Databricks vs Metabase
Databricks confirms 4 of the features we check on its own site; Metabase confirms 6.
Databricks
Enterprises unifying data engineering, analytics and AI on one platform.
Watch out: Usage-based pricing; no prices printed in the text.
Metabase
Teams wanting open-source, self-service BI and embedded analytics they can self-host or run in the cloud.
Watch out: Paid plan prices are not in the supplied text.
| Overview & pricing | ||
|---|---|---|
| Category | Data, Analytics & AI | Data, Analytics & AI |
| Specialty | Data and AI platform | Business intelligence |
| Based in | 🇺🇸 United States | Unconfirmed |
| Best for | Enterprise | All sizes |
| Starting price | Unconfirmed | Unconfirmed |
| Free plan | Unconfirmed | ✓Yes |
| Free trial | Unconfirmed | Unconfirmed |
| Features confirmed on each vendor’s site | ||
| BI dashboards · Core features | ✓Business Intelligence: intelligent analytics | ✓Dashboards and reporting listed as features |
| LLM / generative AI agents · Core features | ✓Build and deploy ML and GenAI apps; agentic AI assistant | ✓Metabase AI and Metabot on almost any model |
| Data integration / ETL · Core features | ✓ETL and orchestration for batch and streaming data | Unconfirmed |
| Custom models · Core features | ✓Build and deploy ML applications | Unconfirmed |
| No-code interface · Core features | Unconfirmed | ✓Query builder for self-service analytics |
| On-premise / desktop option · Platform | Unconfirmed | ✓Available self-hosted as well as cloud |
| Two-factor authentication · Security & compliance | Unconfirmed | ✓Metabase 64 adds required 2FA |
| Roles & permissions · Security & compliance | Unconfirmed | ✓Permissions listed among features |
| Integrations | ||
| Listed on its site | AWS, Azure, GCP, VS Code, PyCharm, Neon | Unconfirmed |
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Every ✓ / ✕ comes from the vendor’s own website (sources on each product page). Unconfirmed means the site doesn’t say — not that the feature is missing.