# EneUI vs shadcn/ui, components, licence and agent access

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

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shadcn/ui is licensed MIT at Free. The table below puts it next to EneUI on the fields that decide an install, not on taste. shadcn/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) |
| shadcn/ui | 2,414 | 21 | MIT |

## When to pick it

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

## Verdict

shadcn/ui and EneUI are both free to use. EneUI charges for quotas and team features, never for reading a component. shadcn/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?

114,399 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.