Most teams are building two products at once without quite admitting it. There's the page that convinces someone to sign up, and there's the software they use after they do. Different people write them, on different schedules, and they almost never want the same component library.
Magic UI Pro and Kobra each picked a side. Magic UI Pro is 9+ templates and 50+ landing page sections built with Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui and Motion. That's the surface that converts. Kobra is 71 application components built on Base UI and installed through the shadcn registry, which is the surface people use once they've converted.
Of the four comparisons on this site, this is the one where "use both" is most often just correct. Here's where the line falls.
How Kobra and Magic UI Pro compare
What each one is for
| Concern | Kobra | Magic UI Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Unit | Application components | Landing page sections and full templates |
| Count | 71 components, 9 free | 50+ sections, 9+ templates |
| Examples | Combobox, command menu, sidebar, toast, data table | Hero, bento grid, testimonials, pricing, social proof |
| Where it ships | Behind the login | In front of it |
| Edited by | Engineers, continuously | Marketing and founders, in bursts |
| Built on | Base UI, Tailwind v4, React 19, Motion | Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, shadcn/ui, Motion |
The catalogs barely touch. Magic UI Pro has no data table, no combobox, no command menu. Kobra has no hero section, no testimonial wall, no bento grid. So choosing between them on features mostly comes down to which half of the product you're working on this week.
Animation, and what it's for
Both libraries take motion seriously, which is what makes the difference in how they use it worth looking at.
| Concern | Kobra | Magic UI Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Purpose of motion | Feedback: say what the interface just did | Attention: make the page memorable |
| Typical effect | A toast that swipes, a button that flips into a spinner | Animated beams, marquees, shimmering text, particles |
| Frequency seen | Hundreds of times a day by the same user | Once or twice by each visitor |
| Reduced motion | Respected per component | Motion is the point of several sections |
There's an old rule here that applies to animating anything. An effect somebody meets once can afford to be spectacular. An effect they trigger two hundred times a day has to be nearly invisible. Magic UI Pro's animations are built for the first case and Kobra's for the second, and neither would survive being swapped.
How you install it
| Concern | Kobra | Magic UI Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Install | npx shadcn@latest add @kobra/toast | Copy the section, or start from a template |
| Dependency resolution | Automatic through the registry | Manual |
| Updates | Re-run the add command | Copy again and diff |
| Starting point | An existing codebase | Often a new one, from a template |
Where Kobra goes deeper
The components an application is made of
Forms with validation states. Comboboxes with multi-select and typeahead. Command menus with submenu navigation, sidebars that resize and remember, toasts that stack and swipe, OTP inputs, resizable panels, data tables. This is the unglamorous half of a product and it's where users spend all of their time. Magic UI Pro doesn't cover it.
Accessibility as a foundation
Kobra's interactive components sit on Base UI, which handles focus traps, roving tabindex, typeahead, collision detection and screen reader semantics. That foundation matters more on an application surface than on a landing page. People navigate a dashboard by keyboard, and a focus trap that fails there is a modal you can't escape. A landing page is mostly headings and images.
Buying one component
$19 for a single component, and ten purchases are credited in full toward the library. Magic UI Pro sells individual templates at $49 and the full library at $199.
A Figma kit for the design side
Kobra publishes a Figma library of 52 primitives on the same tokens as the code, free on the Figma Community. Magic UI Pro's product is the code and the templates. If somebody on your team designs before you build, that's a step Kobra covers and it costs nothing to try.
Prompts for the agent editing your code
Every component ships a prompt describing its API and behavior, installed into the repo alongside the source. An AI editor working on your codebase reads the component's own documentation instead of guessing.
Where Magic UI Pro goes deeper
Complete, deployable templates
Nine-plus full landing pages: SaaS, AI agent, dev tool, mobile app, startup, portfolio, changelog, blog. Each one is a working Next.js project rather than a set of parts. Kobra ships no templates, and if you need a site online this week that settles it.
The sections that actually convert
Hero sections, social proof, bento grids, feature showcases, testimonial walls, pricing tables, CTAs. These are the components of a marketing page. They have the most direct effect on revenue of anything either library sells, and Kobra has none of them.
Distinctive visual effects
Animated beams, marquees, shimmer, particle fields, orbiting circles. Being memorable is the job on a landing page, and Magic UI Pro's effects are built to be looked at. Kobra's motion is deliberately the opposite.
A lower price for a whole site
$49 buys one complete template. Getting a comparable page out of a component library means assembling it yourself.
What they cost
Both are one-time purchases with lifetime updates. Neither charges a subscription.
| Kobra | Magic UI Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Individual | $199 one-time, 1 seat | $199 one-time, individual license |
| Team | $150 per seat, from 2 seats, no cap | Individual license is the listed option |
| Smallest unit | $19 for one component | $49 for one template |
| Free | 9 components with full source, plus the whole Figma kit | Several templates listed as free downloads |
| Commercial use | Included | Included |
| Reselling | Not permitted | Not permitted |
| Updates | Lifetime | Lifetime |
At the individual level the headline number is identical. $199, once, forever, either way. That's unusually clean, and it means price shouldn't decide this. What you're building should.
Prices read from the vendor's own pricing page on 7 September 2026.
Should you use both?
Yes, and more clearly here than anywhere else on this site. The catalogs don't overlap, both deliver plain Tailwind source into your own repository, and neither adds a runtime dependency or a provider to reconcile. The usual arrangement is Magic UI Pro for the marketing site and Kobra for the application, sharing one set of Tailwind design tokens so the two halves look like one product.
Two things to watch. Both bring their own Button, so pick one and delete the other rather than shipping two. And keep the animation philosophies where they belong. An animated beam behind a settings form is as wrong as a silent, motionless hero.
When to choose Kobra or Magic UI Pro
| If your project looks like… | Choose | Why |
|---|---|---|
| A dashboard, editor, or anything behind a login | Kobra | 71 application components; Magic UI Pro covers none of this |
| A landing page for a product you already built | Magic UI Pro | 50+ sections and 9+ templates aimed exactly here |
| A complete marketing site, live this week | Magic UI Pro | Deployable Next.js templates, $49 each |
| Forms, tables, menus and overlays that must be accessible | Kobra | Base UI underneath every interactive component |
| One component to fix one gap | Kobra | $19, credited toward the full library |
| You want the page to be memorable | Magic UI Pro | Beams, marquees and shimmer, built to be watched |
| You want the app to feel invisible and fast | Kobra | Motion tuned for actions repeated all day |
| Building a product end to end | Both | The catalogs don't overlap, and the licenses are one-time |
These two aren't really rivals. They cover opposite halves of the same product, at the same individual price, on the same one-time terms. The only wrong answer is picking one and then trying to make it do the other one's job.