Metabase vs. Looker: Which is best for your team?

There's no right or wrong answer when it comes to choosing a business intelligence tool.

A lot of it will come down to how much you want people to use it (and be able to get answers on their own with or without knowing SQL), your budget, your preferred data stack, and how fast you need to get started.

Looker has a steeper learning curve than Metabase. People (even non-technical or data savvy folks) actually like using Metabase, because it’s easier to learn, meaning they’re more likely to run reports and get data on their own. Looker also requires knowing (or having access to someone who knows) LookML to model all new data sources. Metabase is ready to hook up and query, and works with your preferred modeling tools, like dbt.

Metabase gets up and running in 5 minutes flat, and suits all budgets (and you can try it for free).