Business Intelligence & Dashboards · head-to-head
Cluvio vs Metabase
As of 1 Nov 2026, the panel rates Cluvio 3/5 and Metabase 3.5/5 in Business Intelligence & Dashboards. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 0 of the 6 judges pick Cluvio and 6 pick Metabase. Cluvio scores higher on 1 of 7 criteria (European sovereignty). Metabase scores higher on 6 of 7 criteria (Self-service analysis & shared metrics, Dashboards, charts & interactivity, Access control, administration & portability, plus 3 more). Provenance — Cluvio: EU-Made; Metabase: Rest of world. Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
The short answer
Six judges lean Metabase on dashboards and visualization (6.5 vs 4.2), self-service and modelling (7.0 vs 4.0) and governance and portability (7.8 vs 5.8); four lean Metabase, two tie, on sharing and embedding (7.8 vs 7.0); two lean Metabase, four tie, on data connectivity (6.2 vs 5.7); pricing transparency: 7.5 vs 7.0, three lean Metabase, one Cluvio, two tie. Cluvio leads sovereignty, 6.8 to 6.5 — two lean Cluvio, one Metabase, three tie. Connectivity split: Metabase documents 18 database and warehouse connectors but only tool-by-tool guides for Stripe, HubSpot and Shopify; Cluvio's documented connectors stop at databases and files. Sovereignty split: Cluvio's pages state both that European data stays in Europe and that processing occurs outside the EEA including the US; Metabase's verdict weighs air-gapped self-hosting and a Frankfurt region against a California-law contracting entity with no public information on subprocessors or a data processing agreement. The splits are the answer.
Choose Cluvio if
- You need queries to run directly on your own databases, hosted on AWS with the account region chosen at signup; sovereignty is the criterion where the bench leans Cluvio's way (two lean Cluvio, one Metabase, three tie; means 6.8 to 6.5).
- Your procurement specifies a European vendor: Cluvio comes from Cluvio GmbH of Berlin and is recorded as an EU-made product.
- Your data lives in SQL warehouses and your analysts work in SQL and R: the judges working from a SQL warehouse scored Cluvio 6 to 7 on data connectivity.
Choose Metabase if
- Your non-SQL business users need a no-SQL query builder and a semantic layer whose metric edits propagate to every question: self-service and modelling went 7.0 to 4.0, six judges leaning Metabase.
- You need pivot tables, drill-down or a visual query builder: we found no public information on these for Cluvio, and six judges leaned Metabase on dashboards and visualization (6.5 vs 4.2).
- Your permissions must reach row and column level, with an audit log, a REST API and an AGPL self-hosted edition: governance and portability went 7.8 to 5.8, six judges leaning Metabase.
- You will embed analytics in your own product and need server-signed embeds, locked parameters for per-viewer data isolation and a React SDK: sharing and embedding went 7.8 to 7.0, four judges leaning Metabase and two tying.
- Your stack is databases and warehouses: Metabase queries 18 official connectors live, and data connectivity went 6.2 to 5.7 with two judges leaning Metabase and four tying.
Read this comparison as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.
The bench's picks
Same scores, different priorities: each judge's weighting applied to both products. The split is the finding.
- The Finance Controller Cluvio Metabase picks Metabase
- The Managing Director Cluvio Metabase picks Metabase
- The Data Analyst Cluvio Metabase picks Metabase
- The IT Administrator Cluvio Metabase picks Metabase
- The SaaS Product Lead Cluvio Metabase picks Metabase
- The Skeptic Cluvio Metabase picks Metabase
Criterion by criterion
| Criterion | Cluvio | Metabase |
|---|---|---|
| Data sources, connectors & refresh | 3 of 5 | 3 of 5 |
| Dashboards, charts & interactivity | 2 of 5 | 3.5 of 5 |
| Self-service analysis & shared metrics | 2 of 5 | 3.5 of 5 |
| Sharing, scheduled reports & embedding | 3.5 of 5 | 4 of 5 |
| Access control, administration & portability | 3 of 5 | 4 of 5 |
| European sovereignty | 3.5 of 5 | 3.5 of 5 |
| Pricing transparency | 3.5 of 5 | 4 of 5 |
| Criterion | Cluvio | Metabase | The bench leans |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data sources, connectors & refresh | Metabase, 2 of 6 judges | ||
| Dashboards, charts & interactivity | Metabase, 6 of 6 judges | ||
| Self-service analysis & shared metrics | Metabase, 6 of 6 judges | ||
| Sharing, scheduled reports & embedding | Metabase, 4 of 6 judges | ||
| Access control, administration & portability | Metabase, 6 of 6 judges | ||
| European sovereignty | Cluvio, 2 of 6 judges | ||
| Pricing transparency | Metabase, 3 of 6 judges |
Stars show the bench average per criterion; the lean counts which product each judge scored higher. Open a judge's tab for their reasoning on both sides.
Sovereignty, side by side
| Dimension | Cluvio | Metabase |
|---|---|---|
| Legal entity | Not determined | Not determined |
| Hosting location | Not determined | Not determined |
| Hosting options | Not determined | Not determined |
| Open source | Not determined | Not determined |
| Data processing agreement | Not determined | Not determined |
| Transfer impact assessment | Not determined | Not determined |
Facts, side by side
Only facts both products carry under the same definition — anything else would not be a fair row.
| Compliance · Certifications | yes · yes · yes1 | GDPR · CCPA · SOC 2 Type II · SOC 12 |
|---|---|---|
| Compliance · Encryption at rest | yes · yes1 | row-level for connection strings and settings · AES256 + SHA5123 |
| Compliance · GDPR | Art. 28 GDPR · yes4 | yes3 |
| Hosting · Regions | EU · US5 | US · Europe · Latin America · Asia-Pacific3 |
| Legal · Entity name | Cluvio GmbH6 | Metabase, Inc.7 |
| Pricing · Trial | 14 · business · no8 | 14 · yes2 |
| Product · Dashboard filters | dropdowns · date pickers · checkboxes · text inputs · time range · aggregation · time zone9 | Dashboards support filter and parameter widgets to filter or parameterize displayed data10 |
| Product · Dashboards | yes11 | yes12 |
| Product · Sql editor | yes13 | yes12 |
| Product · SSO | yes · yes · yes8 | yes · yes3 |
| Product · White labeling | yes8 | yes14 |
Questions about Cluvio and Metabase
Which is better, Cluvio or Metabase?
As of 1 Nov 2026, the panel rates Metabase higher: 3.5/5 against 3/5. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 0 of the 6 judges pick Cluvio and 6 pick Metabase. Which one fits depends on the criteria that matter to you; the table on this page shows both side by side, and each judge’s reading has its own page. Both were scored by the same AI bench under the same rubric, from public evidence only, as the methodology describes.
Is Cluvio or Metabase European?
Cluvio is European (EU-Made). Metabase is not European by provenance (Rest of world). Provenance is read from each company’s own legal pages: who builds it and who owns it.
Where do Cluvio and Metabase store customer data?
Per the vendors’ own pages as captured — Cluvio: Default not stated; pages mention the EU and the US. Metabase: its pages as captured do not say.
Do Cluvio and Metabase have a free plan?
As of 1 Nov 2026, Cluvio’s own pages state a free plan; Metabase’s pages as captured do not. Each product page links the pricing page it was read from.