Comparison

Redash vs Metabase

Redash and Metabase both land on Depends.

Redash

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Buy it if your team writes SQL and wants free, self-hosted dashboards over many data sources.

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Metabase

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Buy it if someone on your team can host it, patch it fast, and write SQL . the free open-source core is genuinely capable BI.

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Redash versus Metabase
Compare	Redash	Metabase
Verdict	Depends	Depends
Best for	SQL-comfortable analysts	Startups wanting free BI on existing databases
Who it's not for	Non-technical teams wanting drag-and-drop BI	Teams with nobody to own hosting and patching
Privacy	No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.^²	Active 2026 vulnerability stream . four critical CVEs including an unauthenticated SQL injection; prompt patching is non-optional.¹³
Support quality	No direct evidence; only third-party marketplace support	No support-quality evidence in sources
Public sentiment	Users like Redash for fast, basic SQL-driven visualization but lean on other BI tools for advanced analytics.^⁷	Users like the query builder and SQL access; recurring gripes are exports, dashboard customization, and slow queries on big datasets.
Biggest gotcha	Confirm the supported hosting path; a community blog references a discontinuation decision¹⁰	Self-hosting means you own patching; 2026 fixes spanned 55.13, 56.3, 57.1 and later

Pick Redash when

SQL-comfortable analysts
Engineering-led startups
Self-hosting teams
Quick query sharing

When Redash is not a fit

Non-technical teams wanting drag-and-drop BI
Buyers needing advanced analytics out of the box
Teams that won't maintain a server
Anyone wanting vendor SLAs and dedicated support

Pick Metabase when

Startups wanting free BI on existing databases
Product teams embedding analytics in their app
SQL-comfortable data teams
Self-hosters with patching discipline

When Metabase is not a fit

Teams with nobody to own hosting and patching
Security-sensitive orgs handling regulated data
Non-technical teams needing polished exports and dashboards
Analysts on huge datasets where query speed matters

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Horizon3 . CVE-2026-72898 SQL injectionhorizon3.ai
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Tenable . CVE-2026-59826tenable.com
security
SentinelOne . CVE-2026-33725 Enterprise RCEsentinelone.com
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