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Open source business intelligence software

Last updated: October 2024

Metabase Pricing, Features, Reviews and Alternatives

Metabase FAQs

Q. What type of pricing plans does Metabase offer?

Metabase has the following pricing plans:
Pricing model: Free

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Q. Who are the typical users of Metabase?

Metabase has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Small Business


Q. What languages does Metabase support?

Metabase supports the following languages:
English


Q. Does Metabase offer an API?

No, Metabase does not have an API available.

Metabase product overview

What is Metabase?

Metabase is an open source business intelligence software that provides self-service data analytics through an intuitive graphical interface. Users can connect Metabase to databases like MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, and more, and easily create interactive dashboards and reports without coding. Key features include a visual query builder, drag-and-drop dashboard designer, sharing and permissions controls, and native support for SQL. Metabase makes data analytics accessible to everyone in an organization.

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Training options

Documentation

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Metabase features

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Total features

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Visual Analytics
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Metabase users reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

/5

55

Positive reviews

95

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Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8.38/10
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Pros
We now use it for all sorts of things that aren't dashboards. The ability to send alerts if queries return results is great for validation of certain processes.
If you can use SQL you can use Metabase to amazing results and give your company great BI.
Great user experience, great user management, easy to use and everybody learns quickly how to find the information they need.
Cons
It is quite slow, always not just sometimes; also it is very unpleasant for the eye and the layout is very confusing during the first dates.
Our company makes dashboards on metabase and I continuously observe how the graphs crash every now and then. At some point it just fails to load.
This can be so frustrating, because I occasionally need some data urgently and this really impacts my productivity.

Overall rating contenders

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Fernando P.

Computer Software, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Cost x benefit and deliveries great value!

Reviewed a year ago

Great user experience, great user management, easy to use and everybody learns quickly how to find the information they need

Pros

It is easy to use and it is cheapYou can make every analysis you need to understand how your business or product is going and get the insights to what to do next

Cons

I believe for more complex analysis you will need a more robust system like TableauSometimes can be slow to load a lot of data but you can work on that in the infrastructure side

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Internet, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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A very simple and easy to implement Dashboard tool

Reviewed 2 years ago

Metabase is omnipresent in our company: everybody uses it everyday for one thing or another here. It was very easy to implement and we were able to offer great analytics quickly with it. It is not the most advanced tool avaliable, but it offers amazing value as an open source product. It is difficult for us to move away from it because its very expensive competitors offer very little comparatively.

Pros

I love that Metabase is open source and extremely easy to implement. It also offer somewhat advanced features considering its simplicity (like email and slack integrations). I also like the fact that it is a SQL first tool and doesn't require any specific knowledge to use. If you can use SQL you can use Metabase to amazing results and give your company great BI. As an open-source product, Metabase is also constantly evolving: each update comes with new features that are useful for us.

Cons

I believe has efforts in building a metrics and self-service analytics layer (like Looker) but is not very well integrated with the product and seems very complicated to use. Also some of the features have bugs, but most of the time they are fixed very quickly.

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Christopher I.

Commercial Real Estate, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Reviewed 10 days ago

Metabase is a great tool if you have analysts proficient in SQL and want a tool you can use to share out across internal and external sources while not requiring too much custom visualization

Pros

Ease of use - metabase is very straightforward to get set up initially and for new users to create basic items Flexibility with SQL - metabase's best power is still working with it in SQL but the noCode tools are still good as well

Cons

Visualization customizability - there is room to grow on allowing more customization and variety in the visualizations

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Alex F.

Telecommunications, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend1/10

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Metabase is terrible

Reviewed 7 months ago

I hate it and would not recommend it. Bad.

Pros

Easy to ask simple questions using their 'visual' SQL editor

Cons

Absolutely terrible for everything else, ESPECIALLY dashboard creation.

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Anastasia B.

Financial Services, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Intuitive Tool For Data Visualisation

Reviewed 4 months ago

I've been enjoying using Metabase ever since my company set it up for data analytics. I always choose it over tools like Amplitude (although Amplitude also has its advantages).

Pros

Metabase is highly intuitive and easy to use. You don't need to have an extensive knowledge of SQL; it's enough to know the structure of the data sources (an analytics database in our case). There are many ways to manipulate and organise data. Most graphs can be set up within a minute by using "questions". I find that the dashboards are very simple and intuitive as well, and it's easy to arrange data in the way you need.

Cons

Perhaps the only thing I'm missing in Metabase are sequences / funnels, but I don't use them for the majority of my work.

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