Soybean Admin alternatives

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 Soybean Admin

• Lists role-based access and i18n, which Soybean Admin doesn't.

You're not building in Vue, or you prefer Element Plus/Ant Design Vue's component styling over Shadcn UI.

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 Soybean Admin

• Lists role-based access and i18n, which Soybean Admin doesn't.

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.

CoreUI Vue

Vue · Freemium · 642 stars

Best for: Vue 3 developers who want a free, MIT-licensed dashboard UI kit built on familiar Bootstrap 5 conventions.

Compared with Soybean Admin

• Freemium, where Soybean Admin is free.

You want a Tailwind-based design system instead of Bootstrap, or need a full-stack SaaS boilerplate rather than just dashboard UI.

TailAdmin Vue

Vue · Free · 310 stars

Best for: Vue developers who want a free, Tailwind-based admin dashboard template consistent with TailAdmin's broader React/HTML ecosystem.

You want a formally licensed template with clear terms - this repo doesn't publish a license file - or need a React/Next.js version instead.

Ant Design Pro

React · Free · 38,920 stars

Best for: Teams building internal tools or enterprise dashboards who want a mature, actively-maintained admin scaffold on Ant Design.

Compared with Soybean Admin

• Built on React rather than Vue.
• Lists auth and i18n, which Soybean Admin doesn't.

You're not building with Ant Design's component library, or you want a more modern/minimal design system.

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 Soybean Admin

• Free, paid from $2, where Soybean Admin is free.
• Built on React rather than Vue.

You want a Tailwind-native design system, or need advanced data-grid features without paying for CoreUI PRO.

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 Soybean Admin

• Built on Go rather than Vue.
• Lists auth and background jobs, which Soybean Admin doesn't.

You want a React/Vue single-page app frontend, or need Postgres/MySQL instead of the default SQLite setup.