Metabase is the easy-to-use cloud business intelligence platform with simple tools to run ad hoc reports, ask questions, and build dashboards for data-driven decision-making, with or without SQL. Fast, simple cloud deployment means your business intelligence program can go from zero to insights in the blink of an eye.
No specialist technical skills needed. Works with whatever’s already in your data stack with a number of straightforward data connectors.
Containerized, multi-tenant cloud deployment prioritizes security. Hosted in a region near you to keep your business intelligence software and data management close.
Enterprise-level compliance with a price tag that makes sense for startups. Put smarter business-decisions in the hands of your whole team.
Go from tables to visualizations in a few clicks. Familiar spreadsheet functionality with way more telling outcomes. Click on column headers to filter and create visualizations, or choose from the menu to automate aggregations.
Convert spreadsheet experts to BI tool fans with easy-to-use data analytics that feels like home (but with more interesting outcomes).
Fast, reliable, and secure deployment with none of the work or hidden costs that come with self-hosting. Metabase cloud BI solution scales with you without impacting your workflows. Add as many people, questions, and as much traffic as you want. It'll keep a quick pace. Automate the work of managing your business intelligence solution with:
“It's the first time in my years working in data that I saw non-technical business users create their own dashboards and analytics in our BI platform, all made possible because of Metabase’s user friendly and intuitive data exploration and dashboarding capabilities.”
Chief Data Officer, Holland & Barrett
Set up in 5 minutes without engineering help. No code, technical skills, or developers required.
Get the best of interactive cloud-based business intelligence embedded into your apps or SaaS product without having to do the hard work of actually building it yourself.
Your data is kept on your servers as much as possible. Whatever we touch is encrypted in transit, and any identifiable data is hashed. With your data managed safely and securely, you have additional security features to manage access and permissions in your BI tool.
We don't like to brag, so we'll let our customers do it for us.
With Metabase cloud services, you'll get access to:
“The expertise and engagement of the Metabase team stands in stark contrast to that which we've received from Looker over the past 18+ months and, in previous lives, Tableau.”
“10/10. Metabase support is the best in the industry and serves as a shining example of what we try to achieve for our own customers.”
“Johannes is a world class support engineer. I really give him 5 stars for the help he provided. All responses were very fast, to the point, and helpful. I couldn't ask for better support. A true expert.”
“I got excellent and timely response to my question. Thank you for the level of detail you provided, you made me feel that if we migrate our installation to your cloud service, we will have your support.”
“Johannes is the best! He always gives thorough responses and next steps that help us manage expectations with our end users.”
“I really appreciated how fast Luis was to respond, and how straightforward his recommendations are. You're awesome!”
“The response was specific on all my raised points and it came back very quickly!”
“The expertise and engagement of the Metabase team stands in stark contrast to that which we've received from Looker over the past 18+ months and, in previous lives, Tableau.”
“10/10. Metabase support is the best in the industry and serves as a shining example of what we try to achieve for our own customers.”
“Johannes is a world class support engineer. I really give him 5 stars for the help he provided. All responses were very fast, to the point, and helpful. I couldn't ask for better support. A true expert.”
“I got excellent and timely response to my question. Thank you for the level of detail you provided, you made me feel that if we migrate our installation to your cloud service, we will have your support.”
“Johannes is the best! He always gives thorough responses and next steps that help us manage expectations with our end users.”
“I really appreciated how fast Luis was to respond, and how straightforward his recommendations are. You're awesome!”
“The response was specific on all my raised points and it came back very quickly!”
Business intelligence tools (BI tools) are software applications designed to transform your raw data from databases, data warehouses, and spreadsheets into actionable insights. Cloud BI is hosted and deployed in Metabase Cloud, as opposed to hosted and maintained on-premise by you.
Business intelligence tools let people work with data:
- Analyzing and summarizing data - BI tools can identify patterns, trends, and relationships within your data.
- Creating visualizations - They can present this information in easy-to-understand formats like charts, graphs, and dashboards.
