🆚 C3.js vs. Highcharts
- 📈 Highcharts is much more popular than C3.js.
- 🌎 Highcharts is more popular in the United States, the Netherlands, and France.
- 🌍 C3.js is more popular in Peru.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
HighchartsType
Charting library
Charting library
About
C3.js is a reusable chart library built on top of D3.js.
Highcharts is a commercial 
JavaScript charting framework based on SVG, with optional 
WebGL for high-volume rendering.
It supports line, area, bar, pie, scatter, heatmap, polar, gauge, range, and 3D charts, provides responsive touch support, exports to PNG, JPG, PDF, and SVG, accepts data from 
JSON or live sources, and includes wrappers for 
React, 
Vue, and 
Angular.
Headquarters
Vik i Sogn, Norway
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free version ✔️ Education and Personal License, application required
Annual
Internal use $176/seat/year
SaaS $349/seat/year
Stock charts $349/seat/year
Map charts $122/seat/year
Gantt charts $70/seat/year
Perpetual
Internal use $405/seat
SaaS $799/seat
Stock charts $799/seat
Map charts $280/seat
Gantt charts $160/seat
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Highcharts charting library is 17 times more popular than C3.js.
Total websites
Market share
Charting
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Highcharts is more popular in the United States, the Netherlands, and France, while C3.js is more popular in Peru.
United States
Netherlands
France
Germany
United Kingdom
India
Brazil
Russia
Korea
Canada
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in the Netherlands in the Charting category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in France in the Charting category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Germany in the Charting category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Russia in the Charting category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Canada in the Charting category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Highcharts is more popular than C3.js in all market segments.
Business
Finance/Banking
Government/Military
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Travel
Public Information
Internet Services
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.