Looking for a free alternative to Metabase? Here are 9 business intelligence worth trying — 3 with a free tier. Metabase itself is free.
| Tool | Metabase (you searched) | Databricks Genie | Snowflake Cortex Analyst | Gemini in Looker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | free | freemium | freemiumLeaving soon | freemium |
| Best for | Self-hostable open-source BI with dashboards and questions | Natural-language conversational analytics over Databricks Lakehouse (Genie Spaces) | Translates natural language into governed SQL over Snowflake tables | Conversational Analytics chat over Looker's semantic model |
| Visit | Open ↗ | Open ↗ | Open ↗ | Open ↗ |
Databricks Genie is the closest free alternative to Metabase: same Business Intelligence sub-category, and it is free tier + paid. Natural-language conversational analytics over Databricks Lakehouse (Genie Spaces)
Yes — 3 of the 9 alternatives listed here are free or freemium: Databricks Genie, Gemini in Looker, Zoho Analytics. The other 4 are trial or paid.
Metabase is free. There is no paid plan attached to it in the catalog.
They are the other tools in Business Intelligence, then the rest of Data Analysis & Business, ordered free tiers first and capped at 9. There is no sponsorship and no paid placement in that ordering — only the pricing tier decides.
✦ WhyA Metabase alternative — Natural-language conversational analytics over Databricks Lakehouse (Genie Spaces).
✦ WhyA Metabase alternative — Translates natural language into governed SQL over Snowflake tables.
✦ WhyA Metabase alternative — Conversational Analytics chat over Looker's semantic model.
✦ WhyA Metabase alternative — Spreadsheet-native BI that writes back directly to cloud warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks).
✦ WhyA Metabase alternative — Free plan: 2 users, 10K rows, 5 workspaces, unlimited reports and dashboards.
✦ WhyA Metabase alternative — Build reports and measures via Copilot.
✦ WhyA Metabase alternative — AI insights with Tableau Pulse.
✦ WhyA Metabase alternative — Search- and agent-driven analytics (Spotter).
✦ WhyA Metabase alternative — Named AI analyst agent (Zoe) answers business questions in plain English.