Altair VS plotly

Compare Altair vs plotly and see what are their differences.

Altair

Declarative statistical visualization library for Python (by altair-viz)

plotly

The interactive graphing library for Python :sparkles: This project now includes Plotly Express! (by plotly)
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Altair plotly
42 64
8,852 15,067
1.9% 1.9%
9.0 9.4
2 days ago 7 days ago
Python Python
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License MIT License
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Altair

Posts with mentions or reviews of Altair. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-18.

plotly

Posts with mentions or reviews of plotly. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-11.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Altair and plotly you can also consider the following projects:

bokeh - Interactive Data Visualization in the browser, from Python

matplotlib - matplotlib: plotting with Python

PyQtGraph - Fast data visualization and GUI tools for scientific / engineering applications

folium - Python Data. Leaflet.js Maps.

Apache Superset - Apache Superset is a Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform [Moved to: https://github.com/apache/superset]

seaborn - Statistical data visualization in Python

bqplot - Plotting library for IPython/Jupyter notebooks

pygal - PYthon svg GrAph plotting Library

Graphviz - Simple Python interface for Graphviz

ggplot - ggplot port for python