How Ariakit is used
Ariakit joined the catalog on its public numbers (762,129 downloads a week on npm and 8,628 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 8 public GitHub projects of our scan, 7 of them set up for AI coding agents. The most used alternative in our scan is Radix UI (809 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Radix UI (100.0%), AI SDK (100.0%), Class Variance Authority (100.0%).
Ariakit popularity over time
Gid Score 46: downloads 61, use in agent projects 14, GitHub stars 48, downloads trend 59 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Ariakit
| Radix UI | 100.0% of Ariakit projects · 7.7× more than average |
|---|---|
| AI SDK | 100.0% of Ariakit projects · 22.7× more than average |
| Class Variance Authority | 100.0% of Ariakit projects · 6.1× more than average |
| clsx | 100.0% of Ariakit projects · 5.1× more than average |
| cmdk | 100.0% of Ariakit projects · 16.0× more than average |
| date-fns | 100.0% of Ariakit projects · 9.6× more than average |
| Lucide React | 100.0% of Ariakit projects · 5.0× more than average |
| React Day Picker | 100.0% of Ariakit projects · 16.3× more than average |
By coding agent
| Cursor | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
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Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Ariakit as a dependency.
How Ariakit is funded
Open Collective: Ariakit
| Received, last 12 months | $1,635 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $1,859 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $602 |
| Raised since the start | $14,794 · $14,192 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $105 · $120 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | -67% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 9 |
Top company backers all time, 9 companies in total
| Guide | $1,500 since Mar 2022 |
|---|---|
| Uniform | $1,400 since Jul 2024 |
| Defined Networking | $900 since Oct 2023 |
| RelativeCI | $870 since Dec 2022 |
| Taskade | $700 since Oct 2019 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Sep 2018. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @ariakit | 0 current sponsors |
|---|---|
| @diegohaz | 0 current sponsors |
GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay. Sponsors of a person back all of their work.
Ways to fund Ariakit
GitHub Sponsors GitHub Sponsors Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install @ariakit/react |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Next.js (8) |
| Example projects | fountain-ink/app |
Alternatives to Ariakit
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Ariakit are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Radix UI npm Unstyled, accessible component primitives for building design systems. |
84 | 809 (16.8%) | 112M | 19.4K | MIT |
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