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 Apache Superset if you're on a platform team who will operate Superset themselves at $0. Skip Apache Superset if you're on
Best for
Metabase Charts you start at $100 Cloud or OSS $0
Apache Superset Superset at OSS $0 and you will run Redis/Celery
Free plan
Metabase $0 · aGPL. Unlimited internal users. No embed SKU. You run it
Apache Superset $0 · apache-2.0. You run the metadata DB, cache, and workers
Lowest paid
Metabase Transforms $0.01
Apache Superset Not published by the vendor
Next step up
Metabase AI add-on $3.75
Apache Superset
Runs where
Metabase Local; you host it
Apache Superset Local or hosted
Watch out
Metabase Starter’s $100 includes 5 users
Apache Superset $0 is the license, not the ops bill
Last checked
Metabase 2026-10-22 · metabase.com/pricing
Apache Superset 2026-10-28 · superset.apache.org
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 pageplatform teams who will operate Superset themselves at $0.
Read the Apache Superset page
