FastReport Comparison
Here you can compare Fast Reports report generator tools for various languages and IDEs, various platforms and operating systems.
Let's compare cross-platform report generators, their functionality and relative advantages.
The table covers desktop reporting, web-reporting (independent as well as with different server support), databases, multi-platform reporting, export filters and conversion from other report generators.
This table will help in selecting the right reporting tool for your projects.
| Feature | FastReport FMX | FastReport VCL | FastReport .NET | FastReport Mono | FastReport Open Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frameworks | |||||
| VCL | |
✓ |
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| LCL | |
✓ |
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| FMX | ✓ |
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| .NET Framework 4.6.2-4.8.1 | |
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✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| ASP.NET | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
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| ASP.NET MVC | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
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| ASP.NET MVC Core | |
|
✓ |
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✓ |
| .NET Core 2.0-3.1 | |
|
✓ |
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✓ |
| .NET 5, .NET 6, .NET 7 | |
|
✓ |
|
✓ |
| Blazor Server | |
|
✓ |
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| Mono | |
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✓ |
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| IDE | |||||
| Embarcadero Delphi 7-XE8, 10-11 | |
✓ |
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| Embarcadero C++Builder 2005-XE8, 10-11 | |
✓ |
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| Embarcadero RAD Studio XE | |
✓ |
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| Embarcadero RAD Studio XE2-XE8 | ✓ |
✓ |
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| Embarcadero RAD Studio 10 Seattle | ✓ |
✓ |
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| Embarcadero RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin | ✓ |
✓ |
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| Embarcadero RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo | ✓ |
✓ |
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| Embarcadero RAD Studio 10.3 Rio | ✓ |
✓ |
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| Embarcadero RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney | ✓ |
✓ |
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| Embarcadero RAD Studio 11 Alexandria | ✓ |
✓ |
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| Embarcadero Delphi Prism | |
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✓ |
✓ |
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| Lazarus | |
✓ |
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| Microsoft Visual Studio | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| MonoDevelop | |
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✓ |
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| Visual Studio Code | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| JetBrains Rider | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Operating System | |||||
| Microsoft Windows | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Apple macOS | ✓ |
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Linux | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Graphic core requirements | |||||
| GDI | |
✓ |
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| GDI+ | ✓ |
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✓ |
|
✓ |
| D2D | ✓ |
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| Quarz | ✓ |
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| GTK | |
✓ |
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| libgdiplus | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| SkiaSharp | |
|
✓ |
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| Report engine | |||||
| Bands | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Code based | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| XML report templates | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Report script languages | |||||
| Pascal Script | ✓ |
✓ |
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| C++ Script | ✓ |
✓ |
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| J Script | ✓ |
✓ |
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| VB Script | ✓ |
✓ |
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| C# | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| VB.NET | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Report script engine | |||||
| FastScript | ✓ |
✓ |
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| CodeDOM | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
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| Roslyn | |
|
✓ |
|
✓ |
| Data Base support | |||||
| ClickHouse | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Elastic Search | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Couchbase | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| CSV | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Firebird | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Google BigQuery | |
|
✓ |
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| IBM DB2 | |
✓ |
✓ |
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| JSON | |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| MongoDB | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| MS Access | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| MS SQL | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| MySQL | |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| NosDB | |
|
✓ |
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| ODBC | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| OLE DB | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Oracle | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| PostgreSQL | |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| RavenDB | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Sharepoint | |
|
✓ |
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| SqlAnywhere | |
|
✓ |
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| SqlCe | |
|
✓ |
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| SQLite | |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| VistaDB | |
|
✓ |
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| XML | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Internal application datasets | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Custom connections | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Reporting features | |||||
| Dialogue forms | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Report inheritance | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Master-detail-subdetail | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Drill-downs | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Groupping | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Sorting | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Headers and Footers | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| URLs and hrefs | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| HTML tags in text object | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Unlimited page sizes | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Preview component | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Design-time visual report designer | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Run-time visual report designer | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| High DPI support | |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Visual SQL Builder | |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Localization languages | 32 | 33 | 29 | 29 | |
| Bundled applications | |||||
| Designer | |
|
✓ |
|
✓ |
| Viewer | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
|
✓ |
| Printing | |||||
| Print to different printer trays | |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Dot-matrix printer support | |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Advanced printing modes | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Report objects | |||||
| Text | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Shape | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Picture | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| SVG | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Sub-report | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| System text | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Chart | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Barcode | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| 2D barcode | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Map | |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Zip code | |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Cellular | |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| OLE | |
✓ |
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| Rich Text | |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Gradient | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Cross-tab (Matrix) | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Advanced Matrix (AdvMatrix) | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
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| Table | |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Container | |
|
✓ |
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| Gauge | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Checkbox | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Sparkline | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
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| HTML | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Digital signature | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
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| Web-reporting | |||||
| Integrated HTTP server | |
✓ |
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| CGI | |
✓ |
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| ISAPI | |
✓ |
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| ASP .NET | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
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| MVC | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Web API | |
|
✓ |
|
✓ |
| WCF | |
|
✓ |
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| Support of Online Designer | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Export in formats | |||||
| ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
PDFSimple | |
| PDF/A | |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| PDF/X | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
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| Images Jpeg/PNG/BMP/GIF/TIFF/EMF | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| SVG | |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Rich Text | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Word OOXML (docx) | |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| PowerPoint OOXML (pptx) | |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| HTML | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| HTML5 (layered) | |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| MHT (web archive) | |
|
✓ |
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| Microsoft XPS | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
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| Excel OLE | |
✓ |
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| Excel XML | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Excel binary (biff8 xls) | |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Excel OOXML (xlsx) | |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| PostScript | |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| PPML | |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| LaTeX | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
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| DXF | |
|
✓ |
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| ZPL | |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| JSON | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
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| Comma separated values (CSV) | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| DBF (table) | |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Plain Text | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Open Document Speadsheet (OpenOffice) | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Open Document Text (OpenOffice) | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| XAML | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
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| Transports | |||||
| |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| FTP | |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| DropBox | |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Box | |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| GoogleDrive | |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| OneDrive | |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Convertors from | |||||
| Quick Report | |
✓ |
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| Report Builder | |
✓ |
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| Rave Reports | |
✓ |
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| List&Label | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
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| DevExpress | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
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| Microsoft Reporting Services (RDL, RDLC) | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
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| Crystal Reports | |
|
✓ |
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| StimulSoft | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
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| Jasper Library | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
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| FastReport/FreeReport VCL 2.* | |
✓ |
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| FastReport .NET | |
✓ |
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| FastReport VCL | |
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| Distribution | |||||
| Windows Installation file | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| ZIP archive | |
|
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✓ |
✓ |
| NuGet | |
|
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| DEB | |
|
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✓ |
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| RPM | |
|
|
✓ |
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| GitHub | |
|
|
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✓ |
| Full sources | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Support | |||||
| Online helpdesk | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Online chat | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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| GitHub Issues | |
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✓ |
| Phone | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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