🆚 Bootstrap vs. Material UI

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Bootstrap is much more popular than Material UI.
🌍 Bootstrap is more popular in all countries.

Type

User interface framework

User interface framework

About

Bootstrap is an open-source framework for building responsive, mobile-first websites and web applications with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, originally developed at Twitter.

It provides a responsive grid system, prebuilt components, extensive Sass variables and mixins, official icon library, and built-in form validation.

Material UI (MUI) is an open-source React component library that implements Google's Material Design.

It offers a comprehensive suite of prebuilt components, such as buttons, cards, modals, charts, data grid, tree view, along with built-in themes, typography, and full responsiveness and accessibility.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Paris, France

Website

getbootstrap.com #1,542

mui.com #12,545

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Free version ✔️Community version, 40+ free components, open source

Pro$180/developer/year

Premium$588/developer/year

Categories

UI Frameworks › Rank #1

UI Frameworks › Rank #10

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Bootstrap UI framework is 197 times more popular than Material UI.

Total websites

Market share

UI Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Bootstrap is more popular than Material UI in all countries.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

France

India

Italy

Spain

Netherlands

Russia

Brazil

Awards

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the UI Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the UI Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the UI Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the UI Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in India in the UI Frameworks category.

⭐ 7th most popular in Israel in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Sweden in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Norway in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Ireland in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Finland in the UI Frameworks category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Bootstrap is more popular than Material UI in all market segments.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Travel

Blogs/Wiki

Health

Entertainment

General News

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#21

#65

#67

#68

#88

Name

Rank

#158

#317

#333

#1,067

#1,147

Compare alternatives

Technologies with similar characteristics.

See also

Bootstrap technology profile

Material UI technology profile

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Statistics were last calculated on March 31, 2026.
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