Grafana vs. Metabase
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Grafana | Score8.7 out of 10 | N/A | Grafana is a data visualization tool developed by Grafana Labs in New York. It is available open source, managed (Grafana Cloud), or via an enterprise edition with enhanced features. Grafana has pluggable data source model and comes bundled with support for popular time series databases like Graphite. It also has built-in support for cloud monitoring vendors like Amazon Cloudwatch, Microsoft Azure and SQL databases like MySQL. Grafana can combine data from many places into a single dashboard. | $0 |
Metabase | Score7.7 out of 10 | N/A | Metabase aims to bring data tools with the simplicity of consumer products to the crufty world of enterprise business intelligence. Their open source analytics and business intelligence applications connect to most commonly used databases to let anyone in a company ask questions, and create dashboards or nightly emails without knowing SQL. Metabase Enterprise enables the user to embed branded analytics into customer applications. | $85 per month |
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| Small Businesses | Looker Studio Score7.6 out of 10 | Cyfe Score8.8 out of 10 |
| Medium-sized Companies | Jet Reports Score9.5 out of 10 | Zendesk Explore Score8.7 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | Kibana Score7.2 out of 10 | Jaspersoft Community Edition Score9.7 out of 10 |
| All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 9.0 | 8.5 |
| Usability | 10.0 | 8.0 |
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