Metabase

What is Metabase?

Open-source dashboards with natural language queries.

Who is Metabase best for?

Metabase is best for companies that want dashboards and plain-English questions on their own database.

• Teams that want to self-host

  The open-source edition starts with one Docker command on your own servers, with unlimited users and dashboards and no licence fee.

• Staff who do not write SQL

  People can ask questions in plain English, click through the visual query builder or drill into a chart instead of waiting for an analyst.

• Software companies with customer-facing reports

  Pro embeds charts and dashboards in your own app, keeps each customer's data separate and lets you apply your own branding.

• Data teams setting shared metrics

  Data Studio lets analysts curate trusted tables and metric definitions so people and AI answers work from the same numbers.

How much does Metabase cost?

Metabase is free to self-host as open source, while its cloud plans cost $100 a month for Starter with 5 users or $575 a month for Pro with 10 users, and Enterprise starts at $20,000 a year.

Billed yearly, Starter is $1,080 a year ($90 a month) plus $65 per extra user a year, and Pro is $6,210 a year ($517.50 a month) plus $130 per extra user a year. Starter is offered only as a cloud plan. The Embedded Analytics tab lists the same Pro and Enterprise prices, and customers who view your embeds count as users. Optional usage costs: Metabase's own AI service is $3.75 per million tokens after 1 million included tokens (most teams use their own AI provider key), transforms cost $0.01 a run and advanced transforms $0.02 a run after 1,000 included runs on Starter and Pro, and storage for uploaded spreadsheets starts at $2 per million rows after 1 million free rows. Prices exclude tax. Full pricing on metabase.com. We checked these prices on 28 Sep 2026.

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Is Metabase open source?

Yes. Metabase's code is public under the AGPL 3.0 licence, so you can run it on your own server.

Host it on a serverHostinger, Railway, Elestio and PikaPods set it up on a server for you with a one-click install.

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What are the best Metabase alternatives?

Metabase is an open source alternative to Qlik, Tableau and Supersimple. Apache Superset, Kanaries and Redash do the same job and are open source too.

QlikFreemium

Data integration and analytics made AI-ready.

TableauFreemium

Data visualisation and analytics from Salesforce.

SupersimplePaid

Business questions answered from your data in numbers and words.

Apache SupersetOpen Source

Charts, SQL Lab and interactive dashboards on top of the SQL databases you already run.

KanariesOpen Source

Data into interactive visuals across Python and R.

RedashOpen Source

Browser-based SQL editor that turns queries on 35+ data sources into shared charts and alerts.

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