7 Best Redash Alternatives in 2026
Seven Redash alternatives compared on hosting, SQL-first querying, scheduling and verified prices, from free open source to fully managed.
Updated 20 September 2026. Prices checked 20 September 2026 against each vendor’s own pricing page.
- MetabaseFree OSS / $100/mo
The closest like-for-like replacement, free to self-host or hosted from $100 a month
- Apache SupersetFree
Staying open source and self-hosted, with a project that is still moving
- Try SaturnSQL freeSaturnSQL€19/user/mo
Teams whose Redash was really shared SQL and scheduled results, not dashboards
- LightdashFree OSS / $3,000/mo
dbt teams who want metrics defined once, in the model
- GrafanaFree / $19/mo + usage
Operational and time-series dashboards over SQL sources
- Hex$36 / $75 per editor/mo
SQL plus Python notebook work, and polished data apps
- ModeFree / contact sales
Analyst-led reporting with a strong SQL editor underneath
Feature comparison
| SaturnSQL | Redash | Metabase | Apache Superset | Lightdash | Grafana | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hosted by the vendor* | ✓ | — | ✓ Paid | — | ✓ Paid | ✓ |
| Free to self-host | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dashboards | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SQL-first query editor | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ~ | ~ |
| Shared query library | ✓ Paid | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ~ |
| Scheduled queries | ✓ Paid | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ~ |
| Alerts on results | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Export to Google Sheets | ✓ Paid | — | — | — | — | — |
| Send to Slack | ✓ Paid | ~ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Needs a dbt project | — | — | — | — | ✓ | — |
| PostgreSQL | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MySQL / MariaDB | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| BigQuery | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ~ |
| ClickHouse | ✓ | ✓ | ~ | ✓ | — | ~ |
| Snowflake | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ~ |
| Licence model | Subscription | Free / OSS | Free OSS / sub | Free / OSS | Free OSS / sub | Free OSS / usage |
| Starting paid price | €19/user/mo | — | $100/mo (5 users) | — | $3,000/mo | $19/mo + usage |
✓ available · ✓ Paid = not on the free tier · Pro (beta) = Pro plan, limited beta · ~ partial · ? not documented by the vendor · — not available
- Hosted by the vendor: Metabase hosting starts at $100/mo and Lightdash Cloud at $3,000/mo; both are free only self-hosted. Grafana Cloud has a free tier capped at 3 users.
Prices checked 20 September 2026 against each vendor’s own pricing page: SaturnSQL · Redash · Metabase · Apache Superset · Lightdash · Grafana.
Why people leave Redash
Redash is free, open source and still works, and almost nobody leaves it because the software let them down. They leave because of what surrounds it: Databricks bought the company in 2020 and retired the hosted service, development has been quiet since, and the instance somebody set up years ago is now a server that needs patching, upgrading and a person who remembers how it was deployed.
That splits the alternatives cleanly. If you want to keep self-hosting open source, Metabase and Superset are both more active projects doing the same job. If you want someone else to run it, Metabase’s hosted plans, Mode and Hex are the dashboard-shaped options. And if what your team actually used Redash for was a shared library of SQL queries with results on a schedule, the dashboards were incidental and a smaller tool will do.
If it was the shared queries and the schedule you used Redash for
Every dashboard tool below will replace Redash’s charts. Only SaturnSQL is built around the other half: a shared query library, and saved queries that run on a schedule straight into Google Sheets or Slack, hosted, with nothing to run. It has a free plan, so you can test the fit before you decommission anything.
The 7 best Redash alternatives
Metabase
Best for: The closest like-for-like replacement, free to self-host or hosted from $100 a monthMetabase does what most teams used Redash for, shared SQL questions on dashboards with scheduled refresh and Slack delivery, with an open source edition that is free and unlimited and a hosted option when you are done running servers.
Strong
- + Open Source edition is free with unlimited users, if you host it
- + Native SQL questions alongside a question builder non-technical people can use
- + Hosted plans exist, which Redash no longer offers
- + Active development and a large community
Limits
- − Hosted Starter is $100 per month for 5 users, a steep first step from free
- − Row and column level permissions and SSO are Pro features, at $575 per month for 10 users
- − Self-hosting the free edition means you run and upgrade it, same as Redash
Pricing: Open Source free and self-hosted, unlimited users. Starter $100 per month ($90 per month billed annually) including 5 users, then $6 per user per month. Pro $575 per month ($517.50 billed annually) including 10 users, then $12 per user per month. Enterprise custom, starting at $20,000 per year. pricing page, checked 23 August 2026.
