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Metabase vs pixijs
Metabase has 49,312 GitHub stars, 6,824 forks, 4,346 open issues and last shipped yesterday. pixijs has 48,179 stars, 5,071 forks, 344 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Metabase leads on adoption by 2% (49,312 vs 48,179 stars). Metabase is written in Clojure under a custom or non-standard licence; pixijs is written in TypeScript under MIT. Metabase has attracted 14% as many forks as stars, pixijs 11%. 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 | pixijs | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 49K | ★ 48K |
| License | Custom / other | MIT |
| Written in | Clojure | TypeScript |
| Last push | 2026-09-17 | 2026-09-17 |
| Forks | ⑂ 6.8K | ⑂ 5.1K |
| 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 pixijs if
- You want the pixijs feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You evaluated both and pixijs 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 pixijs
PixiJS is an open source 2D rendering library for the web, described in its README as the HTML5 Creation Engine. It ships WebGL and WebGPU renderers and is written in TypeScript, distributed under the MIT license from the pixijs/pixijs repository, which has been developed for fourteen years and holds roughly 48,000 stars across about 5,000 forks. The project lives in the JavaScript and TypeScript ecosystem: it is installed through npm and driven from browser code, with GLSL shaders, canvas, canvas2d, and rendering engine listed among its topics. Its homepage is pixijs.com, and the repository carries the Data and …
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Frequently asked questions
Is Metabase or pixijs more popular?
Metabase has 49,312 GitHub stars and pixijs has 48,179. Metabase has the larger community by that measure.
Are Metabase and pixijs free?
Both are open source. Metabase has no licence declared in this registry, and pixijs is licensed under MIT. Both are free to self-host.
What is the difference between Metabase and pixijs?
Metabase is written in Clojure and pixijs in TypeScript. 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 pixijs?
Choose Metabase if you want the larger community (49,312 stars) or its Custom / other licence terms. Choose pixijs if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.