Domo vs Metabase
Domo and Metabase are both business intelligence software. Domo is a commercial product from Domo, Inc. Metabase is open source under a license set out in its repository, with 50k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Domo when
- An executive team wants dashboards across many SaaS sources without a dedicated data warehouse team.
- Pick Metabase when
- A small or mid-size company wants self-serve reporting that non-analysts can use quickly.
Side by side
Cloud BI platform with data connectors, ETL, dashboards and app building, aimed at business users.
A BI tool where non-technical staff ask questions of databases through a query builder, plus SQL, dashboards, alerts and embedded analytics.
Consumption-based pricing is hard to predict, and the company has had financial pressure.
The open edition is AGPL; SSO, row-level permissions and white-label embedding need a paid plan.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service and mobile app
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Not published
Clojure, TypeScript and React
Closed source, sold by Domo, Inc.
Open source, license unclear on GitHub
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
GitHub could not read the license. Check it in the repository before reusing any code.
353 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
50k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 11 years ago, latest release v0.65.2.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.