Comparing the top React toast libraries [2026 update]

Features

• Lightweight – It adds 4.7 kB gzipped in our build, the smallest of the five
• Accessibility – Each toast gets role="status" and aria-live="polite", so screen readers announce it. Keyboard users get less love, though. In our test, pressing Tab never reached the toast, and there is no shortcut to jump to it
• Variety – It supports different types of toast notifications like success, error, and loading
• Icon support – It allows you to add icons and emojis to your toast notifications
• Highly customizable – You can customize the appearance, position, and behavior of toasts to match the style of your app
• Promise API – It shows toasts that follow a JavaScript promise or an async function. Since v2.5, the success and error messages are optional
• Multiple toasters – Since v2.6, you can render more than one <Toaster /> and send each toast to the one you want
• Headless Hooks – It provides Hooks that you can use to integrate the library with your app’s state management system. You can also create your own hooks using useToaster()
• Well-documented – The documentation gets you started immediately and explains the API using intuitive code snippets and examples
• Supports TypeScript

Usage

Setting up basic toast notifications with React Hot Toast is straightforward. The library provides a range of methods through its toast API, such as success(), error(), and more, to handle different toast variations.

The Toaster component serves as the container for all toast messages and is responsible for rendering them through the API.

Here’s how simple it is to display a toast message using the API. Just pass the message as an argument to the toast() method and attach it to the event modifier of a triggering element:

import toast, { Toaster } from "react-hot-toast";

const App = () => {
  return (
    <div>
      <button 
        onClick={() => toast("This is a simple toast.")}>Show Toast</button>
      <Toaster />
    </div>
  );
};

export default App;

Variants

React Hot Toast offers five different toast variants: success, error, loading, custom, and promise. The success, error, and loading methods are used to show toast variations with a success message, an error message, or a message with a loading spinner icon, respectively:

import toast, { Toaster } from "react-hot-toast";

const successToast = () => toast.success("Success toast.");
const errorToast = () => toast.error("Error toast.");
const loadingToast = () => toast.loading("Loading toast...");

const App = () => {
  return (
    <>
      <button onClick={successToast}>Show Success Toast</button>
      <button onClick={errorToast}>Show Error Toast</button>
      <button onClick={loadingToast}>Show Loading Toast</button>
      <Toaster />
    </>
  );
};

export default App;

The toast.promise() method updates a toast when a promise resolves or rejects, such as after fetching data from an API. Since v2.5, you can pass an async function instead of a promise, and you can leave out the messages you do not need:

import { toast, Toaster } from "react-hot-toast";

function fetchData() {
  return new Promise((resolve) => {
    setTimeout(() => resolve("Data loaded successfully"), 1500);
  });
}

const App = () => {
  const promiseToast = () => {
    toast.promise(fetchData(), {
      loading: "Fetching data...",
      success: "Data fetched!",
      error: "Failed to fetch data.",
    });
  };

  // You can also pass an async function
  const asyncFunctionToast = () => {
    toast.promise(
      async () => {
        const result = await fetchData();
        return result;
      },
      {
        loading: "Running async function...",
        success: (data) => `Done: ${data}`,
        error: "Async function failed.",
      }
    );
  };

  return (
    <div>
      <button onClick={promiseToast}>Promise</button>
      <button onClick={asyncFunctionToast}>Async function</button>
      <Toaster />
    </div>
  );
};

export default App;

Configuration

The second argument of the toast method is an options object that allows you to customize the behavior of each toast. You can specify the toast’s duration, alter its style, provide custom icons from an icon library, define its accessibility properties, and modify the theme of its icon:

toast.success("All options combined", {
  duration: 4000,

  // icon is a top-level option, not a style property
  icon: "✅",

  // icon config
  iconTheme: {
    primary: "#10b981",
    secondary: "#ecfdf5",
  },

  // ARIA config
  ariaProps: {
    role: "status",
    "aria-live": "polite",
  },

