🆚 Bulma vs. Tailwind CSS

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Tailwind CSS is much more popular than Bulma.
🌎 Tailwind CSS is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
🌍 Bulma is more popular in Palestine.

Type

User interface framework

User interface framework

About

Bulma is an open-source modular CSS framework based on Flexbox.

It offers a fully responsive 12-column grid system, UI components, themes, color palettes, skeleton loaders, built-in helpers for spacing and typography, and supports customization through Sass variables.

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

London, United Kingdom

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Website

bulma.io #23,472

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

Categories

UI Frameworks › Rank #7

UI Frameworks › Rank #3

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Tailwind CSS UI framework is 7 times more popular than Bulma.

Total websites

Market share

UI Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Tailwind CSS is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Bulma is more popular in Palestine.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

France

Netherlands

India

Australia

Japan

Brazil

Canada

Awards

⭐ 4th most popular in Japan in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Vietnam in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Finland in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Singapore in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Slovakia 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.

Tailwind CSS is more popular than Bulma in all market segments.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Internet Services

Education/Reference

Blogs/Wiki

Travel

Entertainment

Software/Hardware

Health

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#155

#330

#423

#426

#468

Name

Rank

#9

#16

#20

#23

#45

Compare alternatives

Technologies with similar characteristics.

See also

Bulma technology profile

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Statistics were last calculated on March 31, 2026.
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