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- 🟠 Commercial use is conditional or revenue-limited
- 🔴 Paid license required for commercial use

| Library | SVG output | Canvas or WebGL output | Framework-neutral core | License / paid tier |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------- | -------------------------- | ---------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [TanStack Charts](./overview.md) | ✅ Default | ✅ Optional renderer | ✅ Core + adapters | 🟢 MIT |
| [D3](./concepts/scales-and-d3.md) | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | 🟢 ISC |
| [Chart.js](https://www.chartjs.org/docs/latest/) | 🔴 Canvas only | ✅ Default | ✅ Yes | 🟢 MIT |
| [Apache ECharts](https://echarts.apache.org/handbook/en/best-practices/canvas-vs-svg/) | ✅ Optional renderer | ✅ Default | ✅ Yes | 🟢 Apache-2.0 |
| [Recharts](https://recharts.github.io/en-US/) | ✅ Default | 🔴 No first-party renderer | 🔴 React only | 🟢 MIT |
| [visx](https://github.com/airbnb/visx) | ✅ Default | 🔴 No renderer | 🔴 React only | 🟢 MIT |
| [Plotly.js](https://plotly.com/javascript/) | ✅ Common traces | ✅ WebGL traces | ✅ Yes | 🟢 MIT |
| [Lightweight Charts](https://tradingview.github.io/lightweight-charts/) | 🔴 No renderer | ✅ Default | ✅ Yes | 🟢 Apache-2.0 |
| [ApexCharts](https://apexcharts.com/docs/installation/) | ✅ Default | 🔴 No renderer | ✅ Yes | 🟠 [Free under $2M revenue; commercial or OEM otherwise](https://apexcharts.com/license/community/) |
| [Nivo](https://nivo.rocks/about/) | ✅ Default | ✅ Selected charts | 🔴 React only | 🟢 MIT |
| [Highcharts](https://www.highcharts.com/docs/getting-started/system-requirements) | ✅ Default | ✅ Boost WebGL | ✅ Yes | 🔴 [Commercial; separate non-commercial terms](https://shop.highcharts.com/license-16.0.pdf) |
| [Victory](https://commerce.nearform.com/open-source/victory/) | ✅ Web | ✅ Native Skia | 🔴 React only | 🟢 MIT |
| [uPlot](https://github.com/leeoniya/uPlot) | 🔴 No renderer | ✅ Default | ✅ Yes | 🟢 MIT |
| [Vega-Lite](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/) | ✅ Yes | ✅ Canvas | ✅ Yes | 🟢 BSD-3-Clause |
| [Observable Plot](https://observablehq.com/plot/features/plots) | ✅ Default | 🔴 No first-party renderer | ✅ Yes | 🟢 ISC |
| [Bklit UI](https://bklit.com/docs/installation) | ✅ Default | 🔴 No renderer | 🔴 React only | 🟡 [MIT components; proprietary Studio](https://github.com/bklit/bklit-ui#license) |
| [AG Charts](https://www.ag-grid.com/charts/javascript/installation/) | 🔴 No renderer | ✅ Default | ✅ Yes | 🟡 [MIT Community; paid Enterprise](https://www.ag-grid.com/charts/javascript/licensing/) |
| Library | SVG output | Canvas or WebGL output | Framework-neutral core | License / paid tier |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------- | ---------------------------------------- | ---------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [TanStack Charts](./overview.md) | ✅ Default | ✅ Optional Canvas 2D; no WebGL renderer | ✅ Core + adapters | 🟢 MIT |
| [D3](./concepts/scales-and-d3.md) | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | 🟢 ISC |
| [Chart.js](https://www.chartjs.org/docs/latest/) | 🔴 Canvas only | ✅ Default | ✅ Yes | 🟢 MIT |
| [Apache ECharts](https://echarts.apache.org/handbook/en/best-practices/canvas-vs-svg/) | ✅ Optional renderer | ✅ Default | ✅ Yes | 🟢 Apache-2.0 |
| [Recharts](https://recharts.github.io/en-US/) | ✅ Default | 🔴 No first-party renderer | 🔴 React only | 🟢 MIT |
| [visx](https://github.com/airbnb/visx) | ✅ Default | 🔴 No renderer | 🔴 React only | 🟢 MIT |
| [Plotly.js](https://plotly.com/javascript/) | ✅ Common traces | ✅ WebGL traces | ✅ Yes | 🟢 MIT |
| [Lightweight Charts](https://tradingview.github.io/lightweight-charts/) | 🔴 No renderer | ✅ Default | ✅ Yes | 🟢 Apache-2.0 |
| [ApexCharts](https://apexcharts.com/docs/installation/) | ✅ Default | 🔴 No renderer | ✅ Yes | 🟠 [Free under $2M revenue; commercial or OEM otherwise](https://apexcharts.com/license/community/) |
| [Nivo](https://nivo.rocks/about/) | ✅ Default | ✅ Selected charts | 🔴 React only | 🟢 MIT |
| [Highcharts](https://www.highcharts.com/docs/getting-started/system-requirements) | ✅ Default | ✅ Boost WebGL | ✅ Yes | 🔴 [Commercial; separate non-commercial terms](https://shop.highcharts.com/license-16.0.pdf) |
| [Victory](https://commerce.nearform.com/open-source/victory/) | ✅ Web | ✅ Native Skia | 🔴 React only | 🟢 MIT |
| [uPlot](https://github.com/leeoniya/uPlot) | 🔴 No renderer | ✅ Default | ✅ Yes | 🟢 MIT |
| [Vega-Lite](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/) | ✅ Yes | ✅ Canvas | ✅ Yes | 🟢 BSD-3-Clause |
| [Observable Plot](https://observablehq.com/plot/features/plots) | ✅ Default | 🔴 No first-party renderer | ✅ Yes | 🟢 ISC |
| [Bklit UI](https://bklit.com/docs/installation) | ✅ Default | 🔴 No renderer | 🔴 React only | 🟡 [MIT components; proprietary Studio](https://github.com/bklit/bklit-ui#license) |
| [AG Charts](https://www.ag-grid.com/charts/javascript/installation/) | 🔴 No renderer | ✅ Default | ✅ Yes | 🟡 [MIT Community; paid Enterprise](https://www.ag-grid.com/charts/javascript/licensing/) |

A checkmark means the named path exists; it does not claim identical defaults,
accessibility, output, or performance.
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