidence

BI as code: reports written in SQL and Markdown, built as a static site.

MITPermissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

GitHub stars
7.0k
Deployment
Static build

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