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Metabase vs django-slick-reporting
Metabase has 49,323 GitHub stars, 6,824 forks, 4,346 open issues and last shipped today. django-slick-reporting has 604 stars, 49 forks, 23 open issues and last shipped 2 months ago. Metabase leads on adoption by 8,066% (49,323 vs 604 stars). Metabase is written in Clojure under a custom or non-standard licence; django-slick-reporting is written in Python under BSD-3-Clause. Metabase has attracted 14% as many forks as stars, django-slick-reporting 8%. Metabase was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 1 topic tag (analytics), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| Metabase | django-slick-reporting | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 49K | ★ 604 |
| License | Custom / other | BSD-3-Clause |
| Written in | Clojure | Python |
| Last push | 2026-09-18 | 2026-07-19 |
| Forks | ⑂ 6.8K | ⑂ 49 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick Metabase if
- You weight community size — 49K stars and counting
- You want the Custom / other license terms
- Your stack matches Clojure
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick django-slick-reporting if
- You want the django-slick-reporting feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the BSD-3-Clause license terms
- Your stack matches Python
- You evaluated both and django-slick-reporting fits your workflow better
About Metabase
Metabase is an open source business intelligence and embedded analytics tool, written in Clojure, that lets everyone in a company ask questions of their data and build dashboards without needing to know SQL.
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About django-slick-reporting
Django Slick Reporting The one stop reporting engine for Django — analytics, charts & dashboards in a few lines of code. Grouped totals, time series, crosstabs and pivots — each one a small Python class, each one chartable with a single line, in Highcharts, Chart.js or ApexCharts . Live Demo · Documentation · Quickstart One report class, every chart Declare the calculation once . Switch the visualization by changing a single argument — no new query, no new template. Why Django Slick Reporting? Every report shape — simple aggregates, group by, time series, crosstab/pivot, and combinations of them. Charts included …
read the full django-slick-reporting overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is Metabase or django-slick-reporting more popular?
Metabase has 49,323 GitHub stars and django-slick-reporting has 604. Metabase has the larger community by that measure.
Are Metabase and django-slick-reporting free?
Both are open source. Metabase has no licence declared in this registry, and django-slick-reporting is licensed under BSD-3-Clause. Both are free to self-host.
What is the difference between Metabase and django-slick-reporting?
Metabase is written in Clojure and django-slick-reporting in Python. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, Metabase or django-slick-reporting?
Choose Metabase if you want the larger community (49,323 stars) or its Custom / other licence terms. Choose django-slick-reporting if its feature set, stack or BSD-3-Clause licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.