  // toast styles
  style: {
    borderRadius: "8px",
    background: "#18181b",
    color: "#fafafa",
    padding: "12px 16px",
  },
});

There are different ways to dismiss toasts with the React Hot Toast library. You can dismiss a single toast individually by using the toast.dismiss() method and passing the reference to the toast you want to close as an argument. If you don’t pass a specific toast reference to the dismiss method, it will dismiss all toasts simultaneously:

const successToast = toast.success('This is a success toast');
toast.dismiss(successToast);

toast.dismiss(); // this will dismiss all toasts at once

Multiple toasters

Since v2.6, you can have more than one toaster on the page. Give each <Toaster /> a toasterId, then pass the same ID when you fire a toast:

import { toast, Toaster } from "react-hot-toast";

const App = () => {
  return (
    <div>
      <button onClick={() => toast.success("Success up top!", { toasterId: "top" })}>
        Top toast
      </button>
      <button onClick={() => toast.error("Error down below!", { toasterId: "bottom" })}>
        Bottom toast
      </button>

      <Toaster toasterId="top" position="top-right" />
      <Toaster toasterId="bottom" position="bottom-left" />
    </div>
  );
};

export default App;

Developer experience

React Hot Toast offers simple yet extensive customization options that allow you to tailor your toasts based on your project’s requirements.

In addition to its high customizability, React Hot Toast also has well-structured documentation, which provides more information about API usage, other components like Toaster and ToastBar, custom Hook creation, and the internal API state, which is definitely worth exploring.

Sonner

Sonner is an opinionated toast component for React created by Emil Kowalski. Built with performance and user experience in mind, it offers a clean API with minimal setup requirements while maintaining excellent accessibility standards:

Features

• Lightweight and performant – Optimized for smooth animations and minimal bundle impact. Sonner has no runtime dependencies at all. It still adds 9.2 kB gzipped in our build, about twice what React Hot Toast adds
• Accessibility first – Built-in ARIA properties, keyboard navigation, and screen reader support. The toaster sits in a section with aria-live="polite", and pressing Alt+T jumps straight to it
• Rich customization – Support for different toast types, custom styling, and theming options
• Smart positioning – Multiple placement options with swipe-to-dismiss functionality:

// Available positions:
// top-left, top-center, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-center, bottom-right

<Toaster position="top-center" />

• Rich colors – Optional colored variants for success, error, info, and warning states
• Action support – Built-in action buttons with customizable callbacks
• Promise integration – Seamless handling of async operations with loading, success, and error states
• Headless mode – Complete control over toast rendering for advanced customization
• TypeScript support – Full type definitions included
• Works across React frameworks – Works with Next.js, React, and other React-based frameworks
• Multiple toasters – Since v2.0.7, you can render more than one <Toaster /> and route each toast with toasterId

Usage

Setting up Sonner requires minimal configuration. Add the Toaster component to your app root and start using the toast function anywhere in your application:

import { Toaster, toast } from 'sonner';

function App() {
  return (
    <div>
      <Toaster />
      <button onClick={() => toast('My first toast')}>
        Give me a toast
      </button>
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

Variants

Sonner provides multiple toast variants for different use cases. Each of these variants comes with default styling and icons:

import { toast } from 'sonner';

// Basic variants
toast.success('Successfully saved!');
toast.error('Something went wrong');
toast.warning('Please check your input');
toast.info('New update available');
toast.loading('Saving changes...');

// With descriptions and actions
toast('Event created', {
  description: 'Sunday, December 03, 2023 at 9:00 AM',
  action: {
    label: 'Undo',
    onClick: () => console.log('Undo'),
  },
});

Promise integration

The toast.promise() method handles async operations by updating the toast state based on promise resolution:

const saveData = async () => {
  const promise = fetch('/api/save', { method: 'POST' });
  
  toast.promise(promise, {
    loading: 'Saving...',
    success: (data) => 'Data saved successfully!',
    error: 'Failed to save data',
  });
};

