G2

Pierre Z.

Data & Analytics Lead

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/5/2026

"Accelerating business decisions thanks to a Governed AI-ready self-serve tool"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Lightdash?

Semantic layer, Lightdash AI, and Lightdash MCP are the main reasons I’m using Lightdash. They ship very frequent updates and keep adding new features, which I really appreciate. Unlimited seats is another big plus. Overall, nearly everything is code-based, which helps a lot with AI workflows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lightdash?

Overall, there’s no major issue; it’s more a collection of small friction points here and there. A few that come to mind as of today (November 2026): having to re-run a query after making changes to a chart; in Explore, when searching for a dimension/metric, the search only checks and matches the object name and not the descriptions; in Explores, the field-description pop-up windows are small and require an extra click to “Read full description” when it's a bit long; there’s no query cost estimate in the Explore SQL panel, despite working with BigQuery; and the “Custom Dimension” window feels annoyingly small, even when “expanded”. That said, you could argue that if you let Lightdash AI do the work for you, you won’t be bothered by these few bits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lightdash solving and how is that benefiting you?

Lightdash gives our business a self-serve, governed single source of truth. It allows any user to access data that’s been vetted by the team in a consistent, controlled way, so we’re working from the same definitions and metrics. With Lightdash AI, stakeholders can also do additional on-the-fly analysis, either directly in Lightdash or via Slack. As a result, we spend less time questioning how we arrived at a number, less time digging into why a KPI landed where it did, and more time focusing on what to do next to move that KPI in the direction we want. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.