Few years ago we went for ThoughtSpot over Looker. Wish back then Lightdash (LD) was as great as it became now. Fixed this now and moved to LD few months ago. Main highlights: - Open-source or flat low level priced cloud offering. Very clear price calculation approach as it's not consumption or user licenses base. I heard people saying "Lightdash is an open-source Looker", if team keeps the pace and dedication to the product then I bet in few years we will be mostly hearing: "Looker is a closed-source Lightdash" - dbt project as a backbone. You keep all your data logic in the same repo. Convenient ci/cd. - advanced LD specific modeling functionality. Not as mature as LookML, but getting there. - Pretty intuitive for non-technical users with minimal onboardings. Unlocks them with self-service capabilities. At our company small BI maintains models and only few top level reports, the rest of the content created/maintained and communicated by stakeholders' data champions. - Bonus item that I realized only after committing to Ligthdash. There's no limit for the number of projects and user sharing. We started using it extensively to segregate reporting areas and share reports with our clients. That's normally considered a premium feature in classical enterprise BI platforms. That feature allowed us to retire DataStudio reports that were maintained solely due to ease of external sharing. - Very transparent requirements/issue tracking - Supportive, approachable, and reactive Lightdash team. - All communications are slack driven, with a great community. No tickets to create for question, no enterprise portals that get your stuff stuck for weeks.

The seamless integration with dbt is outstanding. Previously our companies only BI was limited to Google Sheets, but Lightdash has made it possible to visualize over 150+ models in under 6 months. Being developer first and having that tight integration into dbt has made standing up this tool with a small team seamless Additionally the customer support has been top notch as the team is very responsive to all our questions

The speed of iteration and helpfulness of the team, and their aptitude to prioritise the most useful features they add to their product. Being able to deploy to Lightdash via CI-CD was a massive time save for our team compared to existing solutions, and really upped the amount of engaged BI users within the company with all the extra content deployed at speed. The bonus aspects of the CLI and API make it a great developer experience, and allow us to integrate it into multiple parts of the analytics workflow, as well as control versioning/ compatibility from a central location. The low barrier to entry for business users really helped shift a bunch of workload from our data team.