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Metabase pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

Metabase (metabase.com) is a BI and dashboard tool. Cloud plans charge a flat monthly base that includes a set number of users, plus a fee for each extra user; the open-source edition is free to self-host.. Free plan: Open Source edition is free with unlimited users, but self-hosted only.

What Metabase costs

  • 2 builders + 8 viewers: $130/mo (Starter $100/mo includes 5 users + 5 extra users x $6/mo = $130 (all 10 are full users; Pro would be $575))
  • 1 builder: $100/mo (Starter base $100/mo on monthly billing ($90/mo billed annually))
  • 5 builders + 20 viewers: $220/mo (Starter $100 + 20 extra users x $6 = $220 (Pro: $575 + 15 x $12 = $755))

Plan compared: Starter (cloud). Prices are total USD per month on monthly billing (annual-only plans divided by 12) for the vendor's hosted plan: a team where 2 people build dashboards and 8 view them (or 5 and 20), or one builder on the cheapest paid plan. A free plan counts as $0 only if it connects a SQL database, refreshes daily and shares privately with every viewer; free self-hosted editions are not priced.

What Metabase does

Core: Dashboard builder, SQL query editor, No-code self-service exploration, Open source and self-hosting.

Important: Database and warehouse connectors, Semantic layer and metrics, AI data analyst, Scheduled report delivery, Embedded customer-facing analytics, Row-level permissions, SSO, audit and compliance.

Also has: Spreadsheet and file analysis, Built-in data prep and storage, Python and R notebooks (partly), Real-time collaboration (partly), KPI goals and scorecards (partly), TV wall dashboards (partly), Native mobile apps (partly), Version control and BI as code.

Metabase price hikes

Alternatives to Metabase

Metabase is the cheapest BI and dashboard tool we track at a 10-person team (2 builders, 8 viewers). The others:

Metabase alternatives: 2 BI and dashboard tools compared, at every size.

Every change we logged

  • Aug 2026 · Price cut: The storage add-on dropped from $40 per 500k rows to $2 per 1M rows, and the first 1M rows became free.
  • Oct 2025 · Price increase: Starter's base price rose from $85 to $100/mo and extra users from $5 to $6/mo; Pro went from $500 to $575/mo with extra users from $10 to $12, and the Enterprise minimum rose from $15k to $20k/yr. Recorded between the Jul 4 and Oct 5, 2025 snapshots.

Sources

Pricing page: metabase.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Prices are from metabase.com/pricing (monthly toggle). The 2025 increase comes from PricingSaaS snapshot diffs, so the exact date falls between Jul 4 and Oct 5, 2025. Treatment of existing customers is unknown.