Metabase

About Metabase

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Metabase

All products by Metabase reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

MetabaseAI Analytics

Open-source business intelligence with AI-powered querying and embedded analytics

From $90/mo8.2/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Metabase

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Metabase's product on their own terms. They landed within 0.4 points of each other, an unusually strong consensus.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Metabase competes with, and how they differ.

Microsoft Power BI7.8/10

Enterprise-focused BI tool bundled with Microsoft 365/Azure ecosystem, using a licensed per-user pricing model versus Metabase's open-source/self-hosted approach.

9 products reviewed on TopReviewed

Looker7.9/10

Google Cloud's BI platform centers on a governed semantic modeling layer (LookML) and deep BigQuery integration, targeting larger enterprises versus Metabase's lighter-weight, SQL-first setup.

2 products reviewed on TopReviewed

Tableau7.7/10

Salesforce-owned visual analytics tool emphasizing advanced charting and drag-and-drop exploration for business users, sold on enterprise licensing rather than Metabase's open-core model.

2 products reviewed on TopReviewed

ThoughtSpot7.8/10

AI-driven search-based analytics platform aimed at large enterprises, priced at a premium tier above Metabase's open-source/free offering.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Hex8.1/10

Notebook-style analytics workspace combining SQL, Python, and dashboards for data teams, positioned more toward data scientists than Metabase's broader business-user audience.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

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Preset

Managed hosting service built on open-source Apache Superset, directly competing with Metabase's open-source BI niche and self-hosted/cloud pricing options.

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Metabase's history, with sources.

1. July 2023Milestone

   Critical pre-auth RCE vulnerability (CVE-2023-38646) disclosed

   Security researchers at Assetnote reported an unauthenticated remote-code-execution flaw affecting Metabase versions before 0.46.6.1; the CVSS 9.8 bug left roughly 20,000 internet-exposed instances vulnerable before patching.

   thecyberexpress.com
2. Aug 19, 2021Funding

   Series B — $30M led by Insight Partners

   Metabase raised a $30 million Series B led by Insight Partners, with Expa and NEA participating, bringing total funding to $42.5 million.

   techcrunch.com
3. Sep 14, 2020Launch

   Launches Metabase Cloud

   Metabase introduced a hosted version of its BI platform, Metabase Cloud, responding to demand from companies that wanted the open-source tool without operating it themselves; at the time Metabase had been downloaded 52 million times by 24,000+ companies.

   metabase.com
4. February 2019Funding

   First disclosed funding — $13M led by New Enterprise Associates

   Metabase raised just over $13 million in its first publicly disclosed funding round, led by New Enterprise Associates, according to an SEC filing.

   news.crunchbase.com
5. Oct 21, 2015Launch

   Open-sources the Metabase BI platform

   Metabase publicly open-sourced its business-intelligence tool under an AGPL license, pitching a self-service alternative to expensive enterprise BI software that could be installed in five minutes.

   metabase.com
6. November 2014Founded

   Founded by Sameer Al-Sakran and Allen Gilliland

   Metabase was founded in November 2014 by Sameer Al-Sakran and Allen Gilliland, developed within Garrett Camp's venture studio Expa before spinning out as an independent company.

   news.crunchbase.com