Our take
Pick Metabase if you're on a ops / data team who will self-host OSS at $0 (unlimited internal users, no embed SKU) while they ask a first Orders question, or start the Cloud Starter 14-day trial and land on $100/month (5 users included, then $6/user) when they do not want to run the stack. Pick Rill Data if you're on a data team who will define dashboards in Git and either self-host or buy Cloud seats. Skip Rill
Best for
Metabase Charts you start at $100 Cloud or OSS $0
Rill Data Fast explore you start at OSS $0 or Cloud $20/seat
Free plan
Metabase $0 · aGPL. Unlimited internal users. No embed SKU. You run it
Rill Data $0 · apache-2.0. You run the runtime
Lowest paid
Metabase Transforms $0.01
Rill Data Growth $30
Next step up
Metabase AI add-on $3.75
Rill Data
Runs where
Metabase Local; you host it
Rill Data Local or hosted
Watch out
Metabase Starter’s $100 includes 5 users
Rill Data Cloud seats are not the compute bill
Last checked
Metabase 2026-10-22 · metabase.com/pricing
Rill Data 2026-10-28 · rilldata.com/pricing
ops / data teams who will self-host OSS at $0 (unlimited internal users, no embed SKU) while they ask a first Orders question, or start the Cloud Starter 14-day trial and land on $100/month (5 users included, then $6/user) when they do not want to run the stack.
Read the Metabase pagedata teams who will define dashboards in Git and either self-host or buy Cloud seats.
Read the Rill Data page
