LightdashLightdash empowers dbt users with a unified BI layer for metric definition and exploration, fostering data trust and accessibility across organizations.

Lightdash is an open-source business intelligence solution that directly integrates with dbt projects, enabling teams to define, curate, and share critical business metrics.

Lightdash provides an open-source business intelligence solution that integrates directly with dbt projects. It allows teams to create, curate, and share metrics defined in dbt models.

Not yet. This listing is compiled from null’s public documentation, pricing pages and changelogs — nothing on this page is presented as a hands-on test result.Lightdash sits in our testing queue; when we run it, this section will state what we tested, how long for, and what it actually produced. How we review AI tools.

• Centralized Metric Management: Define and document key business metrics once in dbt, then easily access and visualize them in Lightdash across your organization.
• Self-Serve Data Exploration: Empower business users to explore data and build their own reports using curated metrics, reducing reliance on data teams.
• Data Governance and Consistency: Ensure everyone is using the same definitions and calculations for critical KPIs, improving data accuracy and trust.
• Enhanced dbt Workflow: Bridge the gap between data transformation in dbt and data consumption, making your dbt investments more valuable.

• dbt metric integration
• Customizable dashboards
• Data exploration tools
• Metric catalog and documentation
• Access control and permissions
• SQL query builder

Prices as of July 25, 2026, taken from null’s public pricing page. Vendors change pricing without notice — check before you buy.

• Best suited for dbt-centric workflows
• May require technical expertise for advanced setup

• Metabase
• Superset
• Looker

1. Install dbt and create your data models.
2. Install Lightdash and connect it to your dbt project.
3. Define your business metrics in dbt and start exploring and building dashboards in Lightdash.

Use a SynaBot assistant to produce the thinking, then move the output into Lightdash for execution. Every SynaBot assistant is free to try on the Lite plan.

• Content Creator (ZARA) — drafts the copy, captions and campaign angles you'll run through Lightdash.
• Business Planner (VIKRAM) — decides whether Lightdash belongs in your stack and what it should replace.
• Project Manager (PACE) — turns the rollout of Lightdash into owned, dated tasks.

Browse the full AI assistant roster, grab a starting point from the prompt library, or have us wire it together with our AI consultancy service.