| React Bits Pro | shadcn/ui | |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | Animated marketing UI, blocks, app UI, templates | Headless behaviour primitives |
| Animated components | 134 (WebGL, motion, GSAP, 3D) | None: animation is yours to add |
| UI blocks (hero, pricing, FAQ…) | 238 across 21 categories | A growing handful |
| App UI blocks (dashboards, tables, settings…) | 300 across 38 categories | Build your own from primitives |
| Theming | Accent, base, font and radius across all 300 app UI blocks, with a live preview and copy-paste CSS | CSS variables on the primitives you assemble yourself |
| Landing-page templates | 11 (Ultimate tier) | None |
| Agent Kit (design skills, prompts, recipes) | 19 items, usable on their own | None |
| Vanilla-CSS variants | Yes, every component | Tailwind-only |
| AI-agent SKILL.md | Yes, shipped via registry | None |
| Distribution | shadcn registry protocol (CLI install) | shadcn registry protocol (CLI install) |
| License | Commercial, one-time payment ($99–$299) | MIT, free |
React Bits Pro is distributed through the same shadcn registry protocol, so both libraries install with the same CLI and live in the same components.json. Most React Bits Pro customers use shadcn/ui for primitives (buttons, dialogs, forms) and React Bits Pro for the animated marketing surface. Best of both worlds.
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