Comparing
Composable charting components for React — build line, bar, pie, and area charts from SVG with a declarative JSX API.
Statistical data visualization built on matplotlib — beautiful charts with sensible defaults and one-line syntax.
| Metric | recharts | seaborn |
|---|---|---|
| Ecosystem | npm | Python |
| Difficulty | Beginner | Beginner |
| Weekly downloads | 3.2M | 8.0M↑ |
| Latest version | v2.15.0 | v0.13.2 |
| Recipes | 1 | 2↑ |
recharts only
Shared
seaborn only
Dashboards, analytics pages, standard business charts in React apps, any time you want good-looking charts without a steep learning curve.
Exploratory data analysis, correlation matrices, distribution comparisons, categorical plots, regression plots, or any time you want a beautiful statistical chart in a few lines.
Custom/unusual visualizations (use d3), non-React projects (use Chart.js), performance-critical charts with 100k+ data points (Canvas-based charts are faster).
Custom non-statistical visualizations, interactive web charts, or when you need pixel-perfect control over layout.
recharts
seaborn