Host Metabase without installing anything
Ask your databases a question without writing a line of SQL, and turn it into a dashboard the team receives every Monday morning.
Starting at €15.99/month
Introduction
Metabase installed, updated and backed up by us, on a machine in France. You install nothing and configure no server: the application is online a few minutes after you order, under your own name.
The plan that suits it is App Performance at €15.99/month incl. VAT — 8 GB of memory. Metabase runs on the Java virtual machine, which reserves its heap at start-up and dislikes being cramped. Every query result passes through it before being rendered, and a dashboard sent by email runs all of its questions at once. 2 GB gets it started; the 8 GB are what separates a pleasant tool from one that takes ten seconds to draw a chart.
Metabase does not store your data: it connects to the databases you already have — PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB, SQL Server, SQLite, MongoDB, BigQuery — and queries them live. It keeps only its own definitions: the questions, the dashboards, the permissions. One consequence to know before ordering: a heavy query weighs on the database being queried, and at any real volume it is better pointed at a read replica than at production.
What Metabase does
It connects to what you already have
PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB, SQL Server, SQLite, MongoDB, BigQuery and more. You give the credentials, Metabase walks the schema and offers the tables with their relationships.
A question is built step by step
Filter, group, join, compute: the notebook editor writes the query for you. The SQL editor is still there, with its variables and parameters, for the cases the interface does not cover.
Subscriptions and alerts
A dashboard can leave by email every Monday at seven, filtered per recipient. A question can also warn you when a figure crosses a threshold, with nobody having to watch.
Share without handing out an account
A question or a dashboard can be given a public address, or embedded in a page of your site through a signed frame, with the filters you decide.
Who uses it, and what for
A shop plugged into its own database
Orders, average basket, products sleeping in stock: the figures come from the shop's database, not from a module that copies everything somewhere else.
A director who wants three figures on Monday
One dashboard, one email subscription, and a meeting that starts from identical data for everyone instead of three contradictory spreadsheets.
A product team following its cohorts
Sign-ups per week, thirty-day return rate, steps lost in a funnel: the notebook editor covers most of those questions.
A charity accounting for itself
The funder's annual report drawn straight from the membership and activity database, with the same definition from one year to the next.
An agency with one dashboard per client
Permissions are granted per collection: each client sees their own dashboard and nothing else, without a separate instance to maintain.
Hosted in France
In our own infrastructure in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, which we operate ourselves. Your activity figures do not travel through an analytics service hosted elsewhere.
Frequently asked questions
No. It queries your databases live and keeps only its own objects: questions, dashboards, collections, permissions, and a result cache if you enable one. That is what makes adopting it reversible — removing it leaves no orphan data behind. In exchange, every display runs a real query: on large tables it is better connected to a read replica than to the database serving your customers.
Not to ask questions. The notebook editor covers filters, groupings, joins and everyday calculations, and shows the result at each step. In practice one person on the team ends up writing SQL to prepare models — named, clean queries — on which the others then build without ever seeing a line of code.
The free version covers connections, questions, dashboards, email subscriptions, alerts, per-collection permissions and public or signed-frame sharing. The paid editions add row-level sandboxing per user, white-label interactive embedding, SAML authentication and audit logs. For a team sharing the same data, the difference does not show.
App Performance, at €15.99/month incl. VAT. It provides 8 GB of memory where the application asks for 2 GB at minimum: the headroom serves the system, not the decor. You can change plan later without reinstalling.
Yes, they are part of the service. A self-hosted application left un-updated is a security risk, not a saving.