AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to AI Elements by Vercel
The shadcn/ui component library for building AI-native apps
AI Elements by Vercel is an open source library of customizable React components designed for building AI-native applications. Built on shadcn/ui, it works with the Vercel AI SDK to provide developers with UI… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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v0.dev by Vercel▲549Generate UI with simple text prompts: copy, paste, ship
2023 · v0.app · its alternatives →
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openv0▲120AI-generated UI components with React+Tailwind, open-source
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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21st.dev▲1,211I originally built this app to organize and reuse interesting React + Tailwind components I came across on Twitter, inspired by the shadcn/ui approach. Later, a friend started contributing their own components, and it got me thinking—this could grow into something bigger, like an NPM for design engineers to share and use components. Would love to hear your thoughts!
2025 · 21st.dev · its alternatives →
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Kombai▲1,079A new AI model that you can prompt with UI designs
2023 · kombai.com · its alternatives →
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Hey, Jared Palmer (creator of this playground) here. Really excited to ship this. I’ve been building this over the past few weeks to compare LLMs from different providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, etc. At Vercel, I manage our Frameworks division (including Next.js, Svelte, and Turbo) and wanted to also dogfood some of the latest features in a slightly larger application. This playground takes a lot of inspiration from https://nat.dev and is built on Tailwind, ui.shadcn.com, and some upcoming Vercel products we’re announcing soon. We’re going to continue adding models to…
2023 · play.vercel.ai · its alternatives →
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BuildKit 2.0▲210BuildKit 2.0 is our attempt at making integrations feel like shadcn/ui: simple, composable, and copy-pasteable. Instead of wiring APIs by hand, you describe what you want: ``` Create me a tool called fetchGmailEmails in my Vercel AI SDK agent using BuildKit ``` …and you've got a working Gmail integration in minutes with a single prompt. * Works with Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, MCP servers * 25k+ actions across 150+ integrations Links: [Docs](https://buildkit.picaos.com/integrations) | [Video](https://x.com/katibmoe/status/1963605221856178203) We'd…
2025 · buildkit.picaos.com · its alternatives →
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Vendo ▲362Let your users build their own features inside your product
Aug 2026 · vendo.run · its alternatives →
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C1 by Thesys▲629Make AI apps respond with interactive UI in real-time
2025 · thesys.dev · its alternatives →
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React component for a visual way to create UIs
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2024 · webcrumbs.org · its alternatives →
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For UI Designers
2020 · dammn.co · its alternatives →
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UI Components▲325Reusable React components to build apps with Auth0
2024 · auth0.com · its alternatives →
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Zero▲134Vercel's programming language built for AI agents
Aug 2026 · zerolang.ai · its alternatives →
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For a year or two I've been building a UI library with the aim of making desktop applications fun and easy to write. It is currently written in C/Ruby and uses a custom tree sitter grammar to describe templates. Features include: composable UI components, template directives, event and prop handling, slots, styles and automation capabilities baked in. One of the goals of the project is privileging easy to write custom components via a drawing API over providing a fixed set of components. At the time of this writing it should install on Windows, Mac, and Linux, but sometimes it is hard…
2025 · codeberg.org · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Michael & Michael here. We are indie hackers who have been building apps full-time for the past year. We both independently realized the need for a React framework for building generative UIs. A React developer can register a component and then have an AI choose which component to render and fill in the props i.e. text, styles, etc. We have demos in our repo graphs, forms, and general UI. Check out the repo above or npm i hydra or use this template https://github.com/MichaelMilstead/hydra-template
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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🔥 Open Source Browser API for AI Agents & Apps. Steel Browser is a batteries-included browser sandbox that lets you automate the web without worrying about infrastructure. - steel-dev/steel-browser
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Foglamp▲101The missing observability layer for AI agents built on the Vercel AI SDK. Costs, latency, tokens, distributed traces, evals, and alerts for every generateText / streamText call — in two lines.
Jun 2026 · foglamp.dev · its alternatives →
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