Open-source alternatives to Tableau
4 alternatives, ranked by a published maintenance score computed from live GitHub signals (fetched 2026-09-04). We flag unmaintained projects on both sides — including Tableau itself when the data says so.
About Tableau: Proprietary (Salesforce); per-seat licensing makes broad dashboard access expensive. It is closed-source, so the same public maintenance signals do not exist for it — we score only the alternatives below.
The alternatives
Metabase
Point-and-click BI that non-analysts actually use; self-hostable.
How this 90/100 was computed
| Last commit | today | 40/40 |
|---|---|---|
| Latest release | yesterday | 25/25 |
| Community size | GitHub stars | 15/15 |
| Open-issue trend | not enough history yet — needs snapshots 21+ days apart; neutral 10/20 awarded meanwhile | 10/20 |
| Total | 90/100 |
Apache Superset
Full-scale BI platform: SQL lab, rich charts, dashboards.
How this 90/100 was computed
| Last commit | today | 40/40 |
|---|---|---|
| Latest release | 22 days ago | 25/25 |
| Community size | GitHub stars | 15/15 |
| Open-issue trend | not enough history yet — needs snapshots 21+ days apart; neutral 10/20 awarded meanwhile | 10/20 |
| Total | 90/100 |
Redash
Query-first dashboards: write SQL, share the results.
How this 90/100 was computed
| Last commit | yesterday | 40/40 |
|---|---|---|
| Latest release | 3 days ago | 25/25 |
| Community size | GitHub stars | 15/15 |
| Open-issue trend | not enough history yet — needs snapshots 21+ days apart; neutral 10/20 awarded meanwhile | 10/20 |
| Total | 90/100 |
Lightdash
BI layer built directly on your dbt project.
How this 87/100 was computed
| Last commit | today | 40/40 |
|---|---|---|
| Latest release | today | 25/25 |
| Community size | GitHub stars | 12/15 |
| Open-issue trend | not enough history yet — needs snapshots 21+ days apart; neutral 10/20 awarded meanwhile | 10/20 |
| Total | 87/100 |