Plotly Chart-Studio

2D Graphics, Data Analysis & Visualization

Free
No Download/Install required
No registration

https://chart-studio.plotly.com/create/#/

An excel like sheet, but with much more graphics power, for any king of charts and combinations of it.

Steep learning curve, because of many possibilities. We recommend to start and practice with the public community projects.

Can export on PNG. Other formats requires a registration.

Disciplines: Data science, Engineering, Scientific research, Finance, Statistics.

Free alternative to Microsoft Excel, Tableau, OriginPro.

Plotly Chart-Studio compared with Microsoft Excel, Tableau and OriginPro
Plotly Chart-Studio	Microsoft Excel	Tableau	OriginPro
Status: Plotly shut Chart Studio down on 31 October 2025, after ending its development in 2017. Its successor is Plotly Studio, and users can request their data by email to Plotly support.	Status: Excel is current. It is included in Microsoft 365 Personal, Family and Premium, and sold as a one time purchase in Office Home 2024.	Status: Tableau is current, and Tableau Desktop has a free edition.	Status: OriginPro is current. It is the extended edition of Origin, with extra tools for peak fitting, surface fitting and statistics.
Analysis and data capacity: The service was a charting tool built around a spreadsheet like data grid, and analysis was not its focus.	Analysis and data capacity: A worksheet holds 1,048,576 rows and 16,384 columns, and one chart can plot up to 255 data series.		Analysis and data capacity: Origin offers linear, polynomial and nonlinear fitting with close to 200 built in functions. OriginPro adds surface and implicit fitting, orthogonal distance regression, model ranking by F-test, AIC and BIC, and peak fitting with over 25 peak functions.
Programmatic access and openness: The Plotly graphing libraries for Python and JavaScript are free and open source, and the chart editor was released as react-chart-editor. Graphs from the Python library export as images or HTML.			Programmatic access and openness: Embedded Python, the Origin scripting language, C and an R console are supported, with connectivity to MATLAB and LabVIEW.
Licence and cost: The successor Plotly Studio has a free tier, and Pro is a paid plan.	Licence and cost: A Microsoft 365 subscription or a one time Office Home 2024 license for one PC or Mac.	Licence and cost: The Standard, Enterprise and Next editions use per-seat licensing, billed annually. Desktop Free Edition is also offered.	Licence and cost: Node locked, concurrent network and dongle licenses are sold, with separate academic, student, commercial, government and non profit options. A free trial exists, and the page lists no price.
Platforms and data location: Plotly Studio runs on macOS 15 and later and Windows 11. Code runs locally, but prompts, metadata and a preview of the output pass through an LLM.	Platforms and data location: Apps are available for PCs, Macs, phones and tablets, with features varying by platform.

Topics covered: Plotly, Chart-Studio, graphics, charts, data visualization, user interface, steep learning curve, community projects, export, PNG, registration, interactive, web-based, analytics, Python, R, JavaScript, ISO 9241, ISO 25010, ISO 29119, ISO 13407, and ISO 9241-210..

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