Configuration

Sonner offers extensive customization options through the Toaster component and individual toast options:

// Global configuration
<Toaster 
  position="top-center"
  richColors
  closeButton
  visibleToasts={5}
  expand={true}
/>

// Individual toast styling
toast.success('Success!', {
  duration: 5000,
  position: 'bottom-right',
  style: {
    background: 'green',
    color: 'white',
  },
  className: 'my-toast',
});

Multiple toasters

Since v2.0.7, Sonner also supports more than one toaster. Give each <Toaster /> an id, then point your toast at it with toasterId:

import { toast, Toaster } from "sonner";

function App() {
  return (
    <div>
      <Toaster id="primary" position="bottom-right" />
      <Toaster id="secondary" position="top-center" />

      <button onClick={() => toast("Bottom-right toast", { toasterId: "primary" })}>
        Primary toaster
      </button>
      <button onClick={() => toast.success("Top-center toast", { toasterId: "secondary" })}>
        Secondary toaster
      </button>
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

Developer experience

Sonner stands out with a simplified API that doesn’t require Hooks or any other setup. Unlike some toast libraries that tie notifications to React state, Sonner’s approach allows users to trigger toasts from anywhere in your application without additional configuration.

The library includes comprehensive TypeScript definitions and well-structured documentation with live examples, making integration straightforward for both beginners and experienced developers.

One thing worth knowing: for a long time, Sonner was the toast that shipped with shadcn/ui, which explains a lot of its huge download numbers. In July 2026, shadcn/ui added its own Toast component built on Base UI, which we cover later in this article. Sonner is still everywhere, but if you start a new shadcn/ui project today, the default toast is no longer Sonner.

NotiStack

Features

• Highly customizable – You can control the appearance, position, and behavior of your notifications
• No Material UI needed – v3 is fully standalone. It adds 8.3 kB gzipped to our build
• Built-in queue – maxSnack limits how many snackbars show at once (three by default), and the rest wait their turn
• Stackable notifications – Notifications can be stacked on top of one another, so you can display multiple notification messages at the same time
• Smooth transitions – Notifications are displayed with smooth transitions, making them more visually appealing
• Well-documented – The library is well-documented and easy to get started with
• Supports TypeScript

Usage

To use NotiStack, render a <SnackbarProvider /> once, then call enqueueSnackbar from anywhere. You can import it directly, with no Hook needed:

import { SnackbarProvider, enqueueSnackbar } from "notistack";

const App = () => {
  return (
    <SnackbarProvider>
      <button onClick={() => enqueueSnackbar("This is a notification.")}>
        Display notification
      </button>
    </SnackbarProvider>
  );
};

export default App;

There is one catch with the direct import. enqueueSnackbar only starts working after <SnackbarProvider> mounts, so calling it at the top level of a module, before your app renders, will throw. Inside click handlers, you will never notice.

If you prefer Hooks, useSnackbar() gives you enqueueSnackbar and closeSnackbar. Just make sure the component using it sits inside the provider:

import { SnackbarProvider, useSnackbar } from "notistack";

const SnackbarButtons = () => {
  const { enqueueSnackbar, closeSnackbar } = useSnackbar();

  return (
    <div>
      <button onClick={() => enqueueSnackbar("Snackbar via useSnackbar hook")}>
        Show snackbar
      </button>
      <button onClick={() => closeSnackbar()}>Close all</button>
    </div>
  );
};

const App = () => {
  return (
    <SnackbarProvider>
      <SnackbarButtons />
    </SnackbarProvider>
  );
};

export default App;

