Cube vs Lightdash

Cube vs Lightdash
Fact	Cube	Lightdash
Language	Rust	TypeScript
Licence	Other	Other
Stars	21k	6.2k
Latest	v1.7.50	2.446.0
Last push	2026-10-06	2026-10-06
Release cadence	about 2 days between releases	about 1 day between releases
Active contributors	22+ commit authors on the default branch in the last 90 days	17+ commit authors on the default branch in the last 90 days
Flags	none	none

How they relate

Both replace Looker. Alternatives to Looker →
PartialCubeSemantic layer with metrics, caching and SQL, REST and GraphQL APIs; charts come from other tools.
Full replacementLightdashMetrics and dimensions defined in dbt instead of LookML.

v1.7.502026-10-02tesseract: Bound multi-stage stages and stop the pre-aggregation walk doubling per level (#12091) (c574673)
v1.7.492026-10-02api-gateway: Reject request ids with forbidden characters (#12081) (fd75d84)
v1.7.482026-10-01cubesql: Keep date filters past 2262-04-11 from aborting the planner (#11978) (fd07cc2)
v1.7.472026-09-29cubesql: Always output 6 fractional digits for .US in TO_CHAR (#12038) (c9565a1)
v1.7.462026-09-26cubeorchestrator: Render Arrow binary columns as hex strings (#12006) (0aa1a28)

2.446.02026-10-06documents: create personal Documents without a Space (#30545) (3f982c0)
2.445.12026-10-06ai-reviews: join the Slack channel before posting review notifications (#30572) (d6b88e5)
2.445.02026-10-06data-apps: make coding-agent cost optimizations the default (#30543) (0032385)
2.444.22026-10-06learn: the library shows a lesson once when it covers several permissions (CS-354) (#30552) (44a1544), closes #30451
2.444.12026-10-06dashboards: keep desktop tile layout in headless exports (#30565) (74f406d), closes #30563

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