Comparison

React Bits Pro vs shadcn/ui

shadcn/ui and React Bits Pro solve different problems. shadcn/ui gives you headless behaviour: buttons, dialogs, forms, dropdowns. React Bits Pro gives you the animated marketing surface on top: 134 components, 238 page blocks, 300 app UI blocks, 11 landing-page templates, and an Agent Kit that teaches your AI agent to assemble them. They install with the same CLI and live happily side by side.

At a glance

React Bits Proshadcn/ui
FocusAnimated marketing UI, blocks, app UI, templatesHeadless behaviour primitives
Animated components134 (WebGL, motion, GSAP, 3D)None: animation is yours to add
UI blocks (hero, pricing, FAQ…)238 across 21 categoriesA growing handful
App UI blocks (dashboards, tables, settings…)300 across 38 categoriesBuild your own from primitives
ThemingAccent, base, font and radius across all 300 app UI blocks, with a live preview and copy-paste CSSCSS variables on the primitives you assemble yourself
Landing-page templates11 (Ultimate tier)None
Agent Kit (design skills, prompts, recipes)19 items, usable on their ownNone
Vanilla-CSS variantsYes, every componentTailwind-only
AI-agent SKILL.mdYes, shipped via registryNone
Distributionshadcn registry protocol (CLI install)shadcn registry protocol (CLI install)
LicenseCommercial, one-time payment ($99–$299)MIT, free

Why React Bits Pro is the marketing layer you actually need

The two libraries together

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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