Variants

NotiStack supports a variety of notification variants, which can be used to change the appearance of the notification, including notifications for success, info, warning, error, and the default one. The example below covers the implementation of each of the variants:

import { SnackbarProvider, enqueueSnackbar } from "notistack";

const VariantButtons = () => {
  return (
    <div>
      <button onClick={() => enqueueSnackbar("Default snackbar")}>Default</button>
      <button onClick={() => enqueueSnackbar("Success!", { variant: "success" })}>Success</button>
      <button onClick={() => enqueueSnackbar("Error occurred", { variant: "error" })}>Error</button>
      <button onClick={() => enqueueSnackbar("Warning!", { variant: "warning" })}>Warning</button>
      <button onClick={() => enqueueSnackbar("For your information", { variant: "info" })}>Info</button>
    </div>
  );
};

const App = () => {
  return (
    <SnackbarProvider>
      <VariantButtons />
    </SnackbarProvider>
  );
};

export default App;

Configuration

NotiStack provides versatile configuration options for notifications, applied globally via SnackbarProvider or individually with enqueueSnackbar(). Global settings standardize behavior and appearance. For example, anchorOrigin controls position, autoHideDuration sets display time, and maxSnackbars limits concurrent notifications:

import { SnackbarProvider, useSnackbar } from 'notistack';

const App = () => {
  const { enqueueSnackbar } = useSnackbar();

  return (
    <SnackbarProvider
      anchorOrigin={{ vertical: 'top', horizontal: 'right' }}
      autoHideDuration={3000}
      maxSnack={3} // Updated to maxSnack
    >
      <button onClick={() => enqueueSnackbar('This is a notification!')}>
        Show notification
      </button>
    </SnackbarProvider>
  );
};

export default App;

For a single snackbar, pass options like anchorOrigin, autoHideDuration, and action to enqueueSnackbar. Note that dense only works on SnackbarProvider. If you pass it to a single snackbar, TypeScript will reject it:

import { SnackbarProvider, useSnackbar } from 'notistack';

const App = () => {
  const { enqueueSnackbar } = useSnackbar();

  const showCustomSnackbar = () => {
    enqueueSnackbar('This is a custom notification!', {
      anchorOrigin: { vertical: 'bottom', horizontal: 'left' },
      autoHideDuration: 5000,
      dense: true,
    });
  };

  return (
    <div>
      <button onClick={showCustomSnackbar}>Show custom notification</button>
    </div>
  );
};

export default App;

Developer experience

The NotiStack library offers an uncomplicated and user-friendly API, facilitating an easy start. It features comprehensive documentation, complete with examples and tutorials, and is actively developed and maintained to address feedback and bug reports.

Here’s a quick demo for using the NotiStack library:

See the Pen
NotiStack Demo by Rahul (@c99rahul)
on CodePen.

React-Toastify

React-Toastify offers unique features such as enhanced customization, bidirectional (RTL) language support, and additional mobile interactions.

These features empower users to finely customize animations, positions, and durations; display notifications in different languages; and enable actions such as swiping to dismiss and tapping to open:

Features

• Lightweight – React-Toastify is about 16KB minified and gzipped, which is not too much
• Highly customizable – The library provides excellent control over the appearance, position, and behavior of your toast notifications
• Multi-variant – You can create various types of messages, such as success messages, error messages, warnings, and more
• RTL support – React-Toastify offers support for right-to-left languages, making it suitable for internationalized apps
• Swipe to close – Users can easily swipe to close the notifications
• Animated toasts – You can add an interactive and visually appealing touch to your toast notifications by applying different animations
• Custom Hooks – Use custom Hooks to create even more complex toast notifications
• Supports TypeScript

Usage

React-Toastify has a similar API to React Hot Toast, with a toast method for each variant. The ToastContainer component holds and renders the toasts. Since v11, you no longer need to import the CSS file. The styles get injected automatically, and while writing this article, I noticed toasts looked the same with or without the import:

import { ToastContainer, toast } from "react-toastify";
import "react-toastify/dist/ReactToastify.css";

const App = () => {
  const successToast = () => toast.success("This is a success toast!");
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <button onClick={successToast}>show success toast</button>
      <ToastContainer />
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

