About
QuickChart is an open-source chart image API that renders Chart.js configurations into chart images and QR codes through a URL-based API. It supports embedding charts in emails, reports, web pages, and other applications, and includes libraries and examples for JavaScript, Python, C#, Java, Ruby, PHP, and Go.
The hosted service includes a Community plan with charts and QR codes, no watermarks, and a rate limit. The pricing page also lists a Professional plan with 100,000 images per month and 50,000 short URLs per month, but the free offering is the Community plan. QuickChart is aimed at developers who need programmatic chart rendering and no-code users who want to generate dynamic charts through the Chart Maker or integrations such as Zapier, Make, Airtable, and Google Sheets.
- Chart.js URL-based image rendering
- Charts and QR codes free community plan
- Rate-limited hosted usage
- No watermarks on free output
- No-code Chart Maker integration
- Language libraries for major stacks
Free Tier Value
This free tier is genuinely usable because it includes charts and QR codes with no watermarks, and the page explicitly says no purchase is required. The cheapest paid plan is $40/month, and the free tier keeps the core rendering capability while adding a rate limit, so it’s worth about 30% of the paid plan — roughly $12/month.
What's included in the free tier
- Charts and QR codes.
- No watermarks.
- Rate limit enforced.
See QuickChart pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Professional
- images/month
- 100,000
- short URLs/month
- 50,000
- All Community features
- Chart URL shortener
- Custom chart plugins
- No rate limits
- Low-latency dedicated server cluster
- Priority support
Enterprise
- charts
- Unlimited
- short URLs
- Unlimited
- All Professional features
- Custom fonts
- Custom chart backgrounds
- Custom domain
- On-prem option
- Unlimited charts
- Unlimited short URLs
- No rate limits
Pricing extracted from QuickChart's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
