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Metabase vs Kibana: catalog facts
Metabase	Kibana
Freemium The open-source edition can be self-hosted for free, and paid cloud and business plans are…	Freemium Free to download and self-host; Elastic sells hosted deployments and paid subscriptions.
Web, Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted
Visual query builder for people who do not write SQL SQL editor and dashboards in the same tool	Interactive dashboards with charts, maps and tables Real-time search and exploration of Elasticsearch data
You need to run and maintain a server when self-hosting Some features are part of paid plans	Only works with Elasticsearch Some features require a paid Elastic subscription
Self-hosted, Hosted service	Self-hosted, Hosted service
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License: AGPL-3.0, SSPL or Elastic License 2.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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