Enterprise Software: Metabase hosting
Metabase is the open-source tool for business intelligence – dashboards and analyses that are understandable even without SQL knowledge. We host Metabase in a GDPR-compliant way on European infrastructure, connect your data sources and set up the first dashboards. This way your team gets answers from your data without it passing through a third-party BI cloud tool.
Challenges you'll recognise
- Analyses depend on individuals, and every new question to the data ends up as a ticket with IT.
- Your business data would have to leave the house for a BI cloud tool, which is out of the question for data protection.
- Decisions are made from gut feeling because current numbers aren't at hand.
Dashboards & self-service BI
Metabase makes data accessible: with questions in plain language or by click, analyses and dashboards are created without every question going through IT. Your team makes decisions based on current numbers instead of gut feeling.
Connecting your data sources
Metabase connects with common databases and data warehouses. We connect your sources – from the production database to the warehouse – and model them so analyses are reliable and understandable.
Self-hosted setup
Self-hosted, Metabase runs on your infrastructure, so your business data does not leave the house. We install Metabase production-ready, set up connections and ensure stable operation.
Access rights & data protection
Not everyone should see everything. We configure permissions and data access granularly, so each team sees exactly the analyses it needs – and sensitive data stays protected.
Metabase in action
Business intelligence for everyone – ask questions, build dashboards, no SQL required.
Good to know
Self-service instead of IT ticket
When departments can answer their own questions, the IT bottleneck disappears – and decisions are made faster and data-based.
Business data stays in house
Self-hosted, your data does not leave your own infrastructure – a clear advantage over cloud BI where data flows to third parties.
Low barrier to entry
The visual editor makes BI accessible to non-technical users too, so more people in the company actually work with data.
Metabase vs. Tableau, Power BI & Looker
BI tools bill per user – a wide reader base in particular gets expensive. Metabase is open source and self-hosted with no per-user licence. As of June 2026.
| Metabase (self-hosted) | Tableau Cloud | Power BI Pro | Looker | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Licence | Open source, €0 | Per user/month | Per user/month | On request |
| Price | Fixed ops, user-independent | Creator $75 · Viewer $15 | $14/user/mo | Enterprise/quote |
| Cost (20 users) | Unchanged (fixed fee) | ~$300–1,500/mo | ~$280/mo | individual |
| Data ownership | Your own EU servers | Vendor cloud | Microsoft cloud | Google cloud |
| Self-service | Questions without SQL, dashboards | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Vendor list prices, as of June 2026 (USD, billed annually). Metabase Cloud would start at $100/mo. Break-even: from roughly 10–20 users – especially with many read-only viewers – self-hosted Metabase is usually cheaper than per-user BI.
Frequently asked questions
Do we need SQL knowledge to use Metabase?
Which data sources can Metabase connect to?
Why self-host Metabase instead of using a BI cloud tool?
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