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Metabase

BI and reports for everyone in the organisation

Can replace
Tableau, Looker
Where the data is stored
Wherever you run the tool
Savings
Run your own numbers in the savings calculator

About Metabase

Tool for questions, dashboards and reports on top of your databases, usable without SQL and with an SQL editor for harder queries. Code outside the enterprise directory is AGPL; that directory and its binaries are under the Metabase Commercial License.

What it can replace

  • Tableau

    Partial alternativeVerified
    Basis:
    The project's own material
    Provenance:
    Official source
    Migration effort:
    Not assessed
    Confidence in the assessment:
    Not assessed
    Last checked:

    Officiell sida: Metabase som öppet, självhostbart alternativ till Tableau

  • Looker

    Partial alternativeProposed
    Basis:
    SIAX's assessment
    Provenance:
    SIAX record
    Migration effort:
    Not assessed
    Confidence in the assessment:
    Not assessed
    Last checked:

    SIAX:s kategoribedömning; projektets eget material (README, webbplats) nämner inte tjänsten som alternativ vid kontroll 2026-10-29

Feature coverage

The features have not been assessed yet. We show no coverage without evidence.

Three separate assessments

Licence, project health and security are reported separately. We never combine them into one score.

Licence

Licence (SPDX)
AGPL-3.0
Verified · Official source
Status
OSI-approved licence
Type
Open core: some parts have another licence
Commercial use
Allowed
Parts under another licence
  • enterprise/: Metabase Commercial License
Verified against
the upstream LICENSE file

Project health

Not verified. No figures are shown until they have been retrieved automatically from the source.

Security

Not assessed by SIAX. No security assessment is shown without evidence.

Operations and data control

Deployment options
Self-hosted, Vendor's cloud
Verified · Official source
Packaging
docker, docker-compose
Verified · Official source
Databases
postgres, mysql, mariadb
Minimum resources
Unknown
Sign-in (SSO)
LDAP
Verified · Official source
Export
Unknown

Data residency and GDPR

Glossary: Data residency

For organisations operating in Sweden or elsewhere in the EU. Only sourced facts are shown. This is not legal advice.

Data location
You decide: when you run the tool yourself, the data stays where you run it, for example in a data centre in Sweden or elsewhere in the EU. Inferred
Data control features
None documented yet Unknown
Run by SIAX
The hosting provider and region of SIAX Cloud are listed in the list of sub-processors.

GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) applies to personal data processed in Sweden as in the rest of the EU. Transfers to countries outside the EU/EEA are governed by Chapter V.

Product and company names belong to their respective owners and are used here only to describe what a tool can replace.

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