🆚 Styled Components vs. Tailwind CSS

Type

Website component
User interface framework

About

Styled-components is an open-source CSS-in-JS library for React that allows developers to define component styles directly within JavaScript and TypeScript code.

It generates unique class names to scope styles automatically, supports dynamic styling based on component props, theming through React context, server-side rendering, and automatic vendor prefixing.

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

Hadley, Massachusetts, United States
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

Components › Rank #5
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #99
UI Frameworks › Rank #3

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Tailwind CSS UI framework is 11 times more popular than Styled Components.
Total websites

Market share

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 Styled Components is more popular in Aruba.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Netherlands
India
Australia
Brazil
Canada
Italy

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

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

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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See also

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