AnyChart vs C3.js: What are the differences?

Developers describe AnyChart as "Robust JavaScript (HTML5) charting solution for easily adding interactive charts, maps and dashboards to web pages, apps". AnyChart is a flexible JavaScript (HTML5) based solution that allows you to create interactive and great looking charts. It is a cross-browser and cross-platform charting solution intended for everybody who deals with creation of dashboard, reporting, analytics, statistical, financial or any other data visualization solutions. On the other hand, C3.js is detailed as "A D3-based reusable chart library". c3 is a D3-based reusable chart library that enables deeper integration of charts into web applications.

AnyChart and C3.js can be categorized as "Charting Libraries" tools.

Some of the features offered by AnyChart are:

• Cross-platform, cross-browser (IE6+)
• Compatible with virtually all scripting languages (ASP, PHP, ColdFusion, Perl, etc.)
• Huge, constantly growing number of supported types of charts, maps, stock/financial graphs, Gantt charts

On the other hand, C3.js provides the following key features:

• Comfortable - C3 makes it easy to generate D3-based charts by wrapping the code required to construct the entire chart. We don't need to write D3 code any more.
• Customizable - C3 gives some classes to each element when generating, so you can define a custom style by the class and it's possible to extend the structure directly by D3.
• Controllable - C3 provides a variety of APIs and callbacks to access the state of the chart. By using them, you can update the chart even if after it's rendered.

C3.js is an open source tool with 8.42K GitHub stars and 1.4K GitHub forks. Here's a link to C3.js's open source repository on GitHub.