ActiveReports vs Eclipse BIRT
ActiveReports
developer.mescius.comEclipse BIRT
eclipse-birt.github.ioSide by side
| Figure | ActiveReports | Eclipse BIRT |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $74.92/mo | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 6 | 1 |
| Spec score · Reporting Software | 8.6 (#3) | 8.3 (#11) |
| Report design | ActiveReports.NET offers Visual Studio, web end-user, desktop end-user, and standalone report designers. | BIRT report designs are stored in an open XML format. |
| Support | The developer subscriptions include standard support through online technical tickets, licensing and installation phone support, and community forums. | BIRT uses GitHub issues to track bugs and enhancement requests, and its community page links to a developer mailing list. |
Plans
ActiveReports
- ActiveReports.NET Standard$899 a year
- ActiveReportsJS Single Deployment - Annual$1,249 a year
- ActiveReports.NET Professional$1,399 a year
- ActiveReportsJS Single Domain License (*.domain) - Annual$3,999 a year
- ActiveReportsJS Unlimited Domain License (*.* domains) - AnnualPriced on request
- Pipeline LicensePriced on request
In their own words
ActiveReports
ActiveReports is a developer reporting solution for.NET and JavaScript, with report designers, viewers and controls for building reporting into applications. ActiveReports.NET targets web and desktop applications and provides design options in Visual Studio, for web and desktop end users, and as a standalone tool. Supported layouts include continuous-page, fixed-page, dashboard and banded-list reports. Web integrations include ASP.NET MVC, Blazor, Razor Pages, React, Angular and Vue; desktop options include WinForms and WPF. ActiveReportsJS supports Angular, React, Svelte, Vue, Nuxt, Vite and Next.js. Its designer and viewer can be embedded in client-side applications without server-side dependencies and connected to APIs or databases through JavaScript. ActiveReports.NET Standard lists more than a dozen export formats, including PDF, Excel, Word and HTML. Linux deployment is described with rendering, printing and exporting. Standard-use components process application-supplied data within the customer’s environment after integration and deployment, while customers manage security in their final application and deployment environment. The listed starting price is $899 per year, and a 30-day trial is available.
Eclipse BIRT
Eclipse BIRT creates textual reports and visual charts from data drawn from databases, files, Java, JavaScript, and web services. Its Eclipse-based report designer, runtime, and charting engine can work together, while the charting engine can also be used on its own. The designer offers a drag-and-drop layout view, data and resource explorers, a script editor, and chart and expression builders. Reports can connect to JDBC, XML, web services, and flat files; one report can combine multiple sources using inner or outer joins. Data can be sorted, summarized, filtered, and grouped, including by sums or percentages of totals. Supported report forms include lists, charts, crosstabs, letters, documents, and compound reports. The engine can produce HTML, paginated HTML, Word, Excel, PostScript, ODT, ODS, ODP, and PDF, and export data to CSV. Designs use open XML and can be embedded in desktop or web applications, especially those using Java and Jakarta EE. BIRT is free open-source software under the Eclipse Public License (EPL), with Linux, macOS, Windows, web, API, and self-hosted availability.