embla-carouselv8.6.0, 4 Apr 2025
A lightweight carousel library with fluid motion and great swipe precision
$ npm install embla-carouselkeen-sliderv6.8.6, 5 Jul 2023
The HTML touch slider carousel with the most native feeling you will get.
$ npm install keen-slider| Metric | embla-carousel | keen-slider | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weekly downloads | 27,388,026 | 171,306 | embla-carousel 159.9x higher |
| 12-month download growth | +495% | -11% | embla-carousel +506 pts |
| Gzip size | - | - | - |
| Minified size | - | - | - |
| Dependencies | 0 | 0 | Same |
| Unpacked size | 478 kB | 166 kB | keen-slider 2.9x smaller |
| Latest release | 8.6.0, 4 Apr 2025 | 6.8.6, 5 Jul 2023 | embla-carousel 21 months more recent |
| Releases, last 12 months | 0 | - | - |
| First published | 20 Mar 2019 | - | - |
| GitHub stars | 8,425 | 5,021 | embla-carousel 1.7x higher |
| Open issues | 6 | 130 | keen-slider 124 more |
| Open pull requests | 17 | 19 | keen-slider 2 more |
| Contributors | - | - | - |
| Commits, last 52 weeks | 227 | 2 | embla-carousel 113.5x higher |
| TypeScript types | Bundled | Bundled | Same |
| Module format | ESM + CommonJS | ESM + CommonJS | Same |
| Runtimes | - | - | - |
| License | MIT | MIT | Same |
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.
embla-carousel27.1m latest weekkeen-slider173.3k latest week
Week of 23 Sept 2025Week of 15 Sept 2026
embla-carousel
Major versions
- 0.0.520 Mar 2019
- 1.0.019 Jun 2019
- 2.0.024 Jun 2019
- 3.0.012 Jun 2020
- 4.0.026 Aug 2020
- 5.0.027 Sept 2021
- 6.0.05 Nov 2021
- 7.0.01 Aug 2022
- 8.0.022 Feb 2024
Last 5 releases
- 8.6.04 Apr 2025
- 8.5.27 Jan 2025
- 8.5.120 Nov 2024
- 8.5.020 Nov 2024
- 8.4.017 Nov 2024
210 releases in total, 0 in the last 12 months
keen-slider
Major versions
- -
Last 5 releases
- -
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- Need no runtime dependenciesBoth
- Module formatBoth ESM + CommonJS
- Need TypeScript types in the package itselfBoth
- Need the more recent releaseembla-carousel (8.6.0 on 4 Apr 2025 vs 6.8.6 on 5 Jul 2023)
- Higher weekly npm downloadsembla-carousel (27.4m vs 171.3k)
Each line is generated from the data above.
- embla-carousel vs swiperNo search data
- react-responsive-carousel vs keen-sliderNo search data
- swiper vs keen-sliderNo search data
embla-carousel: embla-carousel npm registry, embla-carousel npm downloads, embla-carousel GitHub, embla-carousel jsDelivr. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.
keen-slider: keen-slider npm registry, keen-slider npm downloads, keen-slider GitHub, keen-slider jsDelivr. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.
Indexability: Indexed.