Variants

React-Toastify offers six toast variants: success, error, warn, info, dark, along with a default variant, all of which are self-explanatory. The following code shows their straightforward implementation in a React component:

import { toast, ToastContainer } from "react-toastify";

const App = () => {
  return (
    <>
      <button onClick={() => toast.success("Success toast")}>
        Show Success Toast
      </button>
      <button onClick={() => toast.error("Error toast")}>
        Show Error Toast
      </button>
      <button onClick={() => toast.warning("Warning toast")}>
        Show Warning Toast
      </button>
      <button onClick={() => toast.info("Info toast")}>
        Show Info Toast
      </button>
      <button onClick={() => toast.dark("Dark mode toast")}>
        Show Dark Mode Toast
      </button>
      <button onClick={() => toast("Default toast")}>
        Show Default Toast
      </button>
      <ToastContainer />
    </>
  );
};

export default App;

toast.warn() and toast.warning() are the same thing, so use whichever reads better to you. There is no toast.default(); just call toast() directly. toast.dark() still works in v11, but the cleaner way to get dark toasts is the theme prop on ToastContainer, which accepts "light", "dark", or "colored":

<ToastContainer theme="dark" />

Configuration

Similar to React Hot Toast, we can pass an options object as the second argument to a React-Toastify toast to define different behaviors for it:

toast.success("This is a success toast!", {
  position: "bottom-right",
  autoClose: 2000,
  pauseOnHover: true,
  draggable: true,
});

The allowed positions are "top-right", "top-center", "top-left", "bottom-right", "bottom-center", and "bottom-left".

Additionally, we have the option to customize the default toast animation using the cssTransition method, which accepts an object where we can specify the enter and exit animations for the toast:

import "animate.css/animate.min.css";
import { ToastContainer, toast, cssTransition } from "react-toastify";

const bounce = cssTransition({
  enter: "animate__animated animate__bounceIn",
  exit: "animate__animated animate__bounceOut",
});

const customAnimationToast = () => {
  toast.dark("Hey 👋, see how easy!", {
    transition: bounce,
  });
};

const App = () => {
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <button onClick={customAnimationToast}>show bounce toast</button>
      <ToastContainer transition={bounce} />
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

To update a toast later, store the ID that toast() returns. A ref keeps it safe across re-renders. Toast types are plain strings now, so use "info" instead of toast.TYPE.INFO:

import { useRef } from "react";

export default function App() {
  let toastId = useRef(null);

  const successToast = () => {
    toastId = toast("Fetching data...", { autoClose: false });
  };

  const updateToast = () => {
    toast.update(toastId, { type: toast.TYPE.INFO, autoClose: 5000 });
  }

  return (
    <div>
      <button onClick={successToast}>show success toast</button>
      <Button onClick={updateToast}>update toast</Button>
      <ToastContainer ref={toastId} />
    </div>
  );
}

Developer experience

React-Toastify offers a greater variety of toast styles compared to other libraries, and it’s packed with many fantastic features. Its API is close to React Hot Toast’s, making it relatively easy to work with. v11 also made life easier by injecting its own CSS, and v11.1 added proper ARIA values to the progress bar.

Base UI Toast

Base UI is a library of unstyled React components from the team behind Material UI, and Toast is one of them. “Unstyled” means you get all the hard parts, like stacking, swipe to dismiss, timers, and accessibility, but zero CSS. You bring your own looks. It is also the engine behind the new shadcn/ui Toast, which is why it is showing up in more and more projects.

Features

• Accessibility – The only library with zero axe violations in our test. F6 jumps straight to the toasts, Tab then reaches the close button, and priority: "high" makes screen readers announce urgent toasts right away
• Anchored toasts – You can pin a toast to the button that triggered it, something no other library here does
• Global manager – Toast.createToastManager() lets you fire toasts from plain functions outside React
• Built-in dedupe – Adding a toast with an id that already exists updates it instead of stacking a copy
• Promise and actions – It handles async toasts with promise() and supports action buttons and custom data
• Swipe to dismiss – Users can swipe toasts away in any direction you allow
• Unstyled – It ships with zero CSS, so you write your own. Our usable toast stack needed about 20 CSS properties across six elements
• Supports TypeScript

