How UnoCSS is used
UnoCSS is a dependency in 13 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 22 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is Tailwind CSS (2,025 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Vue (68.2%), Vite (68.2%), vue-tsc (54.5%).
UnoCSS popularity over time
Gid Score 49: downloads 53, use in agent projects 29, GitHub stars 61, downloads trend 54 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with UnoCSS
| Vue | 68.2% of UnoCSS projects · 25.2× more than average |
|---|---|
| Vite | 68.2% of UnoCSS projects · 3.5× more than average |
| vue-tsc | 54.5% of UnoCSS projects · 35.3× more than average |
| VueUse | 50.0% of UnoCSS projects · 47.0× more than average |
| Axios | 50.0% of UnoCSS projects · 6.6× more than average |
| Pinia | 50.0% of UnoCSS projects · 55.4× more than average |
| unplugin-auto-import | 45.5% of UnoCSS projects · 148.5× more than average |
| unplugin-vue-components | 45.5% of UnoCSS projects · 134.4× more than average |
From all 22 projects in our scan that use UnoCSS, including the dependency samples.
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| 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 UnoCSS as a dependency.
How UnoCSS is funded
Open Collective: UnoCSS
| Received, last 12 months | $43 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $50 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $56 |
| Raised since the start | $1,009 · $953 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $0 · $2 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | -59% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 2 |
Top company backers all time
| buongiorno immagini | $1 since Oct 2026 |
|---|
May 2023Sep 2026
Money by month. First money received in May 2023. 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
| @unocss | 0 current sponsors |
|---|---|
| @antfu | 147 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 Shiki, vite-plugin-pwa, VueUse.
Ways to fund UnoCSS
GitHub Sponsors GitHub Sponsors Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install unocss |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (20), React Native / Expo (1), Next.js (1) |
| Example projects | un-pany/v3-admin-vite, ChenyCHENYU/Robot_Admin, Hyk260/PureChat, mingchen666/Reviva, zhu1090093659/CodeConductor |
Alternatives to UnoCSS
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside UnoCSS are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tailwind CSS npm Utility-first CSS framework for building custom user interfaces rapidly. |
91 | 2,025 (42.0%) | 84.7M | 97.9K | MIT |
More in Styling and CSS: Tailwind Merge Emotion Sass tailwind-variants NativeWind Fontsource Inter postcss-import Lightning CSS