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TanStack Charts 0.4.0 is a pre-alpha release. Its results on this page measure the current workspace source and pinned competitor packages. This comparison records architectural differences and reproducible evidence without turning untested behavior into a checkmark.

Tested versions#

The competitor versions are exact package pins, not latest versions inferred at page render time. The measured TanStack workspace revision is 1a8b888.

Capability matrix#

• ✅ Documented first-party component or API
• 🟡 Requires application composition, an external package, or explicit lifecycle work
• 🔴 No documented first-party path

“Measured” libraries are installed at the pinned versions above and exercised by the controlled suite. “Docs” entries are reviewed against the linked official documentation and carry no bundle or performance claim. Library rows are sorted by GitHub repository stars read on 2026-07-31, with TanStack Charts pinned first. Stars are an ordering key, not an adoption measure.

License color:

• 🟢 Permissive open source; commercial use allowed
• 🟡 Open core or mixed open/proprietary offering
• 🟠 Commercial use is conditional or revenue-limited
• 🔴 Paid license required for commercial use

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

The standard suite exercises axes, guides, tooltips, legends, and multi-series composition. Selection, animation, and resize paths are recorded but excluded from timing. Renderer and framework rows follow each package's documented output model.

Bundle snapshot#

Baseline date: 2026-08-01.

Controlled ranges cover 12 independently built, minified browser consumers: line, bar, area, and scatter at basic, interactive, and advanced tiers. Only Recharts has a separate incremental result because that lane externalizes React and React DOM.

External figures are not comparable to the controlled cold-page ranges. Most come from a Bundlephobia main-export snapshot published on July 7, 2026. The Vega-Lite, AG Charts, and uPlot main exports were read from Bundlephobia on July 31, 2026. Modular imports can be smaller, especially for AG Charts.

The tracked baseline distinguishes the TanStack workspace revision from competitor package versions and records the complete chart/tier matrix; the deterministic bundle gate rejects either kind of drift.

The table does not report install size or runtime speed. The controlled comparison builds the current TanStack workspace source and the pinned competitor packages. Browser timing is meaningful only within one machine and browser run, so this page does not publish a cross-machine timing leaderboard.

Broader conformance#

The catalog corpus contains 100 TanStack/reference pairs: 68 sourced from Observable Plot, 21 from Recharts, and 11 from Apache ECharts. Sixteen pairs carry executable interaction scenarios. Those counts describe selected reference coverage, not each library's feature ceiling or a list of built-in TanStack chart types. Chart.js participates in the standard and stress suites, not the catalog corpus.

The catalog displays each renderer entry, its transitive support and transform files, and provenance for imported demo datasets. Its report counts the complete authored source closure and publishes the source-line ratio for every pair; moving a transform or layout into a support module does not remove it from the comparison, while raw snapshot rows are not treated as chart authoring.

TanStack deliberately keeps several responsibilities outside the default runtime:

Choose Chart.js when Canvas-first standard charts and its plugin ecosystem fit the application. Choose Apache ECharts for a broad built-in controller and chart catalog with Canvas or SVG output. Choose Recharts for a React-native SVG component model. Choose Observable Plot for concise exploratory marks and transforms. Choose TanStack Charts when one typed, framework-independent definition must grow from standard charts into application-specific SVG or Canvas composition while keeping D3 and state ownership explicit.

Evidence and reproduction#

• Standard comparison protocol
• Current tracked bundle baseline
• 0.4.0 tagged bundle baseline
• Stress protocol
• Catalog conformance protocol

pnpm benchmark:size
pnpm benchmark:check
pnpm benchmark:stress:quick
pnpm conformance:quick

The browser-backed commands require the pinned Playwright browser. Read the bundle and performance guide before interpreting results, and use the migration guide to establish application-specific parity before replacing an existing library.