Metabase

Metabase is an open source business intelligence and analytics platform that enables teams to explore data, build interactive dashboards, and ask questions about their data without writing SQL.

Metabase publishes 10 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Cards API, Collections API, Dashboards API, and 7 more. Tagged areas include Analytics, Business Intelligence, Dashboards, Data Visualization, and Open-Source.

Metabase’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, GitHub presence, signup flow, support, and 8 more developer resources.

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33.3/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

10 APIs

Analytics Business Intelligence Dashboards Data Visualization Open-Source SQL

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scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

Composite quality — 33.3/100 · thin

Contract Quality 12.1 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 5.7 / 20

Access Clarity 8.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 1.7 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.6 / 10

Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Surface 0 / 5

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APIs 10

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Open Collections 12

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Metabase Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login

Signup

Signup

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Community

Community

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

SelfHosting

SelfHosting

Source (apis.yml)

aid: metabase
name: Metabase
description: Metabase is an open source business intelligence and analytics platform that enables teams to explore data, build
  interactive dashboards, and ask questions about their data without writing SQL.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/metabase.png
tags:
- Analytics
- Business Intelligence
- Dashboards
- Data Visualization
- Open-Source
- SQL
tags_raw:
- Analytics
- Business Intelligence
- Dashboards
- Data Visualization
- Open Source
- SQL
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/metabase/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-26'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: metabase:metabase-cards-api
  name: Metabase Cards API
  description: Saved questions used to power dashboards and embedded analytics.
  humanURL: https://www.metabase.com
  tags:
  - Cards
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/metabase-cards-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest
  - type: APIDocumentation
    url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/api-documentation
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/getting-started
  - type: GitHubOrg
    url: https://github.com/metabase/metabase
- aid: metabase:metabase-collections-api
  name: Metabase Collections API
  description: Organize dashboards, questions, and pulses.
  humanURL: https://www.metabase.com
  tags:
  - Collection
  tags_raw:
  - Collections
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/metabase-collections-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest
  - type: APIDocumentation
    url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/api-documentation
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/getting-started
  - type: GitHubOrg
    url: https://github.com/metabase/metabase
- aid: metabase:metabase-dashboards-api
  name: Metabase Dashboards API
  description: Build and manage interactive dashboards.
  humanURL: https://www.metabase.com
  tags:
  - Dashboards
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/metabase-dashboards-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest
  - type: APIDocumentation
    url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/api-documentation
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/getting-started
  - type: GitHubOrg
    url: https://github.com/metabase/metabase
- aid: metabase:metabase-databases-api
  name: Metabase Databases API
  description: Manage data source connections and metadata.
  humanURL: https://www.metabase.com
  tags:
  - Databases
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/metabase-databases-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest
  - type: APIDocumentation
    url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/api-documentation
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/getting-started
  - type: GitHubOrg
    url: https://github.com/metabase/metabase
- aid: metabase:metabase-datasets-api
  name: Metabase Datasets API
  description: Execute ad-hoc queries against connected databases.
  humanURL: https://www.metabase.com
  tags:
  - Datasets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/metabase-datasets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest
  - type: APIDocumentation
    url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/api-documentation
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/getting-started
  - type: GitHubOrg
    url: https://github.com/metabase/metabase
- aid: metabase:metabase-permissions-api
  name: Metabase Permissions API
  description: Group and permission management.
  humanURL: https://www.metabase.com
  tags:
  - Permissions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/metabase-permissions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest
  - type: APIDocumentation
    url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/api-documentation
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/getting-started
  - type: GitHubOrg
    url: https://github.com/metabase/metabase
- aid: metabase:metabase-search-api
  name: Metabase Search API
  description: Search across cards, dashboards, collections, and more.
  humanURL: https://www.metabase.com
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/metabase-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest
  - type: APIDocumentation
    url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/api-documentation
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/getting-started
  - type: GitHubOrg
    url: https://github.com/metabase/metabase
- aid: metabase:metabase-sessions-api
  name: Metabase Sessions API
  description: Authentication and session management.
  humanURL: https://www.metabase.com
  tags:
  - Sessions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/metabase-sessions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest
  - type: APIDocumentation
    url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/api-documentation
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/getting-started
  - type: GitHubOrg
    url: https://github.com/metabase/metabase
- aid: metabase:metabase-settings-api
  name: Metabase Settings API
  description: Global application settings.
  humanURL: https://www.metabase.com
  tags:
  - Settings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/metabase-settings-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest
  - type: APIDocumentation
    url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/api-documentation
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/getting-started
  - type: GitHubOrg
    url: https://github.com/metabase/metabase
- aid: metabase:metabase-users-api
  name: Metabase Users API
  description: User account management.
  humanURL: https://www.metabase.com
  tags:
  - User
  tags_raw:
  - Users
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/metabase-users-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest
  - type: APIDocumentation
    url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/api-documentation
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/getting-started
  - type: GitHubOrg
    url: https://github.com/metabase/metabase
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/metabase-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/metabase-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/metabase-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/metabase-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/metabase
- type: Website
  url: https://www.metabase.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.metabase.com/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.metabase.com/pricing
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/metabase/metabase
- type: Login
  url: https://store.metabase.com/login
- type: Signup
  url: https://www.metabase.com/start
- type: Support
  url: https://www.metabase.com/help
- type: SelfHosting
  url: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/installation-and-operation/installing-metabase
- type: Community
  url: https://discourse.metabase.com
- type: Integrations
  url: https://www.metabase.com/partners/
integrations:
- name: Become a partner
- name: Connect me with an Expert
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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