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

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

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Preline UI is licensed MIT at Free + paid. The table below puts it next to EneUI on the fields that decide an install, not on taste. Preline 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) |
| Preline UI | 0 | 0 | MIT |

## When to pick it

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

## Verdict

Preline UI is free + paid. EneUI's catalog is free to read and free to install from; the paid plan exists for quotas, not for access to components. Preline 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?

111,985 components measured in the catalog, across 1 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.