Piktochart makes handsome static infographics. PlotSet makes charts that animate, embed live and render to video.
Choose Piktochart if your deliverable is a printable or downloadable infographic and the charts inside it can be static. Choose PlotSet if the chart needs to animate, live-embed on a web page, or become a video.
Piktochart is an infographic and visual-report builder. You start from a designed template, drop in text, icons and charts, and export a polished image or PDF. Charts are a supporting element inside a page layout rather than the product's centre of gravity, and its animated output lives in a separate Piktochart Video product.
PlotSet is a chart platform: 300+ templates covering static, interactive and data-animated charts, live embeds on every plan, MP4 video export on every plan, and plugins for Figma, Google Sheets and Chrome.
Piktochart's output is a designed page — an image or PDF you hand to someone. PlotSet's output is a live chart object you can embed, update, re-render or export. If the numbers change next quarter, a Piktochart infographic is redesigned; a PlotSet chart is re-uploaded.
Capabilities verified against public documentation on 2026-08-16.
| Capability | PlotSet | Piktochart |
|---|---|---|
| Video export (MP4) | YesMP4; watermarked & limited on Free | PartialPiktochart Video is a separate product |
| Animated & race charts | YesFree on every plan | NoStatic infographic charts |
| Ready-made template library | Yes300+ templates | YesInfographic, report and poster templates |
| AI text-to-chart | No | Paid planAI infographic generation |
| Chart from a screenshot | No | No |
| Live interactive embeds | YesFree on every plan | PartialShareable links; limited interactive embedding |
| CSV / Excel import | Yes | Yes |
| Maps & geo charts | Yes | Partial |
| Live database / warehouse connections | PartialFiles & Google Sheets; no warehouse connections | No |
| Team collaboration | No | Paid plan |
| White-label / no branding | Paid planPlus and Enterprise | Paid plan |
| API access | Yes | No |
| AI agent control (MCP) | Yes13-tool MCP server with OAuth | No |
| Figma plugin | Yes | No |
| Google Sheets add-on | Yes | No |
| Free tier | Yes5 static charts/day, 2 videos/day | YesBranded output |
Prices shown as published by each vendor, checked on 2026-08-16.
Choose an infographic, report or poster layout.
Place text, icons, images and chart blocks on the canvas.
Paste or import a spreadsheet into each chart block.
Export as PNG or PDF, or share a link.
CSV, Excel, or a Google Sheet.
300+ static, interactive and animated options.
Theme, colours and animation timing, previewed live.
Live embed on any plan, MP4 video on every plan.
Piktochart is a design tool with charts in it; PlotSet is a chart tool. For a one-off infographic poster, Piktochart's templates will get you there faster and look good. For anything that needs to stay live on a page, animate over time, or be re-exported when the data updates, Piktochart's static-image output is the constraint.
Bar chart races and animated maps, rendered to MP4 on any plan.
Free on every PlotSet plan, so charts stay current on your page.
MP4 export at no cost — watermarked and daily-limited on Free, unbranded on Plus.
Chart-specific depth rather than chart blocks inside page layouts.
Figma, Google Sheets, Chrome, plus a 13-tool MCP server.
Chart data moves over as a spreadsheet without reshaping. Page layouts do not transfer — PlotSet produces charts, not composed infographic pages, so teams that need the poster format usually keep Piktochart for layout and embed or export PlotSet charts into it.
Not in the core infographic editor — its charts are static. Piktochart Video is a separate product for video content. PlotSet animates the data itself and renders MP4 from the same chart you embed.
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