Looker 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.
| Looker | Metabase | |
|---|---|---|
| What it says it does | The agentic BI platform built on a trusted semantic layer 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 | BigQuery, AlloyDB, Cloud SQL, Spanner, Amazon Redshift, Databricks, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Snowflake 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 | Standard, Enterprise, Embed cloud.google.com | Enterprise, Pro, Open Source, Starter, Starter and Open Source metabase.com |
| Open source | Not observed | Yes metabase.com |
| Pricing basis | Looker pricing has two components: platform pricing and user pricing. 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 Looker’s pages.
- Metabase claims GDPR on its own pages; Looker’s pages read by AirStack do not mention it.
- Metabase claims SOC 2 on its own pages; Looker’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.