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I'm building a web UI and need to choose one approach for styling. Which do you recommend? Give your ranked top 3.

Top pick by run

ModelJul 3, 2026Jul 23, 2026
Claude Fable 5
Claude Opus 4.8
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.5
GPT-5.6 Sol

Each column is one run. Click a pick to see that model's full ranking and reasoning. Green marks a change from the previous run.

Claude Fable 5

Jul 23, 2026
  1. 1
    Tailwind CSS
    Utility-first classes keep styles colocated with markup, scale well across teams, and ship a tiny purged bundle for most modern web UIs.
  2. 2
    CSS Modules
    Scoped, zero-runtime plain CSS with built-in support in Vite and Next.js makes it a simple, framework-agnostic choice if you prefer writing traditional stylesheets.
  3. 3
    vanilla-extract
    Type-safe styles in TypeScript compiled to static CSS give you CSS-in-JS ergonomics without the runtime cost.