🆚 Semantic UI vs. Tailwind CSS

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

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

Type

User interface framework

User interface framework

About

Semantic UI is an open-source component framework that helps create responsive layouts using human-friendly CSS class names.

It provides over 50 UI components, more than 3,000 theming variables, built-in animations, form validation, and integration with frameworks such as React, Angular, Meteor, and Ember.

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

New York, United States

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Website

semantic-ui.com #533,926

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

Categories

UI Frameworks › Rank #20

UI Frameworks › Rank #3

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Tailwind CSS UI framework is 55 times more popular than Semantic 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 Semantic UI in all countries.

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

Netherlands

France

India

Australia

Brazil

Canada

Italy

Awards

🔥 12nd most popular in Turkey in the UI Frameworks category.
🔥 13rd most popular in Brazil in the UI Frameworks category.
🔥 13rd most popular in Russia in the UI Frameworks category.
🔥 15th most popular in the Czech Republic in the UI Frameworks category.
🔥 16th most popular in Poland 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 Semantic UI 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

#3,314

#4,298

#4,872

#6,322

#7,032

Name

Rank

#9

#16

#20

#23

#45

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See also

Semantic UI technology profile

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