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Directory / Analytics / Lightdash
Lightdash
BI tool that turns a dbt project into a semantic layer for self-serve dashboards.
Will it still be around?
Health 93/100 · Healthy
Activity, bus factor and issue responsiveness. Breakdown
Can a business use it freely?
Open source (permissive)
MIT (core) + commercial packages/backend/src/ee. Details
Alternative to
Savings proposal
A 25-user team on Tableau Standard: 1 Creator + Viewers pays about $435 a month. Self-hosting Lightdash costs about $264 a month to run plus $1,200 to set up, so it pays for itself in month 8 and saves about $4,956 over three years.
List price: Tableau Standard: 1 Creator + Viewers, billed annually. Creator $75, Explorer $42, Viewer $15 per user. The estimate assumes one Creator and everyone else a Viewer. Source, checked 2026-10-07.
Saved over 3 years
$4,956
Pays for itself
Month 8
Saved in year one
$852
Each month
$435 → $264
Show as a table
| Month | Tableau | Self-hosted | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Today | $0 | $1,200 | −$1,200 |
| Month 3 | $1,305 | $1,992 | −$687 |
| Month 6 | $2,610 | $2,784 | −$174 |
| Month 9 | $3,915 | $3,576 | $339 |
| Month 12 | $5,220 | $4,368 | $852 |
| Month 18 | $7,830 | $5,952 | $1,878 |
| Month 24 | $10,440 | $7,536 | $2,904 |
| Month 30 | $13,050 | $9,120 | $3,930 |
| Month 36 | $15,660 | $10,704 | $4,956 |
Assumptions you can change
Self-hosting Lightdash usually means an app server, a database and a cache or worker. Hours are for one engineer; the server cost is a typical cloud VPS with backups and grows with the number of people using it.
Not included: paid editions or features of Lightdash (see What's free?), large data migrations, and compliance work. All amounts in US dollars at list price; your negotiated price may differ.
Health score: 93/100
Activity45% weight
100/100
- Last commit today (100/100).
- 12437 commits in the past 12 months (100/100).
- 50+ releases in the past 12 months (100/100).
Bus factor30% weight
82/100
- Top contributor wrote 38% of the last 99 commits (past 12 months).
- 16 people authored those commits.
Responsiveness25% weight
92/100
- 91% of all issues are closed (940 open, 10111 closed) (100/100).
- 26 of 30 recent issues got a reply or were closed (87/100).
Score v2. How the health score works.
License
MIT (core) + commercial packages/backend/src/ee · Open source (permissive)
Everything outside packages/backend/src/ee is MIT. Enterprise code needs a paid license.
OSI-approved license with few conditions beyond keeping the copyright notice.
License text checked 2026-10-07: read it.
What's free?
Enterprise features many open-core projects keep for paid plans.
| Feature | Self-hosted, free? |
|---|---|
| SSO (SAML) | Unknown |
| SSO (OIDC) | Unknown |
| SCIM provisioning | Unknown |
| Audit logs | Unknown |
| Role-based access control | Unknown |
| Multi-tenancy | Unknown |
We haven't verified which of these features are free for this project yet.
GitHub metrics
| Stars | 6.2k | Forks | 790 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last commit | today | Commits, 12 months | 12k |
| Releases, 12 months | 50+ | Last release | today |
| Contributors | 170 | Active authors | 16 in last 99 commits |
| Open issues | 940 | Closed issues | 10k |
Snapshot from 2026-10-08.