What is Arc UI?
React components and app blocks in plain TSX and CSS modules, with a free MIT core and paid Pro set.
Who is Arc UI best for?
Arc UI is best for React developers who want animated dashboard and chart blocks their coding agent can install.
SaaS dashboards
Pro blocks include a revenue globe, horizon chart, choropleth map, customer galaxy and kanban board for real product screens.
Everyday app interface
The free core covers menus, dialogs, selects, date pickers, tabs and toasts, with keyboard support and reduced-motion behavior.
Agent-built front ends
Claude Code, Cursor and Codex install items through the MCP server or the shadcn CLI, and every component has a Markdown page and an llms.txt index.
Code you can change
Items arrive as plain TSX and CSS modules on shared color, radius, type and motion tokens, so you edit them like your own code.
How much does Arc UI cost?
Arc UI's core of 121 components and 22 blocks is free under the MIT license; Pro costs $149 a year or $249 once for one person, and Team costs $799 once for up to 10 people.
- 121 components and 22 blocks
- shadcn CLI, registry and MCP server
- Client and commercial use, no account
- 121 Pro motion components and 118 Pro blocks
- New Pro releases while the plan is active
- Pro installs through the CLI and MCP
- Every Pro component and block
- Every future Pro release, no renewal
- Unlimited personal and client projects
- Pro on each person's own account
- Every future Pro release
- Also sold at $449 a year
Checkout shows a regional price in some countries. Purchases are final once the source is delivered, though broken pieces that cannot be fixed are refunded. The Pro license allows client and commercial work but not reselling the source as a kit, library or template. Teams larger than 10 write to Arc for a quote. Full pricing on uiarc.dev. We checked these prices on .
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Is Arc UI open source?
Yes. Arc UI's code is public under the MIT licence, so you can read it, change it and run it yourself.
On GitHub
1,257stars
- Last commit
- 1 Nov
- Repository age
- 51 days
- Licence
- MIT
- Repository
- kuratlielia/arc-library
How do I connect Arc UI to my AI agent?
Arc UI MCP is Arc UI's official MCP server. Add it to your agent once, then ask it to install Arc's React components into your project from a prompt.
Points your agent at Arc's component docs, so it can pick real React components from the library and install them in your codebase instead of writing them from scratch.
$ claude mcp add --transport http arc https://uiarc.dev/api/mcp
Claude Code connects to Arc UI over the web.
Arc UI's setup guide covers the sign-in.
Then ask your agent
- Runs
- On the web
- Sign-in
- See guide
- Checked
- Answered 13 Nov
- Guide
- uiarc.dev
What are the best Arc UI alternatives?
Three tools on Recaply do Arc UI's job.
Free, MIT-licensed set of accessible React components whose source the CLI copies into your app.
Open-source React and Tailwind components for dashboards and AI chat apps, with paid Pro templates.
Library of 2,800+ shadcn/ui blocks and 2,200+ components you copy or install with the shadcn CLI.
Questions about Arc UI
What is Arc UI?
React components and app blocks in plain TSX and CSS modules, with a free MIT core and paid Pro set.
Who is Arc UI for?
Arc UI is best for React developers who want animated dashboard and chart blocks their coding agent can install.
Is Arc UI free?
Yes. Arc UI has a free plan: 121 components and 22 blocks.
How much does Arc UI cost?
Arc UI's paid plans are Pro yearly at $149 per year, one person, Pro lifetime at $249 one-time, one person and Team at $799 one-time, up to 10 people.
Is Arc UI open source?
The free Arc UI components and blocks are open source under the MIT license and published on GitHub. Pro source is licensed per person for your own and client projects, and may not be redistributed or resold as a kit, library or template.
Does Arc UI have an MCP server?
Yes. Arc UI MCP is Arc UI's official MCP server, so agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and GitHub Copilot can install Arc's React components into your project from a prompt. Arc UI runs it on the web.
What are the best Arc UI alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are shadcn/ui, BoardUI and Shadcnblocks.
Where can I try Arc UI?
On its official website, uiarc.dev.
Does Arc UI work with shadcn/ui?
Yes. Arc UI uses the same copy-the-source model and the shadcn CLI, for example npx shadcn@latest add @uiarc/button, so it can sit beside shadcn/ui in one project. Arc items are plain TSX with CSS modules.







