Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Power BI

A business intelligence platform that provides data visualization and analytics capabilities. The software connects to data from cloud or on-premises sources and unifies them into a single source of truth through OneLake. It allows users to build semantic data models, create interactive reports using a drag-and-drop canvas, and generate AI-driven insights and narratives via Copilot in Microsoft Fabric. The product is designed for analysts and decision-makers to explore trends and share insights across Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint, and SharePoint. It is deployed as a cloud service with an option to embed reports into external applications using Power BI Embedded. The platform enables organizations to establish a governed decision layer to make informed enterprise decisions based on trusted metrics.

Whether you want to cut software costs or escape vendor lock-in, these open source alternatives to Microsoft Power BI give you an option you fully own. You can self-host them, so your data stays on infrastructure you control. This page lists 6 open source alternatives to Microsoft Power BI. The most popular are Apache Superset, Metabase and Redash. Most use the MIT or Apache-2.0 license, and 6 offer an official Docker image.