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
1M+
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 or CSS

Crossfiltering
✔️
✔️
⚪

Dynamic Layouts
Pattern-Matching Callbacks
⚪
⚪

Long Running Tasks
✔️
⚪
⚪

Year founded
2017
2012
2019

GitHub contributors
98
69
142

GitHub Stars
17.1k
4.7k
20.2k

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
- 1M+
- 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 or CSS
- Crossfiltering
- ✔️
- ✔️
- ⚪
- Dynamic Layouts
- Pattern-Matching Callbacks
- ⚪
- ⚪
- Long Running Tasks
- ✔️
- ⚪
- ⚪
- Year founded
- 2017
- 2012
- 2019
- GitHub contributors
- 98
- 69
- 142
- GitHub Stars
- 17.1k
- 4.7k
- 20.2k
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
- 1M+
- 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 or CSS
- Crossfiltering
- ✔️
- ✔️
- ⚪
- Dynamic Layouts
- Pattern-Matching Callbacks
- ⚪
- ⚪
- Long Running Tasks
- ✔️
- ⚪
- ⚪
- Year founded
- 2017
- 2012
- 2019
- GitHub contributors
- 98
- 69
- 142
- GitHub Stars
- 17.1k
- 4.7k
- 20.2k
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
- 1M+
- 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 or CSS
- Crossfiltering
- ✔️
- ✔️
- ⚪
- Dynamic Layouts
- Pattern-Matching Callbacks
- ⚪
- ⚪
- Long Running Tasks
- ✔️
- ⚪
- ⚪
- Year founded
- 2017
- 2012
- 2019
- GitHub contributors
- 98
- 69
- 142
- GitHub Stars
- 17.1k
- 4.7k
- 20.2k
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
- 1M+
- 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 or CSS
- Crossfiltering
- ✔️
- ✔️
- ⚪
- Dynamic Layouts
- Pattern-Matching Callbacks
- ⚪
- ⚪
- Long Running Tasks
- ✔️
- ⚪
- ⚪
- Year founded
- 2017
- 2012
- 2019
- GitHub contributors
- 98
- 69
- 142
- GitHub Stars
- 17.1k
- 4.7k
- 20.2k

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