Self-hosted alternatives to Power BI
Per-user licensing, and sharing a dashboard requires every viewer to be licensed too.
Below are 10 open-source projects that cover the same ground, each scored 0–100 on how actively it is actually maintained — commit volume, release cadence and recent trend. 9 of the 10 are currently rated healthy or better. Ordering reflects that score, not sponsorship.
| Project | Health | Activity (11 mo) | Stars | Licence | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PostHog Product analytics, session recording, feature flagging and a/b testing that you can self-host (alternative to | Thriving · 99 | 40k | MIT | 27 Sept 2026 | |
| Superset Modern data exploration and visualization platform. | Thriving · 98 | 75k | Apache-2.0 | 9 Sept 2026 | |
| Metabase Easy way for everyone in your company to ask questions and learn from data. | Thriving · 95 | 49k | AGPL-3.0 | 24 Sept 2026 | |
| Rybbit Web and products analytics that is easy to setup and more intuitive (alternative to Google Analytics). | Thriving · 90 | 13k | AGPL-3.0 | 12 Sept 2026 | |
| Countly Community Edition Real time mobile and web analytics, crash reporting and push notifications platform. | Thriving · 90 | 5.9k | AGPL-3.0 | 22 Sept 2026 | |
| Matomo Web analytics that protects your data and your customers' privacy (alternative to Google Analytics). | Thriving · 89 | 22k | GPL-3.0 | 25 Sept 2026 | |
| Postiz Schedule posts, track the performance of your content, and manage all your social media accounts in one place | Thriving · 87 | 36k | AGPL-3.0 | 22 Sept 2026 | |
| Druid Distributed, column-oriented, real-time analytics data store. | Thriving · 85 | 14k | Apache-2.0 | 8 May 2026 | |
| Umami Simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics. | Thriving · 84 | 39k | MIT | 17 Sept 2026 | |
| Redash Connect and query your data sources, build dashboards to visualize data and share them with your company. | Steady · 67 | 29k | BSD-2-Clause | 24 Sept 2026 |
How these were picked
Every project listed here is open source and can run entirely on hardware you control. We start from the categories that match Power BI's job — Analytics, Database Management — then rank by health score so that a popular-but-abandoned project never appears above a smaller one that is actively shipping. The scoring method is documented in full.
The scores are recomputed from repository data on every rebuild, so this page reflects the state of these projects as of 1 Oct 2026 — not the day it was written.
PostHog
Product analytics, session recording, feature flagging and a/b testing that you can self-host (alternative to Mixpanel, Amplitude, Heap, HotJar, Optimizely).
Best fit: Teams looking to consolidate multiple third-party product analytics and experimentation tools into a single self-hosted platform.
Worth knowing: Running a comprehensive analytics platform locally requires substantial server resources and operational overhead compared to using managed cloud services.
Superset
Modern data exploration and visualization platform.
Best fit: Data teams and technical organisations that need a self-hosted platform to query and visualise large datasets for internal stakeholders.
Worth knowing: Deploying and maintaining an analytics platform of this scale brings a significant operational burden, requiring careful management of user permissions, database connectors, and underlying query performance.
Metabase
Easy way for everyone in your company to ask questions and learn from data.
Best fit: Teams that need a self-hosted business intelligence interface allowing multiple users to run queries and build dashboards without writing raw SQL every time.
Worth knowing: The software is licensed under the AGPL-3.0, which imposes strict copyleft obligations if you modify the code or offer it as a hosted service to third parties. It also requires careful access management to prevent users from accidentally executing expensive database queries.
Rybbit
Web and products analytics that is easy to setup and more intuitive (alternative to Google Analytics).
Best fit: This is a good fit if you need to gather visitor metrics and product telemetry on your own infrastructure while avoiding third-party data sharing.
Worth knowing: The AGPL-3.0 licence places copyleft requirements on your modifications if you offer the software as a hosted service to others, and migrating historical data between analytics platforms can be complex.
Countly Community Edition
Real time mobile and web analytics, crash reporting and push notifications platform.
Best fit: Teams that need to collect mobile and web telemetry data internally for compliance or privacy reasons, and want a unified dashboard for analytics and crash reports.
Worth knowing: The software is licensed under the AGPL-3.0, which imposes strict copyleft requirements if you modify the code or offer it as a service to external users. Operating a real-time event ingestion platform also demands careful capacity planning for storage and database resources as event volume scales.