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Lucide vs Radix UI

Compare Lucide and Radix UI 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; Radix UI is free (MIT open source) with open source and a free tier. The catalog stamp is ship for Lucide and ship for Radix UI, 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

ship

Open-source icon library with clean, consistent SVG icons.

Radix UI

ship

Low-level, accessible UI primitives for React.

fieldLucideRadix UI
pricingfree · ISC licensefree · MIT open source
free tieryesyes
open sourceyesyes
apinono
self-hostnono
verdictshipship
momentumSteady momentumsteadySteady momentumsteady
last verified2026-09-012026-09-01
key limitationStyle is uniform; less useful if you need highly custom iconography.You must style everything yourself.

The call

Pick Lucide for app chrome and marketing UI that should look like one famil…

Pick Radix UI for building a design system on correct behavior, then styling…

Lucide sources

  1. 1lucide.dev
  2. 2github.com/lucide-icons/lucide

Radix UI sources

  1. 1radix-ui.com/primitives
  2. 2github.com/radix-ui/primitives

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