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Evidence, the Open-Source "BI as Code" Tool, Draws Fresh Attention for Building Dashboards from SQL and Markdown

July 18, 2026 at 10:39 EDT

Open Source
Software Dev & Coding
Sales & Business

Evidence, an open-source business-intelligence framework that lets developers build interactive data dashboards using only SQL and Markdown, is drawing renewed interest as a lightweight, version-controllable alternative to drag-and-drop BI platforms.

Business Intelligence as Code · Open Source

Evidence: dashboards built from SQL and Markdown, not drag-and-drop

An MIT-licensed BI framework that folds reporting into the workflows software teams already use — pull requests, code review, and version control — producing self-hostable static sites.

6.6k

GitHub stars, with steady maintenance

40.x

Recent release series reflecting active development

MIT

Permissive license, self-hostable output

Query speed at scale

Sub-second returns even across datasets from millions to billions of rows, aided by intelligent caching.

Dataset size range

Millions

→

up to

Billions

<1s

query returns of rows

From code to live report

SQL + Markdown

queries in .md files

→

Version control

PRs + code review

→

Static site

Netlify / Vercel

Integrates with dbt and DuckDB · connects to Snowflake, BigQuery, and ClickHouse · VS Code extension

What practitioners praise

Described as a long-sought "workbench"
Change cycles cut to minutes
Lightweight, SQL-native design
Strong docs and responsive community

Open questions

Limited accounts of large-scale production use
Scaling for the most demanding workloads unproven
Competes against established GUI-driven incumbents

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