Lightdash vs Rill
No clear leader: Lightdash (64.2) and Rill (64.0) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for bi software. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Lightdash
An agentic BI platform that defines trusted metrics and business logic in dbt, then powers self-serve analytics across dashboards, natural-language AI agents, and embedded data apps. Available as open-source for self-hosting or managed cloud.
Rill
A business intelligence tool designed for both AI agents and human users, built on OLAP engines like ClickHouse and DuckDB. It uses code-driven configuration (YAML and SQL), provides a semantic layer for consistent metric definitions, supports conversational queries in natural language, and includes interactive dashboards with row-level access control.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Lightdash
Open source free tier, Cloud Pro at $3,000/month (unlimited users), Enterprise custom. No per-seat pricing.
- Open SourceFree
- Unlimited seats
- Data explorer and report builder
- Native dbt integration
- Scheduled deliveries
- Alerting
- +11 more
- Cloud Pro$3,000/month flat rate, unlimited users and visualizations
- Unlimited users
- Unlimited visualizations
- Native dbt integration with open semantic layer
- Scheduled reports and alerting
- Dashboards as code
- +11 more
- EnterpriseContact sales
- All Cloud Pro features, plus:
- Cloud or on-premises deployment
- SAML 2.0 and SCIM 2.0 provisioning
- Advanced user management with custom roles
- SOC 2 Type II compliance
- +9 more
Rill
From $20/seat/month. Free tier with $250 credit. Hybrid seat + usage-based pricing
- Starter$20/seat/month + $0.15/compute unit-hour
- Platform access
- Unlimited dashboards, reports, alerts
- Embedded analytics (previews only)
- Agentic analytics (1M tokens/seat/month)
- API access (2,500 calls/seat/month, $0.01/call overage)
- +3 more
- Growth$30/seat/month + $500/month embedded + $0.20/compute unit-hour
- Platform access
- Unlimited dashboards, reports, alerts
- Embedded analytics ($500/month up to 100 active seats)
- Agentic analytics (2M tokens/seat + 200k/embedded)
- API access (5,000 calls/seat + 500/embedded, $0.01/call overage)
- +6 more
- EnterpriseContact sales
- Platform access (unlimited seats)
- Unlimited dashboards, reports, alerts
- Embedded analytics (unlimited active seats)
- Agentic analytics (custom quota)
- API access (custom quota)
- +3 more
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- ClickHouse
- DuckDB
- MotherDuck
Lightdash
- BigQuery
- Snowflake
- Redshift
- Databricks
- Postgres
- Trino
- Athena
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Azure DevOps
- Bitbucket
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Google Sheets
- dbt
- Rollstack
- Google Slides
- PowerPoint
Rill
- Claude Code
- Cursor
- ChatGPT
- S3
- Google Cloud Storage
- ClickHouse Cloud
- Druid
- Pinot
- Google SSO
- Microsoft SSO
- Okta
- SAML
- GCS
Lightdash or Rill: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.