preact vs react
UI frameworks · npm download comparison · data as of 17 October 2026
react is downloaded about 4.8× as often as preact — 187,962,192 versus 38,929,126 downloads in the last 7 days.
Over the last 90 days, preact downloads changed +52.9% and react +25.7% compared with the 90 days before, so preact is growing faster.
● preact● reactweekly downloads, last 12 months
Log scale — each grid line is 10× the one below, so both packages stay readable.
| preact | react | |
|---|---|---|
| Weekly downloads | 38,929,126 | 187,962,192 |
| Monthly downloads | 163,335,359 | 833,052,763 |
| Downloads, last 12 months | 963,472,365 | 5,817,278,583 |
| 90-day growth | +52.9% | +25.7% |
| Latest version | 11.0.1 | 19.3.1 |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Direct dependencies | 0 | 0 |
| Description | Fast 4kb React-compatible Virtual DOM library. | React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. |
Download counts come from the public npm registry API and include CI and mirror traffic, so treat them as a popularity signal, not a user count.