Metabase
FreemiumOpen-source business intelligence platform that makes it easy for anyone to ask questions and learn from data without SQL knowledge.
What is Metabase?
Metabase is an open-source business intelligence tool built to make data accessible beyond the analytics team. Its visual query builder lets non-technical users filter, group and chart data without writing SQL, while analysts can drop into raw SQL when needed. It also ships an embedding SDK for putting analytics inside your own product, and Metabot for natural-language questions. The open-source edition is genuinely free to download and self-host under AGPL v3. Cost clarity matters here because free has conditions. Self-hosting shifts spend from licence fees to infrastructure and admin time, which reviewers estimate in the thousands annually once you account for it properly. Cloud Starter and Pro plans run roughly $100 and $575 monthly with additional per-user charges layered on, and the features enterprise buyers usually want, including advanced governance, sit on a considerably more expensive Enterprise tier.
Key Features
How to Use Metabase
✅ Best For
- Startup and scale-up engineering teams who want a free, self-hosted BI tool that lets the whole company explore data without submitting requests to the data team, cutting analytics lead times from days to minutes.
- SaaS developers building customer-facing analytics into their application who need an affordable, open-source embedded analytics option with a straightforward SDK and active community support.
❌ Not For
- Large enterprises requiring heavy-duty data governance, enterprise SSO, fine-grained role hierarchies, and advanced security controls, as these features are limited in the free open-source tier.
- Business users who need predictive analytics, machine learning model integration, or complex data transformation capabilities beyond dashboards and ad-hoc SQL queries.
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Pricing
- ✓Self-hosted
- ✓unlimited users
- ✓core features
- ✓community support
- ✓Up to 5 users
- ✓Metabase Cloud managed hosting
- ✓Advanced permissions
- ✓SSO
- ✓audit logs
- ✓priority support
- ✓Multi-instance
- ✓dedicated infrastructure
- ✓SAML
- ✓custom SLAs
Prompts to Try
How many new users signed up last week broken down by acquisition channel?
Show me which support tickets take longest to resolve and who they're assigned to
What is our daily active user trend for the past 90 days?
Which product features are used most often by enterprise vs free-tier accounts?
Alert me when daily revenue drops below $10,000