9 open-source Business Intelligence vendors
Open-source software for Business Intelligence that you can self-host, with auditable source code — regardless of the developer's headquarters.
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- 3
- last checked
- 9 October 2026
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Score per vendor: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign
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- Sovereignty score 94 out of 100KnowageItaly · Self-hosted / open sourceItalian open-source BI platform from Engineering Group, evolved from the SpagoBI project.
- Sovereignty score 94 out of 100ReportServerGermany · Self-hosted / open sourceGerman (Wiesbaden) open-source BI platform from InfoFabrik, combines Jasper, BIRT and Mondrian reporting.
- Sovereignty score 82 out of 100Kibana (Elastic)Netherlands · EU sovereignDashboard and visualisation layer of the Elastic Stack. Elastic N.V. is a Dutch company with dual headquarters in Amsterdam and San Francisco (NYSE: ESTC); self-hostable or via Elastic Cloud in EU regions.
- Sovereignty score 79 out of 100EvidenceCanada · Non-EU vendorCode-first, open-source BI framework (MIT licence) for building dashboards as code (Markdown + SQL), fully manageable via Git version control. Developed by Evidence Inc. (Toronto, Canada).
- Sovereignty score 79 out of 100LightdashUnited Kingdom · Non-EU vendorOpen-source BI platform (MIT licence) that integrates directly with dbt: metrics and dimensions are defined once in dbt YAML and reused across dashboards. Developed by Lightdash Ltd. (London, UK).
- Sovereignty score 71 out of 100Apache SupersetUnited States · Self-hosted / open sourcePowerful open-source BI platform from the Apache Software Foundation (US), scalable and cloud-native, connecting directly to 35+ SQL engines for large-scale data visualisation.
- Sovereignty score 71 out of 100CubeUnited States · Non-EU vendorOpen-source semantic layer and data API (dual MIT/Apache 2.0 licence) that structures and secures data sources before they are visualised in frontend apps or BI tools. Developed by Cube Inc. (San Francisco, US).
- Sovereignty score 71 out of 100RedashUnited States · Self-hosted / open sourceSQL-first, open-source dashboard tool for quickly writing complex queries and sharing real-time dashboards. Owned by US-based Databricks since 2020; the hosted redash.io service was sunset, but the self-hosted open-source repository remains actively maintained.
- Sovereignty score 61 out of 100MetabaseUnited States · Non-EU vendorNo-code BI tool for ad-hoc data exploration without SQL knowledge, with a free open-source edition (AGPLv3). Developed by Metabase Inc. (San Francisco, US).
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