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Evidence vs Shaper: catalog facts
Evidence	Shaper
Freemium The open-source tool is free under MIT; hosting on Evidence Studio is a paid service.	Free Free and open source under MPL-2.0; managed hosting and support are paid.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Web, Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted
Reports are plain SQL and Markdown kept under version control Builds a static site you can host anywhere	Dashboards defined entirely in SQL Embeddable without iframes via JS and React SDKs
Requires writing SQL rather than point-and-click building Hosted features and the analytics agent belong to the paid service	Requires SQL knowledge to build dashboards No point-and-click dashboard builder
Downloadable app, Self-hosted, Hosted service	Self-hosted, Hosted service
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: MPL-2.0
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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