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Alternatives to Tableau

Enterprise data visualisation platform.

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What is Tableau?
Tableau is a business intelligence and data visualisation platform from Salesforce.
What does it do?
Connects to databases, warehouses and files, then builds interactive charts and dashboards by dragging fields onto a canvas. Publishes those dashboards to a server or cloud site where colleagues filter and drill down.
Who is it for?
Analysts and BI teams at mid-size and large companies with governed data and many dashboard viewers. Heavy for a startup where a few people query the warehouse directly.

Pricing

$15/user/mo (Viewer)

Paid

About

Founded 2003

Acquired by Salesforce in 2019 for $15.7B.

Founders

The people behind Tableau.

Pat HanrahanCo-founder
Chris StolteCo-founder
Christian ChabotCo-founder & former CEO

Top alternatives

Smaller, founder-led tools that quietly compete with Tableau.

Metabase website preview

Open-source BI for everyone.

Self-host a friendly BI tool free.

$85/mo (Cloud Starter)OSS
Apache Superset website preview

Open-source data exploration.

Powerful OSS dashboards from the Airflow team.

OSS
Redash website preview

Open-source SQL dashboards.

Write SQL, get a chart. Open source and self-hosted, with no drag-and-drop canvas.

OSS
Lightdash website preview

OSS BI on top of dbt.

team — modern, code-first BI.

$400/mo (Pro)OSS
Evidence website preview

Markdown-driven BI.

OSS BI that lives in your Git repo.

$300/mo (Pro)OSS
Preset website preview

Hosted Apache Superset.

Smaller team — cloud Superset by its creators.

Hex website preview

Collaborative notebooks + apps.

Smaller-than-Tableau notebook-style BI.

$24/seat/mo
Briefer website preview

Notebook + dashboards.

collaborative data notebook.

8 alternatives to Tableau (2026) · Startup Alternatives