Open Source Tableau AlternativesTop Business Intelligence Tools and other similar apps like Tableau

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

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  1. Grafana icon
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    Grafana provides a powerful and elegant way to create, explore, and share dashboards and data with your team and the world.

    74 Grafana alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
    • Node.JS
     
  2. Metabase icon
     48 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Heroku
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
     
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    Metabase vs Tableau Comments
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    Can not connect to Excel files, no map visualizations

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Metabase is Freemium and Open SourceTableau is Paid and Proprietary
  3. RAWGraphs icon
     44 likes

    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.

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. Gephi icon
     61 likes

    Gephi is the leading visualization and exploration software for all kinds of graphs and networks. Gephi is open-source and free.

    48 Gephi alternatives

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    Gephi vs Tableau Comments
    Top Negative Comment
    Guest
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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.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
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    0

    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.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Negative
    0

    Gephi is exclusively directed towards network graphs. It does not offer analysis of any other kind of data.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Gephi is Free and Open SourceTableau is Paid and Proprietary
    • Gephi is LightweightTableau is not according to our users
  5. Plotly icon
     38 likes

    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.

    98 Plotly alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • Online
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
     
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    Plotly vs Tableau Comments
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    Plotly is library for javascript

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Negative
    -1

    Tableau is much more sophisticated and offers unparalleled ease of use.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    optimistprime
    Negative
    -8

    Quality and type of visualizations is too different.

    • Plotly is Freemium and Open SourceTableau is Paid and Proprietary
  6. Pretzel icon
     8 likes

    Pretzel is an open-source, offline browser-based tool for fast and intuitive data exploration and visualization. It can handle large data files, runs locally in your browser, and requires no backend setup.

    33 Pretzel alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
     
  7. Apache ECharts is a free, powerful charting and visualization library offering easy ways to add intuitive, interactive, and highly customizable charts to your commercial products. It is written in pure JavaScript and based on zrender, which is a whole new lightweight canvas...

    42 Apache Echarts alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
     
  8. Redash icon
     21 likes

    Redash helps you make sense of your data. Connect and query your data sources, build dashboards to visualize data and share them with your company.

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    • Mac
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    • Cloudron
     
  9. KNOWAGE icon
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    Knowage inherits the long history of SpagoBI, the well known open source BI suite. The Community Edition continues this tradition, providing value to the community of developers and users.

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  10. Preset.io icon
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    Preset is a modern cloud based data exploration and visualization platform powered by Apache Superset, the leading open source analytics tool. Preset delivers a simple, yet powerful interface to quickly visualize and analyze your data, empowering everyone in your organization to...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  11. A general purpose real-time charting library for building beautiful, smooth, and high performance visualizations.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
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