TailAdmin Alternatives for Next.js (2026)

The best TailAdmin alternatives for Next.js in 2026 are next-shadcn-dashboard-starter and Studio Admin if you want a free dashboard on shadcn/ui, NextAdmin or Materio if you want a large paid kit, and Aniq UI's dashboards if you need Arabic with a real right-to-left layout, screens built for one industry, or a NestJS API in the same package. TailAdmin itself is still a good choice: the free version is MIT licensed and runs on Next.js 16, React 19 and Tailwind CSS 4, and TailAdmin Pro is a one-time payment.

This page starts with what TailAdmin is and what it does well, then compares seven alternatives in one table, then gives each one its own short review. We opened every product page, GitHub repository and pricing page on 5 November 2026, read the package.json of each free repository for its versions, and opened each Aniq UI dashboard demo in Arabic. Star counts and prices below are the ones shown that day.

Checked November 2026.

TailAdmin alternatives compared

TailAdmin is in the first row so you can compare each alternative with it. "Backend included" means an API and a database in the download, not only sign-in screens or mock data.

Template	Free or paid	Stack	Arabic and RTL	Backend included	Best for
TailAdmin	Free (MIT), Pro from $59 on sale (list $99)	Next.js 16, React 19, Tailwind CSS 4	RTL styles since 2.4.0, English messages only	No	A Tailwind admin kit with many generic dashboards
Aniq UI AI admin and Financial dashboards	Paid: $69 and $49, full stack $149 (AI admin)	Next.js 16, React 19, Tailwind CSS 4, next-intl	English and Arabic, full RTL	Yes, NestJS API in the AI admin full stack	An admin panel with roles and an AI assistant, or a finance dashboard
Aniq UI industry dashboards	Paid: $49 each, full stack $149	Next.js 16, React 19, Tailwind CSS 4, NestJS	English and Arabic, full RTL	Yes, in the full stack package	A restaurant, agency, school, shop, rental or event business
next-shadcn-dashboard-starter	Free (MIT)	Next.js 16, React 19, Tailwind CSS 4, shadcn/ui, Clerk	Not mentioned	No (Clerk for auth)	A free SaaS-style starter with auth, tables and forms
Studio Admin (next-shadcn-admin-dashboard)	Free (MIT)	Next.js 16, React 19, Tailwind CSS 4, shadcn/ui	Not mentioned	No	Many free dashboard screens and theme presets
NextAdmin	Free, Pro from $89 (list price)	Next.js 16, Tailwind CSS 4	Not mentioned	No (mock REST APIs)	A Tailwind kit set up for AI coding agents
Materio	Free (MIT), Pro from $79	Pro: Next.js 16, MUI 7, Tailwind CSS 4	RTL in Pro only	No (NextAuth, "API ready")	Teams that prefer Material UI
Mantine Analytics Dashboard	Free (MIT)	Next.js 16, React 19, Mantine 9	Mantine supports RTL, template is English	No (mock API routes)	Teams that prefer Mantine

What is TailAdmin, and what does it do well?

TailAdmin is an admin dashboard template built with Tailwind CSS, sold for six stacks: HTML, React, Next.js, Vue, Angular and Laravel. The Next.js version has a free open-source edition on GitHub and a paid Pro edition. The site says it is "trusted by over 80,000 individuals and companies".

TailAdmin free for Next.js

The free repository, TailAdmin/free-nextjs-admin-dashboard, had 2,595 stars on 5 November 2026 and is MIT licensed. Its README lists Next.js 16.x, React 19, TypeScript and Tailwind CSS 4, and the package.json asks for Next.js 16.3.4. The free edition includes 1 dashboard, 30+ dashboard components, 50+ UI elements, basic Figma files, sign-in and sign-up pages, a calendar, tables, charts and a 404 page, with dark mode.

It is kept up to date. Version 2.5.0, released on 29 October 2026, moved the UI primitives to Base UI, added TanStack Table and added React Hook Form with Zod validation on the form elements.

TailAdmin Pro and its price

Pro has 10 dashboards (e-commerce, analytics, marketing, CRM, stocks, SaaS, logistics, AI, sales and finance), 500+ components and UI elements, the full Figma file, AI pages and more than ten app pages such as mail, chat, invoice and tasks. On the pricing page, a single-framework licence was:

Starter: $59 on sale (list $99), 1 developer, 3 projects, 6 months of email support.
Business: $119 on sale (list $279), 3 developers, 10 projects.
Extended: $299 on sale (list $599), 10 developers, unlimited projects, and the only plan that allows a SaaS product.

