Metabase vs Superset
Metabase and Superset are both business intelligence software. Metabase is open source under a license set out in its repository, with 50k GitHub stars. Superset is open source under Apache-2.0, with 75k 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 Superset when
- A data team wants a free, scalable BI tool and has engineers to deploy and maintain it.
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.
A BI web application for exploring data, building charts and dashboards and running SQL against most SQL databases.
The open edition is AGPL; SSO, row-level permissions and white-label embedding need a paid plan.
Operating it (Python, Redis, a metadata database, caching, upgrades) takes real effort; Preset sells a hosted version.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server and cloud service (both)
Clojure, TypeScript and React
Python, Flask, TypeScript, React, Redis and PostgreSQL
Open source, license unclear on GitHub
Open source, Apache-2.0 (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
75k GitHub stars
Established: started 11 years ago, latest release v0.65.2.
Established: started 11 years ago, latest release 6.1.0.
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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.