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How do Dash, Shiny, and Streamlit compare as low-code, UI layers for AI and ML models?
Dash | Shiny | Streamlit | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Languages Supported | Python and R | Python and R | Python |
| OSS License | MIT | AGPL | Apache 2.0 |
| Back-end Architecture | Stateless | Stateful | Stateful |
| Downloads/month | 890,000 | 330,000 | 900,000 |
| Web protocol | HTTP(S) | Websockets | Websockets |
| Recommended deployment | Dash Enterprise | Shiny Server Pro (RStudio Connect) | Heroku |
| User experience | Web app | Model output with controls in a Web page | Notebook with controls |
| App structure | Multi-page | Single page | Notebook with code |
| Front end | React | jQuery | React |
| Interactivity | Complete: any component can be an input/output, including tables | Partial: some components can be inputs/outputs | Limited: only widgets as inputs, graphs and tables can only be outputs |
| Styling control | Dash Design Kit, Basic Bootstrap, or CSS | Basic Bootstrap or CSS | Limited |
| Crossfiltering |  | |  |
| Dynamic Layouts | Pattern-Matching Callbacks | | |
| Long Running Tasks | | | |
| Year founded | 2017 | 2012 | 2019 |
| GitHub contributors | 96 | 68 | 135 |
| GitHub Stars | 16.7k | 4.7k | 19.6k |