Metabase Pricing: Plans & Cost Calculator 2026
Free self-hosted BI is available, while cloud plans range from $100/user/mo to $575 per user monthly across three main tiers.
Metabase plans and pricing
Billing surface
Pick a plan, set your seat count and switch billing to see the running total. The full breakdown lives in the calculator below.
Open Source
Anyone self-hosting
Starter
Teams starting with BI
Pro
Growing orgs needing access controls
Enterprise
Mission-critical or sensitive envs
Metabase pricing: the quick answer
Metabase gives you a genuinely free path: the Open Source edition is $0 and self-hosted with unlimited users as of July 13, 2026, so the only cost is your own server time. Paid cloud starts at $100/mo for the Starter plan, which bundles 5 users, then jumps to $575/mo on Pro for 10 users and SSO. Both charge for extra seats past the included count, $6/user/mo on Starter and $12 on Pro. Enterprise is a custom quote that starts at $20,000/yr. Annual billing shaves 10 percent off Starter and Pro.
- Open SourceFree
- Starter$100/user/mo
- Pro$575/user/mo
- EnterpriseCustom
At $100/mo to start, Metabase sits 488% above the $17/mo median across 5 analytics & bi tools we track.
Metabase cost calculator
Metabase Hidden Costs & Pitfalls
The two paid cloud plans bundle a fixed number of seats, and the flat price only holds while you stay under that count. Seats, AI, and data jobs are the meters that run on top.
Metabase pricing, read against its live plans and category
Positioning
Metabase splits cleanly into a free path and a paid one. Open Source is genuinely free and self-hosted with unlimited users, so a technical team pays only in server time and maintenance. The managed cloud starts at $100/mo for Starter, which bundles 5 users, and Pro is $575/mo for 10 users with SSO and row-level permissions. Both are a flat base plus per-extra-seat, not a per-user rate, which keeps the price flat until your headcount crosses the included count.
Cost drivers
- 1Seats past the bundle add up fast: $6/user/mo on Starter and $12/user/mo on Pro, so a 15-person Pro team pays $635/mo, not the headline $575.
- 2The AI service bills $3.75 per 1M tokens beyond the 1M included, though Metabase notes most teams bring their own Anthropic key instead.
- 3Cloud transforms cost $0.01/run after 1,000 (advanced $0.02/run), and uploaded data is $40 per 500K rows.
- 4Listed prices exclude applicable taxes, and advanced embedding needs Pro or higher, from $575/mo.
Watch-outs
The leap from Pro to Enterprise is the sharp edge. Enterprise is custom-quoted and starts at $20,000/yr, which is a jarring step for a team that grew comfortable on the $575 Pro tier.
Strengths
The free Open Source tier is the real draw, and it is not a crippled demo.
- Unlimited users on the self-hosted Open Source edition at no license cost
- Non-SQL users can build questions through the visual query builder
- Models give business users a semantic layer over messy tables
Editor’s take
Open Source fits technical teams that can run their own hosting and do not need SSO. For managed BI, Starter at $100/mo handles small teams and Pro at $575/mo covers access controls and embedding. If per-seat scaling on top of the base gets uncomfortable, PostHog is worth a look.
Oleh KemFounder & Lead AnalystMetabase price history
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Sources & verification
| Source | What was checked | Last checked |
|---|---|---|
| Official Pricing Page | Source of verified tiers | July 8, 2026 |
| Official Website | Official vendor website | — |
| G2 | G2 verified user reviews · 4.4/5 · 145 reviews | — |
| Capterra | Capterra verified user reviews · 4.6/5 | — |
| TrustRadius | TrustRadius verified reviews | — |
| PeerSpot | PeerSpot enterprise peer reviews | — |
Every fact on this Metabase pricing page is tied to a named source and a verification date. Freshness-sensitive figures trace to the sources above; verify against the vendor before relying on them.
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