Alternatives to Looker in 2026

Superset apache

Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform

Complete system Production-ready A data team wants a free, scalable BI tool and has engineers to deploy and maintain it.

★ 75k Apache-2.0 Python Active, pushed 2 days ago

Metabase metabase

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

Complete system Production-ready A small or mid-size company wants self-serve reporting that non-analysts can use quickly.

★ 50k See repository Clojure Active, pushed 2 days ago

Redash getredash

Make Your Company Data Driven. Connect to any data source, easily visualize, dashboard and share your data.

Complete system Production-ready Your analysts work in SQL and want a simple query-and-dashboard tool.

★ 29k BSD-2-Clause TypeScript Active, pushed today

JimuReport jeecgboot

一款真正的 AI 报表诞生了！JimuChatBI —— 首款免费开源对话式智能数据分析产品（Chat2BI）。 一句话生成报表和数据大屏，支持对话式 AI 修改优化；类 Excel 在线报表设计，兼容国产信创数据源。 对着 AI 说句话，报表就出来了——表格、图表、分组汇总自动生成，复杂报表场景轻松应对。想做数据大屏？同样一句话搞定，让数据分析进入 AI 时代。

Complete system Production-ready A Chinese business wants a free FineReport-style tool for complex printed reports.

★ 8.6k GPL-3.0 Java Active, pushed yesterday

Evidence evidence-dev

Business intelligence as code: build fast, interactive data visualizations in SQL and markdown

Framework or platform Usable Analytics engineers want version-controlled reports that live in git instead of a drag-and-drop BI tool.

★ 7.1k MIT TypeScript Active, pushed 2 days ago

Blazer ankane

Business intelligence made simple

Integration Production-ready Your product is a Rails app and you want internal SQL reporting with no extra service.

★ 4.8k MIT Ruby Active, pushed 14 days ago

Graphic Walker Kanaries

An open source alternative to Tableau. Embeddable visual analytic

Building block Usable You want to add exploratory charting to your own app or notebook.

★ 3.3k Apache-2.0 TypeScript Active, pushed 20 days ago

CBoard TuiQiao

An easy to use, self-service open BI reporting and BI dashboard platform.

Complete system Experimental Rarely; its maintainers say it has been unmaintained for a long time.

★ 3.1k Apache-2.0 JavaScript Active, pushed 17 days ago

Rill rilldata

The fastest business intelligence tool for humans and agents.

Complete system Usable A data team wants sub-second exploratory dashboards over large event data.

★ 3k Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed 7 days ago

Quary quarylabs

Open-source BI for engineers

Developer tool Experimental You want a lighter dbt-like modelling tool with a VS Code workflow.

★ 2.4k Apache-2.0 Rust Active, pushed 8 days ago

Querybook pinterest

Querybook is a Big Data Querying UI, combining collocated table metadata and a simple notebook interface.

Complete system Production-ready Your analysts query a data lake and you want shared query notebooks next to a data catalogue.

★ 2.3k Apache-2.0 TypeScript Active, pushed today

MetricFlow dbt-labs

MetricFlow allows you to define, build, and maintain metrics in code.

Building block Production-ready Your data team uses dbt and wants one governed definition of each business metric.

★ 1.9k Apache-2.0 Python Active, pushed 20 days ago

DataGear datageartech

DataGear数据可视化分析平台，自由制作任何数据看板

Complete system Usable A Chinese-speaking team wants a free, flexible dashboard builder on Java.

★ 1.7k LGPL-3.0 Java Active, pushed 14 days ago

DataLens datalens-tech

A modern, scalable analytics system

Complete system Production-ready You want a mature BI tool with strong dashboards and can run its Docker stack.

★ 1.7k Apache-2.0 PLpgSQL Active, pushed 2 months ago

Seal-Report ariacom

Database Reporting Tool and Tasks (.Net)

Complete system Production-ready A Microsoft-centred business wants free scheduled reporting on SQL Server and similar databases.

★ 1.6k MIT C# Active, pushed today

Ktx Kaelio

ktx is an executable context layer for data and analytics agents 🐙 Allow Claude Code, Codex, or other AI agents to query analytical databases accurately and with full context of your company

Developer tool Experimental Your team lets AI agents write analytics SQL and wants them grounded in agreed definitions.

★ 1.6k Apache-2.0 TypeScript Active, pushed 11 days ago

Saiku spiculedata

Open-source semantic layer: one cube for Excel (MDX/XMLA), dashboards, and AI agents (MCP). Mondrian + Apache Calcite.

Complete system Usable Your organisation uses OLAP cubes and wants Excel pivot access plus a web front end.

