Metabase vs Rill
No clear leader: Rill (64.0) and Metabase (59.5) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for bi software. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Metabase
Open source tool for business intelligence and embedded analytics that enables users to work with data from connected databases
Rill
A business intelligence tool designed for both AI agents and human users, built on OLAP engines like ClickHouse and DuckDB. It uses code-driven configuration (YAML and SQL), provides a semantic layer for consistent metric definitions, supports conversational queries in natural language, and includes interactive dashboards with row-level access control.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Metabase
Free tier with unlimited users. Starter from $100/month (5 users included). Pro from $575/month (10 users included). Enterprise custom, starts $20,000/year. Usage-based pricing for optional features.
- Open SourceFree
- Ask questions with AI
- SQL generation
- 20+ supported data sources
- Unlimited questions & dashboards
- Write SQL or explore by clicking
- +2 more
- Starter$100/month or $90/month yearly (first 5 users included, then $6/user/month)
- All Open Source features
- Ask questions with AI
- SQL generation
- Unlimited questions & dashboards
- 3-day email support
- +1 more
- Pro$575/month or $517.50/month yearly (first 10 users included, then $12/user/month)
- All Starter features
- Embed unlimited charts and dashboards
- Multi-tenant data segregation
- Row and column level permissions
- SSO
- +4 more
- EnterpriseContact sales
- All Pro features
- Custom pricing aligned with business model
- Procurement assistance
- Dedicated success engineer
- Air gap deployment available
- +1 more
Rill
From $20/seat/month. Free tier with $250 credit. Hybrid seat + usage-based pricing
- Starter$20/seat/month + $0.15/compute unit-hour
- Platform access
- Unlimited dashboards, reports, alerts
- Embedded analytics (previews only)
- Agentic analytics (1M tokens/seat/month)
- API access (2,500 calls/seat/month, $0.01/call overage)
- +3 more
- Growth$30/seat/month + $500/month embedded + $0.20/compute unit-hour
- Platform access
- Unlimited dashboards, reports, alerts
- Embedded analytics ($500/month up to 100 active seats)
- Agentic analytics (2M tokens/seat + 200k/embedded)
- API access (5,000 calls/seat + 500/embedded, $0.01/call overage)
- +6 more
- EnterpriseContact sales
- Platform access (unlimited seats)
- Unlimited dashboards, reports, alerts
- Embedded analytics (unlimited active seats)
- Agentic analytics (custom quota)
- API access (custom quota)
- +3 more
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- Okta
Metabase
- Vanta
- Drata
- Pendo
- Contentsquare
- PostHog
- Amplitude
- Mixpanel
- Zendesk
- Intercom
- Front
- Freshdesk
- Gorgias
- Kustomer
- Pylon
- Plain
- LiveAgent
- Jitbit
- Crisp
- Drag
- Productboard
- Aha!
- Canny
- Typeform
- SurveyMonkey
- +7 more
Rill
- Claude Code
- Cursor
- ChatGPT
- S3
- Google Cloud Storage
- ClickHouse
- ClickHouse Cloud
- DuckDB
- MotherDuck
- Druid
- Pinot
- Google SSO
- Microsoft SSO
- SAML
- GCS
Metabase or Rill: which one depends on you
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