Overview
Vercel's v0 generates React components with Tailwind CSS and shadcn/ui from a text description or a design screenshot. The output is clean, production-ready code that copies directly into any React project. The fastest way from idea to working UI component.
Pricing
Free tier200 credits/month (~10-20 component generations)
Paid plans$20/mo (Premium) · $200/mo (Team)
✅ When to use
- Generating UI components without writing markup from scratch
- Prototyping a new interface from a sketch or screenshot reference
- Generating dashboards, forms, cards, and modals in React
- Projects using React + Tailwind + shadcn/ui — output matches this stack perfectly
- Converting a Figma design or any screenshot into working code
❌ When NOT to use
- Non-React projects — it generates React/Tailwind, not Vue or plain HTML
- Complex application logic — it is a UI tool, not a full-stack generator
- Highly custom designs — the output tends to look similar across many prompts
💡 Personal Tips
v0 is incredible for going from design idea to working React component. My workflow: sketch rough layout in words, generate with v0, copy into the project, then tweak. The shadcn/ui components it produces are high quality and easy to customize. The screenshot-to-code feature is underrated — take a screenshot of any UI you like and v0 recreates it in React. For full apps rather than just components, try Bolt.new instead.