Free Tableau AlternativesTop Business Intelligence Tools and other similar apps like Tableau

The best free alternative to Tableau is Grafana, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Tableau and loads of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Tableau are Apache Superset, Metabase, Gephi and RAWGraphs.

Tableau alternatives are mainly Business Intelligence Tools but may also be Spreadsheet Apps or Web Analytics Services. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Tableau.

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Grafana
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51 Grafana alternatives
Grafana provides a powerful and elegant way to create, explore, and share dashboards and data with your team and the world.
- - Grafana is the most popular Windows, Mac, Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to Tableau.
- - Grafana is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Tableau.
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Grafana Features
Metrics
Web-Based
Web interface
CPU Monitoring
Dashboard
Hardware Monitoring
Data visualization
Apache Superset
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Free • Open Source
Business Intelligence Tool
Self-Hosted
Docker
22 Apache Superset alternatives
modern, enterprise-ready business intelligence web application.
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Apache Superset Features
Reporting
Data analytics
Data visualization
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Metabase
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Freemium • Open Source
Business Intelligence Tool
Self-Hosted
Amazon Web Services
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Heroku
Cloudron
Docker
41 Metabase alternatives
Metabase is a simple and powerful analytics tool which lets anyone learn and make decisions from their company’s data. No technical knowledge required! We hope you love it.
- - Metabase is the most popular SaaS alternative to Tableau.
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Metabase Features
1. Ad-freeMetabase doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
Linux-based
REST API
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Can not connect to Excel files, no map visualizations
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Gephi
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Linux
44 Gephi alternatives
Gephi is an open-source software for visualizing and analyzing large networks graphs.
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Gephi Features
Interactive Graph Exploration
3D Renderer
Layout
Exploration
Graphs
Filtering
Comments about Gephi as a Alternative to Tableau
This alternative is disputed. Gephi is still a legitimate Tableau alternative, but it might have issues that some users think are important.
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Gephi is for exploring one type of graph, while Tableau is a dashboard for combining and looking at multiple datasets through a variety of customizeable graphs and reports.
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Guest
Tableau is a tool for much more than visualisation, and gephi is a good tool for certain kind of data visualisation but not so prolific.
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Gephi is exclusively directed towards network graphs. It does not offer analysis of any other kind of data.
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Gephi is a good tool for showing relationships in a network diagram (social, email, tcp/ip, ...) but it is not a general BI tool.
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Gephi is for network graphs (as the description itself says), not for visualizing general data.
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RAWGraphs
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Free • Open Source
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Self-Hosted
69 RAWGraphs alternatives
RAWGraphs is an open source app built with the goal of making the visualization of complex data easy for everyone. Born as tool for designers and vis geeks, RAWGraphs aims at providing a missing link between spreadsheets and vector graphics editors.
- - RAWGraphs is the most popular Web-based alternative to Tableau.
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RAWGraphs Features
1. Gantt-chartsRAWGraphs allows you to visualize your project plan through a timeline with schedule bars and keep track of the work done.
2. Works OfflineRAWGraphs can be used without the need to connect to the internet.
Charts
Graphs
Data visualization
Drag and Drop
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Some users think RAWGraphs is a great Tableau alternative, some don't.
WatchThemLive
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Freemium • Proprietary
Web Analytics Service
Online
73 WatchThemLive alternatives
WatchThemLive is a behavior analytics tool that enables you to watch your users' journeys through their eyes and optimize their experience with session recordings, heatmaps, and web analytics.
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WatchThemLive Features
1. User Session RecordingWatchThemLive can record user sessions to gain a real understanding of how users interact with a website.
2. Goal TrackingWatchThemLive can be used for tracking progress toward personal or business goals.
Customer Analytics
Mouse tracking
Dedicated Account Manager
Heatmap
Customer service
Heatmaps based on date range
Talend
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Freemium • Proprietary
Business Intelligence Tool
Mac
Windows
81 Talend alternatives
Talend leverages the open source model to make data integration available to all types of organizations, regardless of their size, level of expertise or budgetary constraints. Talend’s solutions connect to all source and target systems and they can be downloaded at no cost.
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Talend Features
Data Mining
Microsoft Power BI
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Freemium • Proprietary
Business Intelligence Tool
Windows
Online
Android
iPhone
Android Tablet
iPad
Microsoft Office 365
Microsoft Office Excel
134 Microsoft Power BI alternatives
Power BI for Office 365 is a self-service business intelligence (BI) solution delivered through Excel and Office 365 that provides information workers with data analysis and visualization capabilities to identify deeper business insights about their data.
- - Microsoft Power BI is the most popular Android, iPhone, iPad & Android Tablet alternative to Tableau.
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Microsoft Power BI Features
Integrated ETL
Excel Add-in
REST API
Data visualization
Reporting
Comments about Microsoft Power BI as a Alternative to Tableau
Some users think Microsoft Power BI is a great Tableau alternative, some don't.
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Power BI will get quicker to a result, furthermore there is an ETL tool integrated which laks in Tableau
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Free, easier to use, lot's of possibilities and grows fast, contains ETL tool, MDX, DAX and m-language (aka powerquery)
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Retool
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Freemium • Proprietary
Web App Development Tool
Online
33 Retool alternatives
Your business needs software. But because engineers are scarce, many departments (sales, marketing, support, HR, etc.) don’t build the software they need. When companies use Retool, they build much more software, which leads to a more efficient business.
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Retool Features
On-premises software
Admin panel
REST API
Database connection
NoSQL database
Plotly
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Freemium • Open Source
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90 Plotly alternatives
Plotly is the easiest way to graph and share data online. Open-source libraries for JavaScript (comparison with HighCharts at https://plot.ly/highcharts-alternative/), Python, R, and MATLAB.
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Plotly Features
1. Gantt-chartsPlotly allows you to visualize your project plan through a timeline with schedule bars and keep track of the work done.
Graphs
Charts
Dashboard
Data visualization
Comments about Plotly as a Alternative to Tableau
This alternative is disputed. Plotly is still a legitimate Tableau alternative, but it might have issues that some users think are important.
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Plotly is library for javascript
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Tableau is much more sophisticated and offers unparalleled ease of use.
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Quality and type of visualizations is too different.
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Google Charts
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Free • Proprietary
Online
84 Google Charts alternatives
The Google Charts is an extremely simple tool that lets you easily create a chart from some data and embed it in a webpage. You embed the data and formatting parameters in an HTTP request, and Google returns a PNG image of the chart.
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Google Charts Features
Charts
Data analytics
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This alternative is disputed. Google Charts is still a legitimate Tableau alternative, but it might have issues that some users think are important.
Zoho Sheet
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Free Personal • Proprietary
Spreadsheet App
Online
Android
iPhone
Android Tablet
iPad
Apple Messages
61 Zoho Sheet alternatives
The spreadsheet software for collaborative teams.
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Zoho Sheet Features
1. Real time collaborationMultiple users can work together in Zoho Sheet simultaneously.
2. Cloud SyncSync your data (notes, documents, bookmarks, etc.) across your different devices and to the cloud.
3. Import CSV DataZoho Sheet can import data from a CSV (Comma seperated values) file.
4. LightweightZoho Sheet consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.