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Lightdash vs Metabase
Pricing, founders, indie status and curated alternatives compared from our directory — all data points sourced from each tool's public site or press materials.
Metabase
Open-source BI for anyone.
At a glanceLightdashMetabase
- Pricing
- $400/mo (Pro)
- $85/mo (Cloud Starter)
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Freemium
- Founded
- —
- 2015
- Location
- London, UK
- —
- Bootstrapped
- —
- —
- Open source
- Yes
- Yes
- Category
- —
- Business Intelligence & Data
- Indie alternatives
- 0
- 6
- Founders
- Oliver Laslett, Hamzah Chaudhary
- Sameer Al-Sakran
Key differences
Pricing
Metabase starts cheaper at $85/mo (Cloud Starter); Lightdash starts at $400/mo (Pro).
Funding
Both are indie / bootstrapped or open source.
Open source
Both are open source.
Indie alternatives
Lightdash has 0 curated indie alternatives in our directory; Metabase has 6.
Differences are derived directly from the data on each tool's page. Empty fields mean we haven't verified a value yet — never that one tool lacks the capability.
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