🆚 Highcharts vs. Recharts

Statistics for Recharts are still being collected and do not yet reflect its full market share.

Highcharts

Recharts

Type

Charting library

About

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.

Recharts is an open-source, composable charting library built with React and D3.js for creating data visualizations.

It provides reusable React components for building line, bar, area, pie, scatter, radar, funnel, treemap, and composed charts, uses native SVG rendering, and supports responsive layouts, animations, and accessibility features.

Headquarters

Vik i Sogn, Norway

Website

highcharts.com #21,462

recharts.github.io

Pricing

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

Free ✔️ Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Total websites

Market share

Charting

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

United States

Netherlands

Germany

France

United Kingdom

India

Russia

Brazil

Canada

Italy

Awards

🥉 Third most popular in the Netherlands in the Charting category.
🥉 Third most popular in Germany in the Charting category.
🥉 Third most popular in France in the Charting category.
🥉 Third most popular in Russia in the Charting category.
🥉 Third most popular in Sweden in the Charting category.

⬆️ 22nd most popular in the United States in the Charting category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Business

Finance/Banking

Government/Military

Education/Reference

Marketing/Merchandising

Public Information

Internet Services

Travel

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Health

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#289

#434

#848

#1,092

#1,208

Name

Rank

#61,426

#266,911

#423,669

#1,031,574

#1,191,800