Alternatives to Redash
An open-source web app for querying data sources and sharing the results as dashboards. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Redash
An open-source web app for querying data sources and sharing the results as dashboards.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Redash.
Metabase
An open-source analytics tool for querying databases and building dashboards, with or without writing SQL.
Metabase adds a visual query builder for people who do not write SQL and AI answers, while some features sit in paid plans rather than being fully free.
Apache Superset
A self-hosted data exploration and visualization platform with a no-code chart builder and SQL IDE.
Apache Superset keeps self-hosted SQL exploration and dashboards under Apache-2.0, adding a no-code chart builder and geospatial views, but it is a heavier BI platform to operate.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Datasette
Publishes SQLite databases as an explorable website and JSON API.
Grist
A relational spreadsheet-database that can be self-hosted or used as a managed web service.
Elastic Stack
Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats and Kibana combined for collecting, searching and visualizing logs and other data.
DuckDB
In-process analytical database that queries CSV, JSON and Parquet directly.
Chat2DB
A free, local-first database client and SQL workspace with optional AI query help using your own model.