All plans are a one-time payment with lifetime free updates. A bundle of all six frameworks starts at $149 on sale.

Does TailAdmin support RTL and include a backend?

Partly, and no. Version 2.4.0 (13 September 2026) added multi-language support and updated the styles for RTL. In the free repository the language setup uses next-intl, but only English is switched on: Arabic is a commented-out entry in src/i18n/languages.ts, and there is one message file, en.json. So the layout is ready to mirror, and the Arabic text is yours to write.

TailAdmin is a front end. Neither the free repository nor the pricing page lists an API or a database, so you connect your own.

That is the honest picture: TailAdmin is a well-kept, low-cost Tailwind kit with many generic screens. People look elsewhere for four reasons: they want shadcn/ui or another component library, they want Arabic already written, they want screens for a specific business, or they want the backend in the same purchase.

Best TailAdmin alternatives for Next.js in 2026

1. Aniq UI AI admin dashboard and Financial dashboard

Best for: an admin panel with users, roles and an AI assistant, in English and Arabic, with the option of a ready API.

The AI admin dashboard is built with Next.js 16, React 19, Tailwind CSS 4, TanStack Query and next-intl. It manages users, admins, roles and projects, has an AI chat assistant that draws charts from your data, and runs in dark and light themes. The dashboard alone ships with an in-browser mock, so it runs before any API exists. The full stack package adds a NestJS API with TypeORM, JWT auth, roles and permissions, WebSocket updates, the assistant's MCP tools and a one-command seeder.

Aniq UI AI admin dashboard: the AI assistant answering with a bar chart of daily user registrations

The Financial dashboard is a front end for finance and banking screens: analytics charts with Recharts, drag and drop widgets, cards, transactions, settings, accent colours, dark and light themes, English and Arabic with RTL, and a sign-in page you connect to your own API. It has no backend.

Price (checked November 2026): AI admin dashboard $69, its Backend API $99, Full Stack $149. Financial dashboard $49. Paid once.

Compared with TailAdmin: fewer generic screens than TailAdmin Pro's 10 dashboards, but Arabic is written and switched on, and the AI admin dashboard can come with its API.

2. Aniq UI industry dashboards

Best for: a developer or agency building for one kind of business who wants the screens that business uses, not a generic analytics page.

Each of these is a Next.js 16 dashboard made for one industry, in English and Arabic with a full RTL layout and light and dark themes. Each is also part of a full stack product: a public website, the dashboard and a NestJS API with TypeORM and JWT auth. Most of these dashboards read their data from that API, so buy the dashboard with the Backend API or take the full stack package.

Dashboard	What it manages	Dashboard	Full stack
Restaurant admin	Orders and their status, dishes with extras and allergens, kitchens, customers, team, AI studio for dish photos	$49	$149, with Stripe and PayPal
Real estate agency	Properties in English and Arabic, listings on a map, inquiries, viewings, AI staging studio	$49	$149
LMS admin and instructor	Courses with a drag and drop curriculum builder, students, enrollments, quizzes, marking, live classes	$49	$149
E-commerce admin	Products, categories, orders, customers, staff roles, live notifications, AI product studio	$49	$149
Vacation rental booking	Occupancy, a month calendar with blocked dates, bookings from confirmed to completed, stays, reviews	$49	$149, with Stripe and PayPal
Event organiser	Events with up to ten ticket types, seat layouts, QR check-in at the door, orders, refunds, CSV reports	$49	$149, with Stripe and PayPal
Fitness and coaching	Members and coaches, workouts, programs, meal plans, check-ins, live messages	$69	$149

Aniq UI real estate agency dashboard overview in dark theme, with inquiries, upcoming viewings and properties on a map

Every one of these dashboards also has an AI assistant that answers from the business's own data. The full stack packages include a seeder, so the demo data appears with one command.

Aniq UI restaurant staff dashboard in Arabic, right to left, dark theme, with revenue, orders and the kitchen queue

Price (checked November 2026): each dashboard $49 (fitness $69), the website alone $39, the Backend API $99, Full Stack $149. Paid once.

