Metabase vs Redash
Metabase and Redash are both business intelligence software. Metabase is open source under a license set out in its repository, with 50k GitHub stars. Redash is open source under BSD-2-Clause, with 29k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Metabase when
- A small or mid-size company wants self-serve reporting that non-analysts can use quickly.
- Pick Redash when
- Your analysts work in SQL and want a simple query-and-dashboard tool.
Side by side
A BI tool where non-technical staff ask questions of databases through a query builder, plus SQL, dashboards, alerts and embedded analytics.
Connects to many data sources so SQL users can write queries, visualise results and share dashboards and alerts.
The open edition is AGPL; SSO, row-level permissions and white-label embedding need a paid plan.
After Databricks acquired it, development moved to the community and slowed for a period.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Self-hosted server
Clojure, TypeScript and React
Python, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL and Redis
Open source, license unclear on GitHub
Open source, BSD-2-Clause (permissive)
GitHub could not read the license. Check it in the repository before reusing any code.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
50k GitHub stars
29k GitHub stars
Established: started 11 years ago, latest release v0.65.2.
Established: started 13 years ago, latest release v26.9.0.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.