- Providing alerts and notifications - BI tools can set up alerts to notify you of important changes or emerging trends in your data.
- Facilitating forecasting - These tools can help you predict future trends based on historical data.
Overall, BI tools empower you to make data-driven decisions by giving you a clear and comprehensive picture of your business performance.
Metabase cloud infrastructure lets you benefit from:
- Operational efficiency with fewer manual tasks like backups, upgrades, and maintenance.
- It’s cost-effective. Self-hosting sometimes appears as a a cheaper option but can come with a laundry list of hidden costs. Metabase cloud is one of the most affordable cloud-based business intelligence solutions on the market.
- Private cloud, containerized deployment with no noisy neighbors.
- Hosted near you. Keep your BI close to your data.
Focus on your business needs instead of hosting your business intelligence.
There’s no right or wrong answer here. It will generally depend on your use case, how much you want people to be able to learn from data and run reports on their own without depending on your data team; your preferred data stack, how fast you need to get up and running, your budget, and more.
Again, there’s no “right” answer, but just sayin’ - Metabase is user-friendly to let everyone on your team get real-time insights from data. It works well with all of your datasets and preferred data tools (from data sources, data preparation, and semantic layering tools). It gets up and running in 5 minutes flat. And pricing is suited to all budgets (and you can try it for free).
Teams who have used Tableau, Microsoft’s Power BI, Google’s Looker, Domo, Sisense and other business intelligence platforms in the past now choose Metabase as it lets their business users self-service analytics. User-friendly drag-and-drop data analytics lets people run ad hoc reports on their own and get actionable insights without needing SQL.
The choice to go with on-premise deployment or cloud-based business intelligence will depend on your business, use cases, needs and regulatory requirements.
Self-hosting, or on-premise deployment may be necessary if you need any of the following:
- An air-gapped environment
- You're using a community or custom driver to connect to your data source
- A custom build of Metabase
- Or if you have specific regulations about how you run your software (like HIPAA)
The good news is that with Metabase you have a choice whether you run it on-premise or opt for Metabase Cloud. It’s simple to migrate at any time, and back again if you need to. All of your existing questions and dashboards will be migrated over, so there's no need to start over from scratch.
Metabase has a serious commitment to data security and privacy. We don’t want your data. It stays on your servers as much as possible, and whatever we touch is encrypted in transit, and any identifiable data is hashed.
Metabase is SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and CCPA compliant. Besides compliance audits, we have independent application and infrastructure-level penetration tests a few times a year, with test results prioritized and fixed fast.
Systems are segmented into separate networks with firewalls between networks. All servers in our production fleet are hardened according to CIS benchmarks.
In case that doesn’t cut it and you need single-tenant cloud deployment, or an air-gapped environment, you can switch your Metabase deployment at any time.
BAs an open source business intelligence platform, Metabase’s on-premise solution is pretty straightforward to deploy and set up. You can download Metabase as a JAR file and run on your machine, or run via Docker.
Anyone can run an on-premise version of Metabase, but when it comes to running production grade deployment, maintenance can skew more technical. Cloud BI like Metabase lets anyone - even those without technical expertise - get Metabase up and running fast, with maintenance taken care of.
Metabase lets people ask questions with or without needing to know SQL. The intuitive Query Builder lets non-technical or data savvy people put together analyses with clicks - no SQL necessary. A promise made by many analytics tools, but not always delivered. Analysts and data people who prefer to write SQL can fill their boots in the SQL editor.
Metabase is trusted by over 60,000 companies with their data analytics, from startups who need their first business intelligence tool through to Enterprises.
Metabase open source is the go-to choice for founders and solo-developers to let their teams get answers from data on their own so they’re not running the same reports once a month. Metabase Pro and Enterprise is generally chosen by CTOs, CPOs, Heads of Data who have been there, done that with every other BI platform on the market and need a way to make self-service analytics actually happen.
You’ll have to take our word on this one, but Metabase is even used by several of our competitors (who have asked us not to show their logos, of course). Could we even make that up?