🆚 Tailwind CSS vs. UIKit

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Tailwind CSS is three times more popular than UIKit.
🌎 Tailwind CSS is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 UIKit is more popular in Greece, Ukraine, and Belarus.

Type

User interface framework

About

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.

UIkit is a lightweight and modular front-end framework.

It includes more than 30 reusable components such as modals, tooltips, accordions, navigation menus and sliders, a responsive fluid grid, and supports theme customization via Sass or Less.

Headquarters

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Hamburg, Germany

Website

tailwindcss.com #3,453

getuikit.com #708,312

Pricing

Free version ✔️Open source

UI BlocksMarketing$149
Application UI$149
Ecommerce$149

Tailwind PlusPersonal$299
Teams$979

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Tailwind CSS UI framework is 3 times more popular than UIKit.

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, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while UIKit is more popular in Greece, Ukraine, and Belarus.

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Germany

United Kingdom

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