How Element Plus Icons is used
Element Plus Icons joined the catalog on its public numbers (309,898 downloads a week on npm and 175 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 14 public GitHub projects of our scan, 8 of them set up for AI coding agents. Projects that use it most often also use Element Plus (100.0%), Vue (100.0%), Vite (92.9%).
Element Plus Icons popularity over time
Gid Score 31: downloads 53, use in agent projects 22, GitHub stars 0, downloads trend 46 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Element Plus Icons
| Element Plus | 100.0% of Element Plus Icons projects · 620.8× more than average |
|---|---|
| Vue | 100.0% of Element Plus Icons projects · 37.0× more than average |
| Vite | 92.9% of Element Plus Icons projects · 4.7× more than average |
| Axios | 85.7% of Element Plus Icons projects · 11.2× more than average |
| vue-tsc | 78.6% of Element Plus Icons projects · 50.8× more than average |
| Pinia | 78.6% of Element Plus Icons projects · 87.1× more than average |
| Sass | 71.4% of Element Plus Icons projects · 41.1× more than average |
| unplugin-vue-components | 71.4% of Element Plus Icons projects · 211.2× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Cursor | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Element Plus Icons as a dependency.
How Element Plus Icons is funded
Open Collective: Element Plus
| Received, last 12 months | $7 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $12 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $10,160 |
| Raised since the start | $11,024 · $864 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $1 · $1 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | -73% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 1 |
Top company backers all time, 8 companies in total
| Shareworks Solutions BV | $315 since Nov 2020 |
|---|---|
| Rainlab Inc. | $152 since Nov 2022 |
| Vue Admin Plus | $121 since Mar 2022 |
| Rakam | $100 since Oct 2020 |
| Vue Shop Vite | $50 since Aug 2023 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Oct 2020. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
The same collective is named by 1 more tool in our catalog: Element Plus.
Open Collective lists this collective for the element-plus organization on GitHub, so the money is for all of its projects, not Element Plus Icons alone.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @sxzz | 46 current sponsors |
|---|---|
| @YunYouJun | 1 current sponsor |
| @iamkun | 14 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, which here includes tsdown, Element Plus.
Ways to fund Element Plus Icons
GitHub Sponsors GitHub Sponsors GitHub Sponsors
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install @element-plus/icons-vue |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (14) |
| Example projects | un-pany/v3-admin-vite, xpf0000/FlyEnv, Hyk260/PureChat, xinnian999/vue-form-craft, owlto-finance/owlto-frontend |
Alternatives to Element Plus Icons
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