Self-hosted alternatives to Metabase
Looking for a different self-hosted BI tool than Metabase? These 4 apps let you query data and build dashboards on your own server.
About Metabase: Open-source business intelligence tool for asking questions of your data and building dashboards.
| App | Health | Stars | License | Docker | RAM (est.) | From |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Superset | Active | 75.5k | Apache-2.0 | ✓ | 2 GB | $10/mo |
| Redash | Active | 28.9k | BSD-2-Clause | ✓ | 2 GB | $10/mo |
| Shaper | Active | 1.3k | MPL-2.0 | ✓ | 2 GB | $10/mo |
| EDA | Active | 214 | AGPL-3.0 | ✓ | 2 GB | $10/mo |
The options in detail
1. Superset
Modern data exploration and visualization platform.
Active Last commit 2026-11-09. 10+ releases in the past year. Latest release 7.0.0rc2 (2026-10-16). Needs roughly 2 GB RAM. How to run it →
2. Redash
Connect and query your data sources, build dashboards to visualize data and share them with your company.
Active Last commit 2026-11-04. 10+ releases in the past year. Latest release v26.9.0 (2026-09-24). Needs roughly 2 GB RAM incl. mariadb/mysql/postgres. How to run it →
3. Shaper
Build Data Dashboards all in SQL. Powered by DuckDB.
Active Last commit 2026-11-09. Latest release v0.27.0 (2026-11-09). Needs roughly 2 GB RAM. How to run it →
4. EDA
Web application for data analysis and visualization.
Active Last commit 2026-11-06. 6 releases in the past year. Latest release edalitics-3.1.1 (2026-06-26). Needs roughly 2 GB RAM. How to run it →
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