When comparing Metabase vs Datapane, the Slant community recommends Metabase for most people. In the question“What are the best reporting and business intelligence (BI) tools?” Metabase is ranked 2nd while Datapane is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose Metabase is:
Metabase is licensed under GPLv3 with source code available on [GitHub](https://github.com/metabase/metabase).
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Pros
Pro Free and open source
Metabase is licensed under GPLv3 with source code available on GitHub.
Pro Can send a set of metrics to Slack
Metabase includes a feature called Pulses that can send a set of metrics to Slack daily.
Pro SQL access for more advanced queries
Pro Very powerful user friendly interface
Pro Open source integration
Report generation is open source and has integrations into the Python visualisation libraries
Pro Flexible report components
Has support for a lot of rich components (pivot table, drilldown, interactive maps, etc.) which allows some much more flexible reports
Pro Good for teams who use Python and SQL
Lets you do the typical BI and reporting bits in Python and SQL in your own environment
Pro API-first
You can use the API from your other data infrastructure (Colab, Jupyter, Sagemaker, etc.)
Cons
Con General data tool not designed for web analytics
Generic BI data tool, is absent any necessary features required for analytics of web data. Of course it may work with captured data sets, it just doesn't do anything but data.
Con Very early in development
For instance, you can't make a stacked bar graph or edit your axis labels yet.
Con Not for teams who want drag-and-drop
Doesn't have a drag and drop component for building charts etc. - it expects you to do the analysis in Python and SQL.