Hoverlab vs React Bits
Both of these are catalogs of ready-made interface code, and the interesting differences are not the component counts. They are what each one gives away, what each one charges for, and what you are actually buying when you pay.
React Bits’s figures below were read from their own site on 10 September 2026. Ours are computed from the catalog at build time. Prices move; go and check theirs.
What React Bits does better than we do
Our closest business-model twin, and in one sweep it went from 238 blocks to 580 across 60 categories and added an Agent Kit. Its Landing Builder still edits the content of a section, which ours does not and will not — see the Composition row below for why. It also has the audience we do not: 1.1M visits, 57% direct, meaning people type the name. That last one is the durable advantage; almost nobody types ours.
This is the first thing on the page on purpose. You would have found it out anyway, and a comparison where the author wins every row is an advertisement — which readers of this particular kind of page recognise faster than most.
Side by side
| Row | Hoverlab | React Bits |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $79 one-time | $129 one-time |
| Price ladder | $79 Pro / $299 Studio / $999 Enterprise, one-time, plus a per-seat Team plan | $129 / $249 / $349, lifetime, unlimited projects, no seat fees |
| What ships | 1,126 effects, 307 blocks, 126 pages, 32 templates | 150 animated components, 280 page blocks in 22 categories, 300 app UI blocks in 38 categories, 15 templates — 765 assets in total |
| Free tier | The whole catalog — readable, copyable and installable, with no account. Plus the CLI, the MCP server and an unauthenticated HTTP API. | 165+ components in the open-source library, MIT + Commons Clause |
| Design files | Importable Figma frames and Dev Mode pairing — frames, not a component library | No |
| Agent access | MCP server, packaged agent skills, a public API and a shadcn registry. No key, no metering. | Ships a SKILL.md, plus a 20-item Agent Kit of skills, prompts and recipes at Pro |
| What is behind the wall | The licence — everything is readable and copyable, you buy the right to ship | The source — you can look, you buy the code |
The difference that is not a number
Every catalog in this market withholds something until you pay, and this is where the two businesses actually diverge.
Hoverlab
The licence — everything is readable and copyable, you buy the right to ship
Everything is readable, copyable and installable before you pay anything. What Pro buys is the commercial licence.
React Bits
The source — you can look, you buy the code
Read as of 10 September 2026. Check it yourself.
Decide for yourself
You do not have to take any of this on trust — the catalog is open without an account, so the fastest way to settle it is to install one thing from each and read the code.