AnyChart

AnyChart is a JavaScript library for embedding interactive charts and dashboards in web, standalone, and mobile software. It is best suited to developers building products that need varied visualizations. Its broad chart family is a strength, but license limits make deployment and audience central to the buying decision.

Overview

The family combines AnyChart for general charts, AnyStock for financial and timeline charts, AnyMap for maps, and AnyGantt for Gantt, resource, and PERT charts. Together they cover more than 79 chart types, making the library useful when a product needs several kinds of visualization rather than one narrow chart format.

AnyChart is a development component, not a ready-made business intelligence workspace. It supports interactive dashboards and data connections through its JavaScript API, XML, JSON, CSV, Google Spreadsheet, and HTML Table; the homepage also names MySQL and MongoDB. That flexibility suits teams integrating charts into their own software, but is less relevant to buyers seeking a complete reporting application.

Key features

Specialized chart products: AnyStock, AnyMap, and AnyGantt extend the core charts to financial timelines, maps, and project scheduling. This breadth can serve products with diverse visualization requirements; teams needing only a few common charts may not need the full family.

Integration examples: Samples cover Angular, React, Vue, jQuery, Qlik, Oracle APEX, and Electron, as well as MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL. These give developers examples across several project environments, though the library remains an integration component rather than a turnkey reporting tool.

Mobile and server use: Official examples include React Native, Ionic, Android WebView, and iOS and Android integrations. Electron is covered for desktop apps, and Node.js utilities can generate chart images server-side. This makes the library relevant beyond browser-only projects.

Free licenses: Educational and nonprofit organizations can apply for custom free licenses. This is a possible route for qualifying non-commercial work, but it is application-based rather than a general free commercial tier.

Pricing

AnyChart offers a free license at free for non-commercial, education, and nonprofit organizations. Educational and nonprofit licensing requires an application. A free trial is also offered: download links are emailed after a form submission, and no trial duration is stated.

Next Unicorn — $49 a month: Covers 2 developers. It is the lowest listed paid option and fits a small development effort, but the supplied plan details do not establish which deployment or audience restrictions apply; confirm the license terms before relying on it for a shipped product.

Website — $139 a month: Covers 1 developer and is for information freely accessible to anyone. It cannot be used for a site requiring login or authentication, so it is unsuitable for gated customer portals or other restricted-access websites.

Internal — $799 a month: Covers 1 developer and up to two applications inside an organization with fewer than 100 employees. It excludes SaaS, customer-facing, and redistributed use, which sharply limits it to qualifying internal tools.

SaaS Annual — $499 a year: Billed at $499 / product / year; includes 1 year of upgrades, 10 developers, internal and external user authentication, and 2 hours of support. It is the clearest fit for a SaaS product with a team of up to 10 developers, though support is capped at 2 hours and upgrades are specified for one year.

SaaS Perpetual — $1,499 a month: Billed Annual/Perpetual and covers 10 developers. This option targets SaaS deployments with a larger licensing commitment; the stated terms do not specify included support hours or upgrades.

Enterprise: Custom pricing for internal projects in large companies, with support hours, developers, and upgrades customized. It is intended for larger organizations whose needs do not fit the Internal license.

OEM: Custom pricing for redistributable and on-premise deployments, with custom licensing. This is the relevant route when embedding or redistributing the product beyond the narrower website and internal-use terms.

The company provides technical support and product training, with included support hours depending on the plan. The license boundaries matter as much as the monthly or annual price: Website is public-access only, while Internal excludes SaaS, customer-facing, and redistributed use.

Platforms

AnyChart is a JavaScript (HTML5) library for web, standalone, and mobile projects. Its examples cover Android and iOS, including React Native, Ionic, and Android WebView, plus Electron desktop applications and Node.js utilities for server-side chart image generation. The platform breadth is useful for teams sharing visualization work across clients and desktop software, rather than evidence of a hosted dashboard service.

Who it's for

AnyChart is a strong candidate for software teams building interactive charts into their own web, desktop, or mobile products, particularly when they need several chart families or framework-specific integration examples. The Website plan may suit a public-facing, unauthenticated site; the Internal plan is narrow by design, and SaaS makers should consider the SaaS licenses. It is not the right fit for a team looking for a ready-to-use BI workspace or for an authenticated site relying on the Website license.

Pros and cons

Pro — Broad chart coverage: More than 79 chart types across general, financial, map, and project-scheduling products can reduce the need to assemble a visualization toolkit from separate libraries.

Pro — Many integration examples: Samples span popular JavaScript frameworks, desktop, mobile, databases, and server-side image generation, helping teams evaluate how the library may fit their project architecture.

Pro — A defined SaaS option: SaaS Annual includes 10 developers, authentication for internal and external users, a year of upgrades, and 2 support hours, making its intended use clearer than the restricted Website and Internal plans.

Con — License boundaries can rule out a plan: Website excludes login-protected sites, and Internal excludes SaaS, customer-facing, and redistributed use. Buyers must match license scope to actual audience and deployment.

Con — Several plan terms remain important to confirm: Next Unicorn and SaaS Perpetual include developer counts but do not state deployment details or support and upgrade allowances in the plan descriptions.

Alternatives

Datawrapper is worth considering when a free plan for charts, maps, and tables with web publishing, embedding, and PNG downloads better matches the job; its free output shows attribution.

CanvasJS is another charting-library option, with a Chart Website plan at $299 a month, billed perpetual, for 1 developer and 1 non-SaaS website. Consider it when that website-specific perpetual license better matches the deployment.

Plotly offers a free plan with 10 trial credits, 3 private viewers, and 1 app, plus 1 creator seat. It may suit a project aligned with those stated limits.

Matplotlib is a free Python library under a BSD-compatible open-source license. Choose it when a Python library and that licensing model fit better than a JavaScript charting component.

Databox has a free forever plan for 1 user and 3 data sources, with 50 AI credits per month. It is a possible alternative for a reader whose needs fit those stated plan limits.

Looker may be preferable to evaluate when a paid platform without a free plan is acceptable.

Apache Superset is a free, self-managed data exploration and visualization platform, a different route for teams seeking that kind of environment.

Yandex DataLens has a free plan for individual users with one seat and a 30-day teamwork trial when adding users; its Cloud plan is for two or more seats.

For a wider comparison, browse Data Visualization Software.

Verdict

Choose AnyChart when you are building software that needs a broad, embeddable chart family across web, desktop, or mobile projects and can select a license that matches its audience and deployment. Its main advantage is the range of chart types and integration examples; its main drawback is that Website and Internal licenses exclude common authenticated, SaaS, customer-facing, or redistribution scenarios. Teams seeking a finished BI workspace, or unable to accept the relevant license limits, should look elsewhere.