Infogram vs Plotly

Infogram is a web platform for building interactive data visualizations, including infographics, charts, maps, reports, dashboards, slides, and social media graphics. Projects can combine custom tooltips, clickable elements, videos, GIFs, and animations. It lists more than 35 customizable chart types and more than 800 maps, with AI tools for making visuals, suggesting charts, adjusting content, and turning images into data. Projects can be shared or embedded on websites, blogs, and presentations without coding; embedded visuals reflect later edits. Connections include YouTube, SlideShare, Flickr, Giphy, and IFrame, plus data sources such as Google Drive spreadsheets, Dropbox, JSON feeds, and several databases. The Basic plan allows one user and up to 10 projects. Pro costs $19 a month billed annually; Business costs $67 a month billed annually; Team costs $149 a month billed annually. Infogram lists a developer API, WCAG 2.2 Level accessibility, and SOC 2 Type 2 compliance. Its offices are in Riga, Budapest, and San Francisco.

Plotly provides tools for interactive dashboards, data applications, and charts, spanning open-source libraries, hosted services, and self-hosted platforms. Its graphing libraries support Python and JavaScript and offer more than 70 chart types. Dashboards support scheduled refresh and embedding, with connections to Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, MotherDuck, Oracle, CSV, and sources accessible through Python. Plotly Studio runs locally as a desktop app and can deploy to Plotly Cloud; Dash Enterprise can be self-hosted or run on premises. The Free plan includes one creator seat, one Dash or Plotly Studio app, three private viewers, and 10 trial credits, with no credit card required. It does not permit inviting other Creators or Viewers. Pro is $29 a month per Creator seat, with 30 monthly credits, 10 private viewers, and unlimited apps. Credit-powered features stop when credits run out, but published apps continue running. Subscriptions can be canceled without fees or penalties.