# Google Data Studio (Looker Studio) alternatives — Business Intelligence & Dashboards

As of 1 Nov 2026, the panel rates [Metabase (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence/metabase), [Preset (Apache Superset) (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence/preset) and [Holistics (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence/holistics) highest among the other 15 Business Intelligence & Dashboards products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [Luzmo](https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence/luzmo) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering).

- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence/looker-studio/alternatives
- Google Data Studio (Looker Studio): https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence/looker-studio.md
- Data as of: 2026-11-01

**AI-generated.** Ratings and verdicts are the opinion of a panel of AI judges, formed from public evidence against a published rubric — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Listed by panel rating (products the panel could not rate follow alphabetically); no placement is for sale. How lists are ordered: https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering

## European alternatives to Google Data Studio (Looker Studio)

- [Luzmo](https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence/luzmo) · EU-Made · panel rating 3/5 · data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
  Luzmo, an embedded analytics platform from Luzmo NV in Belgium, scores highest where it pitches itself: sharing and embedding at 8-9, with server-side embed tokens applying per-viewer row-level filters to dashboards, the API and AI answers, multi-tenant isolation from one shared database to separate tenant databases, and white-label styling with React, Vue and Angular SDKs.
- [Cluvio](https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence/cluvio) · EU-Made · panel rating 3/5 · data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention the EU and the US · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-11-01
  Cluvio, from Cluvio GmbH of Berlin, is a SQL-and-R BI platform whose queries run directly on the customer's own databases, hosted on AWS with the account region chosen at signup.
- [Count](https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence/count) · UK / wider Europe · panel rating 2.5/5 · data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention the EU and the US · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-11-01
  Count, from Count Technologies Ltd of London, is a canvas for SQL, Python and AI analysis run live against the customer's warehouse.
- [Whatagraph](https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence/whatagraph) · EU-Made · panel rating 2.5/5 · data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention the EU · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-11-01
  Whatagraph, an agentic marketing intelligence platform from Dutch vendor Whatagraph B.V., scores highest on sharing and embedding at 6-7: white-label client dashboards with the vendor hidden, branded subdomains, scheduled PDF, CSV and Slack delivery, password-protected live links and iFrame embedding are documented.
- [Datawrapper](https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence/datawrapper) · EU-Made · panel rating 2.5/5 · data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
  Datawrapper GmbH is a self-funded Berlin company that publishes charts, maps and tables one visualization at a time.
- [Geckoboard](https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence/geckoboard) · UK / wider Europe · panel rating 2.5/5 · data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
  Geckoboard, from Datachoice Solutions Ltd of London, is a KPI dashboard tool: 90+ published connectors including six SQL databases, seven widget types, TV display, share links and scheduled snapshots.

## Other alternatives

- [Metabase](https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence/metabase) · Rest of world · panel rating 3.5/5
  Metabase is a business intelligence product that queries 18 official database and warehouse connectors live, with a no-SQL query builder and a SQL editor.
- [Preset (Apache Superset)](https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence/preset) · Rest of world · panel rating 3.5/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-11-01
  Preset is a fully-hosted cloud service for Apache Superset from Preset, Inc.
- [Holistics](https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence/holistics) · Rest of world · panel rating 3/5
  Holistics, from Holistics Software Pte Ltd of Singapore, is a cloud-based BI product whose centre of gravity is a code-based semantic layer: metrics defined once in AML, versioned in Git, reviewed by pull request and synced with dbt.
- [Databox](https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence/databox) · Rest of world · panel rating 3/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-11-01
  Databox is a KPI dashboarding service from Databox Inc.
- [Grafana](https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence/grafana) · Rest of world · panel rating 3/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-11-01
  Grafana, from Raintank Inc., d/b/a Grafana Labs of New York, is a dashboards product whose plugins query existing sources in real time without ingestion into a vendor store — self-managed, on Grafana Cloud or as a self-hosted Enterprise edition.
- [Zoho Analytics](https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence/zoho-analytics) · Rest of world · panel rating 3/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-11-01
  Zoho Analytics is Zoho Corporation Private Limited's self-service BI platform, offered in the Zoho cloud, in public clouds or on-premise behind your own firewalls.
- [Klipfolio](https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence/klipfolio) · Rest of world · panel rating 3/5
  Klipfolio Klips is a Canadian dashboard SaaS that is easiest to recommend on price and connections and hardest to recommend on data sovereignty.
- [Qlik Sense (Qlik Cloud Analytics)](https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence/qlik-sense) · Rest of world · panel rating 2.5/5
  Qlik Sense (Qlik Cloud Analytics) scored strongest on data connectivity at 6-7, sharing and embedding at 6-7 and pricing transparency at 6-7; weighted totals run 4.8 to 5.4.
- [Microsoft Power BI](https://whats-best.ai/software/business-intelligence/microsoft-power-bi) · Rest of world · panel rating 2/5 · [compare with Google Data Studio (Looker Studio)](https://whats-best.ai/compare/looker-studio-vs-microsoft-power-bi.md)
  Power BI is strongest here on governance and portability, where scores cluster at 5–6: Report Server is a documented on-premises edition behind the company firewall, and a REST API covers administration, users, gateways, pipelines and service principals.

Ratings are out of 5 (the panel's mean, half steps).

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