Free Tableau Alternatives

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 GridCraft, Metabase, Microsoft Power BI and Gephi.

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  1. Motor Admin icon
     3 likes

    Stop developing your admin panel and focus on growing the actual product. The fastest and easiest way to bootstrap internal tools for your business. An open-source, no-code admin panel to manage your data, perform custom actions, build reports and dashboards.

    Cost / License

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    • Since 2021

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
    • Heroku
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  2. Smart Documents helps to understand the data without training. Just upload your table in "XLS" or "CSV" formats, filter the data and build a visualization.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Since

    • Since 2022

    Platforms

    • Online
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  3. Vega Voyager icon
     1 like

    "Voyager 2 is a data exploration tool that blends manual and automated chart specification."

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Since

    • Since 2018

    Platforms

    • Online
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  4. dc.js icon
     5 likes

    dc.js is a JavaScript charting library with native Crossfilter support and allowing highly efficient exploration on large multi-dimensional dataset (inspired by Crossfilter 's demo). It leverages d3 engine to render charts in CSS friendly SVG format. Charts rendered using dc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2012

    Platforms

    • Online
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  5. Bouquet icon
     4 likes

    Bouquet automatically generates REST API endpoints for front-end developers to focus on UX and visualizations with HighCharts, D3.js and others.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2017

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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    Using HighCharts
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  6. One goal of Sympathy for Data is to enable users to handle data from many different sources and formats with ease. Connect to databases, select files from different network drives or automatically perform analysis on thousands of Excel-files on your local drive.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Since

    • Since 2017

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. Hitomi icon
     1 like

    Hitomi opens CSV or data/logs in non-standard formats instantly and offers intuitive and powerful filtering and analysis options.

    59 Hitomi alternatives

    Cost / License

    Since

    • Since 2026

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. Ananas Analytics Desktop is a hackable data tool that helps your team combining non-technical and technical users to collaborate and build data analytics faster. Connect data from anywhere. Transform, analyze, and visualize to build analytics in minutes.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2019

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  9. WatchThemLive icon
     144 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2022

    Platforms

    • Online
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  10. TreeTime icon
     2 likes

    TreeTime is an information organizer that stores text, numbers, and other data in linked trees. Mathematical operations like sums, ratios, and differences are calculated and updated on the fly. It exports to PNG, SVG, HTML, CSV, and plain text, and includes a configurable web interface.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2025

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
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  11. ChartURL icon
     11 likes

    An Alternative to Google Image Charts that enables developers and marketers to embed personalized charts in their emails, Slackbots, web/mobile apps, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Since

    • Since 2016

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  12. Pinasi icon
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    Data processing software with a simple GUI, and has many types of input (text, numbers, serial communication, etc.) and output (graphs, tables, serial communication, etc.). Suitable for analyzing and visualizing data.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2024

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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