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Metabase vs power-bi-agentic-development
Metabase has 49,312 GitHub stars, 6,824 forks, 4,346 open issues and last shipped yesterday. power-bi-agentic-development has 919 stars, 134 forks, 2 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Metabase leads on adoption by 5,266% (49,312 vs 919 stars). Metabase is written in Clojure under a custom or non-standard licence; power-bi-agentic-development is written in C# under GPL-3.0. Metabase has attracted 14% as many forks as stars, power-bi-agentic-development 15%. Metabase was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 1 topic tag (business-intelligence), 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 | power-bi-agentic-development | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 49K | ★ 919 |
| License | Custom / other | GPL-3.0 |
| Written in | Clojure | C# |
| Last push | 2026-09-17 | 2026-09-17 |
| Forks | ⑂ 6.8K | ⑂ 134 |
| 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 power-bi-agentic-development if
- You want the power-bi-agentic-development feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the GPL-3.0 license terms
- Your stack matches C#
- You evaluated both and power-bi-agentic-development 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 power-bi-agentic-development
Power BI AI skills and Power BI agents for Claude Code and GitHub Copilot: a plugin marketplace of Power BI skills, subagents, and hooks for semantic models, DAX, TMDL, reports, and AI dashboards, aimed at Power BI and Microsoft Fabric practitioners who build with coding agents.
read the full power-bi-agentic-development overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is Metabase or power-bi-agentic-development more popular?
Metabase has 49,312 GitHub stars and power-bi-agentic-development has 919. Metabase has the larger community by that measure.
Are Metabase and power-bi-agentic-development free?
Both are open source. Metabase has no licence declared in this registry, and power-bi-agentic-development is licensed under GPL-3.0. Both are free to self-host.
What is the difference between Metabase and power-bi-agentic-development?
Metabase is written in Clojure and power-bi-agentic-development in C#. 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 power-bi-agentic-development?
Choose Metabase if you want the larger community (49,312 stars) or its Custom / other licence terms. Choose power-bi-agentic-development if its feature set, stack or GPL-3.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.