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Metabase

Ask questions of your data without SQL

provisional — pending verificationAGPL-3.0/commercialself-hostable

Value Index

4.0 / 5

Transparency4

Value density5

Privacy5

Efficiency2

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Why it's listed

Metabase is listed in bi & internal tools because it competes on utility: ask questions of your data without sql. It's VC-backed — we note this openly and watch the monetization path; the license and self-host route are the safeguards. Licensed AGPL-3.0/commercial; pricing: free (ce) / paid. It's on the heavier side for its category — we score that honestly and say so. This entry is provisional — the scores are seeded estimates pending our full manual rubric pass, and the verification date will appear here once complete.

Facts

License: AGPL-3.0/commercial
Pricing: Free (CE) / paid
Funding model: VC-backed OSS
Self-hostable: Yes — deploy difficulty: easy
Replaces: Tableau, Looker
Verification: Provisional — scores are seeded estimates pending manual verification

Evidence notes

JVM

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