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Open source alternatives to Power BI

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

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All 3 Power BI 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 ↗

  • 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 ↗

Power BI alternatives: common questions

What is the most maintained open source alternative to Power BI?

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 Power BI alternatives use a permissive licence?

2 of 3 are permissively licensed (MIT, Apache, BSD or similar): 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 Power BI alternatives run in Docker?

2 of 3 publish a Docker image or Compose file: Metabase, 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.