Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Lightdash – An open source Looker alternative
Agentic BI. Analytics at the speed of code ⚡️. Contribute to lightdash/lightdash development by creating an account on GitHub.
Lightdash is an open source business intelligence tool designed as an alternative to Looker. It enables users to create dashboards and analyze data without relying on proprietary software. Built as an open source… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Lightdash – An open source Looker alternative launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
- 1
- 2OS
2019 · mprove.io · its alternatives →
- 3
Open Analytics▲253Open Analytics is a privacy-first Google Analytics alternative: realtime visitors, funnels and revenue attribution from one lightweight, cookieless script. GDPR-friendly with no consent banner. Open source and self-hostable.
Aug 2026 · getopen.so · its alternatives →
- 4
Plausible Analyticsfree tier▲500Open source, privacy friendly Google Analytics alternative
2020 · plausible.io · its alternatives →
- 5
Webdash▲268A customizable web dashboard for your web projects
2018 · webdash.xyz · its alternatives →
- 6
Metabase grounds every answer in your semantic layer — your metrics and business logic — so you can inspect the query behind it.
2015 · metabase.com · its alternatives →
- 7
- 8
Hey HN! We’re Arne and Raban, the founders of Emdash (https://github.com/generalaction/emdash). Emdash is an open-source and provider-agnostic desktop app that lets you run multiple coding agents in parallel, each isolated in its own git worktree, either locally or over SSH on a remote machine. We call it an Agentic Development Environment (ADE). You can see a 1 minute demo here: https://youtu.be/X31nK-zlzKo We are building Emdash for ourselves. While working on a cap-table management application (think Stripe Atlas + Pulley), we found our development…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 9
- 10
Simple SQL Client for lightweight data analysis. Contribute to bdash-app/bdash development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 11GA
Hi HN, As an indie hacker, the new Google Analytics (GA4) coming motivated me to look for a straightforward alternative that would also be affordable. I had a few basic product requirements and didn’t want to spend too much to replace a free product. There are a lot of great Google Analytics alternatives out there, but the pricing didn’t seem right. As someone who likes to just build things, many of which aren’t businesses yet, it didn’t make sense to pay for options like Plausible and Fathom out of the gate. So I joined with a friend to build Beam Analytics. Beam gives you all the standard…
2023 · beamanalytics.io · its alternatives →
- 12
Metabase▲313Open source business intelligence - Installs in 5 minutes
2015 · metabase.com · its alternatives →
- 13
- 14
DataSquirrel.ai▲288Data analytics and BI for non-tech managers
2024 · datasquirrel.ai · its alternatives →
- 15
- 16
HackerMetrics▲322Turn your Google Analytics into beautiful reports
2017 · hackermetrics.com · its alternatives →
- 17
- 18
A free SEO analyzer for your site
2019 · neilpatel.com · its alternatives →
- 19
Build your own Google Analytics alternative
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 20
Intuitive analytics for open source repositories
2020 · xscode.com · its alternatives →
- 21
- 22
Hey hn! I'm one of the co-founders of highlight.io, an open source monitoring tool. Today we're sharing a ClickHouse-based logging solution we've been working on. We wanted to showcase how we built it and share how you could try it out to give feedback. Since we started working on highlight.io, we've been hyper-focused on "cohesion", or ensuring that when you install your monitoring stack, all of the resources in that stack (user interactions, requests, traces, logs, etc.) are connected in a consumable way. We've written up more about our philosophy on this here [1]. We started building…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 23
A dedicated B2B web analytics platform, finally
2022 · dreamdata.io · its alternatives →
- 24
Litelytics V2▲117My friend and I built Litelytics, a clean, simple Google Analytics(GA4) dashboard that looks great and works out of the box. No BigQuery, no setup—just connect and go. Would love your feedback!
2025 · litelytics.io · its alternatives →
Also compare
Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →