Lightdash vs Redash
A side-by-side comparison of Lightdash and Redash — stars, license, self-host difficulty, deploy options, and what each replaces.
| Tagline | BI layer on top of your dbt project with a built-in semantic layer | Connect, query, visualize, and share data from any SQL or NoSQL source |
| Category | BI & Dashboards | BI & Dashboards |
| Replaces | Looker, Tableau, Power BI | Tableau, Looker, Power BI |
| GitHub stars | 5.9k | 28k |
| Language | TypeScript | Python |
| License | Apache-2.0 | BSD-2-Clause |
| Self-host difficulty | 3/5 Moderate | 3/5 Moderate |
| Deploy options | Docker Docker Compose Kubernetes Manual | Docker Docker Compose Kubernetes Manual |
| Managed hosting | ||
| Last updated | 3 days ago | 3 months ago |
| View repo | View repo |
