Metabase vs Superset

Both are self-hosted analytics projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Metabase and Superset are closely matched on maintenance health (95 vs 98). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
MetabaseSuperset
Health score 95/100 98/100
Commits (11 mo) 6038 4805
Commits (last 3 mo) 2102 2287
Stars 49k 75k
Latest release 24 Sept 2026 9 Sept 2026
Licence AGPL-3.0 Apache-2.0
Built with Java, Docker Python
Typical RAM 2 GB 2 GB

Metabase

Easy way for everyone in your company to ask questions and learn from data.

95/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 39/40
Releases 25/25
Community 19/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 97% of tracked projects; popularity more than 97%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 426 commits 2025-11: 386 commits 2025-12: 453 commits 2026-01: 482 commits 2026-02: 492 commits 2026-03: 543 commits 2026-04: 575 commits 2026-05: 579 commits 2026-06: 724 commits 2026-07: 693 commits 2026-08: 685 commits

Superset

Modern data exploration and visualization platform.

98/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 39/40
Releases 25/25
Community 20/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 97% of tracked projects; popularity in the top 1%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 221 commits 2025-11: 162 commits 2025-12: 256 commits 2026-01: 343 commits 2026-02: 330 commits 2026-03: 322 commits 2026-04: 410 commits 2026-05: 474 commits 2026-06: 751 commits 2026-07: 808 commits 2026-08: 728 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

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