Sigma
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Buy if you run Snowflake or another cloud warehouse and want governed self-serve dashboards and AI agents for many business users.
Comparison
Sigma vs Metabase
Sigma and Metabase both land on Depends.
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.
| Compare | Sigma | Metabase |
|---|---|---|
| Verdict | Depends | Depends |
| Best for | Snowflake/warehouse-native orgs | Startups wanting free BI on existing databases |
| Who it's not for | Small teams needing one dashboard | Teams with nobody to own hosting and patching |
| Privacy | No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.⁶ | Active 2026 vulnerability stream . four critical CVEs including an unauthenticated SQL injection; prompt patching is non-optional.15 |
| Support quality | No support quality evidence found | No support-quality evidence in sources |
| Public sentiment | Holds 561 G2 reviews and a 2022 G2 Best Software analytics award; Reddit threads debate pricing versus Tableau, but reviewed snippets contain no verbatim complaints.¹ | Users like the query builder and SQL access; recurring gripes are exports, dashboard customization, and slow queries on big datasets. |
| Biggest gotcha | Expect six-figure annual contracts; pricing varies deal-by-deal behind sales³ | Self-hosting means you own patching; 2026 fixes spanned 55.13, 56.3, 57.1 and later |
Pick Sigma when
- Snowflake/warehouse-native orgs
- Business analysts who avoid SQL
- Embedded, customer-facing analytics
- Governed self-serve dashboards at scale
When Sigma is not a fit
- Small teams needing one dashboard
- Anyone without a cloud data warehouse
- Budgets under ~$60K/year
- Self-serve buyers avoiding sales calls
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
Sources
review
- Sigma: $60,000-$150,000 . Vendrvendr.comreview
- Sigma Pricing Breakdown 2026 . Qrveyqrvey.comreview
- Sigma Raises $80 Million Series Esigmacomputing.comofficial
- Sigma Computing Trust Centersecurity.sigmacomputing.comsecurity
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- Thoughts on Sigma? . r/analyticsreddit.comreview
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- Sigma Computing Earns Ranking on G2's 2022 Best Software Awardssigmacomputing.comofficial
- Account type and license overview . Sigma Helphelp.sigmacomputing.comofficial
- Horizon3 . CVE-2026-72898 SQL injectionhorizon3.aisecurity
- OpenCVE . CVE-2026-50148app.opencve.iosecurity