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Evidence

BI as code — markdown and SQL to dashboards.

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About

Evidence (evidence.dev) is BI as code: write SQL and markdown, get interactive dashboards — version-controlled, reviewable, deployable like software.

Open-source core (MIT) with a commercial cloud. The pick for teams that want their BI in git instead of a drag-and-drop black box.

What it can do

  • BI as code
  • Markdown + SQL dashboards
  • Version-controlled
  • Open-source core (MIT)
  • Self-hostable

Setup

  1. npm create evidence@latest or use the cloud.
  2. Write SQL queries in markdown.
  3. Build dashboard pages as code.
  4. Deploy or self-host.

Prerequisites

SQL; data warehouse connection.

Use cases

datacode

Works with

Generic APIAny agent (.md)

Trust score — 7/10

/10 trustMetrics-checked

Scored 7/10 (metrics tier). Strong BI-as-code concept with an MIT core, but smaller adoption than the BI incumbents. Metrics tier.

How the trust score is built

Full methodology →
Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
6.0/10
Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
7.0/10
Openness · license + docs
8.0/10
Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
7.0/10
  • · provider-tier estimate — thinner evidence (no public adoption metric)
  • · BI as code (open-source); adoption estimated
  • · released 285 days ago
  • · manual review: Evidence — BI as code; markdown + SQL to dashboards; open-source core; license: open-source core (MIT) + commercial cloud

Sources

Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.