Metabase vs. ThoughtSpot

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Metabase
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Metabase aims to bring data tools with the simplicity of consumer products to the crufty world of enterprise business intelligence. Their open source analytics and business intelligence applications connect to most commonly used databases to let anyone in a company ask questions, and create dashboards or nightly emails without knowing SQL. Metabase Enterprise enables the user to embed branded analytics into customer applications.
$85
per month
ThoughtSpot
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
ThoughtSpot is an Agentic Analytics Platform for enterprises where users ask data questions using natural language and get answers with AI. Code-first for data teams and code-free for business users, ThoughtSpot can handle large, complex cloud data at scale.
$1,500
per year (5 users)
Pricing
MetabaseThoughtSpot
Editions & Modules
Starter
$85
per month (includes 5 users, then $5 per user, per month)
Starter
$85
per month up to 5 users
Pro
$500
per month up to 10 users
Growth
$749
per month (includes 10 users, then $15 per user, per month)
Enterprise
15,000
per year
Open Source
Free
Thoughtspot Analytics - Pro
$50
per month (billed annually) per user (25-1000 users)
Thoughtspot Analytics - Enterprise
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
MetabaseThoughtSpot
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
MetabaseThoughtSpot
Features
MetabaseThoughtSpot
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Metabase
7.5
4 Ratings
9% below category average
ThoughtSpot
7.3
89 Ratings
12% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports8.02 Ratings6.021 Ratings
Customizable dashboards8.14 Ratings8.289 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates6.54 Ratings7.725 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Metabase
8.2
4 Ratings
2% above category average
ThoughtSpot
7.5
91 Ratings
7% below category average
Drill-down analysis8.54 Ratings8.590 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.44 Ratings7.290 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages7.52 Ratings5.749 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration9.44 Ratings8.688 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Metabase
8.7
2 Ratings
6% above category average
ThoughtSpot
8.3
84 Ratings
1% above category average
Publish to Web9.01 Ratings8.355 Ratings
Publish to PDF9.01 Ratings8.678 Ratings
Report Versioning7.92 Ratings7.918 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling9.01 Ratings8.464 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.135 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Metabase
8.7
4 Ratings
8% above category average
ThoughtSpot
7.4
86 Ratings
8% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.54 Ratings7.685 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization10.02 Ratings7.679 Ratings
Predictive Analytics8.62 Ratings7.565 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining7.62 Ratings6.913 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Metabase
9.5
4 Ratings
11% above category average
ThoughtSpot
8.1
86 Ratings
5% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)8.64 Ratings8.282 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model10.03 Ratings8.074 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)9.54 Ratings7.878 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control9.53 Ratings7.916 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)10.04 Ratings8.672 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Metabase
9.0
2 Ratings
15% above category average
ThoughtSpot
7.5
53 Ratings
3% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access8.01 Ratings7.351 Ratings
Mobile Application10.01 Ratings7.234 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile9.02 Ratings7.046 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Metabase
8.8
3 Ratings
13% above category average
ThoughtSpot
7.1
51 Ratings
9% below category average
REST API8.83 Ratings6.942 Ratings
Javascript API9.02 Ratings6.535 Ratings
iFrames9.02 Ratings8.134 Ratings
Java API10.01 Ratings7.013 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)7.02 Ratings7.335 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)9.01 Ratings7.115 Ratings
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User Ratings
MetabaseThoughtSpot
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(4 ratings)
8.6
(91 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(6 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(3 ratings)
8.3
(85 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
4.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
MetabaseThoughtSpot
Likelihood to Recommend
Metabase
Metabase is an easy tool to use if you are interested in collecting and aggregating data from multiple platforms. It is also easy to set up and start receiving the data results as a report. It is also easy to integrate with other tools that generate visual reports and take the necessary actions based on the data details.
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ThoughtSpot
It is well suited when the same data is consumed by many different people with different analytics and visualization requirements because, if you have the data available in ThoughtSpot, every user can prepare different views. Also, it is a good reporting tool, you can get rid of slides if you have a good dashboard prepared, gaining flexibility and agility.
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Pros
Metabase
  • We're currently using it to fetch reports for our products, such as daily sales, pipeline, visits, and attendance reports.
  • Data representation from database directly.
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ThoughtSpot
  • Beautiful visualizations. The visuals are distinct, clean, and easy to discern from one another.
  • Intelligent querying functionality. When looking to manipulate the data, the search function makes it easy to manipulate the features in the data, along with aggregating them in the way you'd like.
  • Embedding! It has been a smooth process thus far for our product & technical teams to work with ThoughtSpot and bring it into our product.
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Cons
Metabase
  • Report Types
  • Updates
  • Colour/Branding
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ThoughtSpot
  • It would be great if ThoughtSpot can add the feature to filter by clicking on visualizations. i.e if I click on a particular data point in the chart if the full dashboard can filter just for that particular data point.
  • Color coding the heatmap with different colors like green to orange to red.
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Likelihood to Renew
Metabase
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
I give it just waiting because passport is brilliant and it has helped our organisation In advancing to the next stage in the age of AI. It has allowed or non-tech people to better service and clients in a cost-effective way. George port has allowed us to create new products for us and for our clients increasing our revenue streams and reducing clients churn
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Usability
Metabase
Its generally quite easy to use but some SQL is definitely important
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ThoughtSpot
The rating is because of the ease of use of the interface as it has a no code interface that makes it easy to setup data pipelines without extensive programming. Cloud native integration: It integrates seamlessly with cloud based data warehouses. Automated data loading, Scalability, Cost Effective, Transformations, Data Governance and security.
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Reliability and Availability
Metabase
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
it's available unless there is a server or system update etc. sometimes the timing of this is bad (for example during a month end close)
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Performance
Metabase
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
It does what it is supposed to. Would be nice to have a bit more insights
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Support Rating
Metabase
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
I give it this meeting because the team is not only help able to help us in the current solutions but also amazing and taking feedback and feeding it back to their development team which includes more products and features into ThoughtSpot
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In-Person Training
Metabase
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
inhouse in-person training. Took a bit to long to get the basics.
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Online Training
Metabase
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
poor instructions
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Implementation Rating
Metabase
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
Understand use case and model and design accordingly
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Alternatives Considered
Metabase
It does not stack up against Metabase, they complete each other.
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ThoughtSpot
We also explored Tableau Ask Data. Tableau is our standard for BI in our organization. We want to use the smallest amount of tools in our company to have the best adaption. ThoughSpot will fill a few gaps that we have with our current set up and will also enhance out offering for our employees in the transition of being more data driven within in near future
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Scalability
Metabase
No answers on this topic
ThoughtSpot
Because it is very reliable, inside the situation, we need strong internet connection to access a lot of data but easily never had any downtime except during the upgrades
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Return on Investment
Metabase
  • It is serving us whatever we're looking for, and we've recommended many organizations to implement it if they want better data analytics as it provides better functionality than we will build.
  • As a negative it gets difficult to get control over data to be fetch initially.
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ThoughtSpot
  • Time to market ROI is massive vs hiring the full-time dedicated team to build and maintain a frontend multi-tenant SaaS data viz product.
  • It will be interesting to see over time how the advanced features play out in terms of usability and end value, such as Natural Search, which we are very excited about, and the machine learning tools.
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ScreenShots

ThoughtSpot Screenshots

Screenshot of the ThoughtSpot home screenScreenshot of SpotIQ, which offers AI-driven insightsScreenshot of the Spotter AI agent that surfaces insights through natural language queriesScreenshot of AI Assist producing SQL in real timeScreenshot of SpotIQ, which offers AI-driven insightsScreenshot of the integration with dbt models and metrics