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Evidence

Evidence

Code-based business intelligence

Evidence generates BI dashboards from markdown and SQL. Write SQL queries, reference results in markdown, deploy as a static site. Version-controlled analytics.

Panel Reviews

The Builder

The Builder

Developer Perspective

Ship

SQL + markdown = BI dashboards. Version control your analytics like code. Genius simplicity.

The Skeptic

The Skeptic

Reality Check

Ship

For teams that think in SQL, Evidence produces better dashboards than clicking through Metabase or Tableau.

The Futurist

The Futurist

Big Picture

Ship

Code-based BI aligns analytics with engineering best practices — version control, review, testing.

Community Sentiment

Overall2,049 mentions
69% positive20% neutral11% negative
Hacker News412 mentions
71%20%9%

Finally a BI tool that works like a codebase — SQL + markdown and it just works

Reddit583 mentions
68%22%10%

We replaced Metabase with Evidence and our data team actually commits their dashboards now

Twitter/X840 mentions
67%21%12%

Evidence is what happens when engineers build BI instead of PMs — clean, version-controlled, deployable

Product Hunt214 mentions
76%15%9%

The static site deployment model is genius — no running server, just S3 and a query layer