Apache Superset
Best for: Staying open source and self-hosted, with a project that is still movingApache Superset is the open source dashboard tool that kept growing after Redash stopped: SQL Lab for analysts, very rich charting, and Apache Software Foundation governance instead of a single owner, at the cost of being harder to run.
Strong
- + Free under the Apache licence, no user limits
- + SQL Lab is a proper analyst editor, and the charting is far richer than Redash’s
- + Governed by the Apache Software Foundation rather than one vendor
- + Alerts and scheduled reports built in
Limits
- − Meaningfully harder to deploy and operate than Redash or Metabase
- − No hosted option from the project itself
- − Weaker for non-technical users than Metabase
Pricing: Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence, self-hosted. Commercial hosting is available from third parties. pricing page, checked 23 August 2026.
SaturnSQL
Best for: Teams whose Redash was really shared SQL and scheduled results, not dashboardsSaturnSQL is not a dashboard tool and will not replace Redash’s visualisations; it is the right answer for the specific case where what you used Redash for was a shared library of SQL queries and results that arrive on a schedule, and you would rather not host anything.
Strong
- + Hosted, nothing to run or upgrade
- + Shared query library, so a query outlives whoever wrote it
- + Scheduled delivery to Google Sheets and Slack at minute-level precision
- + PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle, Redshift, ClickHouse, BigQuery and DynamoDB
Limits
- − No dashboards and no charts for stakeholders; everyone here writes SQL
- − No alerts on query results
- − No self-hosting, and the free tier is a demo: 1 connection, 1 saved query
Pricing: Starter €19 per user per month, including scheduling. Pro €29 is in limited beta. Free tier is 1 connection and 1 saved query with no sharing. pricing page, checked 3 August 2026.
Lightdash
Best for: dbt teams who want metrics defined once, in the modelLightdash is an open source BI layer built on dbt, so metrics live in your models rather than in saved queries; it is a strong Redash successor for a team that already runs dbt, and a poor one for a team that does not.
Strong
- + Open source and free to self-host
- + Metrics and dimensions come from your dbt project, so definitions are versioned
- + Scheduled deliveries, alerts and a metrics catalog
Limits
- − Requires a dbt project; without one there is little to explore
- − Cloud Pro is $3,000 per month, priced for organisations rather than small teams
- − Warehouse-oriented: PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks and Trino, no MySQL
Pricing: Open Source is free and self-hosted, with community Slack support. Cloud Pro is $3,000 per month with unlimited users, scheduled reports, alerting and dedicated support, with a 21-day free trial. Enterprise is custom. pricing page, checked 20 September 2026.
Grafana
Best for: Operational and time-series dashboards over SQL sourcesGrafana is the default for dashboards over time-series data, and its SQL data sources make it a workable Redash replacement for operational reporting; it is a weak fit for ad-hoc analytical SQL, which is not what it was built for.
Strong
- + Open source and free to self-host, with a free hosted tier
- + Excellent alerting and time-series visualisation
- + PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server and many more sources via plugins
Limits
- − Not an analyst tool: no query library in the Redash sense, and ad-hoc SQL exploration is clumsy
- − Hosted free tier is capped at 3 active users
- − Pro pricing is usage-based, so the bill depends on what you send it
Pricing: Grafana Cloud Free is $0 with 3 active users and 14-day retention. Pro starts at a $19 per month platform fee plus usage-based charges. Enterprise from a $25,000 per year commitment. Self-hosted open source Grafana is free. pricing page, checked 20 September 2026.
Hex
Best for: SQL plus Python notebook work, and polished data appsHex is a collaborative notebook workspace combining SQL, Python and no-code cells, a richer analytical environment than Redash ever was, but scheduled runs and alerts are gated to the Team plan at $75 per editor per month.
Strong
- + SQL and Python in one notebook
- + Interactive data apps for stakeholders
- + Connects to most warehouses including Snowflake
Limits
- − Scheduling requires the $75 Team plan, not the $36 Professional plan
- − Notebook model is a steeper learning curve than Redash’s query page
- − Considerably more expensive per seat than anything else here
Pricing: Community free (5 notebooks). Professional $36 per editor per month. Team $75 per editor per month, which is the cheapest plan that includes scheduled runs and alerts. Enterprise custom. pricing page, checked 3 August 2026.
Mode
Best for: Analyst-led reporting with a strong SQL editor underneathMode is the hosted product closest to Redash’s SQL-first spirit, with a better editor and scheduled delivery built in; check the roadmap before standardising on it, as ThoughtSpot acquired it in 2023 and shut down SeekWell, another acquisition, in 2026.
