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Styled React component library with paid advanced components · by MUI

Material UI (MUI)

MIT-licensed React components implementing Material Design since 2014, with paid MUI X Pro and Premium licences for advanced data grid, charts, pickers and scheduler features.

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Overview

Material UI is an open-source React library that implements Google's Material Design, with history back to 2014. It ships styled components ready for production, a theme system, layout primitives and Emotion-based styling, and is used alongside MUI System. MUI's January 2026 update said Joy UI is on hold, Pigment CSS development is paused, and new Material UI components are being built on Base UI.

In April 2026 MUI released Material UI v9 and MUI X v9 together, skipping v8 so both lines share one major version. v9 brought NumberField and Menubar, accessibility and keyboard fixes, and theme updates using color-mix() for derived colors. MUI says the next major will explore removing the Emotion dependency and better Tailwind integration.

MUI X is the commercial side: Data Grid, Charts, Date and Time Pickers, Tree View, and new Scheduler and Chat components in alpha. Each has an MIT version and Pro or Premium features that require a licence key; without one, commercial features show an unlicensed watermark. Commercial components send telemetry in development mode by default (off in production), with an opt-out.

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Pricing and plans

Free tier · no card

Material UI, MUI System and MIT versions of MUI X components (such as @mui/x-data-grid) are free for any use, including commercial.

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
Community Free Material UI, MUI System and MIT MUI X components
MUI X Pro $299 per developer/yr Pro features of Data Grid, Date Pickers, Charts, Tree View
MUI X Premium $599 per developer/yr Premium features and standard support
Enterprise $1,399 per developer/yr Priority support, customer success manager; 15-seat minimum
Store templates $39-$69 Third-party dashboard and landing templates; Figma kit $79

MUI X prices are per concurrent front-end developer, shown on the pricing page as annual prices (Pro is described as $24.92 per month per developer). Pricing and licensing changed on 8 April 2026: Pro and Premium moved to application-based licensing with single- and multi-application options, and priority support became Enterprise-only. Perpetual licences include 12 months of updates; MUI may raise prices up to 7% at renewal. Volume discounts start at 25 developers.

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

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What it does

Material Design components
A full set of styled inputs, navigation, surfaces, feedback and layout components.
Theming
Theme objects and CSS variables control palette, typography, spacing and component defaults.
MUI X Data Grid
Free MIT grid with Pro and Premium tiers for row grouping, pivoting, aggregation and an AI assistant.
Charts and pickers
MUI X Charts and Date and Time Pickers with free and paid feature sets.
Template store
Curated paid dashboard and landing templates plus Figma, Sketch and Adobe XD kits.
MUI Console
Manages licence keys, seats, billing and API keys for commercial services.
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Strengths and limitations

Strengths

  • Mature library with a long history and large community
  • Covers complex data UIs through MUI X
  • Company-backed with paid support options
  • Free core usable commercially under MIT

Limitations

  • Runtime CSS-in-JS (Emotion) today; MUI plans to explore removing it in a future major
  • Advanced data grid and chart features need a per-developer commercial licence
  • Joy UI is on hold with no plans or timelines
  • Commercial components collect telemetry in development by default
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Who it suits

Good for

  • Admin panels and data-heavy business apps
  • Teams that want Material Design out of the box
  • Companies needing a supported data grid

Look elsewhere if

  • Tailwind-first projects
  • Teams avoiding runtime CSS-in-JS
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Pricing history

  • Material UI v9 and MUI X pricing and licensing change

    On 8 April 2026 Material UI jumped from v7 to v9 to share a version with MUI X, and MUI X Pro and Premium moved to application-based licensing with updated prices; priority support became Enterprise-only. Source ↗

  • Material UI v7 released

    Released 26 March 2025, focused on better integration with modern tooling and consistency, with an upgrade guide from v6. Source ↗

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Alternatives to Material UI (MUI)

Tool From Free option Stages
Radix UI Unstyled accessible React primitives
— Open source
Angular Material Official Material Design components for Angular
— Open source
Ant Design Enterprise React component library
— Open source
Vuetify Material Design component framework for Vue
— Open source
PrimeReact React component suite (commercial licence from v11)
— Free tier
PrimeVue Vue component suite (commercial licence from v5)
— Free tier

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Questions

Is Material UI free for commercial use?

Yes. Material UI is MIT-licensed; only MUI X Pro, Premium and Enterprise features are paid.

How much does MUI X Pro cost?

The pricing page lists Pro at $299 and Premium at $599 per developer per year, with Enterprise at $1,399.

Why is there no Material UI v8?

MUI skipped v8 so Material UI and MUI X could share major version 9 from April 2026.

Is Joy UI still developed?

No. MUI says Joy UI is on hold with no active plans or timelines.

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