What is Evidence?
Evidence is an open-source, code-based alternative to drag-and-drop business intelligence tools. Analysts write reports as Markdown files that contain SQL queries and chart components, and the project is licensed under MIT. The repository holds the CLI, the core library and the documentation.
Projects can be created and run locally with the evidence command line tool, using Evidence's own agent or a coding assistant such as Claude Code or Cursor. Evidence Studio, the hosted product, adds a cloud editor, branch previews, push-to-deploy and continuous integration checks on every pull request. Access control is defined in a version-controlled file, and an analytics agent can answer questions for people who do not write SQL.
Output can be published in two ways. Teams can use Evidence Studio for hosted reports, or build the project into a static site and host it on their own infrastructure. The Team plan on Evidence Cloud is a flat monthly price with unlimited users, and the Enterprise plan lists deployment on the customer's own infrastructure.
Key capabilities
- Reports as code Pages written in Markdown with SQL and chart components.
- Local development Evidence init and evidence dev create and preview a project on your own machine.
- Agent-assisted authoring Work with the Evidence Agent or a local coding assistant.
- Git workflow Branch previews, push-to-deploy and automated checks on pull requests in Evidence Studio.
- Access control Page-level rules kept in one version-controlled file.
- Two publishing routes Hosted reports on Evidence Studio or a static site you host yourself.
Where Evidence fits
- SQL and Markdown report authoring
- Interactive charts and tables as components
- Analytics agent for plain-language questions
- Git-based review and deployment
- Page-level access control
- Static-site output for self-hosting
Install
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