Microsoft Power BI Alternatives

One of the most popular alternatives to Microsoft Power BI is Metabase, which is open source with a free version. Other popular alternatives are Tableau, Pentaho, Redash and Apache Superset. You're spoiled for choice with Business Intelligence Tools like Microsoft Power BI: we list more than 100 alternatives for the web, Windows, self-hosting, Mac and Linux.

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Most Microsoft Power BI alternatives are Business Intelligence Tools, but you can also narrow the list to Database Management Tools or Data Mining Software. Other popular filters are Linux, Open Source and Mac. You can also filter for EU-based alternatives if you prefer software from the European Union.
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  1. HooMap icon
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    HooMap is a browser-based tool designed to transform CSV and Excel coordinate data into interactive maps in seconds. Built for researchers, students, and data enthusiasts, it allows you to visualize spatial data directly in your workflow without the need for complex GIS software...

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  2. Exmergo Viz icon
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    Exmergo Viz is the Dashboard AI Agent. It lets anyone build shareable, interactive, and reliable dashboards without the steep learning curve of traditional BI tools like Tableau and Power BI. Just talk to Viz in natural language, and it builds charts and dashboards for you in...

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  3. Rundown BI icon
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    Rundown BI - a lightweight BI tool specifically for BigQuery that lets you go from zero to your first chart in ~10 minutes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  4. Datastripes icon
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    The super easy-to-use web data engine with 300+ drag & drop nodes, AI insights, data-to-voice podcasts and even narrated dashboards. All in one place, with zero setup.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  5. DataKit icon
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    DataKit allows users to open multi-gigabtye locally stored files or connect to remotely hosted data sources to help them view, audit, query and visualise data with ease.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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    • Docker
    • Mac
    • Homebrew
    • Python
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    • Linux
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    AI Data Assistant (prompt->query->result->visualisation)
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  6. Open Report icon
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    Self-hosted, open source reporting and dashboards. Drag-and-drop canvas, semantic model with row-level security, pre-aggregation cache. PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, BigQuery, Snowflake, DuckDB.

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    • Docker
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  7. Redash AI icon
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    Redash is an amazing open source tool for querying and visualizing data. It allows you to connect to any data source, easily visualize and share your data, and collaborate with your team.

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    • Docker
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  8. Full fledge AI (MCP, API, Agents) Analytics (Sheets on data lake) and Business Intelligence Platform (Charts, dashboards and reports).

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  9. DocParrot icon
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    DocParrot is a document automation tool that helps you stop manually filling out the same contracts, proposals, and forms repeatedly. Instead of doing find-and-replace through lengthy documents and risking errors, you build a template once by dragging fields wherever you need...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  10. PyQueryHub is a comprehensive data analytics platform that connects to multiple databases, enables SQL querying with dynamic parameters, creates interactive visualizations and reports and supports Python notebooks for analysis and many more features.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  11. Connects warehouses, databases, SaaS sources and spreadsheets to create schema-aware dashboards. Queries run on all rows where the data lives, while evidence-linked AI insights support cohorts, funnels, forecasting, anomaly detection, attribution and quality checks.

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    • Paid
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    • Online
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  12. VEDA icon
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    AI-powered decision analytics platform that turns natural language questions into real-time business insights and interactive visualizations.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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