What Streamlit does
Streamlit is an open-source Python framework for building interactive data apps. It is aimed at data scientists and AI/ML engineers, who can build apps in pure Python without front-end skills. Apps are scripts that update when the source file is saved, and widgets are declared like variables without separate backend routes or HTML and JavaScript. The page says Streamlit works with libraries such as Pandas, PyTorch, Matplotlib, Plotly, and scikit-learn, and it supports custom components. Developers install it with pip and run streamlit hello. Streamlit Community Cloud is free for public apps with a GitHub login, while Snowflake offers private app hosting with a trial, without listing prices.
How Streamlit compares with its closest alternatives
All 5 closest alternatives have a free plan, as Streamlit does. Only Observable lists a starting price, $19 a month. All 5 offer an API; FalcoScan's records show none for Streamlit. Streamlit offers a web app and a desktop app. Of the alternatives, 4 offer a web app and 3 offer a desktop app. Streamlit was founded in 2018; the alternatives were founded between 2018 and 2023. The alternatives with a known headquarters are in the United States.