Evidence
Evidence is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Database Management category, licensed MIT and written mainly in TypeScript. It is a self-hosted alternative to Metabase Cloud, Tableau and Power BI. It has 7,061 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 23, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 7,061
- Forks
- 431
- Open issues
- 9
- Commits, last 12 months
- 229
- Last commit
- Oct 23, 2026
- Latest release
- @evidence-dev/evidence@40.1.8Feb 6, 2026
- Created
- May 27, 2021
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 23, 2026, 229 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
| Last commit | Oct 23, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 229 |
| Latest release | @evidence-dev/evidence@40.1.8 (Feb 6, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 949 |
| Open issues | 9 |
| Open pull requests | 7 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | May 27, 2021 |
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About Evidence
Code-based BI tool. Write reports using SQL and markdown and they render as a website.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/evidence-dev/evidence.
Topics
- analytics
- sql
- business-intelligence
- data-visualization
- dbt
- duckdb
- tailwindcss
- self-hosted
- svelte
- dashboard
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Is Evidence free and open source?
Yes. Evidence is open-source software released under the MIT license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Evidence with Docker?
Evidence does not list an official Docker image. It installs natively (Nodejs), so follow the install steps in its README or look for a community-maintained container.
What are the best alternatives to Evidence?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Evidence include NocoDB, drawDB and MindsDB. Evidence itself is a self-hosted alternative to Metabase Cloud, Tableau and Power BI.
Is Evidence actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Evidence was on Oct 23, 2026 with 229 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is @evidence-dev/evidence@40.1.8, published Feb 6, 2026. It had 9 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.