Compared with TailAdmin: TailAdmin gives you many generic dashboards to adapt. These give you one industry's screens already wired to an API, in two languages, and fewer general UI pages.

3. next-shadcn-dashboard-starter (Kiranism)

Best for: a free, popular starter for a SaaS dashboard with sign-in, organisations and billing screens.

next-shadcn-dashboard-starter had 7,227 GitHub stars on 5 November 2026, the most in this list, and is MIT licensed. Its package.json pins Next.js 16.4.2 and React 19.3.0, with Tailwind CSS 4 and shadcn/ui on Base UI. It uses Clerk for sign-in, organisations and billing, TanStack Query and TanStack tables, TanStack Form with Zod, Zustand, and kbar for a command menu. Screens include an overview with charts, products and users tables with search and filters, a kanban board, chat, a scripted AI chat demo, notifications, workspaces, team and billing pages.

Good to know: sign-in depends on Clerk, a hosted service, so plan for its account and pricing. The README does not mention RTL or translations, and there is no database or API in the repository.

4. Studio Admin (next-shadcn-admin-dashboard by arhamkhnz)

Best for: the largest set of free dashboard screens on shadcn/ui.

Studio Admin had 3,253 stars on 5 November 2026 and is MIT licensed; the repository was updated the day before. It runs on Next.js 16, React 19, Tailwind CSS 4 and shadcn/ui, with Zod, React Hook Form, Zustand and TanStack Table. The README lists dashboards for default, CRM, finance, analytics, productivity, e-commerce, academy, logistics and infrastructure, plus a file manager, patient monitoring, products, chat, email, users, roles, kanban, tasks, invoice, calendar and four sign-in screens. Theme presets include Tangerine, Neo Brutalism and Soft Pop, and the sidebar and content width can be changed.

Good to know: there is no API or database in the repository, and the README does not mention RTL or translations. There are also Base UI, React Aria and TanStack Start versions in separate repositories.

5. NextAdmin

Best for: a Tailwind CSS kit that comes with rules and skills for AI coding agents.

NextAdmin is made by Pimjo and comes in a free open-source version and a Pro version. The free repository had 605 stars on 5 November 2026 and uses Next.js 16.2.7 and React 19.2.4. It has 200+ UI components, dashboards for analytics, e-commerce, CRM and marketing, sign-in and settings pages, a Figma source, and mock REST APIs behind every page. Version 2.0 added an AGENTS.md file, agent skills and ready prompts, so tools like Claude Code and Cursor follow the project's patterns.

Price (checked November 2026): Pro Starter $89, Team $299, Extended $599 at list price, paid once; the pricing page offered a 30% coupon that day. RTL is not mentioned.

6. Materio (ThemeSelection)

Best for: teams that work with Material UI and need RTL in a paid kit.

Materio Pro is built with Next.js 16 (App Router), MUI 7, Tailwind CSS 4 and React 19, in TypeScript and JavaScript. It has 5 dashboards, 10 apps, 35+ pages, 6 layouts, NextAuth and auth pages, multi-language support and RTL. The free version (1,976 stars, MIT with attribution) is smaller and older: one dashboard, no RTL, and its package.json is still on Next.js 14 and MUI 5.

Price (checked November 2026): Single Use $79 (1 project), Multiple Use $149, Extended Use $349, Unlimited Use $499, paid once.

7. Mantine Analytics Dashboard

Best for: teams that already use Mantine.

Mantine Analytics Dashboard is free under MIT and had 387 stars on 5 November 2026. Its package.json uses Next.js 16.3.8, React 19 and Mantine 9. It includes analytics pages, email, chat and kanban modules, Mantine DataTable, a mock API built on Next.js API routes and NextAuth with demo credentials.

Good to know: Mantine's components support right-to-left out of the box through its DirectionProvider, but the template ships in English, so the translations and testing are yours.

Aniq UI event organiser dashboard in Arabic, right to left, light theme, with ticket sales, door check-ins and upcoming events

How to choose a TailAdmin alternative

Start from what your project needs on day one, not from the longest feature list. These six questions decide most cases.

1. Free code or a paid licence with support?

The free options (TailAdmin free, next-shadcn-dashboard-starter, Studio Admin, Mantine Analytics Dashboard and the free editions of NextAdmin and Materio) are good enough for many internal tools, and most are MIT licensed. A paid licence buys more screens, a Figma file, email support and, in Aniq UI's case, the backend. Read each licence for client work and SaaS use: TailAdmin allows SaaS only on Extended, and Materio counts projects per tier.

