If you're familiar with Radix, it's interesting to see how daisyUI handles components differently, relying on Tailwind utility classes and CSS variables.
Radix UI is a low-level UI component library that provides a set of unstyled and accessible building blocks for creating custom user interfaces in React applications. It focuses on providing the primitives and patterns for building accessible and composable UI components.
daisyUI is a component library for Tailwind CSS that provides pre-designed components with theming capabilities. It is framework-agnostic, meaning it can be used in any web project, and it doesn't ship any JavaScript to the browser.
Radix performs well on GitHub. daisyUI shows higher numbers in terms of stars. The toolkit provided by Radix is useful. daisyUI's component toolkit is larger than Radix's. daisyUI requires no external dependencies to function
daisyUI has 61 components, 57 of them are unique – for example pagination and button group are considered as same.
In GitHub's top 400 repositories of all time
Weekly downloads from NPM
The toolkit provided by Radix is useful. daisyUI's component toolkit is larger than Radix's.
daisyUI has 61 components, 57 of them are unique – for example pagination and button group are considered as same.
Switching between daisyUI's 35 themes is straightforward using CSS or using HTML data attributes. This process might be different or more involved in Radix.
daisyUI has 35 themes
Radix performs well on GitHub. daisyUI shows higher numbers in terms of stars. Radix is widely used. daisyUI's usage, measured by weekly downloads, surpasses Radix's
In GitHub's top 400 repositories of all time
Weekly downloads from NPM
As of April 2025
Avoid Radix UI if you prefer a component library with pre-built themes and styles that require minimal customization. Also, if you're not comfortable with building your own design system and handling accessibility concerns, Radix UI might not be the best choice.
Use daisyUI when you want to rapidly prototype or build a project with a consistent design system based on Tailwind CSS. It's well-suited for projects where you need a large variety of customizable components and theme options without writing a lot of custom CSS.
1. Install daisyUI as a Node package:
npm i -D daisyui@latestpnpm add -D daisyui@latestyarn add -D daisyui@latestbun add -D daisyui@latestdeno i -D npm:daisyui@latest2. Add daisyUI to app.css:
@import "tailwindcss";
@plugin "daisyui";This comparison is for informational purposes only. Information is based on GitHub public data, NPM registry data and official documentation websites. If you found any outdated information, please open a PR to update it.