What is MUI?
A comprehensive suite of free React UI tools and production-ready components implementing Google's Material Design, with advanced components for complex use cases and enterprise support options.
MUI pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From $299/year/dev (Pro). Free Community tier available.
Community
FreeIndustry-standard React UI library, MIT-licensed
- 40+ free components
- Community support
- Perpetual use in production
- Development license
Pro
Best for professional developers or startups building data-rich applications
- Everything in Community
- Pro support
- MUI X Pro access
- 10+ Pro features
- Multi App License
Premium
Most advanced features for data-rich applications with standard support
- Everything in Pro
- Premium support
- MUI X Premium access
- 5+ Premium features
- Access new features first
- Multi App License
Enterprise
Contact salesAll features of Premium with enterprise-grade support and customer success
- Everything in Premium
- Priority support
- Technical support for all libraries
- Guaranteed response time
- Pre-screening
- Issue escalation
- Customer Success Manager
- Multi-app license included
What MUI does
The capabilities that matter for frontend ui frameworks, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Paradigm
- React component library implementing Google's Material Design
- Reusable component model
- ✓
- Virtual DOM
- ✓
- Signals / fine-grained reactivity
- -
- SSR support
- -
- First-class TypeScript
- -
- Built-in state management
- -
- Official router
- -
- Runtime size
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
MUI alternatives
Other frontend ui frameworks we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- Angularmedium · 52%
- Tailwind CSSRapidly build modern websites without ever leaving your HTMLlow · 31%
- PreactFast 3kB alternative to React with the same modern APIlow · 31%
- Vue.jsThe Progressive JavaScript Frameworkmedium · 54%
- ReactThe library for web and native user interfaceslow · 44%
- Vue.jsThe Progressive JavaScript Frameworklow · 40%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for MUI, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Package Downloads | 91 | 26.00 | 2366.7 | ✓ |
| Github Activity | 63 | 18.00 | 1135.8 | ✓ |
| Release Cadence | 95 | 10.00 | 950.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 8.00 | 800.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 46 | 16.00 | 733.1 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 94 | 5.00 | 471.1 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 25 | 6.00 | 150.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 8.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Integrations | 0 | 8.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 0 | 13.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 12.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 100 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 65% |
Adoption
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"paradigm":"React component library implementing Google's Material Design","virtual_dom":true,"component_model":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | JavaScript | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | MIT | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 99% |
Pricing
Release
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Cadence days | 9 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 70% |