Evidence vs TalkingMaps
Evidence
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| Figure | Evidence | TalkingMaps |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $2,500/mo | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 0 |
| Spec score · Data Storytelling Tools | 8.3 (#6) | 7.3 (#20) |
| 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. | TalkingMaps is open source and self-hosted with Docker; the maker documents Docker Desktop for Windows or Mac and Docker Engine with Compose for Linux. |
| Integrations | The documentation lists direct connectors for Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, ClickHouse, BigQuery, Databricks, Postgres, Cube, and MotherDuck. | The AI assistant supports OpenAI, Anthropic Claude and Google Gemini; the documentation says user API keys are encrypted and stored per user. |
| Limits | Team pricing excludes row-level access rules, external customers and viewers, SSO, SCIM, SIEM audit logging, SOC 2 audit report, embedding, and whitelabelling. | The documented default maximum file upload is 50 MB, participatory attachments default to 10 MB, and per-user storage defaults to 1024 MB. |
| Support | The Team plan includes private Slack or Teams support, while Enterprise includes dedicated training and support. | The documentation links to GitHub options to report a bug or request a feature. |
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