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Metabase

Ask questions of your data without SQL

provisional — pending verificationAGPL-3.0/commercialself-hostable
Arete score
4.0 / 5
Autonomy5
Return5
Efficiency2
Transparency4
ἀρετή “AH-reh-tay” — excellence: a thing being good at what it’s for. Mean of the four principle scores. How we score →
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~ Provisional — seeded estimate by a human researcher; full rubric pass pending. Working notes ↓

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

Recorded during the rubric pass — every score must carry evidence a stranger could re-check.

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