ActiveReports vs Stimulsoft Reports
ActiveReports
developer.mescius.com
Stimulsoft Reports
stimulsoft.comSide by side
| Figure | ActiveReports | Stimulsoft Reports |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $74.92/mo | $158.33/mo |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | Yes | 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 | 4 |
| Spec score · Reporting Software | 8.6 (#3) | 8.6 (#5) |
| 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. | Reports.WEB includes components for ASP.NET, MVC, Razor, Angular, and Blazor, while Reports.JS supports JavaScript, Node.js, Angular, React, and Vue.js. |
| Support | The developer subscriptions include standard support through online technical tickets, licensing and installation phone support, and community forums. | The company provides support requests, code examples, user manuals, video tutorials, and paid training. |
| Trial | MESCIUS says its sales team can provide 30-day trial distribution keys for ActiveReportsJS deployment. | Stimulsoft offers a free 30-day trial with access to product features and capabilities. |
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
Stimulsoft Reports
- Single$1,899.95 a year
- Team$4,899.95 a year
- Enterprise$12,899.95 a year
- Worldwide$38,499.95 a year
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.
Stimulsoft Reports
Stimulsoft Reports provides tools to design, view, analyze, print, export, and share reports, including reports embedded in applications. Its product line serves application developers as well as report creators using Cloud, Designer, and Server products. A report designer includes creation wizards and localization support, and the viewer supports parameters, multilevel drill-down, interactive reports, and resource saving. Reports can connect to SQL databases including MS SQL, Oracle, MySQL, Firebird, and PostgreSQL, as well as OData, Google and Azure services, and files such as XML, JSON, CSV, Excel, and GIS formats. Users can apply filtering, sorting, grouping, and parameters, choose from more than 50 chart types, and export to over 40 formats including PDF, Excel, Word, and HTML. A scheduler can export, save, and email reports on a configured schedule. The product line spans technologies including .NET, JavaScript, Java, PHP, Python, ASP.NET, Angular, Blazor, React, Vue, and Avalonia. Stimulsoft offers a free 30-day trial. Listed annual prices range from $1899.95 for Single to $38499.95 for Worldwide.