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shadcn/ui pricing
shadcn/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
shadcn/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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| shadcn/ui | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where shadcn/ui stops being free
shadcn/ui, Free
- Full functionality
- Commercial use permitted
- Community support
No paid tier on record
shadcn/ui lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full shadcn/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
- Copy, not install
- Radix primitives
- Tailwind styling
- Themeable
People bring shadcn/ui in for projects already using tailwind that need accessible components without a theming fight, design systems that will diverge from any library’s defaults anyway, teams who have been burned by breaking changes in component library upgrades. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to shadcn/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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| shadcn/ui (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Chakra UI | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs shadcn/ui |
| Rollup | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs shadcn/ui |
| Radix UI | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs shadcn/ui |
| Turbopack | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs shadcn/ui |
| Drupal | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs shadcn/ui |
| esbuild | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs shadcn/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 shadcn/ui badges page.
Before you pay for shadcn/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.
shadcn/ui runs on web, and is published by shadcn of Open source project. The full record is on the shadcn/ui review, and the rest of the category is under best web development tools.
shadcn/ui pricing questions
- How much does shadcn/ui cost?
- shadcn/ui publishes a single tier, shadcn/ui, at Free.
- Does shadcn/ui have a free plan?
- Yes. The shadcn/ui tier costs nothing and covers full functionality, commercial use permitted, community support.
- Which web development tools can I use without paying?
- 8 of the 8 web development tools listed alongside shadcn/ui have a free tier: Chakra UI, Rollup, Radix UI, Turbopack, Drupal.
- What am I actually paying for with shadcn/ui?
- The record lists 4 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for projects already using tailwind that need accessible components without a theming fight, design systems that will diverge from any library’s defaults anyway, teams who have been burned by breaking changes in component library upgrades.
- Does shadcn/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 shadcn/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 shadcn/ui against before paying?
- The closest web development tools in this directory are Chakra UI, Rollup, Radix UI, Turbopack. Each has a side-by-side comparison with shadcn/ui covering price, platforms and features.