24 ranked picks · Updated daily

Self-hosted BI, replace Tableau, Looker, and Power BI with open source

Tableau and Looker bill per seat, fast. Self-hosted Metabase or Apache Superset gives unlimited seats on a single VPS and reads the same SQL warehouses. These are the open-source BI tools ranked by maintainer health and self-hosting cost.

Cheapest path: grafana on hetzner for $4.13/mo, that's about $59,950/year less than Looker (Google Cloud).

The 24 picks, ranked by health

Health score is a 6-dimension composite. See methodology.

grafana
by grafana
82/100

The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.

TypeScript AGPL-3.0
75k
$4.13/mo
superset
by apache
82/100

Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform

TypeScript Apache-2.0
73k
$4.13/mo
1/5
metabase
by metabase
80/100

The easy-to-use open source Business Intelligence and Embedded Analytics tool that lets everyone work with data

Clojure NOASSERTION
48k
$4.13/mo
3/5
strapi
by strapi
79/100

Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable, and developer-first.

TypeScript NOASSERTION
72k
$4.13/mo
1/5
duckdb
by duckdb
79/100

DuckDB is an analytical in-process SQL database management system

C++ MIT
38k
$4.13/mo
2/5
matplotlib
by matplotlib
79/100

matplotlib: plotting with Python

Python
23k
$4.13/mo
2/5
Heimdall
by linuxserver
79/100

An Application dashboard and launcher

PHP MIT
9.1k
$4.13/mo
3/5
countly-server
by Countly
79/100

Countly is a privacy-first, AI-powered analytics and engagement platform for understanding and optimizing customer journeys across digital applications, from desktop and mobile to IoT and connected environments.

JavaScript NOASSERTION
5.9k
$4.13/mo
2/5
netdata
by netdata
77/100

The fastest path to AI-powered full stack observability, even for lean teams.

C GPL-3.0
79k
$4.13/mo
4/5
pi-hole
by pi-hole
77/100

A black hole for Internet advertisements

Shell NOASSERTION
58k
$4.13/mo
2/5
dashy
by lissy93
77/100

A self-hostable personal dashboard built for you. Includes status-checking, widgets, themes, icon packs, a UI editor and tons more!

Vue MIT
25k
$4.13/mo
1/5
dolt
by dolthub
77/100

Dolt - Git for Data

Go Apache-2.0
23k
$4.13/mo
3/5
druid
by apache
77/100

Apache Druid: a high performance real-time analytics database.

Java Apache-2.0
14k
$4.13/mo
2/5
mikro-orm
by mikro-orm
77/100

TypeScript ORM for Node.js based on Data Mapper, Unit of Work and Identity Map patterns. Supports MongoDB, MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQLite/libSQL databases.

TypeScript MIT
9.0k
$4.13/mo
2/5
sequelize
by sequelize
76/100

Feature-rich ORM for modern Node.js and TypeScript, it supports PostgreSQL (with JSON and JSONB support), MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, MS SQL Server, Snowflake, Oracle DB, DB2 and DB2 for IBM i.

TypeScript MIT
30k
$4.13/mo
2/5
plotly.py
by plotly
76/100

The interactive graphing library for Python

Python MIT
18k
$4.13/mo
2/5
leantime
by leantime
76/100

Leantime is a goals focused project management system for non-project managers. Building with ADHD, Autism, and dyslexia in mind.

PHP AGPL-3.0
9.7k
$4.13/mo
3/5
paradedb
by paradedb
76/100

Simple, Elastic-quality search for Postgres

Rust AGPL-3.0
8.7k
$4.13/mo
2/5
chartbrew
by chartbrew
76/100

Open-source reporting platform to build and share live dashboards from APIs, SQL and NoSQL databases, with powerful AI assistant, scheduling, and embeddable charts

JavaScript NOASSERTION
3.9k
$4.13/mo
2/5
incubator-superset
by apache
75/100

Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform

TypeScript Apache-2.0
73k
$4.13/mo
1/5
streamlit
by streamlit
75/100

Streamlit, A faster way to build and share data apps.

Python Apache-2.0
44k
$4.13/mo
2/5
mindsdb
by mindsdb
75/100

AI Data Vault - A query engine for AI Agents to securely query data from any datasource

Python NOASSERTION
39k
$4.13/mo
2/5
seaborn
by mwaskom
75/100

Statistical data visualization in Python

Python BSD-3-Clause
14k
$4.13/mo
2/5
opensourcepos
by opensourcepos
75/100

Open Source Point of Sale is a web based point of sale application written in PHP using CodeIgniter framework. It uses MySQL as the data back end and has a Bootstrap 3 based user interface. If you like this project, please give it a star! Doing so helps maintain Popular OSS status for the project.

PHP NOASSERTION
4.2k
$4.13/mo
2/5

Specifically replacing

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Most operators land on grafana (top health) and run it on hetzner for around $4.13/mo.

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