BI & Dashboards Tools in May 2026 covers teams choosing source-visible analytics, dashboarding, metrics, and data-app software where maintenance signals matter as much as features.
This ranking includes open/source-visible tools only and sorts by ToolVitals score first, with GitHub stars used only as a secondary popularity signal when scores are tied. The openness labels are not interchangeable: tools marked Open core are listed as Open core, while tools marked OSI-approved OSS are listed as OSI-approved OSS with their exact license_label.
Rankings
| Rank | Tool | Openness | License | Health | Shipping | GitHub Stars | Score | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Metabase | Open core | NOASSERTION | 100 | 100 | 47318 | 100 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 2 | Grafana | Open core | AGPL-3.0 | 91 | 100 | 73755 | 96 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 3 | thunderbird-android | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 91 | 96 | 13480 | 94 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 4 | Deepnote | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 93 | 77 | 2903 | 90 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 5 | SQLRooms | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 85 | 85 | 421 | 85 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 6 | MetricFlow | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 83 | 67 | 1586 | 82 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 7 | DecisionBox | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 74 | 81 | 84 | 81 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 8 | TerriaJS | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 71 | 42 | 1325 | 67 | 🟢 Good |
| 9 | DataVyn | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 51 | 21 | 17 | 50 | 🟡 Fair |
| 10 | Middleware | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 36 | 0 | 1598 | 35 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 11 | AI Analyst | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 33 | 0 | 373 | 34 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 12 | Open Semantic Search | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-3.0 | 31 | 0 | 1171 | 31 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 13 | CursorLens | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 28 | 0 | 397 | 30 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
Top 3 Highlights
Metabase ranks first with a ToolVitals score of 100, a health score of 100, and a shipping score of 100. It is labeled Open core with license_label NOASSERTION, so it should not be described as OSI open source from this data alone.
Grafana ranks second with a ToolVitals score of 96, a health score of 91, and a shipping score of 100. It has the largest GitHub footprint in the ranking at 73,755 stars, but the primary sort still places it behind Metabase because ToolVitals score comes first. Its openness_label is Open core and its license_label is AGPL-3.0.
Thunderbird for Android – Open Source Email App for Android (fka K-9 Mail). Rounding out the top three with a score of 94, thunderbird-android pairs visible maintenance signals with 13480 GitHub stars.
Want to see the full health, shipping, openness, and evidence details for every tool in BI & Dashboards? Browse all BI & Dashboards Tools →