🆚 Foundation vs. Tailwind CSS

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Tailwind CSS is twice as popular as Foundation.
🌎 Tailwind CSS is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
🌍 Foundation is more popular in the Philippines, Liechtenstein, and Cameroon.

Foundation

Tailwind CSS

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.

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

Campbell, California, United States

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Website

get.foundation #2,469,533

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 Tailwind CSS UI framework is 2.4 times more popular than Foundation.

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 Foundation is more popular in the Philippines, Liechtenstein, and Cameroon.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

Netherlands

France

Australia

India

Canada

Italy

Spain

Awards

🥉 Third most popular in the Philippines in the UI Frameworks category.
🥉 Third most popular in Liechtenstein in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 4th most popular in the United Kingdom 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 among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while Foundation is more commonly used on fashion and beauty, real estate, and government and military sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Blogs/Wiki

Travel

Entertainment

Health

Sports