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8 self-hosted Hex alternatives

Hex is a collaborative data workspace that combines SQL, notebooks, visual dashboards and interactive apps to explore data, run analyses, connect to data warehouses and share reproducible results and reports with teams.

Alternatives to Hex

Apache Superset is an open-source BI platform for SQL-based data exploration, interactive dashboards, and rich visualizations with a no-code chart builder and SQL editor.

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74k stars18k forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Metabase is an open-source BI and embedded analytics tool for querying databases, building dashboards, and sharing reports with permissions, alerts, and embedding.

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48.4k stars6.7k forkslast commit Actively maintained

Open source BI tool to connect to many data sources, run SQL/NoSQL queries, build visualizations and dashboards, share insights, and set alerts and scheduled refreshes.

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28.7k stars4.6k forksBSD-2-Clauselast commit Actively maintained

Open source tool to publish SQLite databases as an interactive website with a JSON API, with a powerful plugin system for search, auth, and customization.

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11.3k stars886 forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Open-source BI as code for building interactive reports and dashboards using SQL and Markdown, with reusable components and a modern developer workflow.

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6.8k stars388 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Web-based interactive and collaborative notebooks for Elixir with data visualizations, integrations, reproducible workflows, and automation.

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5.8k stars503 forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Chartbrew is an open-source platform to build live dashboards and reports by connecting SQL/NoSQL databases and REST APIs.

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4k stars442 forkslast commit Actively maintained

Edalitics is a metadata-driven analytics and dashboard platform (TypeScript/Node.js/Angular) offering no-code dashboards, advanced SQL mode, KPIs, email alerts and RLS.

201 stars26 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

What replacing Hex actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 8 of 8 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: Apache-2.0, BSD-2-Clause, MIT, AGPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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