# EneUI vs Headless UI, components, licence and agent access

Compare EneUI and Headless UI: what each one ships, its licence and price, whether it exposes an MCP server, and how many Headless UI components are already in the EneUI catalog. Numbers measured 2026-10-31.

> Page: https://ui.eneawork.it/alternatives/eneui-vs-headless-ui
> Markdown: https://ui.eneawork.it/alternatives/eneui-vs-headless-ui.md

Headless UI is licensed MIT at Free. The table below puts it next to EneUI on the fields that decide an install, not on taste. Headless UI does not ship an MCP server, so an agent has to scrape its pages or you install by hand.

| Option | Components | Libraries | Licenza |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| EneUI | 111,985 | 1472 | MIT (components keep their source licence) |
| Headless UI | 154 | 1 | MIT |

## When to pick it

- **EneUI**, You want one index over every library, including Headless UI, with source, licence and an install command your agent can run.
- **Headless UI**, You want first-party components with first-party support, and you are not looking for an index that contains them.

## Verdict

Headless UI and EneUI are both free to use. EneUI charges for quotas and team features, never for reading a component. Headless UI does not ship an MCP server, so an agent has to scrape its pages or you install by hand.

## FAQ

### How many components does this page cover?

112,139 components measured in the catalog, across 2 families.

### How were the counts measured?

By reading the catalog: every component carries its source library and the license declared upstream. The numbers are computed per request, not copied from a post.

### Can I install them with shadcn?

Yes, every component page shows the `npx shadcn add` command against our registry, with a free token.