Hoverlab vs Shadcnblocks
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.
Shadcnblocks’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 Shadcnblocks does better than we do
1,858 blocks and 2,104 components, plus a Figma component library. On volume this is still the deepest catalog a solo developer can buy, and it grew by 180 blocks in the eighteen days between our last two sweeps. The page builder and the VSCode extension used to be on this list and are not any more — we ship both, and ours are not tier-locked, where theirs puts the builder behind the $399 Elite plan.
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 | Shadcnblocks |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $79 one-time | $149 one-time |
| Price ladder | $79 Pro / $299 Studio / $999 Enterprise, one-time, plus a per-seat Team plan | $149 Pro / $299 Premium adds the Figma kit / $399 Elite adds the page builder, plus CMS ports at $379 each |
| What ships | 1,126 effects, 307 blocks, 126 pages, 32 templates | 2,104+ components, 1,858+ blocks, 20 templates, 49+ pre-built pages, a 484-block Figma kit, a page builder and a VSCode extension |
| Free tier | The whole catalog — readable, copyable and installable, with no account. Plus the CLI, the MCP server and an unauthenticated HTTP API. | Basic-tier blocks, browsable and copyable behind a login |
| Design files | Importable Figma frames and Dev Mode pairing — frames, not a component library | Yes — a Figma library |
| Agent access | MCP server, packaged agent skills, a public API and a shadcn registry. No key, no metering. | Searchable through the official shadcn MCP server |
| 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.
Shadcnblocks
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.