PixilUI and Aceternity UI
Animated components and blocks for React and Next.js with Tailwind CSS and Motion: 100+ free components, and paid access to 200+ premium blocks, 15+ templates and 4 full landing pages.
In short
Aceternity UI and PixilUI do different jobs. Aceternity UI is animated components and blocks for marketing sites: 100+ free components, and paid access to 200+ premium blocks, 15+ templates and 4 full landing pages. PixilUI is the product UI an agent needs inside the app: approval card, run timeline, tool call row, thinking state and streaming text. Use Aceternity UI to sell the product and PixilUI inside it.
Checked against Aceternity UI's own docs on .
Side by side
| Question | Aceternity UI | PixilUI |
|---|---|---|
| Made for | Landing pages and marketing sites | Inside the product, where an agent asks or works |
| Items | 100+ free components; paid: 200+ premium blocks, 15+ templates, 4 full landing pages, 14 interactions | Approval card, run timeline, tool call row, thinking state, streaming text; agent inbox and eval table in Pro |
| Price | 1-Year License $169, Lifetime $199, Team $1,590 once for up to 10 people | Free items under MIT. Pro $199 once (the first 100 at $99 when Pro opens), Pro yearly $129, Team $599 once for 10 people |
| Refunds | No refunds | 14 days if no Pro source was installed; after that if an item is broken and not fixed within 14 days |
| Agent setup | The shadcn MCP server with the @aceternity registry | llms.txt, an agent skill and a remote MCP server; free items need no login |
| Install | npx shadcn@latest add @aceternity/<name> | npx shadcn@latest add @pixilui/approval-card |
What Aceternity UI is good at
- Animated marketing sections: heroes, feature grids, testimonials and backgrounds with motion built in.
- Volume for landing pages: 200+ premium blocks, 15+ templates and 4 full pages in the paid plans.
- A Team plan for up to 10 people.
- Works with Claude Code, Codex and Cursor through the shadcn MCP server and its registry.
What PixilUI adds
- Product UI for agents rather than marketing effects: approvals, runs, tool calls, thinking and streaming text.
- Each item's states, keys and reduced-motion behavior listed on its page.
- A 14-day refund before any Pro source is installed.
Install
Aceternity UI
npx shadcn@latest add @aceternity/<name>pnpm dlx shadcn@latest add @aceternity/<name>yarn dlx shadcn@latest add @aceternity/<name>bunx --bun shadcn@latest add @aceternity/<name>PixilUI, after adding the registry to components.json (installation)
npx shadcn@latest add @pixilui/approval-cardpnpm dlx shadcn@latest add @pixilui/approval-cardyarn dlx shadcn@latest add @pixilui/approval-cardbunx --bun shadcn@latest add @pixilui/approval-cardUsing both
Use Aceternity UI on the marketing pages and PixilUI in the app. They rarely meet on one screen, so their styling never has to agree.
Questions
Aceternity UI or PixilUI for an AI product?
Both, for different pages. Aceternity UI for the marketing site and launch page, PixilUI inside the product where the agent asks for approval, runs steps, calls tools and streams text.
Can I use both in commercial projects?
Yes. Aceternity UI's site says its components can be used in unlimited personal and commercial client projects, without reselling them as a competing library. PixilUI's free items are MIT, and Pro items are licensed for your products and client work.
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Sources
Read on . If something here no longer matches Aceternity UI's site, write to hello@pixilui.com and we will fix it.