# Highcharts Stock

Commercial JS financial charting — 48 indicators, a navigator, a per-seat licence.

*https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/highcharts-stock · JavaScript Charting Libraries for Finance*

## Also covered on

- [Highcharts Stock on CryptoMarkets.tools](https://cryptomarkets.tools/tools/highcharts-stock.md) — why the no-charge licence excludes a crypto product, and what a seat actually costs

## Facts

### At a glance

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Vendor | Highcharts |
| Category | JavaScript Charting Libraries for Finance |
| Job | charting_library |
| Website | https://www.highcharts.com/products/stock/ |
| Pricing model | subscription |
| Free tier | true |
| Open source | false |
| Licence | none |
| Self-hosted | true |
| Tested hands-on | false |
| Last updated | 2026-09-13 |

### Pricing

| Tier | USD | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Personal & educational | 0 USD | year |
| Internal, annual | 370 USD | year |
| SaaS, annual | 732 USD | year |
| SaaS+, annual | 2198 USD | year |
| OEM | on request | year |

### Coverage

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Asset classes | none |
| Markets | none |
| Works outside the US | false |
| Data latency | none |
| Platforms | library |
| AI features | none |

### Interfaces

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| API | false |
| Webhooks | false |
| Scripting | JavaScript/TypeScript |
| Python | true |
| Spreadsheet add-in | false |
| MCP server | false |
| Export | csv, pdf |

### Capabilities

Yes: charting

No: screening, scanning, backtesting, automation, live_trading, paper_trading, portfolio_tracking, broker_import, tax_reporting, alerts, news, options_analysis

*Verified: pricing 2026-09-13; capabilities 2026-09-13; coverage 2026-09-13.*

## What it is

Highcharts Stock is the financial-charting member of the Highcharts library family: candlestick
and OHLC series, a navigator strip under the chart, a preset range selector, stacked panes, and
data grouping that folds a long series into days, weeks or months as you zoom. It is sold as a
$366 add-on to Highcharts Core rather than on its own, so a Stock licence always carries Core
and its thirty-odd general chart types with it.

The indicator set is why most people arrive. The Stock documentation lists **48 built-in
technical indicators** — 19 overlays (Bollinger Bands, Ichimoku, Keltner Channels, Supertrend,
VWAP, Pivot Points) and 29 oscillators (MACD, RSI, Stochastic, ATR, DMI, OBV, the
linear-regression family), each a separate module loaded after `indicators/indicators.js`. The
marketing page still says "over 40"; the source tree has 48 indicator directories, matching the
docs table. Stock Tools adds an analyst-facing toolbar — trendlines, Fibonacci, measure,
annotations — that end users drive without a developer.

Rendering is SVG; the optional boost module swaps in a WebGL canvas inside the SVG for very large
series, at the cost of animations, dashed lines, stacking and non-circular markers. The vendor's
own boost sample is a stock chart of 600 series and 72,000 points. `highstock.js` is 382 KB
minified, about 136 KB gzipped at v13.0.2, before indicators (another 21 KB gzipped) and before
the accessibility and export modules — several times the footprint of the free canvas libraries,
and the trade you are making for the indicator set.

## Pricing

Per developer seat, in US dollars, where a developer is "any person who will be simultaneously
working with the API and/or source code". What moves the number is not the tier but the
deployment: Internal (intranet and private sites only) is $370 a year for Core plus Stock, SaaS
(one public application) $732, SaaS+ (up to five) $2,198. Each has a perpetual equivalent bought
once instead — $850, $1,678 and $5,034. The webshop sells up to six seats; above that, and for
shipping Highcharts inside something customers install or host, it is an OEM quote.

Both shapes carry the Highcharts Advantage plan — 10 support hours per developer, 36-hour first
response, doubled and cut to 17 hours on Advantage Plus. Cancel it on a perpetual licence and you
keep your version but not new releases; cancel an annual licence and you must stop using the
software altogether.

Free is genuinely free but narrow: a natural person's hobby project, or an accredited school's
coursework, on community-forum support. EULA 1.0 of 20 January 2026 replaced the old "fair use"
wording with explicit exclusions — employers, freelance clients, non-profits, start-ups,
monetised blogs, and internal prototyping or R&D all require a paid licence. There is no
time-limited commercial trial, and no licence key or activation either: the licence is a legal
document, and compliance is policed by CDN traffic analysis and crawling.

