🆚 Element Plus vs. Kendo UI

📈 Kendo UI is five times more popular than Element Plus.
🌎 Kendo UI is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌍 Element Plus is more popular in China, Japan, and Hong Kong.

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Element Plus

Kendo UI

Type

User interface framework

About

Element Plus is a Vue.js 3 UI component library and the successor to Element.

It provides a large collection of production-ready components, supports theming via SCSS and CSS variables, includes a built-in dark mode, enables tree-shaking and on-demand imports, and offers internationalization support.

Kendo UI is a commercial bundle of four JavaScript UI libraries built natively for jQuery, Angular, React, and Vue.

It offers over 110 components including data grid, charts, scheduler, and rich text editor, a client-side DataSource for local and remote data operations, built-in PDF, Excel, and PNG export, six built-in themes, a visual ThemeBuilder, and AI features such as smart grids and MCP servers.

Headquarters

China

Burlington, Massachusetts, United States

Website

element-plus.org #161,183

telerik.com/kendo-ui #23,532

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source

Free version ✔️ Kendo UI Core, open source

Subscription, per developer Lite Support $799/year
Priority Support $899/year
Ultimate Support $1,299/year

Perpetual, per developer
(1 year of support included) Lite Support $1,049/developer
Priority Support $1,149/developer
Ultimate Support $1,549/developer

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Kendo UI technology is 5 times more popular than Element Plus.

Total websites

Market share

UI Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Kendo UI is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Element Plus is more popular in China, Japan, and Hong Kong.

United States

China

United Kingdom

Australia

Canada

Singapore

Italy

Germany

Netherlands

Switzerland

Awards

⭐ 9th most popular in China in the UI Frameworks category.

⭐ 9th most popular in Singapore in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 10th most popular in Australia in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 10th most popular in Canada in the UI Frameworks category.
🔥 13rd most popular in the United States in the UI Frameworks category.
🔥 17th most popular in Italy in the UI Frameworks category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Kendo UI is more popular than Element Plus in all market segments.

Business

Education/Reference

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Finance/Banking

Health

Government/Military

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Internet Services

Real Estate

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#4,356

#7,366

#12,372

#16,546

#16,575

Name

Rank

#88

#342

#1,367

#3,594

#6,039