Strong
- + Capable SQL editor, better than Redash’s
- + Scheduled delivery by email, Slack and webhook
- + Hosted, nothing to run
Limits
- − Business plans go through sales, so there is no published price to compare
- − Owned by ThoughtSpot, which shut SeekWell down in 2026
- − Heavier than Redash for simple query sharing
Pricing: Free Studio plan. Business plans via sales, with no published pricing. pricing page, checked 3 August 2026.
Where Redash itself stands
Redash
Best for: What you have now, if you are content to run itRedash is still free, still open source and still works; Databricks acquired it in 2020, retired the hosted service, and development has been quiet since, so treat it as a stable tool you maintain rather than a product that will grow with you.
Strong
- + Free, open source and self-hosted
- + SQL-first query sharing with dashboards and alerts in one place
- + Simple to reason about, and your team already knows it
Limits
- − Development has been quiet since the Databricks acquisition in 2020
- − The hosted service was retired; self-hosting is the only option
- − You run the infrastructure and carry the upgrade risk
Pricing: Open source, self-hosted. The managed service was retired after the Databricks acquisition. pricing page, checked 3 August 2026.
| Tool | What happened | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Redash hosted service | Databricks acquired Redash and retired the managed offering; the open source project continues with little active development source | Acquired June 2020 |
If the problem is not the dashboards
A lot of Redash instances are, in practice, a query library with a scheduler attached. The dashboards exist, but the thing people rely on is the Monday query whose results end up in a spreadsheet, or the Slack message with this week’s numbers. Replacing that with a full BI tool means running or paying for a great deal you will not use.
SaturnSQL keeps queries in a shared library the team can read, and can run a saved query on a schedule and push the rows straight into Google Sheets or Slack, with nothing to host. What it does not do is charts for stakeholders: if your Redash dashboards are what people open every morning, choose Metabase or Superset and ignore us.
How we judged
We ranked on how completely each tool covers what teams actually used Redash for, which is shared SQL queries, dashboards over them, scheduled refresh and alerts, and we treated hosting as a first-class feature because the maintenance burden is what sends people looking. Lightdash and Grafana Cloud prices were read from their pricing pages on 20 September 2026. Metabase and Superset were verified on 23 August 2026, and Hex, Mode and Redash on 3 August 2026, each linked from its entry above. Where a tool beats SaturnSQL, which for dashboards is all of them, we have said so in its Limits list. See also our Metabase alternatives roundup and the SaturnSQL vs Metabase comparison.
Frequently asked questions
Is Redash still maintained?
It is alive but quiet. Databricks acquired Redash in June 2020 and retired the hosted service; the open source project on GitHub still accepts contributions and still works, but releases are infrequent and there is no company whose business depends on moving it forward. That is fine for a tool you are happy to freeze, and the reason most teams eventually look at the alternatives on this page.
Is Redash free?
Yes, completely: it is open source under the BSD licence and you run it yourself. There is no longer a paid hosted version. The cost is the server it runs on and the time someone spends keeping it patched and upgraded, which is the cost most Redash alternatives are really competing on.
What is the best hosted alternative to Redash?
Metabase is the closest match: shared SQL questions, dashboards, scheduled refresh and Slack delivery, hosted from $100 per month for five users, with the same open source edition available if you want to keep self-hosting. If all you used Redash for was a shared library of SQL and results delivered on a schedule, SaturnSQL is hosted at €19 per user per month and does that half without the dashboards.
Metabase or Redash?
Metabase, for almost everyone starting today. It covers the same job with a question builder non-technical colleagues can use, a hosted option, and active development. Redash wins only if you already run it, your team knows it, and you do not want anything to change. Superset is the answer if you want open source with a project that is still growing and can carry the operational weight.
How hard is it to migrate off Redash?
The queries are plain SQL and export easily, so the SQL itself is never the problem. What takes the time is rebuilding dashboards, recreating schedules and alerts, and deciding whether every saved query still deserves to exist. Most teams treat the move as a chance to prune: a few dozen queries carry the business and the rest were experiments.
Is there a Redash alternative that sends results to Google Sheets?
SaturnSQL is the one on this list that delivers query results straight into a Google Sheet on a schedule, alongside Slack. Metabase, Superset and Lightdash deliver to Slack and email; none of the dashboard tools here push rows into Sheets natively. If the weekly Redash export you paste into a spreadsheet is the job, that is the distinction that matters.
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