2. Which component library does your team use?

TailAdmin uses its own Tailwind CSS components (on Base UI primitives since version 2.5.0), and NextAdmin uses Tailgrids UI. next-shadcn-dashboard-starter and Studio Admin are shadcn/ui, so every component is code you own and can edit. Materio is Material UI and Mantine Analytics Dashboard is Mantine. Picking the library your team already knows saves more time than any feature on this list.

3. Do you need Arabic or another right-to-left language?

RTL styles and Arabic text are two different jobs. TailAdmin and Materio Pro mirror the layout, and Mantine's components can, but you still translate every label, date and number. Aniq UI's dashboards ship with both: English and Arabic messages and a full right-to-left layout, which you can check by opening any demo in Arabic. Our guide to RTL admin dashboard templates with Arabic support goes deeper.

4. Generic screens or screens for one business?

Generic kits give you charts, tables and forms to assemble. That suits a product whose screens are not known yet. If you are building for a restaurant, an agency, a school, a shop, a rental company or an event organiser, a dashboard made for that business already has the orders, bookings or check-ins it needs.

5. Who builds the backend?

Every template in this list except Aniq UI's full stack packages is a front end. Sign-in screens, Clerk, NextAuth or mock APIs are useful, but they are not your data. If you do not have an API yet, count the time to build one, or start from a package that includes it.

6. Count the full cost

Add the template, the services it depends on (Clerk, for example) and the work it leaves you: translation, the API, the database. A free template with three weeks of backend work can cost more than a paid one that includes it, and a paid one can be wasted money if you only need two screens.

FAQ

Is TailAdmin free?

Yes. TailAdmin for Next.js has a free MIT licensed version on GitHub with 1 dashboard, 30+ dashboard components and 50+ UI elements. TailAdmin Pro, with 10 dashboards and 500+ components, is paid once, from $59 on sale (list $99) in November 2026.

What is the best free alternative to TailAdmin for Next.js?

For shadcn/ui, next-shadcn-dashboard-starter is the most popular (7,227 GitHub stars) and comes with auth, tables and forms, while Studio Admin has more dashboard screens. For Mantine, use Mantine Analytics Dashboard. All three are MIT licensed and run on Next.js 16.

Does TailAdmin support RTL and Arabic?

TailAdmin's styles support RTL since version 2.4.0 (September 2026), and the free version has next-intl set up. Only English is switched on, though: Arabic is a commented-out entry and there is no Arabic message file, so you add the translations yourself.

Is there a TailAdmin alternative with a backend?

Yes. Aniq UI's full stack packages, at $149, include the Next.js dashboard and a NestJS API with TypeORM, JWT auth and roles, plus the public website for the industry products. The other templates in this list are front ends.

TailAdmin or shadcn/ui: which should I use?

Use TailAdmin if you want a finished admin layout in plain Tailwind CSS with many screens. Use a shadcn/ui template if your app already uses shadcn/ui or you want components you copy into your own code and edit freely.

How much does TailAdmin Pro cost?

In November 2026 the single-framework plans were Starter $59 (list $99), Business $119 (list $279) and Extended $299 (list $599), each a one-time payment with lifetime updates. The bundle of all six frameworks starts at $149.

Conclusion

TailAdmin is a fair default for a Tailwind CSS admin panel, and its free version is a good place to start. Choose a shadcn/ui starter if your app is built on shadcn/ui, Materio if your team uses Material UI, and Mantine Analytics Dashboard for Mantine. Choose an Aniq UI dashboard when the project needs Arabic on day one, screens for a specific business, or an API in the same purchase.

What the Aniq UI dashboards cost, paid once, with source code and live demos you can switch to Arabic:

Industry dashboards (restaurant, real estate, LMS, e-commerce, vacation rental, event organiser): $49 each.
AI admin dashboard: $69. Fitness dashboard: $69. Financial dashboard: $49.
Backend API on its own: $99.
Full stack (dashboard and NestJS API, plus the website for the industry products): $149.
All 10 templates: the bundle, list price $499; check the page for the current offer.

Browse the templates and open any demo before you buy.

Sources

Checked November 2026.

TailAdmin Alternatives for Next.js (2026)

TailAdmin alternatives compared