by Metabase · metabase.com ↗
Open-source BI tool for dashboards, questions, and self-service analytics.
Free open source plus paid cloud subscriptions and quote-only enterprise/custom deployment pricing.
Metabase publicly offers monthly and yearly billing on cloud plans, with yearly pricing shown as a discounted rate versus monthly. The pricing page says yearly billing saves 10% and the Starter and Pro plans include 14-day free trials. Starter includes the first 5 users and Pro includes the first 10 users, with prorated billing for added or deactivated users. Enterprise is quote-only with custom pricing, and Metabase says users are counted as everyone who signs in directly or via SSO. The page also says prices exclude applicable taxes.
Self-hosted open source edition; users are unlimited. The public pricing page lists it as free and does not disclose a paid billing cadence.
First 5 users included in the plan. Additional users are $6 per user per month or $65 per user per year. The plan includes 1,000 transform runs and advanced transforms are add-ons with usage-based charges.
First 10 users included in the plan. Additional users are $12 per user per month or $130 per user per year. The plan includes 1,000 transform runs and 1,000 advanced transform runs; some related features are add-ons.
Price starts at $20,000 / year. User pricing is custom pricing. The page does not publish a self-serve checkout rate.
An add-on line item listed on the plans comparison page and priced separately from the core tiers.
Usage-based overage for standard transforms. Self-hosted plans are unlimited; cloud plans include 1,000 runs before overage charges apply.
Usage-based overage for advanced transforms on cloud plans. The compare page also indicates self-hosted usage is billed at 1¢ per run after the included runs.
Optional AI service billed by token usage; the pricing page says most customers can bring their own Anthropic API key instead.
Optional built-in storage for uploaded spreadsheets or CSVs; pricing scales with row count.
Deployment add-on for customers needing a single-tenant hosted environment.
Deployment add-on for isolated environments requiring air-gapped operation.
A small internal analytics team wants a low-friction BI tool with self-service questions and dashboards.
Expected costFree on Open Source, or $100/month on Starter before any extra user seats or usage-based add-ons.A product team needs customer-facing embedded analytics with stronger permissions and white-labeling.
Expected cost$575/month on Pro before extra users, with 14-day trial availability and usage-based charges for optional features.An enterprise buyer needs procurement support, a dedicated success engineer, and an air-gapped deployment.
Expected costCustom quote starting at $20,000/year.Yes. The public pricing page lists an Open Source plan priced at Free. That edition is self-hosted, and Metabase says it is offered under the AGPL. If you need hosted cloud plans or enterprise features, you move into paid tiers.
No. Metabase publishes fixed monthly and yearly prices for Starter and Pro, but Enterprise is custom pricing and says to talk to sales. The plans page also notes that some deployment features are additional-fee items rather than fixed list prices. Where the company does not disclose a price publicly, the page should be treated as quote-only or not publicly disclosed.
Metabase counts everyone who signs in directly or via SSO as a user for billing purposes. Starter includes the first 5 users and Pro includes the first 10 users, with extra seats billed per user per month or per user per year. The company also bills separately for usage-based items like transforms, advanced transforms, AI tokens, and storage once included credits are exhausted.
