🆚 Bootstrap vs. Tailwind CSS

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Bootstrap is much more popular than Tailwind CSS.
🌍 Bootstrap is more popular in all countries.

Bootstrap

Tailwind CSS

Type

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.

Tailwind CSS is an open-source utility-first framework that provides low-level CSS classes for building user interfaces directly in markup.

It includes hundreds of utility classes, supports responsive design and dark mode, enables tree-shaking to remove unused styles for optimized builds, and offers 500+ UI blocks, 10+ templates, and the Catalyst UI kit via paid Tailwind Plus, formerly known as Tailwind UI.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Website

getbootstrap.com #1,542

tailwindcss.com #3,453

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Free version ✔️Open source

UI BlocksMarketing$149
Application UI$149
Ecommerce$149

Tailwind PlusPersonal$299
Teams$979

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Bootstrap UI framework is 9 times more popular than Tailwind CSS.

Total websites

Market share

UI Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Bootstrap is more popular than Tailwind CSS in all countries.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

France

India

Italy

Netherlands

Spain

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.

🥈 Second most popular in the Maldives in the UI Frameworks category.
🥈 Second most popular in Saint Helena in the UI Frameworks category.
🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the UI Frameworks category.
🥉 Third most popular in the United Kingdom in the UI Frameworks category.
🥉 Third most popular in Germany in the UI Frameworks category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Bootstrap is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while Tailwind CSS is more commonly used on sports, finance and banking, and games sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Travel

Blogs/Wiki

Health

Entertainment

General News