# What does the ECharts "beta" label mean?

> ECharts is the newest of the five libraries, and the chip on its tab says so. Everything in it renders, configures and inserts like the other four — it just has more rough edges around data editing.

> **Pro feature:** ECharts is PRO throughout — unlike Google and HighCharts, there are no free charts inside it.

> **Note:** Charts built from ECharts examples can carry unusual configuration. If one refuses to draw, the error dialog lists what it could not read rather than failing silently.

## Steps

1. The small Beta chip sits on the ECharts tab itself, beside the name. It is a maturity note, not a switch — the tab is fully usable and the charts inside behave like any other.
2. It is also the biggest set in the plugin by a wide margin: 273 of the 588 charts in the gallery are ECharts. If a chart type exists nowhere else, this is where to look.
3. The main difference shows up on the Data tab. Many ECharts types open a specialist editor instead of the plain table — nesting for tree, treemap and sunburst, separate node and link tables for Sankey, chord and graph, a grid for heatmap, and raw JSON for box plot, parallel, theme river and custom charts.
4. ECharts scatter charts are edited as JSON rather than as a table, because each point is an x and y pair that a two-column table cannot hold correctly.
5. A live data source cannot be bound to every ECharts type. Sankey, chord, tree, treemap, sunburst, graph, box plot, calendar, parallel, theme river and custom charts have to be edited in the plugin rather than fed from a connected sheet or API.

_Topics: echarts, beta, libraries_

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