CanvasJS vs Kibana
CanvasJS
canvasjs.com
Kibana
elastic.coSide by side
| Figure | CanvasJS | Kibana |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $299/mo | $99/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 20 | 5 |
| Spec score · Data Visualization Software | 8.8 (#15) | 8.9 (#9) |
| Dashboard type | interactive | interactive |
| Data sources | JavaScript arrays,CSV files,JSON data,AJAX endpoints,and application/server-side data | Elasticsearch,Elastic Agent,Logstash,Beats,OpenTelemetry,APIs,AWS,Microsoft Azure,Google Cloud,Amazon S3,Amazon ECS,web content,files,logs,metrics,traces,and events |
| Embedded dashboards | Yes | Yes |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Integrations | The maker provides integration packages or samples for JavaScript, React, Angular, Vue.js and jQuery, as well as PHP, Python, ASP.NET MVC, JSP and Spring MVC. | Alert workflows integrate with Slack, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, and more than 100 additional systems. |
| Platform | web_and_desktop | web |
Plans
CanvasJS
- Chart Website$299 a month
- Chart Website with Priority Support$399 a month
- Chart Single Developer$399 a month
- Chart Single Developer with Priority Support$499 a month
- Chart Team LicensePrice not published
- Chart Team License with Priority SupportPrice not published
- Chart Unlimited Developer$1,999 a month
- Chart Unlimited Developer with Priority Support$3,999 a month
- StockChart Website$499 a month
- Website$299, paid once
Kibana
- Free and openFree
- Standard$99 a month
- Gold$114 a month
- PlatinumPriced on request
- EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
CanvasJS
CanvasJS is an HTML5 and JavaScript charting library for interactive data visualizations and dashboards. It offers more than 30 chart types, including line, bar, pie, scatter, candlestick, and stock charts. Data can come from JavaScript arrays, CSV files, JSON, AJAX endpoints, or application and server-side sources. Charts support real-time updates, zooming, panning, animation, image export, localization, and synchronization; dashboards can be embedded and refreshed on a schedule. CanvasJS says it can render 100,000 data points in a few hundred milliseconds. Developers can install it through NPM or add the maker’s CDN-hosted JavaScript files to a page. Integration packages or samples cover JavaScript frameworks and libraries as well as PHP, Python, ASP.NET MVC, JSP, and Spring MVC. Commercial licenses are perpetual and priced by developer count, with one year of upgrades and bug fixes. The listed Website plan is $299 as a one-time purchase for one developer and one non-SaaS website. Free licenses are offered for personal non-commercial projects, nonprofits, and students, with a watermark and credit link required.
Kibana
Kibana is an open-source web interface for querying, analyzing, visualizing, and managing Elasticsearch data. Its tools include Discover, Dashboards, Dev Tools Console, Maps, alerting, and developer console capabilities. Interactive dashboards can combine metrics, XY charts, graphs, maps, tables, live data, drilldowns, and reusable saved queries, and dashboards can be embedded. Data sources include Elasticsearch, Elastic Agent, Logstash, Beats, OpenTelemetry, APIs, cloud platforms, files, logs, metrics, traces, and events. Data can be ingested into Elasticsearch through OpenTelemetry, Logstash, and Beats. The self-managed Free and open tier includes Kibana and the full Elastic Stack, with native authentication, role-based access control, and TLS encryption; its support is community-based. Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless offer a free trial. Standard hosted pricing is listed from $99 per month, as low as, based on cloud production configuration. Kibana also offers no-code machine learning for anomalies, rare events, message patterns, and alerting, plus geospatial tools such as distance filters and shape overlays.