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Metabase

Metabase

Founded by Sameer Al-Sakran in 2015

Explore business data, build visual dashboards, and ask questions in plain English

Pricing model

Free Tier, Paid

Rating

★ Positive

Time to value

Immediate

You can use Metabase to connect your company databases and create visual charts, reports, and interactive dashboards without writing complex code. Non-technical teammates can ask questions in plain English or use the visual query builder to filter and summarize records. Technical users can switch to the direct SQL editor to write custom queries. Metabase also allows you to embed dashboards directly into customer-facing web applications, configure role-based data permissions, track dashboard usage metrics, and schedule automated alerts to deliver report updates to team channels.

What Metabase does

Connect company relational databases and data warehousesBuild interactive multi-filter reporting dashboardsWrite and execute custom SQL queriesEmbed analytical charts into web applications using an SDKDefine standardized data models and reusable metricsConfigure user access groups and row-level permissionsAsk natural language questions to generate instant chartsVisual query builder for exploring data without writing codeDirect SQL editor with syntax highlighting and query inspectionNatural language questioning with an embedded conversational assistantEmbeddable interactive charts and dashboards via React SDKCentralized semantic layer in Data Studio to define canonical metricsMulti-tenant data segregation with granular role-based permissionsAutomated query result and data model cachingUsage analytics to track dashboard views and user activity

Pricing breakdown

Pricing model: Free tier, Paid

PlanList price
Open SourceFree
Starter$100 / mo
Starter (annual billing)$90 / mo, billed annually
Pro$575 / mo
Pro (annual billing)$517.50 / mo, billed annually
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