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[Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/metabase-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/metabase-profile/alternatives/) # Metabase User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.5/5 - Total reviews: 62 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.4/5 - Customer support: 3.9/5 - Value for money: 4.7/5 - Functionality: 4.1/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 38 reviews (61%) - 4 stars: 20 reviews (32%) - 3 stars: 3 reviews (5%) - 2 stars: 1 reviews (2%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - Metabase is a solid tool for teams that need to quickly build and share reports. - Metabase allows us to visualize data coming from different sources, which is crucial when we use different tools producing data. - It is really amazing in everything, I use it daily in my job and help me a lot in getting the reports and dashboards ### Most mentioned cons - some filters need too many workarounds to have them supported, the lack of some ui charts is also something that I didn't like - Not enough ways to export reports or chart them - Performance: sometimes it takes too long to load and we have to be patient ## Metabase customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 62 (page 1). ### My source of truth for my reports! - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Mathieu L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Metabase is by far my source of truth when working on data. Allowing me to make data driven decision #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Metabase allows us to visualize data coming from different sources, which is crucial when we use different tools producing data. #### Cons (1) Performance: sometimes it takes too long to load and we have to be patient (2) Visualization could be better: I'm nitpicking but I feel like customization isn't really a possibility here and it could definitely improved --- ### Metabase Review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Christopher I. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Commercial Real Estate - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Metabase is a great tool if you have analysts proficient in SQL and want a tool you can use to share out across internal and external sources while not requiring too much custom visualization #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Ease of use - metabase is very straightforward to get set up initially and for new users to create basic items Flexibility with SQL - metabase's best power is still working with it in SQL but the noCode tools are still good as well #### Cons Visualization customizability - there is room to grow on allowing more customization and variety in the visualizations #### Reasons for switching to Metabase Mainly Cost and ability to have more users without increasing cost significantly --- ### Metabase is terrible - Overall rating: 2/5 - Reviewer: Alex F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Telecommunications - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: April 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I hate it and would not recommend it. Bad. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 2/5 #### Pros Easy to ask simple questions using their 'visual' SQL editor #### Cons Absolutely terrible for everything else, ESPECIALLY dashboard creation. --- ### Analytics at your fingertips! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Amit A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Consumer Goods - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I would rate Metabase 8/10. It's a simple but powerful tool for data visualization & analytics. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The most liked thing about this software is both tech & non-tech folks can use it seamlessly, in a hassle-free manner. You can analyze with the help of Query Language or you can do the same analytically manually, much like excel. It's easily integrable with other software via a generic API. They have a self-hosted version as an offering as well, which you get for free :) #### Cons It gets too slow when all your team members start using it simultaneously. Many a time system chokes & keep loading for sometimes. #### Reasons for choosing Metabase They have a self-hosted open-source offering that is completely free. They are also a market leader; hence more data security & integrity. --- ### A business intelligence tool with a lot of features - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Sahil P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Health, Wellness and Fitness - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: December 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros 1. Direct linkage with SQL for visualization.2. Easy to make dashboards. #### Cons Visualization features could be better for adding up sheets in the dashboards. #### Reasons for choosing Metabase Chose over Tableau and Power BI because of easy to use via SQL. --- ### Metabase Review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jamie L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: December 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We are using it for database analytics and report generation. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros This database analytic software is fairly easy to setup and very easy to create reports and input custom SQL queries. You can easily view the SQL that any given report is running. #### Cons So far I have not found anything I dislike about this software. The DevOps employee had a little bit of difficulty with the initial setup, but after that it was smooth sailing. #### Reasons for choosing Metabase Tableau was too expensive and we only had a single license due to this. Metabase is far superior, faster, and cheaper. #### Reasons for switching to Metabase Tableau was too expensive and we only had a single license due to this. Metabase is far superior, faster, and cheaper. --- ### Easy to use data base visualization tool - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Marvin M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Metabase helps to get an overview of your SQL data. If you are working with a database that is self-developed, a tool like metabase helps you visualize, filter and make sense of your data. Company-wide and across our Organization, we use metabase to keep track of KPIs and manage our 1p data. #### Cons To get started, Metabase is not super easy to comprehend. If you want to create custom dashboards or filter views, some SQL programming experience is definitely required. Furthermore, the larger your database, the longer dashboards or filter views take to load. Page Speed could definitely be improved. --- ### A user review for Metabase - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Karlo G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: June 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered This software allows me to understand the numbers and data of my company in making decisions and initiatives that helps us speed up the processes around. Overall, it solves the problem and the product itself is a winner for data management purposes. