How Panda CSS is used
Panda CSS joined the catalog on its public numbers (280,369 downloads a week on npm and 6,233 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 5 public GitHub projects of our scan, 3 of them set up for AI coding agents. The most used alternative in our scan is Emotion (116 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Drizzle Kit (80.0%), Drizzle ORM (80.0%), Vite (80.0%).
Panda CSS popularity over time
Gid Score 40: downloads 52, use in agent projects 7, GitHub stars 42, downloads trend 61 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Panda CSS
| Drizzle Kit | 80.0% of Panda CSS projects · 20.5× more than average |
|---|---|
| Drizzle ORM | 80.0% of Panda CSS projects · 19.8× more than average |
| Vite | 80.0% of Panda CSS projects · 4.1× more than average |
| Husky | 60.0% of Panda CSS projects · 5.9× more than average |
| lint-staged | 60.0% of Panda CSS projects · 7.7× more than average |
| Better Auth | 60.0% of Panda CSS projects · 36.2× more than average |
| uuidv7 | 60.0% of Panda CSS projects · 532.1× more than average |
| Valibot | 60.0% of Panda CSS projects · 112.9× more than average |
How Panda CSS is funded
Open Collective: Chakra UI
| Received, last 12 months | $55,038 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $83,300 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $72,141 |
| Raised since the start | $285,298 · $213,132 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $4,674 · $5,047 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | -24% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 150 |
Top company backers all time, 191 companies in total
| Chakra UI Pro | $45,638 since Apr 2021 |
|---|---|
| Goread.io | $24,700 since Aug 2022 |
| VeePN VPN | $20,500 since May 2023 |
| BairesDev | $17,500 since Apr 2023 |
| Famoid | $14,700 since May 2023 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Oct 2019. 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: Chakra UI.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
Ways to fund Panda CSS
Patreon Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install @pandacss/dev |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (4), Next.js (1) |
Alternatives to Panda CSS
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Panda CSS are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emotion npm CSS-in-JS library for styling React components with scoped styles and theming. |
72 | 116 (2.4%) | 11.3M | 18K | MIT |
| styled-components npm CSS-in-JS library for styling React components with dynamic scoped styles. |
70 | 19 (0.4%) | 5.9M | 41.1K | MIT |
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