Lightdash pricing 2026: plans and costs
Quick pricing summary
- Open Source: $0 month (self-hosted)
- Cloud Pro: $3,000 month
- Enterprise: Custom (contact sales)
- Worth noting: Open Source is free and self-hosted. 21-day free trial, no payment details required. Startup discounts available. Feature matrix yes/no checkmarks not legible in source text.
Plans
Open Source
$0 month (self-hosted)
- Hosted by you
- Access to Lightdash OSS only
- Manage your own setup, upgrades and infrastructure
- Support via Lightdash community Slack only
Cloud Pro
$3,000 month
- Unlimited users
- Unlimited visualizations
- Native dbt integration + open semantic layer
- Scheduled reports and alerting
- Manage charts and dashboards as code
- Governed self-serve via metrics catalog and explorer
- Dedicated human support
- Guided onboarding and tailored training sessions
- Automated migration from current BI provider
- AI agents and MCP
- Embedding via iframe and ReactSDK add-on
Enterprise
Custom contact sales
- Everything in Pro
- Deployment flexibility (Cloud or On Prem)
- SSO + SAML + SCIM 2.0
- Custom roles
- SOC 2-compliant with HIPAA and BAA support
- Hands-on migration support
- Priority support with defined SLAs
- Dedicated onboarding and success reviews
- Early access to new features
What you get on each plan
| Feature | Open Source | Cloud Pro | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Included seats | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Version history | 3 days | 30 days | 60 days |
| Usage analytics and insights | Basic | Advanced | Custom |
| AI agents | — | Custom pricing | Custom pricing |
| Data Apps | — | Custom pricing | Custom pricing |
| Embedding | — | Pay as you go or $790/month per Embed Worker | Usage based pricing |
| CSV export | N/A | 3M cells | Custom |
| Support | Community Slack Group | Private Slack channel, Live chat | Private Slack channel and Premium support |
| Response SLA | 3 days | 1 day | 8 hours |
| SSO | Google, Okta, Azure, Custom, other | ||
| Deployment region | N/A | US and EU | Custom |
| HIPAA BAA | — | $490 per month | Custom |
Hidden costs & add-ons
| Cost driver | Price | When it applies |
|---|---|---|
| Embedding (Pay as you go) | First 1000 loads free, then $0.05/load | Cloud Pro |
| Embedding (Predictable) | $790/month for 100k loads per Embed Worker | Cloud Pro |
| Embedding | Usage based pricing | Enterprise |
| Data Apps | Custom pricing | Cloud Pro, Enterprise |
| HIPAA BAA | $490 per month | Cloud Pro (Custom for Enterprise) |
Lightdash pricing vs alternatives
| Brand | Entry price | Free plan | Model | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lightdash | Free; paid from $3,000 / mo | Yes | Flat tiers | — | |
| Mixpanel | Contact sales | Yes | Usage-based | Product, growth, and data teams who want to answer questions about user behavior without writing SQL or waiting on engineering | Compare → |
| Microsoft Power BI | — | — | — | — | Compare → |
| Tableau | — | — | — | — | Compare → |
| Looker | — | — | — | — | Compare → |
List prices as published on www.lightdash.com/pricing. Totals are worked examples, not quotes.