Comparison

Lucide vs Tabler

Lucide lands on Worth it, and Tabler lands on Depends.

Lucide

Worth it

Confidence: Medium

Buy if you are a developer who needs a free, consistent, tree-shakable icon set for web apps.

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Tabler

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Use it if you have front-end developers who want a free, polished admin-panel UI kit.

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Lucide versus Tabler
Compare	Lucide	Tabler
Verdict	Worth it	Depends
Best for	Developers building web UIs	Front-end devs building admin panels
Who it's not for	Non-developers wanting ready-made graphics	Non-technical buyers wanting a finished dashboard
Privacy	No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.¹⁰	Open-source project with private GitHub vulnerability reporting; no breaches found, one past dependency-alert issue.
Support quality	Community only, no SLA evidence	No support-quality evidence found
Public sentiment	Developers praise Lucide's consistency and easy setup, though some switch to rivals like Tabler for more icon variety.	Chatter on Reddit and Product Hunt treats Tabler as a credible free admin-template option, but detailed independent user reviews are scarce.¹⁶
Biggest gotcha	v1.0 dropped brand icons . audit imports before upgrading^⁶	Core is free; premium products and licenses are separate paid purchases¹³

Pick Lucide when

Developers building web UIs
React, Vue, Svelte projects
Budget-conscious startups
Figma-based design teams

When Lucide is not a fit

Non-developers wanting ready-made graphics
Apps needing brand or social icons
Teams wanting one mega-library of every icon style
Buyers needing paid support guarantees

Pick Tabler when

Front-end devs building admin panels
Bootstrap-based web apps needing polish
Side projects and MVPs on a budget
Teams wanting a large free icon set

When Tabler is not a fit

Non-technical buyers wanting a finished dashboard
No-code teams . this is raw HTML/CSS/JS
Enterprises needing vendor SLAs and dedicated support
Anyone expecting a hosted, plug-and-play SaaS

Sources

Lucide homepagelucide.dev
official
lucide-icons/lucide GitHub repositorygithub.com
official
Lucide Showcaselucide.dev
official
Lucide React guidelucide.dev
official
Lucide Icons Figma collection (1,767 icons)figma.com
official
Lucide Releases Version 1.0, Removing Brand Iconsinfoq.com
news
Better Than Lucide: Icon Libraries With More Varietyhugeicons.com
review
Best icon library? r/reactjs threadreddit.com
review
Lucide Proxy npm malware campaignresearch.jfrog.com
security
lucide-react versions on Snyksecurity.snyk.io
security
Lucide on LFX Insightsinsights.linuxfoundation.org
security
Tabler is free and open-source HTML Dashboard UI Kitgithub.com
official
Tabler Pricing - Premium UI Components & Design Assetstabler.io
official
Tabler Icons: 6220 free and open source iconstabler.io
official
AdminLTE vs CoreUI vs Tabler: Which Admin Templateadminlte.io
review
Bootstrap or Tabler? : r/webdevreddit.com
review