🆚 Google Charts vs. Highcharts

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Google Charts is as popular as Highcharts.
🌎 Google Charts is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and India.
🌍 Highcharts is more popular in Germany, the Netherlands, and France.

Google Charts

Highcharts

Type

Charting library

About

Google Charts is a free JavaScript library for creating interactive data visualizations using HTML5 and SVG.

It supports line, bar, pie, scatter, treemap, and geo charts, allows connecting to real-time data sources, provides dashboard and control components, and offers extensive customization of colors, labels, and tooltips.

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

Mountain View, California, United States

Vik i Sogn, Norway

Website

developers.google.com/chart

highcharts.com #21,462

Pricing

Free ✔️

Free version ✔️Education and Personal License, application required

AnnualInternal use$176/seat/year
SaaS$349/seat/year
Stock charts$349/seat/year
Map charts$122/seat/year
Gantt charts$70/seat/year

PerpetualInternal 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 Google Charts charting library is as popular as Highcharts.

Total websites

Market share

Charting

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Google Charts is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and India, while Highcharts is more popular in Germany, the Netherlands, and France.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

Netherlands

France

India

Australia

Brazil

Russia

Spain

Awards

🥉 Third most popular in India in the Charting category.
🥉 Third most popular in Australia in the Charting category.
🥉 Third most popular in Brazil in the Charting category.
🥉 Third most popular in Hungary in the Charting category.
🥉 Third most popular in Ukraine in the Charting category.

🥉 Third most popular in the Netherlands 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 Sweden in the Charting category.
🥉 Third most popular in Indonesia in the Charting category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Google Charts is more popular among sites focused on marketing and merchandising, online shopping, and blogs and wiki, while Highcharts is more commonly used on business, finance and banking, and government and military sites.

Business

Finance/Banking

Marketing/Merchandising

Government/Military

Education/Reference

Public Information

Internet Services

Online Shopping

Blogs/Wiki

Travel