The best Microsoft Power BI alternatives
4 tools that do a similar job to Microsoft Power BI, 1 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.
You're replacing
Microsoft Power BIMicrosoft's business intelligence tool for reports and dashboards, with Copilot for building visuals.
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Looker Studio
AI tool · Free
Google's free dashboard and reporting tool that connects to Analytics, Ads, Sheets and BigQuery.
Best for: Marketing reports; Free dashboards on Google data
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Metabase
AI tool · Open source
An open-source BI tool for asking questions of your database and building dashboards without SQL.
Best for: Startups wanting self-serve BI; Self-hosted dashboards
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Tableau
AI tool · Paid
Salesforce's data visualisation and BI platform with AI-assisted insights and natural-language questions.
Best for: Enterprise dashboards; Visual data exploration
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ThoughtSpot
AI tool · Paid
A search- and AI-driven analytics platform that lets business users ask data questions in plain language.
Best for: Self-service analytics; Embedding analytics in products
How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to Microsoft Power BI. We don't take payment for placement.