Lucide vs Motion
Compare Lucide and Motion on pricing, free tier, open source, API, self-host, verdict and momentum.
Both are design tools. Lucide is free (ISC license) with open source, a free tier; Motion is free (MIT open source) with open source and a free tier. The catalog stamp is ship for Lucide and ship for Motion, last verified 2026-09-01 and 2026-09-01 respectively.
Auto-paired from catalog data — the verdicts are hand-set, the pairing is algorithmic.
Lucide
Open-source icon library with clean, consistent SVG icons.
Motion
JavaScript and React animation library, formerly Framer Motion.
| field | Lucide | Motion |
|---|---|---|
| pricing | free · ISC license | free · MIT open source |
| free tier | yes | yes |
| open source | yes | yes |
| api | no | no |
| self-host | no | no |
| verdict | ship | ship |
| momentum | steady | blueshift |
| last verified | 2026-09-01 | 2026-09-01 |
| key limitation | Style is uniform; less useful if you need highly custom iconography. | Bundle size can add up if you import everything. |
The call
Pick Lucide for app chrome and marketing UI that should look like one famil…
Pick Motion for product UI motion in React.
Lucide sources
Motion sources
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