Metabase

Metabase is worth adding because it sits at a very important point in the BI market: far easier to adopt than many legacy or infrastructure-heavy analytics tools, while still offering a credible open-source path and embedded analytics story. The official product pages position Metabase around getting from database to dashboards quickly, helping nontechnical teammates answer their own questions, and keeping the system open-source and scalable. That makes it especially relevant for startups, software companies, and lean data teams that want BI to spread across the organization without a large platform project.

Its pricing page is also unusually strong. Metabase currently publishes Open Source as free, Starter at $100/month plus $6/user with the first five users included, Pro at $575/month plus $12/user with the first ten users included, and Enterprise as custom starting at $20k/year. That combination makes Metabase one of the clearest analytics entries to compare because buyers can understand both the free self-hosted path and the fully managed upgrade ladder without guessing.