Microsoft Power BI Alternatives for Linux

Microsoft Power BI is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Pentaho. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Pretzel or LinceBI. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Microsoft Power BI and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Microsoft Power BI are Redash, JasperReports, Knowi and Jedox.

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  1. Pentaho icon
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    Pentaho is a Business Intelligence software company that offers Pentaho Business Analytics, a suite of open source products which provide data integration, OLAP services, reporting, dashboarding, data mining and ETL capabilities.

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  2. Redash icon
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    Redash helps you make sense of your data. Connect and query your data sources, build dashboards to visualize data and share them with your company.

    78 Redash alternatives

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    • Cloudron
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  3. JasperReports icon
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    JasperReports is a variously-licensed reporting tool & library, written in Java, which can generate HTML, PDF, Excel, CSV, and other format reports. JasperReports Server is a paid feature for distributing and scheduling reports.

    76 JasperReports alternatives

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  4. Pretzel icon
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    Pretzel is an open-source, offline browser-based tool for fast and intuitive data exploration and visualization. It can handle large data files, runs locally in your browser, and requires no backend setup.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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  5. LinceBI icon
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    The most complete OpenSource Bussines Intelligence platform including BI Portal, Reports, OLAP Analysis, Dashboards and Scorecards It´s fully customizable and you can include other BI tools in LinceBI BI Global Portal like PowerBI, Metabase...

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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  6. Knowi icon
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    Knowi is an agentic analytics platform for teams whose data does not sit in a single warehouse. AI agents run inside the data layer, querying SQL, NoSQL and APIs natively and joining across them without ETL.

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    • MongoDB
    • Google Analytics
    • elasticsearch
    • Salesforce
    • Oracle Database
    • PostgreSQL
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    Open Knowi and pick a path: explore a pre-loaded sample, or connect Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Snowflake, BigQuery or a REST API. No setup project before the
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  7. Jedox icon
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    Business-Driven Intelligence: Jedox empowers you with powerful planning, effective analytics and beautiful reporting, on every device and in the Cloud.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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    • Online
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    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
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  8. BIRT icon
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    BIRT is an open source technology platform used to create data visualizations and reports that can be embedded into rich client and web applications.

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  9. Tercept automatically aggregates and organizes all monetization data,analytics data and marketing data into one single dashboard with powerful querying and visualization capabilities. You can setup custom reports and automate 100% of your reporting.

    130 Tercept Unified Analytics alternatives

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  10. Cluvio icon
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    Cluvio is the #1 cloud BI platform for startups and data-driven teams, trusted by over 300 companies. Use SQL and R to analyze your data and in few minutes create beautiful, interactive dashboards for your entire company.

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  11. freeboard icon
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    A damn sexy, open source real-time dashboard builder for IOT and other web mashups. A free open source alternative to Geckoboard. Includes a powerful plugin architecture to create any amount of customization.

    26 freeboard alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Discontinued

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  12. Phrazor icon
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    Phrazor summarises data into a few bullet points, highlighting key insights required for decision making. It helps enterprises make their reports and insights easier to comprehend by writing a narrative along with each report.

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    • Chrome OS
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