What are the best indie alternatives to Looker?

7 curated indie and bootstrapped alternatives to Looker: Metabase, Lightdash, Evidence, Apache Superset, Preset and more. All are smaller, founder-led tools that compete with Looker on price, openness or developer experience.

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Alternatives to Looker

Looker (now part of Google Cloud) competes with Tableau. Indie alternatives are leaner, OSS, or built on top of dbt.

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Founded 2012

Acquired by Google in 2020 for $2.6B.

Top indie alternatives

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

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Metabase

Open-source BI.

Self-host the friendliest BI tool.

$85/mo (Cloud Starter)OSS

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Lightdash

Code-first BI on dbt.

Indie open-source Looker alternative.

$400/mo (Pro)OSS

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Evidence

Markdown-driven BI.

Indie OSS, lives in Git.

$300/mo (Pro)OSS

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Apache Superset

Open-source BI.

Powerful OSS dashboards.

OSSOSS

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Preset

Hosted Superset.

Smaller hosted alternative.

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Omni Analytics

Modern BI.

From ex-Looker founders — smaller team, modern stack.

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Rill

Operational BI dashboards.

Smaller team, fast BI on top of DuckDB.

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