★ 1.3k Apache-2.0 Java Active, pushed 16 days ago

Helicalinsight helicalinsight

Free, open source BI platform with AI conversational analytics (BYO-LLM), pixel-perfect paginated reports, interactive dashboards, SSO, embedding, multi-tenancy & row-level security. Every feature free in Community Edition. Self-hosted, Docker-ready

Complete system Usable You need embedded BI with enterprise features but no licence fee.

★ 1.1k AGPL-3.0 JavaScript Active, pushed 19 days ago

Power-bi-agentic-development data-goblin

Power BI AI skills and Power BI agents for Claude Code and GitHub Copilot: a plugin marketplace of Power BI skills, subagents, and hooks for semantic models, DAX, TMDL, reports, and AI dashboards. Includes Microsoft Fabric skills and Fabric agents. Weekly updates.

Integration Usable A Power BI developer wants AI coding agents to understand their models and reports.

★ 1.1k GPL-3.0 C# Active, pushed 3 days ago

Insights frappe

Open Source Business Intelligence Tool

Complete system Usable You already run ERPNext or Frappe and want reporting next to it.

★ 1k AGPL-3.0 Python Active, pushed 5 days ago

Etl.Net paillave

Mass processing data with a complete ETL for .net developers

Building block Usable A .NET team wants ETL in code rather than SSIS.

★ 811 MIT C# Active, pushed 27 days ago

DAC bruin-data

DaC is a dashboard-as-code tool. Build interactive dashboards using YAML and JSX. Built-in semantic layer. Get your agents to build standardized, reviewable dashboards.

Developer tool Experimental You want dashboards in git that AI agents can generate and people can review.

★ 792 AGPL-3.0 Go Active, pushed 26 days ago

OpenChatBI zhongyu09

OpenChatBI is an intelligent chat-based BI tool powered by large language models, designed to help users query, analyze, and visualize data through natural language conversations. It uses LangGraph and LangChain to build chat agent and workflows that support natural language to SQL conversion and data analysis.

Complete system Experimental You want to trial text-to-SQL on your warehouse with an open LangGraph codebase.

★ 674 MIT Python Active, pushed 5 days ago

dbt Metabase gouline

dbt + Metabase integration

Integration Production-ready You use dbt and Metabase together and want them in sync.

★ 623 MIT Python Active, pushed 7 days ago

Huey rpbouman

Browser-based data analytics & BI with DuckDB-WASM. Privacy-first: your data stays local; no server required.

Complete system Usable You want quick pivot analysis of local data files without uploading them anywhere.

★ 619 MIT JavaScript Active, pushed 14 days ago

Myduckserver apecloud

Unified MySQL, Postgres & FlightSQL Server, Powered by DuckDB.

Building block Experimental You want to run analytical queries on a replica of your MySQL or Postgres data without a warehouse.

★ 594 Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed 2 months ago

dbt Charts dbt-labs

Declarative YAML around SQL for dbt-native dashboards: easy for agents to write, easy for humans to audit.

Developer tool Experimental A dbt team wants dashboards defined next to its models, easy for agents to write and humans to audit.

★ 571 Apache-2.0 Python Active, pushed 16 days ago

Just-dashboard kantord

:bar_chart: :clipboard: Dashboards using YAML or JSON files

Developer tool Usable You want a quick static dashboard from a config file without a BI server.

★ 1.6k MIT TypeScript Slowing, pushed 8 months ago

Insights mariusandra

Open Source Self-Hosted Business Intelligence Platform

Complete system Experimental Only if its simple Postgres exploration suits you and you accept little maintenance.

★ 1.1k MIT JavaScript Slowing, pushed 11 months ago

SLayer MotleyAI

An embeddable, expressive semantic layer for AI agents and humans

Building block Experimental You are building AI analytics and want metrics defined once for agents to use.

★ 306 MIT Python Active, pushed 13 days ago

Motor Admin Rails motor-admin

Low-code Admin panel and Business intelligence Rails engine. No DSL - configurable from the UI. Rails Admin, Active Admin, Blazer modern alternative.

Building block Usable You need back-office CRUD and reports in a Rails app quickly.

★ 839 MIT Ruby Slowing, pushed 9 months ago

QwenPaw-Data agentscope-ai

Agentic enterprise data analytics: governed facts (DataBridge), reusable methodology (Skill-Hub), and controllable execution (Host)

Framework or platform Experimental You research or prototype autonomous data analysis agents.

★ 184 Apache-2.0 Python Active, pushed 14 days ago

SML semanticdatalayer

Open-source repository for Semantic Modeling Language (SML)

List, course or other material Usable You want a vendor-neutral way to describe metrics and dimensions, or you use AtScale.

★ 177 Apache-2.0 Active, pushed 7 days ago

Data-tools Intugle

The GenAI-powered toolkit for automated data intelligence.

Building block Experimental You inherit scattered tables and want a first-pass semantic model generated automatically.

★ 152 Apache-2.0 Jupyter Notebook Active, pushed 2 months ago

Sidemantic sidequery

The universal metrics layer. Compatible with 15+ formats: Cube, MetricFlow, LookML, Omni, BSL, LDM, Cortex, Malloy, OSI, SML, TML, Hex, Rill, Superset

Building block Experimental You have metrics defined in one BI tool's format and want to query them consistently elsewhere.

★ 131 AGPL-3.0 Python Active, pushed 14 days ago

Dex exmergo

Dex lets your agent build your analytics.

Developer tool Experimental An analytics engineer wants an AI agent to do routine modelling work in their warehouse.

★ 105 Apache-2.0 Python Active, pushed 3 days ago

Zillion totalhack

Make sense of it all. Semantic data modeling and analytics with a sprinkle of AI. https://totalhack.github.io/zillion/

Building block Usable You want a lightweight semantic layer inside a Python application.

★ 208 MIT Python Slowing, pushed 4 months ago

Mnemiq agenticfabriq

Open-source text-to-SQL engine you tune and measure on your own database

Building block Experimental You are building a natural-language query feature and want to measure accuracy on your schema.

★ 51 Apache-2.0 Python Active, pushed 14 days ago

Microsoft Power BI Microsoft

Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence platform that helps you visualize data and infuse insights into your existing Microsoft 365 apps. Try it for free.

Complete system Production-ready An organisation on Microsoft 365 wants low-cost BI that Excel users can pick up.

2.5k readers a month Since 2011 Commercial

Tableau Salesforce, Inc.

American data visualization software company

Complete system Production-ready Analysts need flexible visual exploration and polished dashboards across many data sources.

1.5k readers a month Since 2003 Commercial

Domo Domo, Inc.

American computer software company

Complete system Production-ready An executive team wants dashboards across many SaaS sources without a dedicated data warehouse team.

353 readers a month Since 2010 Commercial

ThoughtSpot ThoughtSpot

American developer of business intelligence software

Complete system Production-ready You have a well-modelled warehouse and want business users to self-serve answers without building dashboards.

323 readers a month Since 2012 Commercial

MicroStrategy ONE Strategy Inc

Complete system Production-ready A large enterprise already runs MicroStrategy for governed reporting at scale.

Commercial

Amazon QuickSight Amazon Web Services

AI-powered BI that transforms data into strategic insights for everyone through unified intelligence, actionable analytics, and democratized data access.

Complete system Production-ready Your data lives in AWS and you want cheap dashboards for many occasional viewers.

Commercial

Zoho Analytics Zoho Corporation

Connect 500+ apps, build dashboards, and get actionable insights instantly with Zoho Analytics, the award-winning business intelligence and data analytics software.

Complete system Production-ready A small or midsize business wants affordable dashboards across its SaaS tools, especially Zoho apps.

Commercial

Sisense Sisense

Sisense delivers AI-powered embedded analytics to unlock insights and convert data into revenue with pro-code, low-code, and no-code flexibility

Complete system Production-ready A SaaS company wants customer-facing analytics in its product without building charts from scratch.

74 readers a month Since 2004 Commercial

Qlik Sense Qlik

Move from Qlik Sense to Qlik Cloud Analytics. Get AI-driven insights, trusted data products, and agentic automation to make smarter decisions, faster.

Complete system Production-ready An organisation already invested in Qlik wants to modernise, or values its associative exploration model.

Commercial

dbt Semantic Layer dbt Labs

Define metrics once and deliver consistent, governed insights across tools with dbt’s Semantic Layer, powered by MetricFlow.

Building block Usable Your data team already models in dbt and wants metric definitions in the same codebase.

Commercial

Sigma Computing Sigma Computing

Build and run AI apps, dashboards, and agents on governed warehouse data. Sigma lets any team build with chat, a spreadsheet, SQL, or Python.

Complete system Production-ready Finance and ops users comfortable in spreadsheets need to analyse warehouse-scale data directly.

Commercial

Hex Hex Technologies

Rethinking BI Conversational analytics and Context management for the agentic era.

Complete system Production-ready A data team wants analysis notebooks and lightweight data apps in one shared browser workspace.

Commercial

Holistics Holistics

Holistics helps data teams deliver AI-assisted self-service BI that

Complete system Production-ready A small data team wants metrics defined as code with Git workflows, at lower cost than Looker.

Commercial

AtScale AtScale

One metric, defined once, computed in your warehouse and served the same way to every AI, BI tool, and team. AtScale is the semantic layer for trusted analytics.

Building block Production-ready An enterprise uses several BI tools, including Excel and Power BI, and wants the same metric definitions in all of them.

Commercial