Data Visualization Tools

Flourish vs Plotly

Compare Flourish and Plotly side-by-side. See feature differences and pricing in the Data Visualization Tools category.

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Pricing: Free plan for public charts with attribution; Presenter comes with Canva Business or Enterprise; Publisher and Enterprise are priced on request.

Flourish is Canva's data visualization tool for interactive charts, maps and scrollytelling stories, used by newsrooms, marketers and reporting teams.

16 /17 features Full profile

Plotly

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Pricing: Free plan with a 10-credit trial; Pro $29 per Creator seat a month billed monthly, or $290 a seat a year billed annually; Enterprise by quote.

Plotly is a data visualization platform for Python teams that builds dashboards with AI and hosts them on Plotly Cloud or self-hosted Dash Enterprise.

12 /17 features Full profile

Feature Comparison

Data Visualization Tools features side-by-side

Feature	Flourish 16/17 features	Plotly 12/17 features
Library of chart types beyond bar and line Scatter, area, treemap, sankey, bump, radar and similar chart families are available as templates.	Yes	Yes
Choropleth and point maps Data plots onto geographic maps as shaded regions or positioned markers with a built-in basemap.	Yes	Yes
Responsive embed code for published charts A published chart ships as an embed snippet that resizes to the width of the host page.	Yes	No
SVG and PDF vector export Charts export as print-quality vector files, not only as PNG or JPEG rasters.	Yes	Yes
Custom brand themes with fonts and palettes An organization theme applies fonts, colors, logos and defaults to every new chart automatically.	Yes	Yes
Annotations and highlight callouts Text notes, arrows, highlighted ranges and reference lines are added directly onto the chart.	Yes	Yes
Hover tooltips and click-to-highlight interactivity Readers hover to see values and click to highlight or isolate a series in the published chart.	Yes	Yes
Live data from a spreadsheet or URL A chart refreshes on its own from a linked Google Sheet or a CSV or JSON endpoint.	Yes	No
Animated and scrollytelling stories Several charts chain into a narrative that transitions between states as the reader scrolls or clicks.	Yes	No
Chart accessibility features Published charts carry alt text, colorblind-safe palettes and keyboard-navigable elements.	Yes	No
Interactive data tables with sorting and search Tables publish with reader-side sorting, filtering and search, including inline mini charts.	Yes	Yes
Version history for published charts Earlier versions of a chart are kept and can be restored after an edit or a data update.	No	No
Team workspaces with chart-level permissions Charts sit in shared folders where edit and view rights are set per team member or folder.	Yes	Yes
Self-hosted publishing of charts Published charts can be served from your own domain or CDN instead of the vendor's servers.	Yes	Yes
Chart rendering API Charts are generated or updated programmatically from data through a documented API.	Yes	Yes
Attribution-free publishing The vendor's logo and credit line can be removed from published and embedded charts.	Yes	Yes
Free plan for public charts A no-cost tier publishes charts publicly, usually with attribution and no private sharing.	Yes	Yes
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