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Web App

Metabase

Ask questions of your data and build dashboards without code.

Visit Metabase4.7

  • Rating

    4.7 / 5

  • Pricing

    Freemium

  • Difficulty

    Intermediate

  • Works on

    Web

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What is Metabase?

Metabase is an open-source business intelligence tool that lets non-technical people ask questions of their data with point and click, with a SQL editor for harder queries. You can build dashboards with filters, set up alerts and subscriptions, and run it yourself or use Metabase Cloud. The open-source edition is AGPL-3.0.

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Pros: what Metabase does well

  • Point-and-click questions, no SQL needed
  • Dashboards with alerts and subscriptions
  • Self-host or use the hosted cloud

Cons: where it falls short

  • Needs a database to connect to
  • Some features sit in paid commercial editions

Who Metabase is for

Teams that want everyone to explore company data without writing code.

Who can skip it

Solo users with no database to analyse.

Metabase alternatives

Not sold on Metabase? These do a similar job, and each card says what it has in common.

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Plausible Analytics

Focus: website stats, privacy and self-hosted. Shares analytics and open source with Metabase. Free (Metabase: Freemium). Rated 4.6 (Metabase: 4.7).

Web AppFreeWeb
4.6Visit

DBeaver

Focus: database, data and query. Shares sql and open source with Metabase. A desktop app, not a web app. Free (Metabase: Freemium). Adds macOS, Windows and Linux. Rated 4.6 (Metabase: 4.7).

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Windows
4.6Visit

Formbricks

Focus: surveys, user research and self-hosted. Shares open source with Metabase. Rated 4.4 (Metabase: 4.7).

Web AppFree planWeb, Cross-Platform
4.4Visit

Linkwarden

Focus: bookmarks, read it later and web archive. Shares open source and github with Metabase. Free (Metabase: Freemium). Adds iOS, Android and Chrome. Same 4.7 rating.

Web AppFreeWeb, iOS
4.7Visit

ArchiveBox

Focus: web archive, bookmarks and self-hosted. Shares open source and github with Metabase. Free (Metabase: Freemium). Adds macOS and Linux. Rated 4.6 (Metabase: 4.7).

Web AppFreeWeb, macOS
4.6Visit

Umami

Focus: web analytics, privacy and self-hosted. Shares open source and github with Metabase. Free (Metabase: Freemium). Rated 4.6 (Metabase: 4.7).

Web AppFreeWeb
4.6Visit

Free alternatives to Metabase

Want to spend nothing? These free picks cover similar ground.

Dozzle

Focus: docker, logs and monitoring. Shares open source and github with Metabase. Free (Metabase: Freemium). Rated 4.5 (Metabase: 4.7).

Web AppFreeWeb
4.5Visit

LimeSurvey

Focus: surveys, forms and questionnaires. Shares open source and github with Metabase. Free (Metabase: Freemium). Rated 4.5 (Metabase: 4.7).

Web AppFreeWeb
4.5Visit

MeTube

Focus: video download, audio and yt-dlp. Shares open source and github with Metabase. Free (Metabase: Freemium). Rated 4.5 (Metabase: 4.7).

Web AppFreeWeb
4.5Visit

Shiori

Focus: bookmarks, read later and self-hosted. Shares open source and github with Metabase. Free (Metabase: Freemium). Adds Chrome and Firefox. Rated 4.5 (Metabase: 4.7).

Web AppFreeWeb, Chrome
4.5Visit

dbt-charts

Focus: dbt and yaml. Shares sql and dashboards with Metabase. An automation tool, not a web app. Free (Metabase: Freemium). Rated 4.4 (Metabase: 4.7).

Automation ToolFreeWeb, Cross-Platform
4.4Visit

DecisionBox

Focus: data warehouse, ai agents and automation. Shares analytics and sql with Metabase. An AI tool, not a web app. Free (Metabase: Freemium). Rated 4.4 (Metabase: 4.7).

AI ToolFreeWeb, Cross-Platform
4.4Visit
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