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Same widgets.
More you can do with them.
Every row starts with what OpenBB Workspace and Workspace Lite already give you. BDOBB keeps that behaviour wherever it reads the shared contract, and the + adds marks show what it layers on top.
Shipping in v10.0.0
Since v8.0 to v10.0
Planned
| Feature | OpenBB Workspace | Workspace Lite | BDOBB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getting started | |||
| Shape | Hosted web app for teams, with enterprise and on-premises options. | The full Workspace in one Docker image: hub, web app, Redis and nginx, on SQLite by default. | + addsA desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux, a browser build, and iPadOS from v7. No server to run. |
| Accounts | Accounts, sharing and administration. | Email login and an admin console with roles; other sign-in methods locked off. | No account needed. Optional Workspace sign-in syncs display settings such as font size and decimals, and dashboards and apps both ways where the server offers them. |
| Backends | Custom backends through widgets.json and apps.json. | The same, configured in the container. | = same contractConnections with Test, per-backend credentials and provider-key badges, plus Connections export and import as backends.json. Everything BDOBB implements |
| Tables and pivots | |||
| Tables | AG Grid tables with sort, filter, column controls and a chart view. | The same, with AG Grid Enterprise under OpenBB's licence key. | + addsBDOBB's own virtualised table: pinned columns, multi-sort, transpose and per-card saved state. No commercial grid licence. |
| Live grid | live_grid widgets that stream over a websocket. | The same. | = reads live_grid+ addsA full table card: snapshot over HTTP, then each row merged in place by its identity column, with saved sort, filters and pins. logo, rangeBar and percentKey columns draw logos, 52-week bars and percentages. v10.0+ |
| Pivot | AG Grid pivot mode: one aggregation over a numeric column. | The same. | + addsA report model in a Pivot drawer: the same field as several measures, formulas over totals, Pages, category and result filters, and totals that never invent a zero. Tour the drawer |
| Changing data source | Widgets read whatever the backend returns. | The same. | + addsReport models name fields, not vendors. On OpenBB Open Data Platform standard models, switch to another provider of the same model and the pivot carries over unchanged. See how |
| Aggregation choice | Chosen by the grid. | Chosen by the grid. | + addsNothing is summed until you choose how. Nine aggregations, from Sum to Unique count; First and Last need a date category. |
| Date grouping | Grid grouping by column values. | The same. | + addsCategories transform dates into Y, Q, M, and fiscal FY and FQ that require each company's year end rather than guessing December. |
| Financial statements | Grouped financials widgets. | The same. | + addsVersion-pinned Statement templates and a Statement view that folds sections by fiscal period. Mixed currencies or units show a cell error instead of a wrong total. |
| Linked views | Parameter groups shared between widgets. | The same. | = keeps groups+ addsLinked tables and charts that follow a source table's presented rows and selection. See it |
| Dates and time | |||
| Relative dates | $currentDate with h, d, w, M and y offsets, such as $currentDate-1w. | The same source, which also reads quarters and a b business-day unit; one offset per value. | = accepts $currentDate+ addsA full grammar: T-5bd, trade_date, session_close, Q-4, FQ-4..FQ0, T-MON..T+FRI, EXP. Try it live |
| Trading calendar | No exchange holidays in date offsets. | Business days are weekdays, with no exchange holidays. | + addsBusiness-day steps and session anchors resolved against exchange holidays and early closes, with a bundled NYSE calendar as fallback. |
| Calendar view | — | — | + addsAny table with a date column can show a day, week or month calendar, with filters saved on the card. EODHD economic and earnings calendars filter by Source › Release › Statistic, or by Type and Series. v9.0+ |
| Layout | |||
| Dashboards | Dashboards with tabs, minimise and full-screen widgets. | The same. | = same idea+ addsDocked parameter panels, titlebar chips, nested folders and read-only viewer windows. |
| Pinned widgets | — | — | + addsPin one widget to the top or bottom edge of a dashboard; it holds while the rest of the tab scrolls. v8.0+ |
| Locked widgets | — | — | + addsA band of widgets on every dashboard and every tab, mounted once so live feeds never reconnect. Edited on a WYSIWYG canvas with OK and Cancel. v8.0+ See it |
| News wire | newsfeed widgets a backend serves. | The same. | = reads newsfeed+ addsA News built-in on an rss-ticker server: feed tabs you define, highlight keywords, a list or an auto-scrolling strip, and rss-agg.json import and export. v8.0+ |
| Multi-dashboard workspaces | — | — | + addsSeveral dashboards on screen at once, in Full Screen or Laptop layouts or your own saved layout. |
| Screen-aware layouts | — | — | + addsMinimum resolutions per workspace, best-fit choice at launch and uniform zoom. |
| AI | |||
| Agents | OpenBB Copilot with prompts, skills, MCP servers and custom agents. | Copilot UI; OpenBB's own Copilot needs an AI service Lite leaves unset, so custom agents are the self-hosted route. | = custom-agent protocolRita over OpenBB's custom-agent protocol, with any OpenAI-compatible model. |
| Agent acts on the app | Workspace MCP tools for widgets and dashboards. | The MCP sidecar is not started. | + addsEighteen local tools, from create_dashboard to arrange_table and pin_card, each change on an Undo bar. |
| Charts and interchange | |||
| Charts | Plotly, Highcharts and Vega-Lite. | The same; TradingView Advanced Charts is not in the source. | = reads the same specsPlotly, with Highcharts and Vega-Lite translated into it, and candles on Lightweight Charts. Reusable studies are Planned |
| Import and export | Export and import apps. | The same, plus account-export import. | = plain OpenBB apps.json+ addsA BDOBB-compatible profile that also carries pivots, links, fiscal and calendar state and Statement folds, validated before anything is written. One Save… picks Strict OpenBB Workspace or BDOBB Workspace. |
| Excel | An Excel add-in against a Workspace hub. | The same add-in. | XLSX export of tables and Statement views. |
How to read this page. Workspace Lite was read from its source (OpenBB-finance/workspace, snapshot
be00e95, 30 Sep 2026); OpenBB Workspace rows follow OpenBB's public documentation. BDOBB rows follow the v10.0.0 source and help (Adventures-OpenBQ/bdobb main); a version chip marks the release a feature arrived in, and Planned marks a plan. The hosted address pro.openbb.co now announces BQ Workspace as Workspace's replacement; this page will be updated as that product ships.
Run them together
A team on Lite.
An analyst on BDOBB.
One backend.
Because all three read the same contract, nothing has to be rewritten to try BDOBB. Add the same backends, open the same apps, and keep the team server for sharing.
- Same widgets. A backend's
widgets.jsonlights up in BDOBB unchanged; 23 widget types draw natively, from tables and charts to PDFs and live grids. - Same dashboards. Plain OpenBB (now OpenBQ)
apps.jsonimports and exports both ways. - Same server. Sign in to a Workspace server to sync font size and decimals, and dashboards and apps where it offers them.
