Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Salesforce Tableau

Last Updated on March 9, 2025

Salesforce is an American cloud-based software company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It aims to help businesses manage their customer relationships. It’s a popular customer relationship management (CRM) platform.

Tableau is a visual analytics platform transforming the way we use data to solve problems.

Tableau is proprietary software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux.

1. Metabase

Metabase is an open source business intelligence tool. It lets you ask questions about your data, and displays answers in formats that make sense, whether that’s a bar graph or a detailed table.

2. Grafana

Grafana is an open source platform for monitoring and observability. Compose and scale observability with one or all pieces of the stack.

Grafana allows you to query, visualize, alert on and understand your metrics no matter where they are stored. Create, explore, and share dashboards with your team and foster a data-driven culture.

3. Superset

Apache Superset is a modern, enterprise-ready business intelligence web application.

Superset can replace or augment proprietary business intelligence tools for many teams. Superset integrates well with a variety of data sources. It’s lightweight, intuitive, and loaded with options that make it easy for users of all skill sets to explore and visualize their data, from simple line charts to highly detailed geospatial charts.

4. Pentaho

The Pentaho BI Project is open source application software for enterprise reporting, analysis, dashboard, data mining, workflow and ETL capabilities for business intelligence needs.

The BI Suite Community Edition is intended for: Business intelligence aficionados, open source software programmers, early adopters, and college students.

For more free and open source business intelligence solutions, please review this roundup.

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	Heroku is a cloud platform that lets companies build, deliver, monitor and scale apps.
	Quip is a collaborative productivity software package. It allows groups of people to create and edit documents and spreadsheets as a group
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	Tableau is a visual analytics platform transforming the way we use data to solve problems