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Chakra UI pricing
Chakra UI publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the web development tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Chakra UI plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chakra UI | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where Chakra UI stops being free
Chakra UI, Free
- Full functionality
- No usage limits
- Community support
No paid tier on record
Chakra UI lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Chakra UI feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Style props
- Accessible defaults
- Theme system
- Composable primitives
People bring Chakra UI in for react applications wanting accessible components without material design’s look, teams who find unstyled primitives too much work but styled libraries too opinionated, rapid internal tools where a coherent theme matters more than a bespoke design. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Chakra UI are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Web Development
Too few web development tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chakra UI (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Rollup | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Chakra UI |
| Radix UI | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Chakra UI |
| Turbopack | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Chakra UI |
| shadcn/ui | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Chakra UI |
| Drupal | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Chakra UI |
| esbuild | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Chakra UI |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Chakra UI badges page.
Before you pay for Chakra UI
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Chakra UI runs on web, and is published by Chakra UI of Open source project. The full record is on the Chakra UI review, and the rest of the category is under best web development tools.
Chakra UI pricing questions
- How much does Chakra UI cost?
- Chakra UI publishes a single tier, Chakra UI, at Free.
- Does Chakra UI have a free plan?
- Yes. The Chakra UI tier costs nothing and covers full functionality, no usage limits, community support.
- Which web development tools can I use without paying?
- 8 of the 8 web development tools listed alongside Chakra UI have a free tier: Rollup, Radix UI, Turbopack, shadcn/ui, Drupal.
- What am I actually paying for with Chakra UI?
- The record lists 4 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for react applications wanting accessible components without material design’s look, teams who find unstyled primitives too much work but styled libraries too opinionated, rapid internal tools where a coherent theme matters more than a bespoke design.
- Does Chakra UI charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Chakra UI prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Chakra UI against before paying?
- The closest web development tools in this directory are Rollup, Radix UI, Turbopack, shadcn/ui. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Chakra UI covering price, platforms and features.