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Embeddable vs shadcn/ui
shadcn/ui provides UI components only; Embeddable adds analytics rendering, security and self-serve infrastructure.
EmbeddableHeadless Embedded Analytics + Open Source Charts 
shadcn/uiOpen-source React components you copy into your appWhich to pick
Pick Embeddable if you want…
- Native, no-iframe embedded analytics
- Integrations with Vue or HTML (on Embeddable's list, not shadcn/ui's)
Pick shadcn/ui if you want…
- Composable, accessible React UI components
- Open-source code (shadcn-ui/ui on GitHub, MIT license)
Side by side
- What it is
- Embeddable:Embeddable provides headless, native analytics dashboards and AI chat that developers embed via a single web component.
- shadcn/ui:shadcn/ui provides open-source, composable React components you can copy and customize in your app.
- Best for
- Embeddable:Native, no-iframe embedded analytics
- shadcn/ui:Composable, accessible React UI components
- Who it’s for
- Embeddable:Product and data teams building customer-facing analytics in SaaS apps.
- shadcn/ui:React developers building custom design systems or UI libraries.
- Pricing
- Embeddable:Contact sales
- shadcn/ui:Open source
- Open source
- Embeddable:—
- shadcn/ui:Yes, 124,955 GitHub stars
- Works with
- Embeddable:React, Vue, HTML
- shadcn/ui:React
Embeddable features
- Dashboards as code. Define charts, data models and layouts in your repo, version-controlled and deployed via the SDK.
- Native web component. Embed analytics with a single <em-beddable> tag, no iframes, works in React, Vue or plain HTML.
- Row-level & tenant security. Built-in RLS, multi-tenant scoping and SOC 2/GDPR compliance for secure data access.
- Governed self-serve. Users can explore, filter and create dashboards within permissions you define.
- AI-grounded chat. Add conversational data queries that respect your semantic layer and security policies.
- Extensible component library. Use open-source charts, customize them, or add your own components and theming.
- Performance & caching. Multi-tier caching and high-performance query handling for fast load times.
- Full audit trail. Every query is logged for compliance and operational visibility.
shadcn/ui features
- Composable components. Combine small, reusable pieces to build complex UIs.
- Accessible by default. Components follow ARIA best practices out of the box.
- Customizable code. Copy the source, extend it, and tailor styles to your brand.
- Open-source. Free to use, modify, and contribute under an MIT license.
Embeddable vs shadcn/ui FAQ
Is Embeddable or shadcn/ui free?+
shadcn/ui is free and open source.
Is Embeddable or shadcn/ui open source?+
shadcn/ui is open source (shadcn-ui/ui on GitHub, MIT license). DevHunt has no public source repository on record for Embeddable.
Do Embeddable and shadcn/ui integrate with the same tools?+
Partly. Both list React. Embeddable also lists Vue and HTML.
On DevHunt
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