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Metabase pricing, from its published sources, and the other costs to budget in year one: implementation, modelling, training and consumption.
Licence prices are the visible part of the cost of an analytics tool. This page sets out what Metabase publishes, from sources checked on 24 September 2026, and the other lines a finance team should put in the first-year budget before comparing options.
Open Source: free, self-hosted. Starter: $100 a month including 5 users, then $6 per user a month. Pro: $575 a month including 10 users, then $12 per user a month. Enterprise: custom pricing starting at $20,000 a year. Yearly billing saves 10%, and Starter and Pro offer a 14-day free trial. Optional usage-based extras include Metabase's AI service at $3.75 per million tokens (1 million included) and storage for uploaded data from $2 per million rows.
| Line | What to ask | Your figure |
|---|---|---|
| Licences or seats | Which roles need a paid licence, and the price per role | |
| Consumption | Whether queries, refreshes or AI questions are metered, and at what rate | |
| Implementation | Who does it, how many weeks, and the day rate | |
| Data model | What must be built before the first answer, and who maintains it | |
| Warehouse or platform | Whether a separate warehouse or compute is required, and its cost | |
| Training | How many people, how long | |
| Year two | What recurs, and what the renewal terms are |
Covirage starts from the exports your systems already produce, so there is no warehouse to build and no modelling language to learn. We set it up for you within a week. Prices are on one sheet, shared in a conversation, and the tiers are described on the pricing page.
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Facts about other products were checked on 24 September 2026 from the pages below. Product names are trademarks of their owners; Covirage is not affiliated with them.
Open Source: free, self-hosted. Starter: $100 a month including 5 users, then $6 per user a month. Pro: $575 a month including 10 users, then $12 per user a month. Enterprise: custom pricing starting at $20,000 a year. Yearly billing saves 10%, and Starter and Pro offer a 14-day free trial. Optional usage-based extras include Metabase's AI service at $3.75 per million tokens (1 million included) and storage for uploaded data from $2 per million rows. Actual contracts vary with users, data volume and edition; ask the vendor for a written quote.
Implementation, the modelling work before the first answer, training, and consumption or usage charges where they apply. Ask whether you will self-host or use the cloud edition, and what hosting and maintenance cost if you self-host.
Three tiers on one sheet, shared in a conversation: a single-user tier with no human in it, a business tier where we set it up, and an enterprise tier with connections built with your team.