Tulip

tulip.labri.fr · checked 12 Oct 2026

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Tulip is an information visualization framework for analyzing and visualizing relational data and graphs.

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Website: tulip.labri.fr
Price: Free tier
Free trial: Not stated
Algorithms and extensibility: Tulip provides graph algorithms and a plugin architecture; plugins can be written in C++ or Python.
Dashboard type: interactive
Data formats: The framework supports TLP text and binary graph formats and documents CSV import and CSV, GML, JSON, SVG, TLP, and TLPB export plugins.
Data sources: CSV; TLP; TLP binary; other graph formats are referenced,but not enumerated on the opened official pages
Development: Tulip is developed at LaBRI by researchers and engineers and is maintained through community-driven development and open contributions.
Distribution: Tulip is primarily distributed through its source code repository; historical binaries up to version 6.0.1 are described as the last officially distributed binary versions.
Distribution limit: The project says it no longer provides precompiled binaries; the latest development version is distributed through its source repository, while historical binaries go up to version 6.0.1.
Exports: The Python documentation lists CSV, GML, JSON, SVG, TLP and TLPB export plugins.
Extensibility: Its plugin architecture lets researchers and developers add custom algorithms and visualizations.
Graph formats: The Python documentation lists import plugins for GEXF, GML, GraphML, JSON, Pajek, UCINET and other graph sources.
Graph scale: The project describes Tulip as designed to analyze, draw, and visualize very large graphs, up to a million nodes and edges.
Graph visualization: It provides graph drawing algorithms and interactive rendering for exploring large scale graphs.

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