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Animated copy-in React components and paid templates · by Aceternity Labs (Manu Arora)

Aceternity UI

A collection of 200+ free animated React components built with Tailwind CSS and Motion for landing pages, plus paid All-Access blocks and templates.

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Aceternity UI homepage
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Overview

Aceternity UI, created by Manu Arora, is a library of animated components aimed at landing pages: hero sections, bento grids, parallax scroll, glare and canvas cards, spotlight and background effects. Components are built with React, Tailwind CSS and Motion (formerly Framer Motion), and you copy them into your project, much like shadcn/ui.

The free tier covers the component collection with documentation and examples. All-Access adds premium component blocks and Next.js templates, private Discord access and a 48-hour support turnaround. It is sold as an annual plan ($169 a year, shown as reduced from $249), a lifetime plan ($199 one time, reduced from $299) that also includes AI-ready prompts for tools like v0 and Lovable, and a $1,590 team plan.

As with Magic UI, these are presentation effects. They make marketing pages stand out quickly, but heavy animation adds client-side JavaScript, and they are not a substitute for an accessible application component library.

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Pricing and plans

Free tier · no card

200+ components are free to copy and paste, with documentation and examples.

At the limit Not stated The vendor does not say what happens at the limit, or we have not found it yet.

Plan Price What you get
Free $0 Free components, docs and examples
Annual Access $169/yr Listed as reduced from $249; cancel anytime
Lifetime Access $199 one time Listed as reduced from $299; includes AI-ready prompts
Team $1,590 one time Team access (10 members per third-party listings)

Prices are shown as discounts from higher list prices ($249 and $299), so they may change. The team plan's member count was not in the pricing page text we could read; a third-party listing says 10 members. The free components are published on the site rather than under a stated open-source licence, so openSource is false.

Source: ui.aceternity.com/pricing · prices as published, excluding tax.

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What it does

200+ components
Hero sections, bento grids, parallax blocks, card effects and animated backgrounds.
Premium blocks
All-Access adds composed page sections and component blocks.
Templates
Next.js templates for SaaS, AI products, portfolios and marketing sites.
AI prompts
Lifetime plan includes prompts for v0, Lovable and similar tools.
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Strengths and limitations

Strengths

  • Distinctive animated effects with little effort
  • Large free collection
  • Choice of yearly or lifetime pricing

Limitations

  • Landing page effects, not application UI
  • React, Tailwind and Motion only
  • No stated open-source licence for the free components on the pages read
  • Pricing is shown as discounts and may change
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Who it suits

Good for

  • Startup landing pages and portfolios
  • Next.js marketing sites

Look elsewhere if

  • Accessible application UI and forms
  • Performance-sensitive pages on low-end devices
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Alternatives to Aceternity UI

Tool From Free option Stages
Material UI (MUI) Styled React component library with paid advanced components
$299/yr Free tier
Park UI Styled components on Ark UI and Panda CSS
— Open source
Ant Design Enterprise React component library
— Open source
shadcn-svelte Copy-in Svelte component collection and CLI
— Open source
Nuxt UI Styled Vue component library on Reka UI and Tailwind
— Open source
Angular Material Official Material Design components for Angular
— Open source

All UI component libraries →

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Questions

Is Aceternity UI free?

The component collection is free to use; All-Access blocks and templates are paid.

How much is Aceternity UI Pro?

All-Access is $169 per year or $199 one time for lifetime access, with a $1,590 team plan.

What is Aceternity UI built with?

React, Tailwind CSS and Motion (Framer Motion).

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