| Bundle Size (.min.br) | 🟢 ~1.8kb | 🟡 ~10.2kb | 🟡 ~14.7kb | 🟡 ~10.6kb |
| Main Purpose | Lightweight reactivity and partial page updates | Easy partial page updates | Full-featured reactivity system | Full-featured streaming page updates and reactivity |
| Reactivity Model | Proxy | 🔴 N/A | Proxy | Signals and Proxy |
| Data Scoping | 🟡 nm-data, no inheritance | 🔴 N/A | 🟢 Global tree with overrides | 🟢 Global tree with overrides |
| Event Handling | 🟢 nm-on with modifiers | 🟢 hx-on/hx-trigger with many modifiers | 🟢 x-on/@ with modifiers | 🟢 data-on with modifiers |
| Templating | 🟡 template + nm-use (simple) | 🔴 None | 🟢 x-for/x-teleport | 🟡 Rocket (pro only) |
| Transitions | 🟡 ID-based settling | 🟡 ID-based settling | 🟢 x-transition | 🟢 Full morphing |
| Morphing | 🔴 None | 🔴 Idiomorph WIP, with extension currently | 🔴 Only with alpine-morph | 🟢 Improved Idiomorph built-in |
| AJAX | 🟢 $fetch | 🟢 hx-get | 🔴 Only with alpine-ajax | 🟢 @get |
| Streaming Support | 🟢 By HTML Chunk | 🟢 By HTML Chunk or SSE | 🔴 N/A | 🟢 By custom SSE format |
| Server Requirements | 🟢 Produce HTML | 🟢 Produce HTML | 🟡 Produce HTML and JSON | 🟡 Produce custom SSE format (or HTML) |
| Server Power | 🟡 Swap in reactive HTML, trigger events, use templates | 🟡 Swap in HTML, trigger events | 🔴 Only with alpine-ajax | 🟢 Update signals, run scripts, morph HTML |
| Plugin Support | 🔴 None | 🟢 Good plugin system | 🟢 Good plugin system | 🟢 Amazing plugin system (everything is a plugin) |
| Community Support | 🔴 GitHub only | 🟢 HTMX Discord + social media | 🟢 Large community, unofficial Discord | 🟢 Datastar Discord |
| Docs Quality | 🟡 Basic website and docs | 🟢 Comprehensive website with extensive docs and essays | 🟢 Comprehensive docs with many examples | 🟢 Comprehensive reference and good tutorial |
| Learning Curve | 🟢 Low | 🟢 Very Low | 🟡 Medium | 🟡 Medium–High |
| Locality of Behavior | 🟢 Excellent | 🟢 Excellent | 🟢 Excellent | 🟢 Excellent |
| CSP Compatability | 🔴 None | 🟢 Good | 🟡 Possible | 🔴 None |
