BI & dashboards: the tech stack of 40 real products
Dashboards, reporting and querying business data, including AI data analysts.
What sets them apart
Picks at least twice as common here as among products overall, in decisions at least 10 of them show.
The typical stack
The leading pick where at least 8 of them show the decision and the leader has at least a quarter of it.
| Decision | Most common pick | Share | At default usage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Database | 13 of 30 · 43% | — | |
| Frontend Framework | 13 of 27 · 48% | — | |
| LLM API | 18 of 21 · 86% | $10/mo · GPT-6 Luna | |
| Transactional Email | 9 of 16 · 56% | $20/mo · Pro 50k | |
| Backend Framework | 6 of 12 · 50% | — | |
| Hosting | 4 of 12 · 33% | $17/mo · Pay as you go (Lambda + EC2 t4g.small) | |
| Payments | 11 of 12 · 92% | fees on revenue · $410 on $10,000/mo | |
| Database Access & ORMs | 5 of 8 · 63% | — | |
| Product Analytics | 7 of 8 · 88% | $0/mo · Pay-as-you-go |
Monthly bills add up to about $47 at the calculators' default usage, list prices; fees on revenue (Stripe) come on top. Set your own usage →
What they chose, decision by decision
Among the BI & dashboards that show each choice, from makers' products and open-source code alike.
Small samples, fewer than 8 products: AI SDK & Agent Framework (LangChain 4, LlamaIndex 1) · Authentication (Auth0 2, Auth.js 2) · Web Analytics (Vercel Web Analytics 2, Plausible Analytics 1) · Lifecycle Email (Loops 5) · File Storage (Amazon S3 2, Vercel Blob 1) · Vector Database (Chroma 3, pgvector 2) · AI App Builders (Lovable 2, v0 1) · Error Monitoring (Sentry 3)
BI & dashboards we track
31 makers' products and 9 open-source projects. Makers' products first.