ActiveReports vs FastReport
ActiveReports
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| Figure | ActiveReports | FastReport |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $74.92/mo | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 6 | 6 |
| Spec score · Reporting Software | 8.6 (#3) | 8.6 (#4) |
| Framework integrations | ActiveReports.NET lists ASP.NET MVC, Blazor, Razor Pages, React, Angular, and Vue among its web options, and WinForms and WPF among desktop options. | FastReport .NET is described as supporting .NET 10, Blazor, .NET Core, ASP.NET, MVC, and WinForms, and as usable in Visual Studio and JetBrains Rider. |
| Report design | ActiveReports.NET offers Visual Studio, web end-user, desktop end-user, and standalone report designers. | FastReport .NET includes a visual designer for creating and modifying reports, including at runtime from an application. |
| Support | The developer subscriptions include standard support through online technical tickets, licensing and installation phone support, and community forums. | Fast Reports provides support tickets, a forum, product FAQs, documentation, blogs, and tutorial videos through its support center. |
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
FastReport
- FastReport Cloud FreeFree
- FastReport Cloud PersonalPriced on request
- FastReport Cloud TeamPriced on request
- FastReport Cloud BusinessPriced on request
- FastReport Desktop ProfessionalPriced on request
- FastReport .NET UltimatePriced 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.
FastReport
FastReport is a family of tools for generating reports and documents from databases. FastReport.NET provides a visual designer for creating and modifying reports, including at runtime from an application. It connects to databases, uses tables and runs SQL queries; listed data sources also include JSON, XML, CSV, REST APIs and business objects. Reports can be exported to PDF, Excel, Word, HTML, CSV and other formats. The.NET product supports frameworks including.NET 10, Blazor,.NET Core, ASP.NET, MVC and WinForms, and web projects using Angular, React, Vue and Blazor. FastReport Cloud offers shared workspaces with different access levels, while Desktop Professional supports Windows and Linux. Cloud plans range from a free tier to Business at a price agreed with the maker; Personal is priced on request and Team is priced on request. Desktop Professional is priced on request, and.NET Ultimate is priced on request. Demo versions are available, but the.NET demo may replace report content and label printed or exported pages.