Looking for a free alternative to Qlik Cloud Analytics? Here are 9 business intelligence worth trying — 4 with a free tier. Qlik Cloud Analytics itself is free trial.
| Tool | Qlik Cloud Analytics (you searched) | Zoho Analytics | Metabase | Databricks Genie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | trial | freemium | free | freemium |
| Best for | Qlik Answers gives GenAI answers grounded in unstructured content | Free plan: 2 users, 10K rows, 5 workspaces, unlimited reports and dashboards | Self-hostable open-source BI with dashboards and questions | Natural-language conversational analytics over Databricks Lakehouse (Genie Spaces) |
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Zoho Analytics is the closest free alternative to Qlik Cloud Analytics: same Business Intelligence sub-category, and it is free tier + paid. Free plan: 2 users, 10K rows, 5 workspaces, unlimited reports and dashboards
Yes — 4 of the 9 alternatives listed here are free or freemium: Zoho Analytics, Metabase, Databricks Genie, Sigma Computing. The other 5 are trial or paid.
Qlik Cloud Analytics is free trial. That is why this page exists: the free and freemium options are listed first below.
They are the other tools in Business Intelligence, then the rest of Data Analysis & Business, ordered free tiers first and capped at 9. There is no sponsorship and no paid placement in that ordering — only the pricing tier decides.
✦ WhyA Qlik Cloud Analytics alternative — Free plan: 2 users, 10K rows, 5 workspaces, unlimited reports and dashboards.
✦ WhyA Qlik Cloud Analytics alternative — Self-hostable open-source BI with dashboards and questions.
✦ WhyA Qlik Cloud Analytics alternative — Natural-language conversational analytics over Databricks Lakehouse (Genie Spaces).
✦ WhyA Qlik Cloud Analytics alternative — Spreadsheet-native BI that writes back directly to cloud warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks).
✦ WhyA Qlik Cloud Analytics alternative — Search- and agent-driven analytics (Spotter).
✦ WhyA Qlik Cloud Analytics alternative — Combines BI dashboards, live spreadsheets, and SQL editing in one tool.
✦ WhyA Qlik Cloud Analytics alternative — "Smartbooks" mix SQL, Python and no-code in one AI notebook.
✦ WhyA Qlik Cloud Analytics alternative — Translates natural language into governed SQL over Snowflake tables.
✦ WhyA Qlik Cloud Analytics alternative — Domo.AI layer adds AI apps/agents on top of its unified data cloud.