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Open source alternatives to Power BI[009]
Power BI is Microsoft's business intelligence suite for modelling data, building interactive dashboards and sharing reports company-wide. Below are 9 self-hostable open source alternatives, ranked by GitHub popularity.
Grafana
The open and composable observability and data visualization platform
★ STARS
73.6k
⑂ FORKS
13.8k
Apache Superset
Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform
★ STARS
72.7k
⑂ FORKS
17.2k
OpenBB
Financial data platform for analysts, quants and AI agents.
★ STARS
67.2k
⑂ FORKS
6.7k
Metabase
The simplest, fastest way to get business intelligence and analytics
★ STARS
47.2k
⑂ FORKS
6.4k
Redash
Make Your Company Data Driven. Connect to any data source, easily visualize, dashboard and share your data.
★ STARS
28.6k
⑂ FORKS
4.6k
Evidence
Business intelligence as code: build fast, interactive data visualizations in SQL and markdown
★ STARS
6.3k
⑂ FORKS
347
Lightdash
The open source Looker alternative
★ STARS
5.8k
⑂ FORKS
708
Chartbrew
Open-source reporting platform to build and share live dashboards from APIs, SQL and NoSQL databases, with powerful AI assistant, scheduling, and embeddable charts
★ STARS
3.9k
⑂ FORKS
440
frappe-insights
Open Source Business Intelligence Tool
★ STARS
930
⑂ FORKS
452
// EDITOR'S TAKE
Metabase is the closest in spirit, since non-technical staff can build their own questions and dashboards without learning SQL, while Apache Superset gives you far richer chart types and a proper semantic layer in exchange for a heavier deployment and a steeper learning curve. Grafana is the wrong tool for finance-style reporting but unbeatable if your data is time-series and operational.
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What is the best open source Power BI alternative?
Grafana is the most popular open source Power BI alternative by GitHub stars (73,632 stars). The other 8 options are ranked above.
Are these Power BI alternatives self-hostable?
Yes — every project listed here is open source and runs on your own infrastructure. Click into a project to see its license, stars, language, and current health status.
Are they free?
All projects shown are free and open source. Check each project's license page for the terms — most are MIT, Apache 2.0, or AGPL.