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Metabase

Open-source · self-hostable · replaces 1 SaaS tool on os-alt

metabase/metabase · alive · ★ 47.3k · last commit today · 4157 open issues

License: AGPL-3.0 — Core is AGPL-3.0; some enterprise features (sandboxing, advanced permissions, white-labeling) are commercial-only on the Pro/Enterprise editions.

Good fit for Teams that want most analysts to self-serve via a friendly UI; non-technical users get a gentler ramp than Tableau Desktop.

Weak at Tableau-grade visualizations (advanced chart calc, level-of-detail expressions, complex drill-throughs) are not all there.

In a terminal? npx -y github:SolvoHQ/os-alt-cli tableau prints the Tableau comparison table including Metabase. how the CLI works →

Replaces these SaaS

  • Tableau · Business intelligence / dashboards / data exploration

    Tableau workbooks (.twbx) don't import. Practical path: list your Tableau dashboards by importance; in Metabase, connect the same data warehouse (Snowflake / Postgres / BigQuery / etc.), recreate top dashboards using Metabase's question builder or native SQL. Question→dashboard composition is similar to Tableau worksheets→dashboards.

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