Metabase

Open source Business Intelligence and Embedded Analytics.

4.9•23 reviews•

705 followers

Open source Business Intelligence and Embedded Analytics.

4.9•23 reviews•

705 followers

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Metabase is the easy-to-use, open source Business Intelligence tool that lets everyone work with data, with or without SQL. Make self-service analytics finally happen in your org, or embed Metabase in your app for customer-facing analytics.

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The community submitted 23 reviews to tell us what they like about Metabase, what Metabase can do better, and more.

4.9

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Reviews praise Metabase for quick setup, clean UI, and enabling non‑technical teams to build and share dashboards without SQL. Makers of

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highlight effortless exploration, fast onboarding, and clear, decision‑driving insights. Users like its open‑source flexibility, strong self‑serve analytics, and smooth embedding. Common asks: better exports (email/PDF), native integrations (e.g., Mixpanel), KPI glossary features, and more product‑manager‑oriented docs. Overall, a dependable, lightweight BI staple that scales from solo use to teams, with room for polish in reporting workflows.

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easy setup (2)

intuitive UI (2)

no SQL required (2)

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•1 review

Metabase has become indispensable to our product workflow at Slytrunk. It is powerful, flexible and reliable, and I would recommend it to any founder without the tens of thousands to spend on Periscope or Domo. It requires some setup, and there is a learning curve, but it's IMO a great investment of time. One thing that could be improved is more product manager focused documentation with cookbooks for common queries, such as those commonly rolled out for Google Analytics (BigQuery).

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Extremely intuitive and easy to use, with the ability to build on top of queries that you have created before.

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•4 reviews

Love Metabase, I think they should invest in features to help companies create a KPI dictionary/glossary

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•2 reviews

Metabase is an open-source browser-based BI software that works with many databases including mySQL Mariadb etc. It can be self-hosted so I installed it on-premise for my small company. Its features are relatively simple, but it is easy for a non proficient user to write requests in the tables even without knowledge of SQL or programming language. It is also easy to share and assign data with the team. The weak point of the software is when you export your data, currently emailing doesn’t work well and PDF has limitations. (V0.48). But overall great and useful software for data analysis.

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I use Metabase every day. It's an easy-to-use yet powerful analytics tool on top of our database. It simplifies data exploration and reporting for both technical and non-technical users. It would be even better if Metabase could add native integrations with product analytics tools like MixPanel to provide a truly centralized view of all metrics

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•1 review

Extremely easy to set up even on your local machine for some quick-and-dirty BI – you don't need to use Excel to crunch the numbers or create charts. As a designer, I love the UI – simplicity and usability! Good job, Metabase.

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•1 review

I deployed community edition to build our PoultryCare SaaS business insights. Easy to deploy, friendly to build, and enterprise grade as open-source. All wins :)

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Its features are relatively simple, but it is easy for a non proficient user to write requests in the tables even without knowledge of SQL or programming language. It is also easy to share and assign data with the team. The weak point of the software is when you export your data, currently emailing doesn’t work well and PDF has limitations.

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•8 reviews

Metabase has been a game-changer for us! 🚀 Super easy to set up, intuitive UI, and the ability to explore data without writing SQL is a huge plus. The embedded analytics feature is especially powerful if you want to bring dashboards directly into your product. Big fan of the open-source flexibility too!

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open source (1)easy setup (2)intuitive UI (2)embedded analytics (1)no SQL required (2)

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What's great

easy setup (2)intuitive UI (2)no SQL required (2)

I like Metabase, we've used it in the company I worked at for a while, and as a BI analyst I get most of my day-to-day tasks done there. As a non-technical user it saves lots of time as I don't rely on devs for SQL and tasks that would otherwise take much time (e.g. visualization), are done quicker. It is also great for cross-departmental communication.

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data visualization (1)

Despite its growth and (I would assume) huge budgets going into understanding what their customers really want, the exporting dashboards and their customization elements are very hard to navigate. What I mean is that, just like everything else is optimized for simplicity, so should data visualization be as well. Perhaps a tool that you can have a look at that does a great job and is similar to Metabase is TalkBI. You simply click on one button and poof - report is made. Other than that, perhaps it would be possible to review the SQL generated by Metabase so we can help improve its effectiveness for more complex queries.

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