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: matplotlib 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.

matplotlib
by matplotlib
85/100

matplotlib: plotting with Python

Python
23k
$4.13/mo
2/5
strapi
by strapi
84/100

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
dashy
by lissy93
83/100

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
netdata
by netdata
82/100

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

C GPL-3.0
79k
$4.13/mo
4/5
mikro-orm
by mikro-orm
82/100

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
pi-hole
by pi-hole
81/100

A black hole for Internet advertisements

Shell NOASSERTION
58k
$4.13/mo
2/5
duckdb
by duckdb
81/100

DuckDB is an analytical in-process SQL database management system

C++ MIT
38k
$4.13/mo
2/5
dolt
by dolthub
81/100

Dolt - Git for Data

Go Apache-2.0
23k
$4.13/mo
3/5
plotly.py
by plotly
81/100

The interactive graphing library for Python

Python MIT
18k
$4.13/mo
2/5
paradedb
by paradedb
81/100

Simple, Elastic-quality search for Postgres

Rust AGPL-3.0
8.7k
$4.13/mo
2/5
chartbrew
by chartbrew
81/100

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
streamlit
by streamlit
80/100

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

Python Apache-2.0
44k
$4.13/mo
2/5
tidb
by pingcap
80/100

TiDB is built for agentic workloads that grow unpredictably, with ACID guarantees and native support for transactions, analytics, and vector search. No data silos. No noisy neighbors. No infrastructure ceiling.

Go Apache-2.0
40k
$4.13/mo
2/5
mindsdb
by mindsdb
80/100

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

Python NOASSERTION
39k
$4.13/mo
2/5
opensourcepos
by opensourcepos
80/100

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
incubator-superset
by apache
79/100

Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform

TypeScript Apache-2.0
73k
$4.13/mo
1/5
sequelize
by sequelize
79/100

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
server
by bitwarden
79/100

Bitwarden infrastructure/backend (API, database, Docker, etc).

C# NOASSERTION
19k
$4.13/mo
3/5
sqlmodel
by fastapi
79/100

SQL databases in Python, designed for simplicity, compatibility, and robustness.

Python MIT
18k
$4.13/mo
2/5
leantime
by leantime
79/100

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
databend
by databendlabs
79/100

Data Agent Ready Warehouse : One for Analytics, Search, AI, Python Sandbox., rebuilt from scratch. Unified architecture on your S3.

Rust NOASSERTION
9.3k
$4.13/mo
2/5
Heimdall
by linuxserver
79/100

An Application dashboard and launcher

PHP MIT
9.1k
$4.13/mo
3/5
homarr
by homarr-labs
79/100

A modern and easy to use dashboard. 40+ integrations. 20K+ icons built in. Authentication out of the box. No YAML, drag and drop configuration.

TypeScript Apache-2.0
3.7k
$4.13/mo
2/5
qsv
by dathere
79/100

Blazing-fast Data-Wrangling toolkit

Rust Unlicense
3.6k
$4.13/mo
2/5

Specifically replacing

These categories on ossreplace cover the SaaS in this space.

Tableau alternativesLooker (Google Cloud) alternativesMicrosoft Power BI alternatives

Ready to self-host?

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

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