🆚 Headless UI vs. Radix UI

Type

Website component
Website component

About

Headless UI is an open-source library of unstyled, fully accessible UI components designed for React and Vue applications, with close integration with Tailwind CSS.

It provides interactive components such as dialogs, menus, listboxes, comboboxes, tabs, switches, and popovers, implements keyboard navigation and ARIA accessibility patterns, and supplies only the behavior and accessibility logic so developers can apply any design system, CSS framework, or custom styling.

Radix UI is an open-source component library that provides low-level, unstyled interface primitives for building accessible user interfaces and design systems in web applications.

It includes modular components for common UI patterns such as dialogs, dropdown menus, tooltips, sliders, tabs, and checkboxes, and implements ARIA accessibility patterns with keyboard navigation and focus management.

Headquarters

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source

Categories

Components › Rank #10
Components › Rank #8
UI Frameworks › Rank #12
UI Frameworks › Rank #9

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Radix UI component technology is 1.6 times more popular than Headless UI.
Total websites

Market share

Components
UI Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Radix UI is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Headless UI is more popular in Belgium, the Czech Republic, and Austria.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Brazil
India
Netherlands
Australia
Canada
Sweden

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Radix UI is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Headless UI is more commonly used on sports, blogs and wiki, and public information sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Travel
Fashion/Beauty
Education/Reference
Sports
Software/Hardware
Blogs/Wiki

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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Rank
#1,167
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See also

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