Your download should begin automatically. If it doesn't, you can start it manually.
If you're looking for the Pro or Enterprise editions of Metabase, you'll need a different JAR file. See Activating your Metabase commercial license.
If you want self-host in production, we recommend running Metabase on Docker.
To run the JAR by itself, open up a terminal and use Java to launch the application:
java --add-opens java.base/java.nio=ALL-UNNAMED -jar metabase.jar
This command will launch a Metabase server on port 3000 by default.
Metabase requires that you have Java 21 or higher available on your system. We've run Metabase with both the OpenJDK and Oracle JDK, so feel free to use either.
If you want to learn more about how to run Metabase using the .jar file, check out our documentation.
