Free & open source
AdminLTE 4
MIT licence — $0
Bootstrap 5.3 with no jQuery, 80+ pages, and official integrations for React, Vue, Angular, Laravel, Django, Symfony, ASP.NET and Drupal. Community support via GitHub.
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DashboardPack
From $69 per template
Framework-native builds on Next.js 16, Laravel 13, Django 6, Angular 22, Nuxt 4, SvelteKit 2 and .NET 10 — 6 of the 46 with a real backend. Direct support included.
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Most comparison pages are written by someone with a stake in one answer. This one is too — except we built both products, we maintain both, and we use both. AdminLTE has been free since 2013 and is not a lead magnet we are trying to upsell you off.
So the honest position is: most people should start with AdminLTE. It is free, it is excellent, and for a large share of internal tools it is genuinely all you need. DashboardPack earns its price in a narrower set of situations, and if none of them apply to you, do not buy it.
Side by side
Current as of AdminLTE 4.1. Every row is checkable — AdminLTE’s in its public repository, ours in the demo and the download.
| AdminLTE 4 | DashboardPack | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free, MIT licence | From $69 per template |
| Base | Bootstrap 5.3, vanilla JS — no jQuery | Tailwind CSS v4, or Bootstrap 5 on the classic line |
| Frameworks | 8 official integrations: React, Vue, Angular, Laravel, Django, Symfony, ASP.NET, Drupal | 9 stacks, each a native build rather than an integration layer |
| Backend | Front-end only — the integrations wire it into your app | 6 of 46 ship a database, migrations and real CRUD (Laravel 13, Django 6) |
| Authentication | Sign-in screens as UI | Fortify or Django auth on the full-stack editions; UI screens on the rest |
| Typing | JavaScript; the framework integrations add types | TypeScript throughout the modern line |
| Pages | 80+ in the repository | 18–213 per template, median 66 |
| Dark mode | Yes | Yes, system-aware |
| Design variety | One design language | 46 templates across distinct design systems and industries |
| Support | Community, via GitHub issues | Direct support included with the licence |
| Commercial use | Yes, MIT | Yes, per licence tier |
Which one is right for you
Stay with AdminLTE if…
- Your budget is zero — it is genuinely free, forever, under MIT
- You are on Bootstrap and happy there
- You are prototyping or building an internal tool nobody outside will see
- You want to wire the backend yourself anyway
- One of the eight official integrations already matches your stack
- You are learning how dashboard patterns are put together
Choose DashboardPack if…
- You want Tailwind and shadcn/ui rather than Bootstrap
- You need a working backend on day one — the Laravel and Django editions
- You need an industry-specific product: healthcare, fintech, DevOps, hospital or trading
- You want the same design natively across several frameworks
- You need considerably more screens than one template provides
- You want support with a name attached rather than a queue of issues
A correction worth making. An earlier version of this page described AdminLTE as “Bootstrap 5 + jQuery” with no framework integrations and 20–30 pages. That described AdminLTE 3. Version 4 dropped jQuery entirely, ships 80+ pages and has eight official framework integrations — so it is a stronger free option than we were giving it credit for.