Evidence
Evidence is a business intelligence and analytics platform for building data products with SQL, Markdown, and AI.
What Evidence is
Evidence is a business intelligence and analytics platform for building data products with SQL, Markdown, and AI. Its MIT-licensed Core framework converts SQL and Markdown reports into static sites that teams can self-host. Evidence Studio is the hosted option, with a collaborative editor, preview deployments, an AI agent, access rules, scheduled reports, and embedded analytics. Teams can keep reports as code in version control and review changes before publication. Built-in visualizations support responsive layouts, and reports can be exported to PDF or multi-tabbed XLSX workbooks. Pages can be scheduled for daily, weekly, or monthly email delivery. Direct connectors include Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, ClickHouse, BigQuery, Databricks, Postgres, Cube, and MotherDuck. The analytics agent is available in Studio, Slack, Claude Desktop, and ChatGPT, plus tools supporting MCP. Evidence lists API, self-hosted, and web platforms. It has a free plan and a 30-day trial; Team costs $2,500 a month. Enterprise has custom pricing under an annual contract. Founded in 2021, Evidence is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Good
- MIT-licensed Core framework supports self-hosting.
- Reports can be reviewed before publishing.
- Exports include PDF and multi-tabbed XLSX.
- 30-day trial and free plan are available.
Watch out
- Team costs $2,500 a month.
- Team excludes row-level access rules and SSO.
- Team excludes embedding and whitelabelling.
- Enterprise pricing is custom under an annual contract.
Who it suits
Evidence suits teams that want to build and review SQL- and Markdown-based reports, either as self-hosted static sites or through a hosted collaborative platform. Its enterprise deployment and identity options may suit organizations with those requirements.
Verdict
Evidence supports both self-hosted reporting and a hosted collaborative analytics platform, with a wide set of listed connectors and delivery options. Compare the Team plan’s exclusions with Enterprise requirements before choosing a deployment.
Plans and prices
From Evidence's own pricing page, checked 4 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Team | $2,500 a month | Unlimited users · 20K AI credits · Analytics Agent · page-level access control · Slack bot and MCP · private Slack or Teams support · Monthly billing |
| Enterprise | Priced on request | Custom pricing · SSO · SCIM · row-level access rules · embedding and whitelabelling · custom AI credits · deploy on your infrastructure · SOC 2 report and DPA · dedicated training and support · Annual contract |
The facts
Each one read from Evidence's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Agent access
- The analytics agent is available in Evidence Studio, Slack, Claude Desktop, and ChatGPT, and can be accessed by tools supporting MCP.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Core
- Evidence Core is an MIT-licensed framework that builds SQL and Markdown reports into static sites that can be self-hosted.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- Enterprise deployments can be hosted by Evidence, run in the customer's AWS, Azure, or GCP account, or run on-premises on the customer's hardware.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Embedding
- Embedded analytics use an iframe and API endpoint, with JWE-encrypted single-use URLs and configurable session length.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Enterprise identity
- Enterprise features include SSO, SCIM, customer-managed encryption keys, and audit-log streaming to Datadog, Sentry, and other SIEMs.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Exports and delivery
- Evidence reports can be exported to PDF or multi-tabbed XLSX workbooks, and pages can be scheduled for daily, weekly, or monthly email delivery.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The documentation lists direct connectors for Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, ClickHouse, BigQuery, Databricks, Postgres, Cube, and MotherDuck.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Limits
- Team pricing excludes row-level access rules, external customers and viewers, SSO, SCIM, SIEM audit logging, SOC 2 audit report, embedding, and whitelabelling.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Reports
- Teams can define reports as code using SQL and Markdown, with version control and review before publishing.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Security
- Evidence says it is SOC 2 compliant and describes encryption at rest, HTTPS in transit, optional warehouse IP allowlisting, and access controls with activity logging.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Studio
- Evidence Studio is a hosted platform with a collaborative editor, publishing with preview deployments, an AI agent, access rules, scheduled reports, and embedded analytics.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Support
- The Team plan includes private Slack or Teams support, while Enterprise includes dedicated training and support.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Visualizations
- Evidence provides built-in visualization components and describes its layouts and interactions as publication-quality and responsive to different device sizes.checked 4 Oct 2026
- What it does
- Evidence is a business intelligence and analytics platform for building data products with SQL, Markdown, and AI.checked 4 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2021checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Toronto, Ontario, Canadachecked 28 Sep 2026
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