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Open source alternatives to Looker

We track 4 open-source Looker alternatives, of which 4 currently score 70 or above on Repoly's GitHub health scale and 3 ship a Docker image. Metabase leads on health at 99/100 with 1718 commits in the last 90 days; across all 4 projects you are choosing between AGPL-3.0, BSD-2-Clause, MIT.

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89k
Combined stars
1,813
Commits / 90 days
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Showing 4 of 4 tools

All 4 Looker alternatives, ranked by health

  • Top pick · highest health

    Metabase

    99 GOOD

    Easy way for everyone in your company to ask questions and learn from data.

    ★ 49k · ⟳ today · v0.63.17 · AGPL-3.0

    DockerJava
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Chartbrew

    94 GOOD

    Connect directly to databases and APIs and use the data to create beautiful charts.

    ★ 4.1k · ⟳ 2 days ago · v5.3.1 · MIT

    DockerNodejs
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Evidence

    83 GOOD

    Code-based BI tool. Write reports using SQL and markdown and they render as a website.

    ★ 6.9k · ⟳ 3 days ago · @evidence-dev/evidence@40.1.8 · MIT

    Nodejs
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Redash

    75 GOOD

    Connect and query your data sources, build dashboards to visualize data and share them with your company.

    ★ 29k · ⟳ 11 days ago · v26.3.0 · BSD-2-Clause

    Docker
    Website ↗ Source ↗

Looker alternatives: common questions

What is the most maintained open source alternative to Looker?

Metabase scores highest at 99/100, with 1718 commits in the last 90 days, 49k GitHub stars and its latest release (v0.63.17) published 4 days ago. It is also the most active by raw commit count.

Which Looker alternatives use a permissive licence?

3 of 4 are permissively licensed (MIT, Apache, BSD or similar): Chartbrew (MIT), Evidence (MIT), Redash (BSD-2-Clause). 1 use copyleft licences such as GPL or AGPL, which require you to publish changes if you distribute a modified version.

Which Looker alternatives run in Docker?

3 of 4 publish a Docker image or Compose file: Metabase, Chartbrew, Redash. Docker support contributes 10 of the 100 available health points, because it is the clearest signal that self-hosting is a supported path rather than an afterthought.