🆚 CanvasJS vs. Mermaid

Type

Charting library
Charting library

About

CanvasJS is a commercial JavaScript charting library for creating interactive data visualizations in web and mobile applications.

It provides more than 30 chart types, supports zooming, panning, and touch gestures, and includes animated updates, stock charts, and integrations for React, Angular, Vue, jQuery, ASP.NET, and PHP.

Mermaid is an open-source JavaScript diagramming and charting library that renders Markdown-inspired text definitions into dynamically generated diagrams and visualizations.

It supports flowcharts, sequence diagrams, Gantt charts, entity relationship diagrams, state diagrams, pie charts, timelines, and other diagram types, and includes a live editor, integrations with documentation and development tools, and browser-based rendering.

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Headquarters

Claymont, Delaware, United States
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️ Free for non-commercial use, includes attribution
Website
(1 non-SaaS website)
$299+
Single Developer
(unlimited SaaS, OEM, mobile apps)
$399+
Team License
(5 seats)
$999+
Unlimited Developer
(unlimited seats)
$1,999+
Free version ✔️ Mermaid.js, open source
Mermaid Charts
Free version ✔️ 3 diagrams
Plus $120/user/year
Premium $240/user/year
Enterprise Custom

Categories

Charting › Rank #9
Charting › Rank #8

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Mermaid charting library is 1.2 times more popular than CanvasJS.
Total websites

Market share

Charting

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Mermaid is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while CanvasJS is more popular in India, Italy, and Indonesia.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Australia
India
Italy
Indonesia
Canada
Japan

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Mermaid is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and blogs and wiki, while CanvasJS is more commonly used on health, finance and banking, and general news sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Fashion/Beauty
Entertainment
Health
Travel

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#25,091
#28,659
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Name
Rank
#2,272
#3,074
#5,386
#6,612
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See also

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