Feature Comparison
What Unovis, Recharts, Chart.js, ECharts, Nivo, the free Community edition of AG Charts, Observable Plot, Vega-Lite and TanStack Charts support: chart types, tools for AI agents, building blocks and the details that decide how a chart looks and behaves. Each cell was checked against the library's type definitions, source code and documentation for the version shown, and links to its source. Hover a cell or turn on Show details to read the notes.
- Built in
- Part of the library
- Partial
- Built in, with the limits described in the note
- Official plugin
- An add-on package from the library’s maintainers
- Community plugin
- A third-party add-on package
- Paid edition
- Only in AG Charts Enterprise
- Custom code
- Possible with your own code on top of the library
- No
- Not supported
| Feature | Unovis1.8.0 | Recharts3.10.1 | Chart.js4.5.1 | ECharts6.1.0 | Nivo0.99.0 | AG Charts14.2.0 | Observable Plot0.6.17 | Vega-Lite6.5.0 | TanStack Charts1.1.0 |
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| Platform | |||||||||
| Rendering | SVG | SVGSource | CanvasSource | Canvas or SVGSource | SVG, Canvas or HTMLSource | CanvasSource | SVGSource | Canvas or SVGSource | SVG or CanvasSource |
| Framework integrations | |||||||||
| TypeScript | |||||||||
| Tree shaking | |||||||||
| Theming | |||||||||
| Dark mode | |||||||||
| Resizes with its container | |||||||||
| Animated data updates | |||||||||
| Server-side rendering to SVG / PNG | |||||||||
| Accessibility | |||||||||
| AI agents | |||||||||
| MCP server | |||||||||
| Options documented in the type definitions | |||||||||
| Docs for AI assistants (llms.txt) | |||||||||
| XY charts | |||||||||
| Line | |||||||||
| Stacked area | |||||||||
| Stream graph | |||||||||
| Grouped bar | |||||||||
| Stacked bar | |||||||||
| Horizontal bar | |||||||||
| Scatter | |||||||||
| Bubble | |||||||||
| Timeline / Gantt | |||||||||
| Box plot | |||||||||
| Heatmap | |||||||||
| Candlestick | |||||||||
| Waterfall | |||||||||
| Histogram | |||||||||
| Radial and hierarchical charts | |||||||||
| Pie / donut | |||||||||
| Sunburst / nested donut | |||||||||
| Radial bar | |||||||||
| Circular bar (polar columns) | |||||||||
| Radar | |||||||||
| Treemap | |||||||||
| Funnel | |||||||||
| Gauge | |||||||||
| Networks and flows | |||||||||
| Sankey | |||||||||
| Chord diagram | |||||||||
| Force-directed graph | |||||||||
| Layered graph layouts (DAG) | |||||||||
| Zoom, pan and drag a graph | |||||||||
| Maps | |||||||||
| Choropleth (TopoJSON / GeoJSON) | |||||||||
| Tile map with markers and clustering | |||||||||
| Flow map | |||||||||
| Zoom and pan a map | |||||||||
| Map projections | |||||||||
| Building blocks and interactions | |||||||||
| Tooltip | |||||||||
| Crosshair with a shared tooltip | |||||||||
| Legend | |||||||||
| Toggle series from the legend | |||||||||
| Brush / range selection | |||||||||
| Zoom and pan XY charts | |||||||||
| Reference lines | |||||||||
| Reference bands | |||||||||
| Annotations | |||||||||
| Data labels | |||||||||
| Label overlap avoidance | |||||||||
| Wrapping / trimming long axis labels | |||||||||
| Chart details | |||||||||
| Gaps for missing values | |||||||||
| Bridging missing values | |||||||||
| Curve types | |||||||||
| Custom area baseline | |||||||||
| Rounded bar corners | |||||||||
| Stacking negative values | |||||||||
| Point shapes | |||||||||
| Hover snaps to the nearest point | |||||||||
| Donut central label | |||||||||
| Gaps between donut segments | |||||||||
| Rounded donut segments | |||||||||
| Labels on pie segments | |||||||||
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