Finance AI Index
Index Vendors › Metabase · September 2026 Edition
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Metabase

39Judge labels
1First choices
6Negative labels
11 of 12Models named it
2Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in Financial reporting for mid-market buyers
Rank 33 of 133 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 27% of its 11 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In financial reporting · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Metabase for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Financial reporting and dashboardsPlanning and analysis0%33 of 13327%11criticized challenger
SaaS metrics and analyticsPlanning and analysis0%19 of 810%5under 10 labels · led by ChartMogul at 45%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Metabase yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Metabase across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501001
GPT-5.4 mini00101
Gemini 3.5 Flash01102
Perplexity Sonar00022
Grok 4.1 Fast01001
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00202
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash01012
Kimi K210203
GLM 4.7 FlashX01001
MiniMax M2.500101

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct3 labelsNone
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative14 labelsNone
Budget-constrained10 labels1
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative10 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative39 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 2 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Small teams/non-technical users: Metabase (open-source, user-friendly)” Kimi K2 · Financial reporting · negative prompt · first choice
“consider open-source alternatives like Airbyte (for ELT) or Metabase if costs/support are concerns” Grok 4.1 Fast · Financial reporting · negative prompt · alternative
“Metabase is ideal for simple internal SQL dashboards and self‑service reporting.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Financial reporting · comparative prompt · alternative
“Metabase is the go-to open-source business intelligence tool for technical teams” Claude Haiku 4.5 · SaaS metrics · budget prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Avoid (for mid-to-large teams): Metabase (Community Edition) & Redash.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Financial reporting · negative prompt · hard negative
“not built for high-volume scheduled delivery” Perplexity Sonar · Financial reporting · negative prompt · hard negative
“Easier to deploy and use, but less focused on high-volume scheduled delivery.” Perplexity Sonar · Financial reporting · comparative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Metabase, over the 39 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Metabase was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Microsoft Power BI27 of 3910Not in the top three
Tableau23 of 393Not in the top three
Looker Studio22 of 397Not in the top three
ChartMogul18 of 399Not in the top three
Looker18 of 390Not in the top three
Databox15 of 394Not in the top three
Baremetrics14 of 392Not in the top three
ProfitWell Metrics11 of 396Not in the top three
Domo10 of 390Not in the top three
Qlik Sense8 of 390Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Metabase. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 31 of the 39 answers that named Metabase and are not a share of its labels.

Names read as Metabase

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Metabase; a claim can dispute any of them.
Metabase (Community Edition) 1Metabase (Open-Source Edition) 1
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