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Metabase
Open-source business intelligence tool for querying databases and building dashboards, self-host or cloud.
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Spec sheet
All-in India price
₹8,743/mo
For a registered business, billed yearly, $90/mo sticker
- Free plan
- Available
- Free trial
- Available
- Status
- Source checked 12 Nov 2026
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Shortlist Metabase if you have one person comfortable with servers and want dashboards on your own database without paying for every viewer, because the open source edition has no user limit. If nobody will own upgrades and backups, the Starter cloud plan is the simpler path, but it is cloud only and you cannot self-host it.
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Before paying, count every account that will sign in, including customers who log in to embeds, since each one beyond the included seats is billed. Check whether you need SAML single sign-on or row level security, because both start at Pro, which costs several times Starter. Against Power BI or Looker Studio, Metabase is easier for non analysts and avoids lock in to one cloud, but its data modelling is lighter and paid plans are billed in US dollars by a US entity with no stated GST invoice.
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In short
Metabase is listed under Data & Analytics, reviewed for Indian buyers. All-in it runs about ₹8,743/mo for a GST-registered business ($90/mo sticker plus about 3.5% card forex). It does not issue an India GST invoice, so a registered business reclaims the GST via reverse charge. FindThatSoftware rates it best for teams wanting free self-hosted BI on their own database; a poor fit for regulated Indian companies needing SAML single sign-on and row level security on a self-hosted install, because that combination starts at Pro.
What Metabase costs in India
The rupee price a business actually pays, after the card forex markup, with GST shown both ways.
True India price
Registered business, per month, billed yearly
₹8,743
Metabase advertises $90/mo. A GST-registered business in India pays about ₹8,743 a month (₹1,04,917/yr) once the roughly 3.5% card forex markup is added, with GST reclaimed as input credit. If you cannot reclaim GST, it is about ₹10,317 a month.
- Sticker price
- $90/mo
- Card forex markup
- about 3.5% over mid-market
- GST
- 18%, reclaimable if registered
- Registered per month
- ₹8,743
- Registered per year
- ₹1,04,917
- If you can't reclaim GST
- ₹10,317
- Try first
- Has a free plan, so you can start without a card.
- Watch for
- Paid plans are billed in US dollars by Metabase, Inc., exclusive of taxes, monthly or yearly with about a tenth off for yearly, and extra users are prorated and added on top of the flat fee.
More
Yearly payments and their true ups are not refundable, so start monthly if you are unsure. There is no GST wording on the vendor pages, so budget for forex markup and reverse charge GST, and remember that every non deactivated account counts toward the bill even if nobody uses it.
Indicative, not a bill. The exchange rate is a single mid-market reference, not a live feed, and GST-registered businesses may reclaim input credit. Confirm current pricing on the vendor site.
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Audit your spendWho Metabase fits
What it is, what you gain, what you give up, and who should look elsewhere.
What is Metabase?
Metabase is a business intelligence tool made by Metabase, Inc., a US company, with an open source edition anyone can run on their own servers. Teams connect it to a database or warehouse such as Postgres, MySQL, Snowflake or BigQuery, then ask questions with a point and click builder or SQL and save the results as dashboards, alerts and email or Slack subscriptions. It comes as a free self-hosted edition or as Metabase Cloud, where the vendor handles setup, backups and upgrades, with Singapore as the nearest hosting region to India. Paid plans add things like row and column permissions, SAML single sign-on, white labelling and embedded analytics for your own customers. Paid tiers bill per active user account beyond the included seats, and embed viewers who sign in count as users.
What you gain, and what you give up.
The case for
- The open source edition is free for unlimited users and runs on your own servers, which suits teams with an engineer to maintain it
- Starter covers the first five users on a flat fee and yearly billing takes about a tenth off, so a small team's cost is predictable
- Base fees and per user rates for Starter and Pro are published, so you can model a larger rollout without a sales call
The catch
- Starter runs only on Metabase Cloud, so keeping data on your own infrastructure with paid features means jumping to Pro
- SAML or JWT single sign-on, row and column security, white labelling and multi tenant embedding all need Pro, which costs more than five times Starter
- Billing is in US dollars from a US entity with taxes excluded and no stated GST invoice, and yearly payments are not refundable
- The free edition lists no support beyond the community, and you carry hosting, upgrades and backups yourself
Best for
- Teams wanting free self-hosted BI on their own database
- Startups querying their app database or warehouse
- Teams that want many viewers without paying per seat on the open source edition
Who should avoid it
- Regulated Indian companies needing SAML single sign-on and row level security on a self-hosted install, because that combination starts at Pro
- Small teams without anyone to run servers, because the free edition shifts hosting, upgrades and backups onto someone who has to own them
- Buyers who need an Indian GST invoice for input tax credit, since the vendor bills from the US in dollars
India readiness
How well Metabase fits an Indian business operationally, from the verified pricing and company facts we hold.
- ✗GST invoice
No Indian GST invoice, so a registered business cannot claim input tax credit on the bill.
- ✗Bills in INR
Priced in a foreign currency, so your card or bank adds forex conversion on top.
- ✗India HQ
Headquartered outside India, so check support hours and India-specific features.
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What we verified about Metabase
Read from Metabase’s own pages. Each line is a finding and what it was based on, so you can check any of it yourself.