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros It offers fast approach in accessing data and numbers about our company. I do not know much about SQL programming but this software is surely a winner for me because it helps users like me to understand data without having to deal with a lot of coding. #### Cons It sometimes gets buggy and slow in rendering data. Especially when mutliple users are accessing it. Also, if they add more features on it like more custom filters and table editing like excel. --- ### Be prepared to learn SQL - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Marc G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Software - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: April 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Considering we have such a large amount of data I was surprised by the good speed and performance the app has. Flexibility is its strongest point but it would be good to see even more effort in focusing on the novice. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros There's lots of different chart types to choose from, which can make visualising data easier. The dashboards are very flexible and intuitive for users to manipulate with filters. Access to snowflake has been a dream! Creating a basic "Question" is easy but anything more advanced requires editing with SQL #### Cons Pretty much all the dashboards I need to create requires me to get to grips with SQL. It would be great if there was more flexibility in the visual editor so that I can ramp up my SQL knowledge over time. But right now I'm forced to spend lots of time up front before I can create any of the dashboards I need. --- ### Serves the purpose - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Ishita R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. As a PM, I am using this application regularly for business intelligence and taking business decisions. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros It really helps me with my day to day business decisions as I can query, view data I need to see patterns. It gives comprehensive and detailed information. Its easy to setup dashboards and is intuitive and user friendly as I never needed any training or guide to follow. Its super easy to query and I can save my version of query from an existing question. #### Cons It sometimes takes very long to load the results. I found the application to be a bit slow. Also, if there would be a way to put my questions into sub categories or folders it would be neater. --- ### Intuitive Tool For Data Visualisation - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Anastasia B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I've been enjoying using Metabase ever since my company set it up for data analytics. I always choose it over tools like Amplitude (although Amplitude also has its advantages). #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Metabase is highly intuitive and easy to use. You don't need to have an extensive knowledge of SQL; it's enough to know the structure of the data sources (an analytics database in our case). There are many ways to manipulate and organise data. Most graphs can be set up within a minute by using "questions". I find that the dashboards are very simple and intuitive as well, and it's easy to arrange data in the way you need. #### Cons Perhaps the only thing I'm missing in Metabase are sequences / funnels, but I don't use them for the majority of my work. --- ### Reportistica e Dashboard a costo 0 - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Samuele C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Internet - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Cosa dire... metabase è opensource... si può installare e gestire in autonomia e a costo zero...si possono creare dashboard in modo visuale.... e per le cose complicate si può sempre fare tutto da SQL.un ottimo prodotto.. lo utilizzo da anni senza mai problemi #### Cons l'unico problema è stato con vecchi aggiornamenti... da un pò a questa parte va tutto liscio --- ### Recommended for anyone looking for self-service analytics - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Retail - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It's easy to use and it's constantly improving. We now use it for all sorts of things that aren't dashboards. The ability to send alerts if queries return results is great for validation of certain processes. #### Cons Takes a bit of time and effort to setup if you want to self-host. No Azure SSO on the free edition, which is fair enough. --- ### The open-source Tableau - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Government Administration - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered We can centralize different data source and obtain relevant insights by crossing them together. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Fast to deploy, easy to use, possibility to create appealing dashboards with queries in minutes. No need to be a developer to do so with a top-notch graphic interface #### Cons Software still in development : some data source aren't supported yet (Matomo analytics as instance) --- ### Helpful when it works - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Brogan D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Apparel & Fashion - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall, when Metabase works, it's instrumental in making business decisions. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I like that I'm able to aggregate data in reports and use that to make processes more efficient. I like that it makes it easy for me to see key data. #### Cons Often, the reports I'm using take forever to load, which isn't efficient. Additionally, a lot of times the report I need the most won't load or download. --- ### Easily the best BI tool for self-service analytics - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Logistics and Supply Chain - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall, we're having a great experience using Metabase for our self-service analytics. It unlocks productive time for both analysts and stakeholders by removing a lot of dependencies to the data team for really simple tasks which Metabase enables all users to do. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I like the simple and intuitive user interface and UX of Metabase. It removes a lot of barriers to entry to analytics for a lot of people. #### Cons Metabase caters more to citizen data analysts and data consumers. For power users and programmers, it currently doesn't provide much integration with tools used for best practices since it tries to house everything on its own, like metadata. I wish they would integrate better with other open-source tools in the modern data stack. #### Reasons for switching to Metabase Metabase is whole lot more user-friendly. --- ### using Metabase, easier everything - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Rodrigo Á. