🆚 Foundation vs. Material UI

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Foundation is much more popular than Material UI.
🌎 Foundation is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Material UI is more popular in Tunisia, Uzbekistan, and Belize.

Foundation

Material UI

Type

User interface framework

About

Foundation is an open-source responsive framework that provides a customizable grid system, a library of UI components (Building Blocks), HTML templates, and JavaScript plugins.

It includes keyboard accessibility, screen-reader support, ARIA attributes, device-adaptive visibility controls, and two types of grids (Flexbox and CSS Grid) to enable advanced layout control.

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

Campbell, California, United States

Paris, France

Website

get.foundation #2,469,533

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

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Foundation UI framework is 9 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.

Foundation is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Material UI is more popular in Tunisia, Uzbekistan, and Belize.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

Netherlands

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France

Canada

Italy

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