2 categories · RankedMetabase
Metabase is an open source business intelligence and embedded analytics product · metabase.com ↗
Strongest at small business, contested with Zoho Analytics. Ranked 85 of 85 for enterprise buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Ranked first, contested: Zoho Analytics has 15%.
Ranked first, contested: Luzmo has 17%. 1 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Sisense is first at 30%.
Why models recommend it
“Metabase (Best Overall for Ease of Use) ... Metabase (Open Source) – Spin up a Docker container, connect your database, and embed via signed iframe in hours.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Often cited as the most accessible entry point with published prices... Metabase is especially popular for its balance of cost, ease of use, and flexibility.”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Start with Metabase if you need to ship in 2–4 weeks and your customers aren't advanced data scientists.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Paraphrase question · first choice
“The Best All-Rounder: Metabase ... widely considered the industry leader for small-to-mid-sized budgets.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Avoid pure open-source (e.g., Superset/Metabase) unless you have strong in-house dev resources”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · warning
“Metabase's per-seat pricing model and feature gating create challenges for SaaS teams with large customer bases”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Paraphrase question · warning
“Quick deployment and intuitive self-service, though less suited to sophisticated productized analytics”Perplexity Sonar · Direct question · warning
“customization options are more limited compared to specialized embedded platforms”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Direct question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Metabase, over the 121 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 73 | 0 | View → | |
| 65 | 9 | Compare → | |
| 63 | 9 | Compare → | |
| 60 | 3 | View → | |
| 59 | 0 | View → | |
| 41 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 35 | 1 | View → | |
| 32 | 3 | View → | |
| 32 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 27 | 6 | Compare → |
What the models named instead of Metabase →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Metabase's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Self-service analytics for your team; customer-facing analytics; developers building in-product analytics
- Price stated
- Free 14-day trial
- Starting price
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- Free 14-day trial
- Integrations
- 20
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, CCPA, SOC 1
- Hosting
- US, Europe, Latin America, Asia-Pacific
- Customers named
- Cal.com, Pathrise, Synctera, Comptoir de L’or, Lime Technologies, StructionSite, The Lobby, Motohunt
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 107 of the 121 answers that named Metabase and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
259 of the 294 domain citations in answers naming Metabase came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glossary or explainer | 324 | 0 | 2025-05-15 | ||
| Blog | 112 | 5 | 2026-08-27 | ||
| Case study | 45 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 44 | 6 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Comparison | 41 | 1 | 2026-07-13 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 9 | 0 | 2025-06-25 | ||
| Report or ebook | 7 | 0 | 2024-07-04 | ||
| Template or tool | 1 | 0 | 2024-09-22 | ||
| Podcast or video | 1 | 0 | 2025-04-21 | ||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-29Building dashboards ai conference or event
- 2026-09-29Metabase datadog nyc conference or event
- 2026-08-27Vulnerability what happened blog
- 2026-08-27Ai analytics with a build button conference or event
- 2026-08-26Ai analytics on your terms on your infrastructure conference or event
- 2026-08-25Ai analytics with receipts conference or event
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page metabase.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.