How Element Plus is used
Element Plus joined the catalog on its public numbers (418,177 downloads a week on npm and 27,819 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 17 public GitHub projects of our scan, 10 of them set up for AI coding agents. Projects that use it most often also use Vue (100.0%), Vite (94.1%), vue-tsc (82.4%).
Element Plus popularity over time
Gid Score 51: downloads 56, use in agent projects 25, GitHub stars 67, downloads trend 56 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Element Plus
| Vue | 100.0% of Element Plus projects · 37.0× more than average |
|---|---|
| Vite | 94.1% of Element Plus projects · 4.8× more than average |
| vue-tsc | 82.4% of Element Plus projects · 53.3× more than average |
| Element Plus Icons | 82.4% of Element Plus projects · 639.1× more than average |
| Axios | 76.5% of Element Plus projects · 10.0× more than average |
| Pinia | 70.6% of Element Plus projects · 78.3× more than average |
| unplugin-vue-components | 70.6% of Element Plus projects · 208.7× more than average |
| Sass | 64.7% of Element Plus projects · 37.2× more than average |
By coding agent
| Cursor | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Element Plus as a dependency.
How Element Plus 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 Icons.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @HerringtonDarkholme | 32 current sponsors |
|---|---|
| @sxzz | 46 current sponsors |
| @YunYouJun | 1 current sponsor |
| @element-plus | 1 current sponsor |
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 ast-grep.
Ways to fund Element Plus
GitHub Sponsors GitHub Sponsors GitHub Sponsors GitHub Sponsors Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install element-plus |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (16), Python (1) |
| Example projects | un-pany/v3-admin-vite, xpf0000/FlyEnv, Hyk260/PureChat, xinnian999/vue-form-craft, owlto-finance/owlto-frontend |
Alternatives to Element Plus
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