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.
The 24 picks, ranked by health
Health score is a 6-dimension composite. See methodology.
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.
Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform
The easy-to-use open source Business Intelligence and Embedded Analytics tool that lets everyone work with data
Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable, and developer-first.
DuckDB is an analytical in-process SQL database management system
matplotlib: plotting with Python
An Application dashboard and launcher
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.
The fastest path to AI-powered full stack observability, even for lean teams.
A black hole for Internet advertisements
A self-hostable personal dashboard built for you. Includes status-checking, widgets, themes, icon packs, a UI editor and tons more!
Dolt - Git for Data
Apache Druid: a high performance real-time analytics database.
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.
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.
The interactive graphing library for Python
Leantime is a goals focused project management system for non-project managers. Building with ADHD, Autism, and dyslexia in mind.
Simple, Elastic-quality search for Postgres
Open-source reporting platform to build and share live dashboards from APIs, SQL and NoSQL databases, with powerful AI assistant, scheduling, and embeddable charts
Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform
Streamlit, A faster way to build and share data apps.
AI Data Vault - A query engine for AI Agents to securely query data from any datasource
Statistical data visualization in Python
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.
Specifically replacing
These categories on ossreplace cover the SaaS in this space.
Ready to self-host?
Most operators land on grafana (top health) and run it on hetzner for around $4.13/mo.