What Metabase does
Features we confirmed23
- White label
- Pro is whitelabel ready and fully customisable to brand
- SSO
- SSO beyond Google requires the Pro plan
- Sql editor
- SQL editor is a named feature across all editions
- Self hosted
- Self-hosted deployment toggle offered on the pricing page
- Granular permissions
- Permissions is a first-class feature area with data segregation
- Dashboards
- Unlimited questions and dashboards on every plan
- Bring your own llm key
- Most folks bring their own AI provider API key
- AI question answering
- Ask questions with AI included even in Open Source
- Air gapped deployment
- Enterprise plan offers an air gap deployment option
- AI sql generation
- SQL generation listed on every plan including free
- AI usage auditing
- Pro adds AI usage auditing and controls
- Caching controls
- Caching controls listed as a Pro feature
- Csv upload
- CSV upload is a named feature in the product nav
- Data transforms
- Transforms run with 1,000 included runs then per-run billing
- Drill through
- Drill-through listed among core product features
- Embedded analytics sdk
- Embedded analytics SDK listed as a product feature
- Multi tenant embedding
- Pro adds multi-tenant embedded analytics with data segregation
- Row level security
- Row and column level permissions start at Pro
- Scheduled reporting
- Dashboards and reporting is a named feature area
- Semantic layer
- Semantic layer appears in the product feature menu
- Spreadsheet storage
- Optional storage lets you upload spreadsheets to analyse
- Usage analytics auditing
- Usage analytics and auditing included from Pro
- Visual query builder
- Query builder lets people explore data just by clicking
What people use it for1
- Report on business data
- Connects to production relational databases, not just warehouses
Works with22
- Snowflake
- Official connector listed on the data sources page
- Slack
- Starter support is offered via Slack channel
- Postgresql
- Official connector listed on the data sources page
- Mysql
- Official connector listed on the data sources page
- Mongodb
- Official connector listed on the data sources page
- Microsoft teams
- Starter support is offered via Teams channel
- Mariadb
- Official connector listed on the data sources page
- Databricks
- Official connector listed on the data sources page
- Amazon redshift
- Official connector listed on the data sources page
- Amazon athena
- Official connector listed on the data sources page
- Apache druid
- Official connector listed on the data sources page
- Apache spark
- Official connector listed on the data sources page
- Clickhouse
- Official connector listed on the data sources page
- Duckdb
- Community connector, self-host only and unsupported
- Google bigquery
- Official connector listed on the data sources page
- Microsoft sql server
- Official connector listed on the data sources page
- Oracle database
- Official connector listed on the data sources page
- Presto
- Official connector listed on the data sources page
- Sqlite
- Official connector listed on the data sources page
- Starburst
- Official connector listed on the data sources page
- Teradata
- Community connector, self-host only and unsupported
- Vertica
- Official connector listed on the data sources page
Terms, compliance and how you buy25
- SOC 2 certified
- Metabase upholds SOC 2 Type II and SOC 1 certifications
- Partner and expert network
- Site lists Professional Services and Metabase Experts
- Open source
- Open Source edition is free with a public GitHub repo
- GDPR compliant
- Pricing page states full GDPR and CCPA compliance
- Community support only on free
- Free edition has no support beyond community forums
- Annual discount
- Yearly billing saves 10 percent on plan price
- 14 day trial
- Starter and Pro both offer a 14 day free trial
- 3 day support sla
- Starter offers 3-day support via email, Slack or Teams
- Big jump starter to pro
- Pro is $575 a month against Starter at $100
- Community connectors self host only
- Community connectors work only when self-hosting and are unsupported
- Embed viewers count as users
- Users of your embeds count toward billable users
- Enterprise adds no features
- FAQ says Pro and Enterprise differ feature-wise by zero
- Enterprise minimum 20k
- Enterprise price starts at $20,000 per year
- Free self host tier
- Open Source is free forever with unlimited users
- Needs a data engineer to self host
- Free edition shifts hosting, upgrades and backups onto you
- No INR billing
- USD-billed so Indian buyers add forex and GST
- Non transferable licences
- Licences are for individuals and non-transferrable
- Per user pricing above included seats
- Starter includes 5 users then $6 per extra user monthly
- Prorated seat billing
- Adding or deactivating users automatically prorates billing
- Published pricing
- Starter and Pro rates and per-user costs are public
- Self hosting requires pro
- Self-hosted licence key is a Pro-tier entitlement
- Starter is cloud only
- Starter runs on Metabase Cloud only, self-hosting needs Pro
- Unlimited queries and dashboards
- FAQ says cost is the same no matter how much you create
- Usage based add ons
- AI tokens and transform runs bill on usage after credits
- Usd billed
- All plan prices are quoted in US dollars
Source trail
Pricing and free-plan claims can change. FindThatSoftware keeps source URLs visible so users can verify before buying.
- How Metabase billing workshttps://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/cloud/how-billing-works
- Metabase pricinghttps://www.metabase.com/pricing/
- Google Sign-In and LDAP docshttps://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/people-and-groups/google-and-ldap
- Metabase alerts docshttps://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/questions/alerts
- Metabase Cloudhttps://www.metabase.com/cloud
- Metabasehttps://www.metabase.com/
- Metabase hosting termshttps://www.metabase.com/license/hosting
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Metabase questions
Does Metabase give a GST invoice in India?
- Metabase does not issue an India GST invoice. A GST-registered business can still reclaim the 18% through the reverse-charge route by raising a self-invoice, but there is no vendor GST invoice to claim against directly.
Is Metabase good for Indian small businesses?
- It suits teams wanting free self-hosted BI on their own database. It bills in a foreign currency with no India GST invoice, so expect the card forex markup and reverse-charge GST paperwork. It is not the right pick for regulated Indian companies needing SAML single sign-on and row level security on a self-hosted install, because that combination starts at Pro.
Does Metabase have a free plan?
- Metabase lists a free plan, but check the official pricing page for current usage limits before choosing it.
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