2.9k stars · Apache-2.0 · v0.89.4 (2026-09-01)
'Fast business intelligence tool for humans and agents' — self-hosted, would sit next to Evidence (Ed.8 #6).
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What it is
Rill is a business intelligence tool where dashboards are described in YAML and SQL inside a project folder. It ships with an engine that reads your data, so there is nothing to set up before the first chart.What it is good for. Anyone who has data in files or a database and no good way to look at it. Two commands and you are exploring, which is unusual in this category — most tools in it want a warehouse first. Because the definitions are files, an assistant can write them and you can review the change like any other. This suits ScalpingMate very well: backtest results, trades and daily numbers are exactly the shape it likes, and a metric defined in a file is a metric you can still explain in six months. Evidence from Edition 8 has the same file-based idea, and the two are worth comparing before you commit.
- Two commands from nothing to a working dashboard. No warehouse, no server, no account.
- It brings DuckDB or ClickHouse with it, and can also connect to S3, Postgres and about twenty other sources.
- The dashboard is text in your project, so it is reviewable, diffable and easy to copy to another project.
- The engine runs inside the tool, so your machine's memory limits how much data you can hold. No minimum is published.
- This is the free half of a paid product. Rill Cloud adds sharing, deployment and hosted dashboards, and its price is not shown in the README.
- It is at version 0.89.4 and moves quickly. Pin the version you install.
curl https://rill.sh | sh rill start my-project