MetaLens vs Metabase Pro
Metabase Pro is the platform. We're the audit on top.
Metabase Pro is the official paid tier of Metabase — hosted, with sandboxing, dashboard subscriptions, and SSO. MetaLens runs against any Metabase (Pro, Cloud, OSS, self-hosted) to score health, find duplicates, and document what's there. Most of our paying customers are on Pro.
Pick Metabase Pro when…
- You need the BI tool itself: dashboards, charts, scheduling, alerts, sandboxing.
- You want SSO, audit logs, and content embedding inside your own product.
- You're picking a primary self-serve analytics tool for your company.
Pick MetaLens when…
- You already pay for Metabase (Pro, Cloud, or OSS) and the instance is messy.
- You want an AI-generated health score and cleanup playbook, not more dashboards.
- You need a board-ready audit this quarter, not another platform to roll out.
Feature
MetaLens
Metabase Pro
Core purpose
BI / dashboarding platform
Audit, health score, duplicate detection
AI-generated documentation
AI chat against your real schema
Governance
Sensitive-column blocking before LLM context
Stale-content surfacing + archive workflow
Health score A–F with trend over time
Sandboxing / row-level permissions
SSO / SCIM
Pricing model
Per-user pricing
Flat $149/$349/mo regardless of seat count
One-time $999 audit option
14-day money-back guarantee
Deployment
Hosted SaaS
Self-hosted on your VPS / k8s
Enterprise
Works with OSS Metabase
Works with Metabase Cloud
The honest version: keep paying Metabase, Inc — they build the platform our paying customers rely on. We're the audit and AI layer that sits on top, regardless of whether you're on OSS, Cloud, or Pro. If you don't yet pay for Metabase Pro and you need the platform features, talk to Metabase first.
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