Prepare the structure
Paste CSV/TSV or import an Excel workbook, choose its sheet and inspect the grid. Map categories and series, then check the shape required by the selected chart family.
Radar Chart Maker
Paste your criteria and scores and get an exact radar chart — every axis plotted to the value you entered.
A radar chart — also called a spider chart or a web chart — plots several measures on axes radiating from a common centre, then joins the points into a shape. It is the right chart when you are comparing a small number of entities across the same set of criteria: two vendors on eight evaluation dimensions, three candidates on the same scorecard, this quarter's capability profile against last quarter's.
Prism · real output
See the supplied values in the finished visual.
Inspect an actual output, then use the appropriate maker for your own data shape. Structured charts, diagrams and composed artwork offer different editing tools and export options.
Radar — fictional example
A current Prism render from explicitly supplied fictional inputs. Inspect the full-size output, original request and rendered HTML together.
Inspect the source brief or data
Criterion,Option A,Option B Coverage,80,65 Ease,60,85 Control,90,70 Portability,75,80 Support,70,75
Read the sample review notes
Fictional demonstration data, not customer results. Check labels, units, branches and all supplied values before reuse.
Refine with meaning
Choose legible type, deliberate colors, labels and units. Bold is the default for new visuals; a saved or explicitly selected theme remains yours. Check figures against your source and inspect retained data after a chart-type change.
Inspect and share
Read the chart data table or diagram labels, add appropriate alternative text and inspect the actual export. Review and publication permissions are separate from clean-output download rights.
Data mapping, chart objects and accessibility
Inspect an imported workbook's sheet and cells, edit the data grid and choose series and category mappings. Chart-specific shape checks, axes, numeric formatting, labels and legends affect the reading. Review alternative text, long descriptions and the data table. A changed chart type can retain data that needs reshaping.
Graphs, compositions and connected data
Review nodes and branches, Mermaid interchange and saved revision comparisons for structured diagrams. Compositions can combine visual blocks with brand type and colors. Their editing tools differ from those used for structured charts. Connected data controls offer bounded filtering, sorting, column selection, row limits and supported calculated columns; inspect a refresh before accepting changed source values.
Campaign assets and print proofs
Campaign kits support channel choices, sized artwork, photos and crops, captions, selected-channel regeneration and review of edited copy. Print controls cover copy, layout, photo placement, fit, density and proof checks. Print supports English, Germanic, Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Indian, Chinese, Korean and Japanese language/script groups. Inspect the actual export and destination requirements.
Color and preflight options are checks with defined scope, not accessibility certification. Structured SVG editability does not imply that composed raster artwork has the same editing model.
What makes a radar chart maker trustworthy?
Axes plotted from your numbers
Each point sits at the value you entered along its axis. Nothing is normalised behind your back to make the shape more pleasing.
A stated scale
A spider chart invites misreading, because area grows with the square of the radius. Prism renders each series to the exact values you supply and labels every series, so the shape is never a guess — state your axis range in the title or caption.
Deterministic rendering
The web chart is drawn to SVG from your figures, not generated as an image, so the geometry matches the data every time.
Radar chart or bar chart: when to use which
Use a bar chart when precision matters — the eye compares lengths far better than it compares polygon shapes. Use a radar chart when the pattern across criteria is the message: which vendor is balanced, which is spiky, where a candidate is strong and weak. Keep the number of entities small; three overlapping shapes is usually the limit before a web chart becomes unreadable.
How do you make a radar chart, spider chart or web chart with Gixo Prism?
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Bring criteria and scores
Paste each criterion with a score per entity, or upload the CSV from your evaluation.
2
Set the scale explicitly
Decide whether axes run zero to ten, zero to one hundred, or to your own maximum, and put that range in the title. Prism does not draw ring values, so the range has to be stated in words.
3
Review and export
Check each axis back against your scoring sheet, then export as SVG.
A radar chart is one of 22 chart types Prism renders. See the full set on the chart maker overview.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a radar chart?
A chart that plots several measures on axes radiating from a centre point and joins them into a shape, used to compare entities across a shared set of criteria.
Is a spider chart the same as a radar chart?
Yes. Radar chart, spider chart and web chart are three names for the same thing, and all three are in common use.
When should I use a radar chart?
When you are comparing a small number of entities across the same criteria and the overall pattern matters more than precise values — vendor evaluations, capability assessments, scorecards.
How many entities can I plot?
Practically, three. Beyond that the overlapping shapes stop being readable, and a grouped bar chart usually communicates better.
Are the axis values exact?
Yes. Prism renders each point at the value you supplied, deterministically to SVG, with no AI image model between the data and the chart.
What formats can I export?
Individual deterministic makers export HTML, SVG, PNG, PDF and PPTX. Compatible charts can contain native editable PowerPoint data; other supported maker visuals use selectable shapes and text. In the PPTX, bar, horizontal bar, stacked bar, line, area, pie, donut, scatter, radar, and bar-and-line combo charts arrive as native PowerPoint charts with their numbers in an embedded workbook that Edit Data opens; waterfall, funnel, Gantt, heatmap, treemap, symbol map, Marimekko, bubble, Sankey, bullet, slope, and dumbbell charts arrive as editable PowerPoint shapes and text, as does any chart PowerPoint cannot draw the way Prism does, such as a pie with a negative slice or an area chart with a missing value. Generated AI infographics, frameworks and decisions use their separate PNG/HTML path. Attributed HTML/SVG maker output is free; owners can download saved maker revisions without a current generation plan.
How much does Gixo Prism cost?
There's a 14-day free trial with no credit card. From there, Gixo Prism starts at $10/month for Starter (one seat) and rises through Professional, Business and Enterprise; the Brand Kit, which applies your own colours and typeface, starts on the Professional plan.
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