9 tools you can use instead of Radix UI, ranked by live GitHub stars and npm downloads. Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui and Material UI are the most used. Stats updated 16 hours ago.
Radix UI is an open source library of unstyled, accessible React component primitives, such as dialogs, dropdowns and tooltips, that handle behavior, keyboard navigation and ARIA attributes while leaving all visual styling up to the developer. It's free and MIT-licensed, and remains actively maintained even though its creators have since also built Base UI, a newer primitives library that shadcn/ui adopted as its default in July 2026.
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Utility-first CSS framework for building custom designs directly in markup, now owned by Shopify.
Copy-paste, customizable UI components built with Tailwind CSS, not installed as a package.
React component library implementing Google's Material Design, with free core and paid MUI X components.
Enterprise-focused React component library and design system, maintained by Alibaba's Ant Group.
Unstyled, accessible UI components from the Tailwind CSS team, for React and Vue.
Full-featured, styled React component library with over 100 components and hooks.
Styled, accessible React component library with a simple, composable styling API.
Component class plugin for Tailwind CSS, adding semantic component names like btn and card.
Free, open source React boilerplate for enterprise admin dashboards, built on Ant Design.
| Tool | Pricing | Free plan | Paid from | Open source | GitHub stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Radix UI | Open source | Yes, Radix UI is completely free | Not listed | Yes, MIT | 19.4k |
| Tailwind CSS | Freemium | Yes, Tailwind CSS itself is completely free and open source | Tailwind Plus (paid components/templates) is closed to new customers as of the Shopify acquisition | Yes, MIT | 97.8k |
| shadcn/ui | Open source | Yes, shadcn/ui is completely free | Not listed | Yes, MIT | 125k |
| Material UI | Freemium | Yes: MUI Core's 40+ components are free and open source | $299 a developer a year for MUI X Pro | Yes, MIT (MUI Core); MUI X components are proprietary on paid tiers | 99.1k |
| Ant Design | Open source | Yes, Ant Design is completely free | Not listed | Yes, MIT | 99.7k |
| Headless UI | Open source | Yes, Headless UI is completely free | Not listed | Yes, MIT | 28.8k |
| Mantine | Open source | Yes, Mantine and Mantine UI are both free | Not listed | Yes, MIT | 31.8k |
| Chakra UI | Open source | Yes, Chakra UI is completely free | Not listed | Yes, MIT | 40.7k |
| DaisyUI | Freemium | Yes, the core DaisyUI plugin is completely free | Not listed | Yes, MIT | 42.5k |
| Ant Design Pro | Open source | Yes, completely free and open source | Not listed | Yes, MIT | 38.8k |
Pricing facts come from each tool's official pricing page, with the checked date on the tool's own page.
By GitHub stars, Tailwind CSS is the most used alternative to Radix UI listed on ScratchDB, with 97.8k stars.
Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui, Material UI, Ant Design, Headless UI, Mantine, Chakra UI, DaisyUI and Ant Design Pro are open source.
Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui, Material UI, Ant Design, Headless UI, Mantine, Chakra UI, DaisyUI and Ant Design Pro have a free plan. The table on this page shows what each one includes.
