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Metabase vs hypertools
Metabase has 50,114 GitHub stars, 6,968 forks, 4,346 open issues and last shipped yesterday. hypertools has 1,893 stars, 164 forks, 8 open issues and last shipped 24 days ago. Metabase leads on adoption by 2,547% (50,114 vs 1,893 stars). Metabase is written in Clojure under a custom or non-standard licence; hypertools is written in Python under MIT. Metabase has attracted 14% as many forks as stars, hypertools 9%. Metabase was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 1 topic tag (data-visualization), 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 | hypertools | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 1.9K |
| License | Custom / other | MIT |
| Written in | Clojure | Python |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-10-10 |
| Forks | ⑂ 7.0K | ⑂ 164 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick Metabase if
- You weight community size — 50K 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 hypertools if
- You want the hypertools feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Python
- You evaluated both and hypertools fits your workflow better
About Metabase
Metabase Metabase is the easy, open source way for everyone in your company to ask questions and learn from data. Get started The easiest way to get started with Metabase is to sign up for a free trial of Metabase Cloud. You get expert support, backups, upgrades, an SMTP server, SSL certificate, SoC2 Type 2 security auditing, and more (plus your money goes toward improving a major open source project). Check out our quick overview of cloud vs self hosting. If you need to, you can always switch to self hosting Metabase at any time (or vice versa). Key Features Set up in five minutes (we're not kidding), or have…
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About hypertools
" To deal with hyper planes in a 14 dimensional space, visualize a 3D space and say 'fourteen' very loudly. Everyone does it. " Geoff Hinton Overview HyperTools is designed to facilitate dimensionality reduction based visual explorations of high dimensional data. The basic pipeline is to feed in a high dimensional dataset (or a series of high dimensional datasets) and, in a single function call, reduce the dimensionality of the dataset(s) and create a plot. The package is built atop many familiar friends, including matplotlib, scikit learn and seaborn. Our package was featured in 2017 on Kaggle's now retired "No…
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Frequently asked questions
Is Metabase or hypertools more popular?
Metabase has 50,114 GitHub stars and hypertools has 1,893. Metabase has the larger community by that measure.
Are Metabase and hypertools free?
Both are open source. Metabase has no licence declared in this registry, and hypertools is licensed under MIT. Both are free to self-host.
What is the difference between Metabase and hypertools?
Metabase is written in Clojure and hypertools 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 hypertools?
Choose Metabase if you want the larger community (50,114 stars) or its Custom / other licence terms. Choose hypertools if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.