🆚 Layui vs. Tailwind CSS

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

User interface framework
User interface framework

About

Layui is a Chinese modular front-end UI library designed to build web interfaces with a simple API and minimal dependencies.

It provides more than 20 built-in modules including form controls, tables, pagination, date pickers, popups, and upload components, supports theme customization, and offers an integrated admin template.

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

Hangzhou, China
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free version ✔️Open source
UI Blocks
Marketing$149
Application UI$149
Ecommerce$149
Tailwind Plus
Personal$299
Teams$979

Categories

UI Frameworks › Rank #18
UI Frameworks › Rank #3

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Tailwind CSS UI framework is 46 times more popular than Layui.
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 Layui is more popular in China.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Netherlands
France
India
Australia
China
Brazil
Canada

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Tailwind CSS is more popular than Layui in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Travel
Software/Hardware
Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
51cg1.com
#3,760
#15,384
#16,575
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