Metabase
Metabase is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Analytics category, licensed AGPL-3.0 and written mainly in Clojure. It is a self-hosted alternative to Metabase Cloud, Tableau and Power BI and ships a Docker image. It has 49,845 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 49,845
- Forks
- 6,929
- Open issues
- 3,924
- Commits, last 12 months
- 7,177
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- v0.64.1Oct 7, 2026
- Created
- Feb 2, 2015
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 7,177 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases8 releases in 12 months
- Welcomes contributors23 open good-first-issue or help-wanted issues and a contributing guide
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 7,177 |
| Latest release | v0.64.1 (Oct 7, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 8 |
| Releases, all time | 843 |
| Open issues | 3,924 |
| Open pull requests | 683 |
| Good first issues | 23 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Feb 2, 2015 |
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About Metabase
Easy way for everyone in your company to ask questions and learn from data.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/metabase/metabase.
Topics
- analytics
- businessintelligence
- dashboard
- reporting
- slack
- clojure
- database
- metabase
- postgres
- postgresql
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Pick Grafana for real-time dashboards over metrics, logs and time-series data; pick Metabase for business intelligence questions over SQL databases that non-technical users can answer.
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Is Metabase free and open source?
Yes. Metabase is open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Metabase with Docker?
Yes. Metabase provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Metabase?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Metabase include Superset, PostHog and Umami. Metabase itself is a self-hosted alternative to Metabase Cloud, Tableau and Power BI.
Is Metabase actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Metabase was on Oct 26, 2026 with 7,177 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v0.64.1, published Oct 7, 2026. It had 3,924 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.