Business intelligence and dashboard tools in 2026
15 commercial products, ranked by how many people read about each, or about its maker, on Wikipedia's mobile site. Of those with an article of their own, Microsoft Power BI has the most readers, about 2.5k a month. 38 open-source projects, ranked by GitHub stars and how recently each was worked on. Superset leads with 75k stars, ahead of Metabase. 34 had code pushed in the last three months. Most common licenses: Apache-2.0 (17), MIT (12) and AGPL-3.0 (4).
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- Semantic layers and metrics stores 12 dbt Semantic Layer, AtScale and MetricFlow
Commercial business intelligence and dashboard tools
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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MicroStrategy ONE Strategy Inc
Complete system Production-ready A large enterprise already runs MicroStrategy for governed reporting at scale.
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Looker Google
Looker is Google Cloud agentic business intelligence and embedded analytics platform. Unify metrics with a trusted semantic layer and Gemini agents.
Complete system Production-ready A data team wants metrics defined once in code and served consistently to the business, especially on BigQuery.
271 readers a month Commercial -
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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.
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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.
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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 -
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
New open-source projects
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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 -
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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 -
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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
Open-source business intelligence and dashboard tools
Complete systems you can adopt 6
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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 yesterday -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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
Frameworks and platforms to build on 1
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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
Building blocks for your own system 1
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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
Integrations 1
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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
Developer tools 1
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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
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Open-source licenses
- Permissive: 30. Use it anywhere, including in closed products. You keep the copyright notice; Apache-2.0 also grants patent rights.
- Network copyleft: 4. Like GPL, and running a changed version as a web service counts as distributing it, so its users get the source too.
- Strong copyleft: 2. If you distribute the program or anything built on it, you must release the whole source under the same license.
- Weak copyleft: 1. Changes to the licensed files must be shared, but you can link them into a closed program.
Languages
Python 12, TypeScript 6, JavaScript 4, Java 3, Go 3, C# 3, Ruby 2, Clojure 1, Rust 1, PLpgSQL 1 and Jupyter Notebook 1.
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