🆚 Material UI vs. Tailwind CSS

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Tailwind CSS is much more popular than Material UI.
🌎 Tailwind CSS is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
🌍 Material UI is more popular in DPR Korea.

Type

User interface framework

User interface framework

About

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.

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

Paris, France

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Website

mui.com #12,545

tailwindcss.com #3,453

Pricing

Free version ✔️Community version, 40+ free components, open source

Pro$180/developer/year

Premium$588/developer/year

Free version ✔️Open source

UI BlocksMarketing$149
Application UI$149
Ecommerce$149

Tailwind PlusPersonal$299
Teams$979

Categories

UI Frameworks › Rank #10

UI Frameworks › Rank #3

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Tailwind CSS UI framework is 21 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.

Tailwind CSS is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Material UI is more popular in DPR Korea.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

France

Netherlands

India

Australia

Brazil

Canada

Italy

Awards

⭐ 7th most popular in Israel in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Sweden in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Norway in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Ireland in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Finland 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 than Material UI in all market segments.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Internet Services

Education/Reference

Blogs/Wiki

Entertainment

Travel

Software/Hardware

Health

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#158

#317

#333

#1,067

#1,147

Name

Rank

#9

#16

#20

#23

#45

Compare alternatives

Technologies with similar characteristics.

See also

Material UI technology profile

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Statistics were last calculated on March 31, 2026.
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