🆚 Headless UI vs. Tailwind CSS

📈 Tailwind CSS is much more popular than Headless UI.
🌍 Tailwind CSS is more popular in all countries.

Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Headless UI

Tailwind CSS

Type

Website component

User interface framework

About

Completely unstyled, fully accessible UI components, designed to integrate beautifully with Tailwind CSS.

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

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Website

headlessui.com #626,628

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 29 times more popular than Headless UI.

Total websites

Market share

UI Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Tailwind CSS is more popular than Headless UI in all countries.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

France

Netherlands

India

Australia

Brazil

Canada

Italy

Awards

⭐ 6th most popular in Indonesia in the Components category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Norway in the Components category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Sweden in the Components category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Belgium in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Ireland in the Components 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 Headless UI in all market segments.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Internet Services

Education/Reference

Blogs/Wiki

Travel

Entertainment

Software/Hardware

Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#56

#231

#321

#413

#845

Name

Rank

#16

#20

#23

#45