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Highcharts

Commercially licensed JavaScript charting library for business and financial dashboards, free only for personal or non-commercial use.

Highcharts is a JavaScript charting library covering standard, financial (Highcharts Stock), mapping (Highcharts Maps), and Gantt chart types, along with a Python wrapper. Unlike most peers in this category it is not open source: it is free for personal, educational, and non-commercial projects, but any commercial deployment requires a paid per-developer license. It is built for cross-browser and mobile-friendly rendering with accessibility features (keyboard navigation, screen-reader support) built in, and is commonly chosen by finance and enterprise-software teams that want a mature, well-documented library with commercial support rather than an open-source stack they maintain themselves. Licensing is per developer seat, sold annually or as a perpetual license, with separate add-on modules priced individually.

At a glance

Vendor Highsoft AS
Pricing model Subscription
Free tier Yes
Deployment Self-hosted
Open source No
Best for Enterprise and finance teams that want a commercially supported, mature charting library.

Pricing

Free for non-commercial use; commercial use requires a per-developer annual or perpetual license, priced per product module.

Plan Price Notes
Highcharts Core (Annual) $366/seat/year Per-developer annual license for the core charting library
Highcharts Stock (add-on) +$366/seat/year Financial/stock charting add-on
Highcharts Maps (add-on) +$128/seat/year Geographic map visualization add-on
OEM License Custom For redistributing Highcharts within products sold to third parties

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Features

  • Standard, financial, map, and Gantt chart types
  • Cross-browser and mobile rendering
  • Built-in accessibility (keyboard nav, screen reader support)
  • Perpetual or annual per-seat licensing
  • Python wrapper (Highcharts for Python)
  • Commercial support included with license

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Profile last reviewed September 21, 2026

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