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Freemium · $400/mo (Pro)Open source

Lightdash

OSS BI on top of dbt.

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What is Lightdash?
Lightdash is an open-source business intelligence tool that builds its data model directly from your dbt project.
What does it do?
Reads metrics and dimensions defined in dbt YAML, then lets people explore them, build charts and assemble dashboards without writing SQL. Adds scheduled deliveries and alerts to Slack or email, with chart definitions versioned in the repo.
Who is it for?
Analytics engineering and data teams already running dbt on a warehouse such as Snowflake or BigQuery, who want metric definitions to live in code rather than a BI UI.
What are the alternatives to Lightdash?
Metabase and Superset are open-source BI tools that model data in their own interface instead of dbt. Evidence produces code-first reports as a static site. Tableau is a much larger commercial platform.

Pricing

$400/mo (Pro)

Self-host OSS free

Freemium

About

London, UK

Open source

Founders

The people behind Lightdash.

Oliver LaslettCo-founder & CEO
Hamzah ChaudharyCo-founder & CTO

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