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Lightdash pricing
Lightdash publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Not recorded
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
Lightdash plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Source | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| Cloud Managed | On request | 4 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Open Source
FreeThe entry tier. It covers mit-licensed core, self-hostable, dbt integration, sql query support.
Cloud Managed
On requestOver Open Source, this tier adds:
- Managed hosting
- Premium features
- AI agent capabilities
- Enterprise support
Where Lightdash stops being free
Open Source, Free
- MIT-licensed core
- Self-hostable
- dbt integration
- SQL query support
No paid tier on record
Lightdash lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Lightdash feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- dbt Integration
- Metrics Layer
- Dashboards
- Scheduling
- Version Control
Integrations
- dbt
- BigQuery
- Snowflake
- Redshift
- PostgreSQL
- Databricks
Platform
- Web support
- Self-hosted support
- Cloud support
People bring Lightdash in for self-service analytics, data exploration, ad-hoc reporting, collaborative analysis, embedded analytics. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Lightdash are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Business Intelligence
Too few business intelligence tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightdash (this page) | Free | - | - | |
| Domo | $30000/year | - | - | vs Lightdash |
| ChartMogul | Free | freemium | - | vs Lightdash |
| Baremetrics | Free, then $50/month | subscription | - | vs Lightdash |
| Chartio | Free | - | - | vs Lightdash |
| Cyfe | Free | subscription | - | vs Lightdash |
| Amazon QuickSight | $3/month per user | subscription | - | vs Lightdash |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Lightdash badges page.
Before you pay for Lightdash
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Lightdash runs on web, cloud (managed), self-hosted (on-premise), and is published by Lightdash of London, United Kingdom. The full record is on the Lightdash review, and the rest of the category is under best business intelligence tools.
Lightdash pricing questions
- How much does Lightdash cost?
- Lightdash publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Open Source up to On request for Cloud Managed. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Lightdash have a free plan?
- Yes. The Open Source tier costs nothing and covers mit-licensed core, self-hostable, dbt integration.
- What is the difference between Open Source and Cloud Managed on Lightdash?
- Cloud Managed costs On request against Free, and adds managed hosting, premium features, ai agent capabilities, enterprise support.
- Which business intelligence tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 business intelligence tools listed alongside Lightdash have a free tier: ChartMogul, Baremetrics, Cyfe, Databox.
- What am I actually paying for with Lightdash?
- The record lists 14 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for self-service analytics, data exploration, ad-hoc reporting.
- Does Lightdash charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Lightdash prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Lightdash against before paying?
- The closest business intelligence tools in this directory are Domo, ChartMogul, Baremetrics, Chartio. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Lightdash covering price, platforms and features.