Metabase

Metabase is the open source business intelligence platform built for people who are not data specialists. It connects to many popular databases and warehouses, and lets anyone ask questions about their data and see answers in formats that make sense, from bar charts to detailed tables, without writing SQL. Questions can be saved, grouped into dashboards with tabs, filters, and text and link cards, organized into collections, and shared across the team, and because Metabase is open source, a missing feature can be built rather than waited for. Its current release line leans into governed AI analytics. Metabase describes answers guided by your semantic layer, your metrics and business logic, whether the answer is reached by an agent or a teammate, with the query behind every answer inspectable rather than hidden. It works through an MCP server, CLI, APIs, and Slack, supports embedded analytics from a single chart to full white-labeled dashboards inside your own product through its React embedding SDK, and handles multi-tenant customer analytics with SSO sign-in through JWT or SAML and row-level scoping so each customer sees only their own data. Security features include required two-factor authentication, session revocation, and IP allowlists, with SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and CCPA compliance claimed by the vendor. Metabase suits startups and product teams that want self-service analytics without a data team bottleneck. The open source edition is free and self-hosted, running with Docker or Java on your own machine, while cloud hosting and Pro and Enterprise plans add governance features such as row and column security and usage analytics. The vendor says more than 100,000 teams use it.