Hyperiux Vault Review (2026): Pricing, Features & Honest Verdict

Hyperiux Vault is a source-first interaction effects library for React and Next.js: scroll systems, cursor effects, text reveals, page transitions, loaders and WebGL scenes that install into your repo as code you own. Best for: agencies and founders shipping premium marketing sites. Price: Free for 30+ effects, Pro $20/mo or $179/yr. Rating: 7.5/10.

What is Hyperiux Vault?

Vault is a catalogue of 115 front-end interaction effects that you install into your own codebase rather than import from a runtime dependency. You browse the effects, preview them live, run a CLI command, and the source files land in your repository. From that point they are your files. You edit them, you maintain them, and nothing breaks if Hyperiux disappears.

It comes from Hyperiux, a team of three: Bhaskar Varshney, Hitesh Bhardwaj and Harsh Goyal. We found it at rank 24 on Product Hunt’s 10 July board with 16 upvotes, which badly undersells it. This is a more finished product than its launch position suggests, with a real CLI, a documented licence, per-effect dependency notes, and a pricing page that answers questions most vendors dodge.

Why does “source-first” matter?

Component libraries usually arrive as an npm package. You import a component, it renders, and the implementation stays behind an API you do not control. That is fine until you need the animation to behave slightly differently, at which point you are fighting props, overriding styles, or forking a package.

The source-first model, popularised by shadcn/ui, inverts this. The CLI copies real files into your project. There is no version upgrade that changes your site’s behaviour overnight, no black box, and no runtime dependency on the vendor. Vault applies that model to the animation layer specifically, which is the layer where you are most likely to want to change one easing curve and least likely to be able to.

What are Hyperiux Vault’s key features?

115 effects across twelve categories

The library is organised into text, backgrounds, buttons, carousels, scroll, components, navigation, cursor, transitions, loaders and WebGL. Free Core carries 30+ effects covering scroll and text. Pro unlocks the full library, and the categories reserved for Pro are the expensive ones to build yourself: cursor effects, WebGL scenes and advanced page transitions.

Dependencies declared before you install

Every effect page lists its exact dependencies up front. Scroll and text effects are usually dependency-light; WebGL scenes typically want Three.js. This is a small thing that matters a lot, because the standard experience with animation libraries is discovering a 400KB dependency after you have already committed to the design.

App Router support, documented properly

Effects are built with the Next.js App Router in mind and documented for client-component boundaries, with Pages Router setup notes on each effect page. Anyone who has tried to drop a scroll animation into a server component knows why this deserves its own bullet.

Cancellation that does not break shipped work

Cancel Pro and access continues to the end of the billing period, then reverts to the free tier. Effects already installed stay in your repository and keep working, because they are your files rather than a licensed import. This follows logically from the source-first model, but plenty of vendors would have found a way to add a licence check anyway, and Hyperiux states the position plainly in both its FAQ and its licence summary.

Performance and reduced-motion notes

Pro includes dependency, performance and reduced-motion notes per effect. Shipping a WebGL background without a prefers-reduced-motion path is an accessibility failure that a lot of effect libraries commit silently, so having it addressed in the documentation rather than left to the buyer is the right call.

How much does Hyperiux Vault cost?

Free Core is $0 forever and gives you 30+ production-ready effects, CLI install, commercial-friendly usage on the effects marked as such, and no account required to preview or install. Pro is $20 per month or $179 per year, licensed per seat, and unlocks all 115 effects plus monthly additions, priority access to upcoming packs, priority updates and email support. The first 100 Founding Annual users get Pro at $149 a year.

The annual arithmetic is honest, which is not guaranteed in this category. $20 a month is $240 a year, so $179 saves $61, and the “3 months free” badge on the yearly toggle checks out: nine months at $20 is $180, within a dollar of the annual price. The effective monthly rate on annual billing is $14.92, which the page states itself rather than making you work out.

Refunds are seven days on a new subscription. Cancellation stops new Pro installs and does not touch code already in your repository, which follows directly from the source-first model and is stated plainly. Agency and multi-seat licensing exists but is quote-based, and students, nonprofits and open-source projects can request a discount by email.

Comparison is awkward here because Vault’s nearest rivals are mostly free. Magic UI and React Bits are open source and cost nothing. Aceternity UI sells an all-access tier but does not render a figure in its pricing page source. The real comparison is against your own time: $179 a year is roughly two hours of agency rate, and one WebGL scroll scene built from scratch is a day.

Who is Hyperiux Vault best for?

Use Vault if you build client sites for a living. Agencies are the obvious buyer: the effects are the exact category of work that clients ask for, cannot describe, and will not pay a week of engineering for. Per-seat pricing at $179 a year against a billable day rate is not a decision anyone needs to think about.

Use it if you are a founder shipping a marketing site and you want it to look expensive. The Pro categories, cursor effects, page transitions and WebGL atmospheres, are precisely what separates a site that looks funded from one that looks templated.

Skip Vault if your app is a dashboard. Interaction effects on a data-dense internal tool are a liability, not an asset, and the free tier already covers the handful of scroll and text touches such a product should have. Skip it if you are on Vue, Svelte or plain HTML, because this is React and Next.js only. And skip Pro if your team shares one login, because the licence is explicitly per seat and the vendor tells you directly to use agency licensing instead.

Best Hyperiux Vault alternatives

Magic UI is free and open source, with a large catalogue of animated React components built on Tailwind and Framer Motion. It is the default answer for anyone unwilling to pay, and the honest comparison point Vault has to beat on quality rather than price.

Aceternity UI sells an all-access tier and covers similar high-production-value territory, with a strong reputation for the sort of hero sections that end up on design showcases. Its pricing page does not render a figure in the page source, so check the live page before budgeting.

GSAP became free for commercial use in 2026 and remains the strongest animation engine available. It is a lower-level tool: you get primitives rather than finished effects, so you trade money for time. Several Vault effects list it as a dependency, which tells you the relationship is complementary rather than competitive.

The one thing that annoyed us

The Pro price on the pricing page is rendered as an animated digit reel. In the page source it appears as a column of loose numerals, 0 through 9, twice over, rather than as text saying $20. Anyone who copies the page, reads it with a script, or hits it with a screen reader gets a slot machine instead of a price. The figure is recoverable from the structured data and the FAQ, both of which state $20 a month and $179 a year, so the number is not in doubt. But a pricing page whose headline price is an animation is a strange choice for a product selling to developers, who are the population most likely to inspect it.

Second minor gripe: the marketing copy says “30+ free” and “80+ Pro” while the Pro card says “All 115 effects”. Those reconcile, but only if you do the addition yourself.

Final verdict: is Hyperiux Vault worth it?

For agencies, yes, without much deliberation. $179 a year for 115 effects that install as owned source code, with dependencies declared, App Router boundaries documented and reduced-motion handled, is priced well below the value of a single afternoon saved. The licence terms are unusually clear, the annual discount is real rather than rounded, and the free tier is large enough to evaluate honestly before spending anything.

We rated it 7.5 rather than higher for two reasons. The category’s strongest free alternatives, Magic UI and React Bits, cost nothing and are good, so Vault’s premium has to be earned on the Pro-only categories rather than on the library as a whole. And the team is three people with a young product, so the “new effects added monthly” promise is a forecast rather than a track record. Start on Free Core, ship two effects from it, and upgrade when you hit the first cursor or WebGL scene you would otherwise have to build. If you are in the first hundred annual buyers, $149 makes the decision easier still.