Ant Design Pro alternatives
7 Dashboard / Admin kits compared with Ant Design Pro on price, license, framework and features.
About Ant Design Pro
Ant Design Pro (React, free) - The official out-of-the-box admin template built on Ant Design. Best for: Teams building internal tools or enterprise dashboards who want a mature, actively-maintained admin scaffold on Ant Design.
The usual reason to look elsewhere: you're not building with Ant Design's component library, or you want a more modern/minimal design system.
| Kit | Framework | Price | Stars | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ant Design Pro | React | Free | 38,920 | Teams building internal tools or enterprise dashboards who want a mature, actively-maintained admin scaffold on Ant Design. |
| CoreUI React | React | Free, paid from $2 | 4,956 | Teams wanting a free, Bootstrap-based React admin dashboard starter with a clear upgrade path to premium components. |
| TailAdmin React | React | Freemium | 2,384 | Teams wanting a large, ready-made library of Tailwind dashboard UI components and page layouts for a React admin panel. |
| Vue Vben Admin | Vue | Free | 33,717 | Vue 3 teams who want a fast, monorepo-based admin panel with Shadcn UI and configurable RBAC out of the box. |
| Pagoda | Go | Free | 2,956 | Go developers who want a server-rendered, HTMX/Alpine-based full-stack starter with an admin panel and auth, avoiding a heavy client-side JS framework. |
| Naive UI Admin | Vue | Free | 5,933 | A Vue 3 developer who already has a backend API and wants a free, MIT-licensed admin frontend that comes with menu and button permissions. |
| ng-matero | Angular | Free | 1,473 | Angular developers who want a free, Material Design admin dashboard with permissions and i18n already set up. |
| CoreUI Angular | Angular | Free, paid from $2 | 1,830 | Angular teams wanting a free, Bootstrap-based admin dashboard starter with a clear upgrade path to premium components. |
CoreUI React
React · Free, paid from $2 · 4,956 stars
Best for: Teams wanting a free, Bootstrap-based React admin dashboard starter with a clear upgrade path to premium components.
Compared with Ant Design Pro
- Free, paid from $2, where Ant Design Pro is free.
- Doesn't list auth and i18n, which Ant Design Pro has.
You want a Tailwind-native design system, or need advanced data-grid features without paying for CoreUI PRO.
TailAdmin React
React · Freemium · 2,384 stars
Best for: Teams wanting a large, ready-made library of Tailwind dashboard UI components and page layouts for a React admin panel.
Compared with Ant Design Pro
- Freemium, where Ant Design Pro is free.
- Doesn't list auth and i18n, which Ant Design Pro has.
You need a single unified codebase rather than a multi-framework template family, or want deeper app logic (auth, billing) rather than just UI.
Vue Vben Admin
Vue · Free · 33,717 stars
Best for: Vue 3 teams who want a fast, monorepo-based admin panel with Shadcn UI and configurable RBAC out of the box.
Compared with Ant Design Pro
- Built on Vue rather than React.
- Lists role-based access, which Ant Design Pro doesn't.
- Doesn't list auth, which Ant Design Pro has.
You're not building in Vue, or you prefer Element Plus/Ant Design Vue's component styling over Shadcn UI.
Pagoda
Go · Free · 2,956 stars
Best for: Go developers who want a server-rendered, HTMX/Alpine-based full-stack starter with an admin panel and auth, avoiding a heavy client-side JS framework.
Compared with Ant Design Pro
- Built on Go rather than React.
- Lists background jobs, which Ant Design Pro doesn't.
- Doesn't list i18n, which Ant Design Pro has.
You want a React/Vue single-page app frontend, or need Postgres/MySQL instead of the default SQLite setup.
Naive UI Admin
Vue · Free · 5,933 stars
Best for: A Vue 3 developer who already has a backend API and wants a free, MIT-licensed admin frontend that comes with menu and button permissions.
Compared with Ant Design Pro
- Built on Vue rather than React.
- Lists role-based access, which Ant Design Pro doesn't.
- Doesn't list auth, which Ant Design Pro has.
Skip it if you need auth, billing or a database out of the box, or your team can't read Chinese: the README and changelog are in Chinese, and you'd build the whole server side yourself.
ng-matero
Angular · Free · 1,473 stars
Best for: Angular developers who want a free, Material Design admin dashboard with permissions and i18n already set up.
Compared with Ant Design Pro
- Built on Angular rather than React.
- Lists role-based access, which Ant Design Pro doesn't.
- Doesn't list an admin dashboard, which Ant Design Pro has.
You want a non-Angular Material design system, or a full SaaS starter rather than just an admin template.
CoreUI Angular
Angular · Free, paid from $2 · 1,830 stars
Best for: Angular teams wanting a free, Bootstrap-based admin dashboard starter with a clear upgrade path to premium components.
Compared with Ant Design Pro
- Free, paid from $2, where Ant Design Pro is free.
- Built on Angular rather than React.
- Doesn't list auth and i18n, which Ant Design Pro has.
You want a Tailwind-native design system or need advanced data-grid features without paying for CoreUI PRO.
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