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Metabase

Replaces Tableau

License stamp
Open core. AGPL-3.0 outside enterprise/; enterprise/ under a commercial licence Read from the LICENSE file.
GitHub says
NOASSERTION (GitHub could not match a single license, which is why we read the file)
Self-host difficulty
unrated No docker-compose file at the repository root, so we do not score it.
Activity
★ 50,253 stars · last push 2026-11-10 · checked 2026-11-10
Repository
github.com/metabase/metabase
GitHub description
"The easy-to-use open source Business Intelligence and Embedded Analytics tool that lets everyone work with data :bar_chart:"

Self-host vs Tableau

Example values: replace every number with your own. SaaS price prefilled from Tableau pricing, checked 2026-11-10; the other numbers are examples.

Self-hosting saves about $1,980 a year for 20 seats: SaaS $3,600 vs self-host $1,620 (server $144, backups $36, admin time $1,440). Break-even at about 9 seats at these numbers.

Admin hours start from our guess for difficulty unrated and are yours to edit. Tableau price: $15 per user per month (Tableau Standard plan, billed annually). Tableau Standard from $15/user/mo billed annually; Enterprise $35/user/mo billed annually; Cloud+ by quote. Source: vendor pricing page, checked 2026-11-10.