Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Evidence
Beautiful reports with just SQL and markdown
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Evidence launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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I have been working on SQL Explorer, an open source, Django-based reporting and query tool for (gulp!) almost ten years. It's a tool that fits just right for me and many others, and I love and use almost every day. Write SQL, share results, do some analysis, get insight. No surprises. A live demo instance is here (no login or anything required): https://demo.sqlexplorer.io/ And here's a fairly unprofessional, but very enthusiastic, video tour: https://sql-explorer.s3.amazonaws.com/Sql+Explorer+5.mp4 The UI is constrained enough that there's very little to learn,…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Evidence Embedded Analyticsfree tier, from $2500/mo▲122A modern dev workflow for your most important data products
Dec 2025 · evidence.dev · its alternatives →
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I have spent large parts of the last 10+ years building an SQL Editor. The tool is targeted at data analysts, a lot of effort has gone into charting, visualizing and excel export. If this sounds useful to you, it's Free, please give it a try and let me know any feedback.
2024 · timestored.com · its alternatives →
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Visual SQL▲512Through months of design, prototypes, and user tests we made a visual version of SQL - which has proven to enable 80% of business users to write complex quer…
2020 · chartio.com · its alternatives →
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Long story short: We (Dataherald) just open-sourced our entire codebase, including the core engine, the clients that interact with it and the backend application layer for authentication and RBAC. You can now use the full solution to build text-to-SQL into your product. The Problem: modern LLMs write syntactically correct SQL, but they struggle with real-world relational data. This is because real world data and schema is messy, natural language can often be ambiguous and LLMs are not trained on your specific dataset. Solution: The core NL-to-SQL engine in Dataherald is an LLM based agent…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Metabase grounds every answer in your semantic layer — your metrics and business logic — so you can inspect the query behind it.
2015 · metabase.com · its alternatives →
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Evidence▲192Interactive dashboards with extraordinary performance
2024 · evidence.dev · its alternatives →
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An easy-to-use BI server built for SQL lovers. Power data analysis in SQL and gain faster business insights. - shzlw/poli
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · mprove.io · its alternatives →
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MD+HTML Reader▲117Review AI-generated Markdown and HTML in a focused workspace
Jun 2026 · mdhtmlreader.com · its alternatives →
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Trace▲85A lightweight GraphQL query performance monitoring dev tool
2021 · gotrace.info · its alternatives →
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The missing interface from your Markdown files to a blog/digital garden/notion alternative and more.
2023 · markdowndb.com · its alternatives →
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Hi! One of the creators here. Very proud to finally be able to show you what we've been working on for over a year now. Curious to hear your thoughts! Objectiv is open-source (APLv2) product analytics infrastructure. It's built around a generic but strict event taxonomy, open/common data- and infra tools (currently PG, snowplow, working on bigquery with more to come), and the analyses are done using our pandas-like, SQL speaking modeling library called Bach. As a result, we’re moving towards a vision wherein models can be shared openly, independent of product, platform[1] or data…
2022 · objectiv.io · its alternatives →
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Hashboard▲66Model data once and help your whole team discover insights
2023 · hashboard.com · its alternatives →
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Automatically identify anti-patterns in SQL queries - jarulraj/sqlcheck
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN - our team wants to open source a project called NASTY (NASTY Abstract Syntax Tree thingY) that we built for ourselves. NASTY was built to maintain testable/composable data pipelines. Our team was ripping our hair out trying to maintain dbt/SQL scripts across different data warehouses (Redshift, BigQuery, Postgres, Snowflake) on top of ever shifting data foundations maintained by our customer's internal data teams. NASTY is the result of our learnings from field experience. We wanted to write abstractions so that we could reuse code. We wanted to bundle those abstractions…
2024 · getnasty.dev · its alternatives →
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Agent-friendly CLI for reading/writing large Markdown files - molefrog/lilmd
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A free simple tool to draw ER diagrams by just writing code
2019 · dbdiagram.io · its alternatives →
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