## Data & coverage

None. Highcharts Stock draws whatever series you hand it and ships no prices, no symbols and no
history; budget for a market-data provider separately. The one first-party exception is the
Morningstar data connector, which is not part of a normal licence — it is sold only under a
Partner-Data License and additionally requires your own Morningstar Direct Web Services account.

## Integrations

Official wrappers for React, Angular, Vue, Svelte, Flutter, Node.js and TypeScript, with typings
in the npm package; `highcharts-react-official` (MIT) last published 3.2.3 in October 2025, and
the Angular and Vue wrappers were both updated in 2026. Highcharts for Python is a separately
priced integration (+$110/year) published by partner HCP LLC — check it before you commit, since
the `highcharts-stock` package on PyPI is still on 1.7.0 from April 2024 while its
`highcharts-core` sibling reached 1.11.0 in May 2026.

Releases are steady rather than frequent: v13.0.0 on 11 June 2026, then 13.0.1 and 13.0.2 in
August. The public repository is not archived and had commits on the day this card was written.

## Limitations

- **The licence is the barrier, and it is per developer.** A solo builder whose one public side
  project earns anything pays $732 a year or $1,678 once, for Core plus Stock at a single seat.
  A three-person team triples it. Against the free libraries, this is the whole decision.
- **An open-source project cannot use it.** Redistributing the source or a modified build to
  third parties is prohibited outright, as is any derivative work put to commercial use.
- **Non-profits pay commercial rates.** The free Personal Use licence explicitly excludes them;
  only accredited institutions get the educational grant, and only for teaching and unfunded
  research.
- **"Source available" is not open source.** The code sits on GitHub and npm for transparency and
  non-commercial experimentation, but GitHub reports no recognised licence and there is no SPDX
  identifier to check — the terms are the EULA.
- **Accessibility ships as a module you must remember to load.** It is included with every
  licence, but forget the file and you get a console warning and an inaccessible chart.

## Alternatives

[Lightweight Charts](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/lightweight-charts), from [TradingView](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/tradingview), is free under Apache-2.0 and renders on canvas at a
fraction of the bundle size, but ships no indicators and no drawing tools. TradingView's Advanced
Charts is free for approved applicants and brings both, at the cost of a hosted-data adapter and
an approval process. ECharts and Chart.js are free and general-purpose with no financial
affordances at all — no navigator, no range selector, no data grouping.

## FAQ

### Is Highcharts Stock free?

Only for a natural person's non-commercial projects and for accredited schools. EULA 1.0, dated 20 January 2026, defines Personal Use to exclude any business, government or non-profit context, freelance work, side-hustles and monetised blogs, and states that internal prototyping and R&D already need a commercial licence. A startup building a demo is a commercial user on day one.

### What does Highcharts Stock cost for one developer?

$732 a year per seat for Core plus Stock on the SaaS licence, which covers one public application, or $1,678 once for the perpetual equivalent. Internal-only use is $370 a year or $850 perpetual. Core is a required half of both figures — Stock is sold as a $366 add-on to it, not on its own.

### Is Highcharts Stock open source?

No. The full source sits in a public GitHub repository and on npm, and the EULA permits cloning and forking it for non-commercial learning, but it is proprietary — no redistribution, no derivative works for commercial use, and nothing that competes with Highcharts.

### What is the difference between Highstock and Highcharts Stock?

The same product. Highstock was the old name and it still survives in the plumbing — the CDN file is highstock.js, the npm entry point is highcharts/highstock, and the API reference lives under api.highcharts.com/highstock.

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- [AnyStock](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/anystock.md) — Per-product, per-domain commercial licensing with a watermark until you pay.
- [Apache ECharts](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/echarts.md) — Apache-2.0 general-purpose charting with a candlestick series and nothing else financial.
- [KLineChart](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/klinechart.md) — Apache-2.0 canvas candlesticks with 27 indicators built in and zero dependencies.
- [Lightweight Charts](https://stockmarketstack.com/tools/lightweight-charts.md) — The chart and nothing else — six series types on canvas, attribution required.