qodesign vs Radix UI
Radix Primitives is a free, MIT-licensed set of low-level React components (dialogs, menus, popovers, selects, tabs, toasts) that handle accessibility and keyboard behavior and ship with no styles. You install one package, import the parts, and design and animate them yourself; Radix Themes is the styled option from the same team. qodesign sits at the other end: finished, animated flows like a login, a tab bar or a checkout, sold one at a time as a single HTML file and a React + Tailwind version.
| qodesign | Radix UI | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3 each (one dashboard $9), or $29 once for all 16 paid | Free (MIT). No paid tier is listed; the site says it's made by WorkOS |
| Free | 6 free components, 5 MIT with no email needed | Every primitive, plus Radix Themes (a styled, MIT-licensed component library), Radix Icons and Radix Colors |
| Size | 16 paid + 6 free components, more added as they ship | Low-level parts like Accordion, Dialog, Dropdown Menu, Navigation Menu, Popover, Select, Slider, Tabs, Toast and Tooltip, with One-Time Password Field and Password Toggle Field in preview |
| What's in a download | React + Tailwind (TSX), PROMPT.md, HTML file | See their site |
| Licence | Personal, commercial and client projects; no reselling the source | MIT, as listed for radix-ui/primitives on GitHub |
| Stack | React + TypeScript, Tailwind (most also use Framer Motion), HTML version included | React, one package (npm install radix-ui@latest), each primitive importable from its own path such as radix-ui/popover. Unstyled: you add the CSS or Tailwind and the animation yourself |
| Best for | One memorable animated moment in your app (login, checkout, nav, dashboard) | Teams building their own design system who want accessible behavior handled and every pixel left to them |
Which one to pick
- Pick Radix UI if
- You're building your own design system and want solid, accessible menus, dialogs and selects to style and animate however you like.
- Pick qodesign if
- You want one screen that already looks and moves like a finished product, with a PROMPT.md your AI editor can follow, instead of styling primitives from scratch.
qodesign pieces to look at first
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