Chartbrew
Live KPI dashboards from your databases and APIs
About Chartbrew
Chartbrew is a reporting and dashboard platform that connects to databases, APIs, and analytics tools and turns the data into live dashboards, embedded charts, and client reports. It is available as a hosted subscription or as a free self-hosted deployment from its GitHub repository, and targets product teams, SaaS companies, and agencies that want KPI tracking without a full BI stack.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Self-hosted version is free with no usage limits
- Connects directly to SQL and NoSQL databases, REST APIs, and Stripe without an ETL layer
- Client accounts and embeddable reports suit agencies and SaaS teams sharing dashboards externally
- AI query assistant and Slack agent help non-SQL users build charts
- Active open-source project with around 4k GitHub stars and recent commits
- Hosted plans are cheaper than most BI tools at the small-team tier
Cons
- No free hosted plan; the cloud version is trial-only after 14 days
- Fewer native connectors than Metabase, Looker Studio, or Power BI
- Starter plan limits auto-refresh to every 6 hours and caps you at 3 team members
- Visualization and modeling options are lighter than full BI platforms
- Small company, so enterprise support depth is limited
Key Features
Database and API connectors
Connect PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, ClickHouse, TimescaleDB, Firestore, Supabase, REST APIs, and tools like Stripe, Google Analytics, Plausible, Airtable, Strapi, and Jira.
Reusable datasets
Build a dataset once, reuse it across charts and dashboards, and join data from multiple sources.
Live dashboards
Create dashboards with KPI cards, charts, tables, goals, and filters that refresh on a schedule from the source data.
AI assistant
Get help writing SQL and MongoDB queries and exploring data, with a Slack AI agent for asking questions about your data in channels.
Alerts and snapshots
Schedule data refreshes, send dashboard snapshots, and trigger chart alerts through Slack, email, or webhooks, including anomaly detection.
Embedded charts and reports
Embed individual charts or full reports in your own product or site, with removable Chartbrew branding.
Client accounts
Give agency or SaaS clients controlled access to their own dashboards (up to 500 client accounts on the Professional plan).
Reporting API
Create and manage charts and dashboards programmatically through the Chartbrew REST API.
Self-hosted option
Run Chartbrew on your own servers with Docker or DigitalOcean at no cost and without plan limits.
Pricing
- Deploy on your own servers
- No plan limits
- Docker and DigitalOcean guides
- Community support via Discord
- $290 billed yearly
- 10 dashboards
- 30 charts per dashboard
- 3 team members
- Unlimited data sources
- Auto-refresh every 6 hours
- 2k monthly AI credits
- Slack AI agent for 1 workspace
- $990 billed yearly
- 100 dashboards
- 60 charts per dashboard
- 10 team members
- Auto-refresh every hour
- 10k monthly AI credits
- Slack AI agent for unlimited workspaces
- Hourly dashboard snapshots
- $2,990 billed yearly
- 500 dashboards
- 80 charts per dashboard
- Unlimited team members
- 500 client accounts
- Auto-refresh every 30 minutes
- 50k monthly AI credits
- Unlimited accounts, dashboards, and charts
- Custom integrations
- Priority support
- Custom SLA and compliance options
- On-premise deployment options
Best For
Product KPI tracking
Monitor revenue, signups, activation, and usage from your production database in one live dashboard.
Agency client reporting
Build branded dashboards per client and give each client controlled access through client accounts.
Embedded customer analytics
Embed charts or full reports inside a SaaS product so customers see their own metrics.
Stripe revenue dashboards
Pull Stripe payment data alongside database metrics to track MRR and growth.
Automated stakeholder updates
Send scheduled dashboard snapshots and Slack or email alerts when metrics change.
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