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Lightdash

Open-source BI built on dbt for analytics engineers

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★4.6ratingPricing · FreemiumHot
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Data updated 2 November 2026
Opportunity
Moderate
Band
Saturation
Contested
Band
Wrapper risk
Low
Band
Momentum
Hot
Market trend
Rating
4.6
of 5 · FalcoScan rating

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The Brief

What Lightdash does

Lightdash is an open-source BI platform that uses your existing dbt project, supporting all versions of dbt. The company describes it as AI-first and says teams can define metrics once and reuse them. Supported warehouses listed include BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks, Postgres, Trino, ClickHouse, Athena, and DuckDB. Open Source is self-hosted, with a Cloud Pro plan listed at $3000 per month and an Enterprise plan with unpublished pricing. A 21-day free trial starts when a dbt project is first connected and requires no payment details. Supported Git providers for sync are GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and Bitbucket.

How Lightdash compares with its closest alternatives

4 of the 5 closest alternatives have a free plan, as Lightdash does. All 5 offer an API, as Lightdash does. Lightdash offers a web app and a desktop app. Of the alternatives, all 5 offer a web app and 2 offer a desktop app. Lightdash was founded in 2021; the alternatives were founded between 2015 and 2022, 3 of them earlier. Lightdash is based in London, United Kingdom; none of the 3 alternatives with a known headquarters is in the United Kingdom. They are in the United States and Canada.

Market position · Data

How Lightdash compares in Data

Lightdash has moderate opportunity and sits in the bottom third of 405 live Data tools on FalcoScan. Across Data, the average opportunity score is 69.2 and the average saturation score 33.3. FalcoScan rates Lightdash's own market position as contested. 128 of the 405 operating Data tools have hot momentum, and FalcoScan has recorded 8 shutdowns in the category.

Lightdash compared with its closest alternatives
ProductOpportunitySaturationPricingPricing fromFree planAPIPlatformsMomentum
LightdashFounded 2021 · London, United KingdomModerateContestedFreemium—YesYesWeb, DesktopHot
SupersetFounded 2015LowContestedFree—YesYesWeb, DesktopStable
PresetFounded 2019 · San Francisco, United StatesLowContestedFreemium—YesYesWebStable
EvidenceFounded 2021 · Toronto, CanadaModerateOpenFree—YesYesWeb, DesktopHot
dbt CloudFounded 2016HighOpenFreemium—YesYesWebHot
Omni AnalyticsFounded 2022 · San Francisco, United StatesModerateContestedPaid—NoYesWebHot

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What it ships with

Capabilities & who uses it

The capabilities Lightdash exposes to builders and the verticals it currently serves.

AI Capabilities
Sql GenerationVisualization
Industry Verticals
Technology
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Lightdash shows up when builders search for these

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Questions

Lightdash: common questions

Is Lightdash free?

Lightdash has a free tier, with paid plans.

What are the best alternatives to Lightdash?

The closest alternatives to Lightdash that are still running, matched on the AI capabilities, uses and audience they share, are Superset, Preset, Evidence, dbt Cloud, and Omni Analytics.

Is Lightdash still running?

Yes. As of 2 November 2026, FalcoScan lists Lightdash as operating at lightdash.com.

Where is Lightdash based?

Lightdash is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Does Lightdash have an API?

Yes. Lightdash offers an API.

Who is Lightdash for?

Lightdash is built for analytics engineers and data teams.

How do I sign in to Lightdash?

Sign in on Lightdash's own website, lightdash.com. FalcoScan reviews Lightdash but does not run its accounts, so logins, passwords and billing are handled by Lightdash directly.

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