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: January 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. With this tool we have been able to stop the problems with the central database, since the query is made from the outside without affecting the base #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The use of SQL as being able to build the direct questions, the models you can create to use them #### Cons The views that can be created are very limited creating few opportunities for visualization --- ### Data over everything! - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Louis R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Music - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I usually work with our Engineering team to set up relevant queries for Business Operations which I can then run at my leisure to get the data that I need. This helps me guide the strategy of my department. In this respect, the tool is invaluable, though to an SQL novice like meet is quite complex on first approach. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros super flexible tool which in the right hands can pull all sorts of fantastic information which is essential for business operations. #### Cons for me personally it is overly complex, I struggle with the SQL commands to get the information need, though my level is very low. I don't think that you need a high level to get on with this tool. --- ### Great for easy tasks - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Nick P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Research - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 2/5 #### Pros It is easy to quickly put together basic questions and quickly visualise data, tweaking parameters as necessary. #### Cons It is difficult to link data to ask more complex queries of the data --- ### Reporting and data visualization - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Michal R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Benefit mentioned above - harvesting all worklogs and other required information (not only about) people working, into one place where it can be further queried and processed. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Worklogs overview is very useful and it provides me reliable way to check and verify correctness of my previous month's work. #### Cons It is quite slow, always not just sometimes; also it is very unpleasant for the eye and the layout is very confusing during the first dates. --- ### Your one stop shop. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jasper Edrian T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Insurance - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for free trial - Reviewed: January 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros A user-friendly tool that is convenient and understandable, saving a lot of time for our users from navigating with too much clicks. #### Cons Avoid posting questions that are optional. --- ### Powerful for quick reports and linked insights, but dashboard management needs work - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Michael M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Health, Wellness and Fitness - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Metabase is a solid tool for teams that need to quickly build and share reports. The linking capabilities add real depth. However, as usage scales, keeping dashboards and models organized becomes a challenge.Better management and navigation features would go a long way. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Metabase excels at creating and sharing quick reports. The ability to link reports together makes it a powerful tool for building connected, layered analyses that teams can easily access and explore. #### Cons Dashboard and model management can become unwieldy over time. It's easy to lose track of what's been created, and organizing or maintaining a large number of dashboards and models feels harder than it should be. --- ### Great data analysis tool for everyone - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ashish P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: E-Learning - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall, it has been a great experience using Metabase. Even non-technical people can perform complex data analysis that would otherwise require experts. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Fantastic open-source tool for data analysis and visualization. Easy to use for non-technical folks and powerful SQL options for advanced tasks. #### Cons Has a slight learning curve, but once you get used to it, using it is a breeze. Lacks off-the-shelf dashboards, which need a few hours to create. #### Reasons for choosing Metabase Ease of use, low cost, robust and extensible --- ### Metabase is giving other BI tools nightmares - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Mohsen A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: E-Learning - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: December 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered it is amazing, the product is open source, so no body can compete with free and it is as good as any commercial product #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Simple to use, if I want to build a product from scratch and want it to serve my analytics needs it will not be better than metabase #### Cons some filters need too many workarounds to have them supported, the lack of some ui charts is also something that I didn't like #### Reasons for switching to Metabase much easier to use, so much faster and above all much cheaper --- ### A must try for BI solutions - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Pratik C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Retail - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Metabase is an amazing BI tool which we will be using for a long time. The visualizations are good and supports a wide range of database systems. They promote use of service accounts for security and their internal permission management is flawless. #### Cons They can provide better widgets for applying filters especially their date range selectors. Another nice addition would be to improve dashboard customizability in terms of colors, text, etc. #### Reasons for choosing Metabase Metabase is more affordable and well suitable for a fast moving team. #### Reasons for switching to Metabase Metabase has much better UI and is more presentable to clients. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/bi/metabase-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- Metabase Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice