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 | Sigma Computing | Zoho Analytics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | free | freemium | freemium | freemium |
| Best for | Self-hostable open-source BI with dashboards and questions | Natural-language conversational analytics over Databricks Lakehouse (Genie Spaces) | Spreadsheet-native BI that writes back directly to cloud warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks) | Free plan: 2 users, 10K rows, 5 workspaces, unlimited reports and dashboards |
| 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, Sigma Computing, Zoho Analytics. The other 6 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 — 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 — Search- and agent-driven analytics (Spotter).
✦ WhyA Metabase alternative — Combines BI dashboards, live spreadsheets, and SQL editing in one tool.
✦ WhyA Metabase alternative — "Smartbooks" mix SQL, Python and no-code in one AI notebook.
✦ WhyA Metabase alternative — Translates natural language into governed SQL over Snowflake tables.
✦ WhyA Metabase alternative — Qlik Answers gives GenAI answers grounded in unstructured content.
✦ WhyA Metabase alternative — Domo.AI layer adds AI apps/agents on top of its unified data cloud.