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OpenUI

Open standard for generative UI, so agents answer with interface

Overview

About OpenUI

OpenUI is an open standard for generative UI: a way for AI apps and agents to respond with an interactive interface rather than a wall of prose. Ask a travel assistant for a hotel and a text model returns six paragraphs; with OpenUI the same model returns hotel cards with amenities, a highlights panel and booking buttons. One spec renders in React, Vue, Svelte, Angular and Lynx, and it works with any model, any agent framework and any design system or component library you already use.

It is worth being precise about the word standard. OpenUI is written and maintained by Thesys Inc., which also sells the two commercial layers around it, and there is no second independent implementer today, so in practice this is one company's framework carrying a standard's name. The framework itself is MIT licensed, self-hostable anywhere, with no usage limits imposed by the vendor, and it is a genuinely sustained project rather than a spike: the repository was created in December 2024 and is pushed to daily, with over 13,400 stars and a reported seven million package downloads. The vendor claims OpenUI Lang generates up to 3 times faster and uses 67% fewer tokens than JSON-based UI formats, which is their own benchmark on their own format. The commercial layers are Gateway, which is shipping, and Observability, which is waitlist-only and free while in early access.

Pricing

Free tier
  • OpenUI framework (MIT, self-hosted)$0/mo
  • Gateway Free$0/mo
  • Gateway Build$59/mo
  • Gateway Grow$599/mo
  • Gateway ScaleContact sales

From the vendor pricing page, 2026-10-23

Details

GitHub Stars 14,414
Forks 941
Company Thesys
Data from: GitHub • Website•Updated: Oct 29, 2026
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