Companies Using Tailwind CSS

We detect Tailwind CSS on 2,787,808 domains, including Amazon Literary Partnership, Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited. A detection means the technology is present on that domain, which for large organisations is often a single storefront or subdomain rather than a company-wide deployment. Among domains we matched to a company with a resolved industry, the most common is Software Development (5.96%).

We detect 2,787,808 domains running Tailwind CSS across our monthly crawl of live business domains. Company data could be matched for 1,374,469 of them (49.3%), and every company-size, industry and country breakdown on this page describes that matched subset rather than the full detected base. A further 246,934 domains carried a Tailwind CSS detection previously and no longer do.

Tailwind CSS holds 22.94% of the UI & CSS Frameworks category, ranking #2. This is a share of the domains we detect running a platform in this category — not a share of all websites, and not a share of spending — so it is not directly comparable to figures published on other denominators.

The top alternatives to Tailwind CSS include Bootstrap (46.55% market share), Animate.css (8.41% market share), Element UI (5.48% market share), Radix UI (4.04% market share) — measured as a share of the domains we detect running a platform in this category.

United States leads with 375,835 matched Tailwind CSS domains, followed by United Kingdom (98,730), India (85,765), Germany (75,345), Brazil (61,011). These are counts within the 1,374,469 domains we could match to a company record, not the full detected base.

The most common company size is 1-10 employees, representing 63.83% of the Tailwind CSS domains we could match to a company record and size — a subset of 1,374,469 matched companies, not of all 2,787,808 detected domains. This is followed by 11-50 employees (22.82%) and 51-200 employees (8.03%).

Among the Tailwind CSS domains we could match to a company with a known founding date, the largest group was founded in the 2010s (37.45%), followed by the 2020s (32.71%). That matched subset is drawn from 1,374,469 companies and is not representative of all 2,787,808 detected domains. This suggests Tailwind CSS is most popular among relatively young companies.

The ideal Tailwind CSS customer is: Company Size: 1-10 employees, Location: US, India, or UK, City: New York, London, Paris, Founded: 2010-2019, Company Age: ~5-15 years old — based on our analysis of 1,374,469 enriched companies at TechnologyChecker.io.

Large companies using Tailwind CSS that we currently detect include OpenAI, Shopify, Vercel, NASA JPL, JPMorgan, Deloitte, IBM, Microsoft (on copilot.microsoft.com), Bank of America, Starbucks, Samsung and the United States Postal Service. Most enterprise deployments appear on product or campaign subdomains rather than primary corporate websites. Our data shows 3,611 companies with 10,001+ employees running Tailwind.

The Tailwind CSS showcase highlights 57 sites including OpenAI, Shopify, Vercel, Supabase, Loom, The Verge, NY Times (events), Mashable, Algolia, and PlanetScale. Our crawl data independently detects Tailwind on nba.com, bloomberg.com, lg.com, and uber.com. Many of these sites compile Tailwind at build time, so detection requires checking for characteristic class patterns rather than raw utility names.

Not shutting down, but the business hit a rough patch. In January 2026, Tailwind Labs laid off 3 of its 4 engineers after AI tools slashed documentation traffic by 40% and revenue dropped nearly 80%, per founder Adam Wathan. Within 48 hours, Google AI Studio, Vercel, Lovable, and Supabase stepped in as sponsors. The open-source framework itself has 30M+ weekly npm downloads and v4.1 shipped in late 2025.

Netflix doesn't appear in our Tailwind CSS detection data or in Tailwind's official showcase. Netflix primarily uses its own internal design system and tooling. That said, individual Netflix engineering teams may use Tailwind on internal tools or prototypes that our public web crawler can't detect. Public-facing Netflix pages show no Tailwind class patterns in our March 2026 crawl.

OpenAI is featured in Tailwind's official showcase at tailwindcss.com/showcase, confirming that at least some OpenAI web properties use Tailwind CSS. More significantly, ChatGPT and other AI coding tools generate Tailwind code constantly for developers. This AI-driven code generation is partly why Tailwind Labs' revenue dropped 80% in 2025, even as actual Tailwind usage hit record highs. AI tools bypass the documentation entirely.

They solve different problems. Bootstrap provides pre-built components with opinionated design, so you get buttons, modals, and navbars out of the box. Tailwind provides low-level utility classes, giving you full design control but requiring more markup. Teams that want speed and consistency often pick Bootstrap. Teams that want custom design without writing CSS pick Tailwind. Our data shows both remain widely adopted.

Not by installed base yet, but the momentum is clear. Tailwind's npm downloads passed 30 million per week in early 2026, and its v4.0 release in January 2025 brought faster builds and CSS-first configuration. Our switching data shows Tailwind gaining 61,518 domains from Bootstrap against 28,282 lost over 90 days, roughly 2.2 to 1 in Tailwind's favour. Bootstrap still leads the category on total installs, at 46.55% against Tailwind's 22.94%.

For developer-led teams building custom UIs, yes. Tailwind v4.0 (January 2025) brought 5x faster full builds, 100x faster incremental builds, and CSS-first configuration. The 2025 State of CSS survey puts adoption at 51%. One risk: Tailwind Labs cut 75% of its engineering team in January 2026 after revenue dropped 80%, though Google AI Studio, Vercel, and others stepped in as sponsors.

Bootstrap remains the most widely deployed CSS framework by installed base, at 5,657,662 domains (46.55%) against Tailwind's 2,787,808 (22.94%). Tailwind has the stronger growth trajectory and leads on developer mindshare by npm downloads, GitHub stars and Stack Overflow trends, and it is winning the direct switching between them by better than two to one. The answer depends on whether you measure by total installs or by direction of travel.

It depends on your needs. For pre-built components, Bootstrap or Chakra UI offer more out of the box. For zero-runtime CSS, UnoCSS provides a faster alternative with Tailwind-compatible syntax. For design systems, Radix UI plus Tailwind is a popular combination, and shadcn/ui is built on Tailwind directly. Our switching data shows Tailwind gaining against every significant peer, most notably Bootstrap (61,518 gained against 28,282 lost) and Radix UI (10,776 against 2,318).

Tailwind the framework didn't fail. Tailwind the business hit a wall. In January 2026, founder Adam Wathan disclosed that revenue dropped nearly 80% because AI coding tools (Cursor, Copilot, ChatGPT) generate Tailwind code directly without sending developers to the documentation site. The framework has 30M+ weekly npm downloads and 51% developer adoption per the State of CSS survey. The open-source project is fine. The monetization model broke.

Yes. Tailwind CSS is released under the MIT license, which allows free use in both personal and commercial projects. The core framework, Headless UI, and Heroicons are all open source. Tailwind UI, the commercial component library built by Tailwind Labs, is the paid product. Adam Wathan reported earning over $2 million from Tailwind UI within five months of its launch. The open-source framework itself costs nothing.