BigQuery vs Metabase
What each one’s own pages state, side by side. Every value is a quote AirStack found on that product’s pages; “Not observed” means AirStack has not found it on that product’s pages.
| BigQuery | Metabase | |
|---|---|---|
| What it says it does | BigQuery is the autonomous data to AI platform, automating the entire data life cycle cloud.google.com | Open source AI analytics you can verify metabase.com |
| Starting at | Not observed | $90 Starter / month |
| Deployment | Not observed | Metabase Cloud, your own infrastructure, Cloud deployment, Self-hosted, cloud-hosted metabase.com |
| Integrations | Gemini platform, ADK, LangGraph, UCP cloud.google.com | 100Hires, ActiveCampaign, Adjust, Adyen, Asana, Datadog, GitHub, GitLab, Google Ads, Google AdSense, Google Analytics 4, Google Cloud Billing, Google Kubernetes Engine, Google Play Console, Google Search Console, Google Tag Manager, Gorgias, Grafana, Greenhouse, HubSpot, Jira, Shopify, Salesforce, Slack metabase.com |
| Compliance | Not observed | CCPA, GDPR, SOC 2 metabase.com |
| Free plan | Yes cloud.google.com | Yes metabase.com |
| Plans | Enterprise, Enterprise Plus, Standard, BigQuery CUD - 1 Year, BigQuery CUD - 3 Year, flat-rate, on-demand cloud.google.com | Enterprise, Pro, Open Source, Starter, Starter and Open Source metabase.com |
| Open source | Not observed | Yes metabase.com |
| Pricing basis | BigQuery pricing is based on compute (analysis), storage, additional services, and data ingestion and extraction. cloud.google.com | Not observed |
| Customers (their claim) | Not observed | Trusted by 100,000+ companies metabase.com |
Where they differ
- Metabase’s pages state that it is open source; AirStack has not found that on BigQuery’s pages.
- Metabase claims GDPR on its own pages; BigQuery’s pages read by AirStack do not mention it.
- Metabase claims SOC 2 on its own pages; BigQuery’s pages read by AirStack do not mention it.
Prices are list prices as written on each pricing page; check them before you buy. Nothing here is a ranking or a recommendation.