Comparison
ORTEX Charts Compared With Highcharts Stock
Highcharts Stock 11 is 129.9 KB gzip for the chart alone and 193.6 KB across nine files with the stock tools and indicators its own demo loads. It ships the strongest accessibility story in the category, and is licensed per developer per year with Internal, SaaS and OEM classes at about $732 per seat and a reported median spend of $4,350 per year. ORTEX Charts is 76.9 KB gzip in one file for a full shell with a toolbar, indicators, drawings and order flow, and costs $590 per developer per year, or $299 per product per month with the ORTEX mark removed.
Payload and timing figures were measured on 2026-09-04 in Chromium against the vendors' own published files and public demos; the feature review was carried out on 2026-09-03. Prices are the vendors' own published prices where they publish one, and are marked as unpublished where they do not. Where Highcharts Stock is better, this page says so.
Head to head
How the Two Line Up
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| What | ORTEX Charts | Highcharts Stock |
|---|---|---|
| Chart only, gzip | 55.7 KB for candles and volume, in one file | 129.9 KB in one file |
| Chart with its financial toolbar, gzip | 76.9 KB in one file | 193.6 KB across nine files |
| Create to first paint, 100,000 bars | 32 ms | Not measured |
| License | Per developer, or per product to remove the mark | Per developer, with Internal, SaaS and OEM classes |
| Price | $590 per developer per year; $299 per product per month unbranded | About $732 per seat per year; $4,350 median reported spend |
| Order flow | Footprint, volume profile, market profile, delta, cumulative delta | None |
| Bar replay | Yes, with higher-timeframe followers | No |
| Draggable price alerts | Yes | No |
| Screen-reader description and data table | Partial | Yes |
| WebGL rendering | No, Canvas 2D | Partial, through the boost module |
What Is Highcharts Stock Good At?
- Accessibility. The accessibility module gives a screen-reader description of the data and a focusable data table, which is where ORTEX Charts is still partial.
- A navigator strip and range buttons, which ORTEX Charts does not ship.
- Treemaps and heatmaps in the same family, as ORTEX Charts also has.
- A long-established brand, a large component library beyond finance, and a WebGL boost path for very large series.
- Mature React bindings, and a license that covers products behind a login or a paywall.
What Does Highcharts Stock Cost?
- About $732 per seat per year for Core and Stock on the Internal class; resellers list Stock from $833.
- Vendr reports a median spend of $4,350 per year.
- The license class has to be matched to the deployment, and software as a service costs more than internal use.
What Can Highcharts Stock Not Do?
- No footprint bars, no volume profile or market profile, and no delta, cumulative delta or relative volume.
- No bar replay and no draggable price alerts reported to the host.
- No session-anchored intraday bars.
- No host-owned layout and drawing storage of the kind ORTEX Charts serializes to JSON.
- No sparkline build under 10 KB, and it loads as nine files rather than one.
- Renko, Kagi and Point and Figure are only partially covered.
Where Does ORTEX Charts Win?
- Payload. The comparison that matters is a chart with a financial toolbar: 193.6 KB across nine files against 76.9 KB in one.
- Order flow, which Highcharts Stock does not attempt at all.
- Replay, linked charts with a shared crosshair, and draggable alerts.
- Licensing simplicity. One price per developer, or one price per product to remove the mark, with no license class to match to a deployment.
- Cost at the small-team end: $590 per developer per year, against about $732 per seat and a reported median spend of $4,350.
Where Does Highcharts Stock Still Win?
- Accessibility. Highcharts has the strongest accessibility story in the category and ORTEX Charts does not match it; the screen-reader description and the data table are open work.
- The navigator strip and range presets, which are not built in.
- WebGL. Highcharts has a boost path; ORTEX Charts is Canvas 2D.
- Breadth outside finance. Highcharts is a general charting company with a financial product; ORTEX Charts is the other way round.
Which One Should You Choose?
Choose Highcharts Stock when accessibility conformance is a procurement requirement, when a navigator strip is expected, or when one vendor has to cover charting across a whole application. Choose ORTEX Charts when the page is a financial page, when order flow and replay are the features being bought, and when 193.6 KB across nine files is more than the page can afford.
Features
What Each One Ships
A filled circle is shipped and demonstrable, a half circle is present but partial, an empty circle is absent. The notes are the honest part.
| Feature | ORTEX | Highcharts Stock | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Candlestick, bar, line, area, baseline, histogram | ● | ● | |
| Heikin-Ashi and hollow candles | ● | ● | |
| Renko, Kagi, Point and Figure, line break | ● | ◐ | |
| Multiple resizable panes with independent scales | ● | ● | |
| Built-in indicator library | ● | ● | |
| Custom indicators without a proprietary language | ● | ● | Advanced Charts uses Pine Script for user studies. |
| Drawing tools | ● | ◐ | |
| Footprint bars with imbalance marking | ● | ○ | |
| Volume profile and market profile | ● | ○ | Exact per-price volume needs the aggressor data ORTEX Charts accepts. |
| Delta, cumulative delta, relative volume | ● | ○ | |
| Bar replay with higher-timeframe followers | ● | ○ | Replay on a second timeframe is one of the most requested missing features on TradingView. |
| Draggable price alerts reported to the host | ● | ○ | |
| Session-anchored intraday bars | ● | ○ | |
| Linked charts and shared crosshair | ● | ◐ | |
| Host-owned layouts and drawing storage | ● | ○ | Advanced Charts expects a save and load server implementing their contract. |
| Color-blind safe palettes out of the box | ● | ◐ | |
| Sparkline build under 10 KB | ● | ○ | |
| Treemap and heatmap in the same family | ● | ● | |
| React bindings | ● | ● | |
| One file, no chunk loader | ● | ○ | |
| Licensed for private, authenticated and paywalled applications | ● | ● | |
| Screen-reader description and data table | ◐ | ● | Highcharts has the strongest accessibility story in the category. ORTEX Charts has ARIA on the shell and keyboard pan and zoom; the description and data table are open work. |
Licensing and price
The Part That Decides the Shortlist
ORTEX Charts
Per developer for Team, per product for White-label, OEM by contract.
$590 per developer per year for Team; $299 per product per month for White-label; OEM as agreed.
Canvas 2D rather than WebGL: built for financial data sizes, not for ten-million-point scientific plots.
Highcharts Stock
Per developer, per year, with Internal, SaaS and OEM license classes.
About $732 per seat per year for Core and Stock on the Internal class; resellers list Stock from $833. Vendr reports a median spend of $4,350 per year.
The license class has to be matched to the deployment, and software as a service costs more than internal use.
Other comparisons: Lightweight Charts, Advanced Charts, ChartIQ, SciChart JS.