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@base-ui/react vs @ariakit/react

AccessibilityPackage data 25 Sept 2026
@base-ui/reactv1.8.0, 4 Sept 2026

Base UI is a library of headless ('unstyled') React components and low-level hooks. You gain complete control over your app's CSS and accessibility features.

$ npm install @base-ui/react
@ariakit/reactv0.4.40, 14 Sept 2026

Toolkit for building accessible web apps with React

$ npm install @ariakit/react
Metric@base-ui/react@ariakit/reactDifference
Weekly downloads9,785,828917,183@base-ui/react 10.7x higher
12-month download growth---
Gzip size---
Minified size---
Dependencies51@base-ui/react 4 more
Unpacked size9.2 MB1.0 MB@ariakit/react 9.1x smaller
Latest release1.8.0, 4 Sept 20260.4.40, 14 Sept 2026@ariakit/react 10 days more recent
Releases, last 12 months1022@ariakit/react 12 more
First published11 Dec 20258 Oct 2022@ariakit/react 3.2 years earlier
GitHub stars10,9898,624@base-ui/react +27%
Open issues31852@base-ui/react 266 more
Open pull requests1236@base-ui/react 117 more
Contributors---
Commits, last 52 weeks1,8332,111@ariakit/react +15%
TypeScript typesBundledBundledSame
Module formatESM + CommonJSESM + CommonJSSame
Runtimes---
LicenseMITMITSame

Green marks the smaller size or the more recent release. Bold marks the higher count, with no judgement implied. Sizes are for the whole package per Bundlephobia. Growth compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the 52-week series.

@base-ui/react9.8m latest week
Week of 23 Sept 2025Week of 15 Sept 2026
Weekly npm downloads, 52 weeks. Y axis starts at zero. Values are not smoothed.

@base-ui/react

Major versions
  1. 1.0.011 Dec 2025
Last 5 releases
  1. 1.8.04 Sept 2026
  2. 1.7.04 Aug 2026
  3. 1.6.018 Jun 2026
  4. 1.5.019 May 2026
  5. 1.4.120 Apr 2026
10 releases in total, 10 in the last 12 months

@ariakit/react

Major versions
  1. 0.0.18 Oct 2022
Last 5 releases
  1. 0.4.4014 Sept 2026
  2. 0.4.392 Sept 2026
  3. 0.4.3824 Aug 2026
  4. 0.4.379 Aug 2026
  5. 0.4.362 Aug 2026
84 releases in total, 22 in the last 12 months
@base-ui/react

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@ariakit/react

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@base-ui/react

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@ariakit/react

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  • Module formatBoth ESM + CommonJS
  • Need TypeScript types in the package itselfBoth
  • Node.js version requirement@base-ui/react: >=14.0.0; @ariakit/react: none declared (engines field in package.json)
  • Need the more recent release@ariakit/react (0.4.40 on 14 Sept 2026 vs 1.8.0 on 4 Sept 2026)
  • Higher weekly npm downloads@base-ui/react (9.8m vs 917.2k)

Each line is generated from the data above.

@ariakit/react: @ariakit/react npm registry, @ariakit/react GitHub. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

Indexability: Indexed.