Usage

Install it with npm install @base-ui/react. You build a toast from parts: Toast.Provider holds the state, Toast.Viewport is where toasts appear, and you render each toast yourself with Toast.Root. The useToastManager Hook gives you add, close, update, and promise:

import { Toast } from "@base-ui/react/toast";

function ToastButton() {
  const toastManager = Toast.useToastManager();

  return (
    <button
      onClick={() =>
        toastManager.add({
          title: "Notification",
          description: "This is a minimal toast example.",
        })
      }
    >
      Show toast
    </button>
  );
}

function ToastList() {
  const { toasts } = Toast.useToastManager();

  return toasts.map((toast) => (
    <Toast.Root
      key={toast.id}
      toast={toast}
      style={{
        background: "#1a1a2e",
        color: "#eee",
        borderRadius: 8,
        padding: "12px 16px",
        minWidth: 280,
      }}
    >
      <Toast.Content
        style={{
          display: "flex",
          alignItems: "flex-start",
          gap: 12,
        }}
      >
        <div style={{ flex: 1 }}>
          <Toast.Title
            style={{
              fontWeight: 600,
              fontSize: 14,
              margin: 0,
            }}
          />
          <Toast.Description
            style={{
              fontSize: 13,
              opacity: 0.8,
              margin: "4px 0 0",
            }}
          />
        </div>
        <Toast.Close aria-label="Close">✕</Toast.Close>
      </Toast.Content>
    </Toast.Root>
  ));
}

export default function App() {
  return (
    <Toast.Provider>
      <ToastButton />
      <Toast.Portal>
        <Toast.Viewport
          style={{
            position: "fixed",
            bottom: 16,
            right: 16,
            display: "flex",
            flexDirection: "column",
            gap: 8,
            zIndex: 9999,
          }}
        >
          <ToastList />
        </Toast.Viewport>
      </Toast.Portal>
    </Toast.Provider>
  );
}

Variants

There are no built-in variants because there are no built-in styles. Instead, you pass a type like "success" or "error", and Base UI adds it to the toast as a data-type attribute that you can style. You can also attach your own data, such as an Undo button:

function DeleteButton() {
  const toastManager = Toast.useToastManager();

  return (
    <button
      onClick={() =>
        toastManager.add({
          title: "Item deleted",
          description: "The item was removed successfully.",
          type: "success",
          data: {
            actionLabel: "Undo",
            onAction: () => console.log("Undo action triggered"),
          },
        })
      }
    >
      Delete item
    </button>
  );
}

// Inside your ToastList, render the action when it exists
{toast.data?.actionLabel && (
  <Toast.Action onClick={toast.data.onAction}>
    {toast.data.actionLabel}
  </Toast.Action>
)}

For async work, toastManager.promise() works just like the other libraries:

toastManager.promise(saveChanges(), {
  loading: "Saving changes...",
  success: (result) => `Changes saved (saved: ${result.saved})`,
  error: (err) => `Failed to save: ${err.message}`,
});

Configuration

Toast.Provider takes a limit for how many toasts show at once (three by default) and a timeout for how long they stay (5000ms by default). To fire toasts from outside React, like in an API helper, create a global manager and hand it to the provider:

---

---

import { Toast } from "@base-ui/react/toast";

const manager = Toast.createToastManager();

// A plain function outside React
export function showToast() {
  manager.add({ title: "Hello from outside React!" });
}

export default function App() {
  return (
    <Toast.Provider toastManager={manager}>
      {/* your app, Toast.Portal, Toast.Viewport, and ToastList */}
    </Toast.Provider>
  );
}

To stop duplicates, give the toast an id. Calling add again with the same id updates the toast that is already on screen:

toastManager.add({
  id: "save-status",
  title: "Draft saved",
});

Developer experience

Base UI Toast asks more of you up front than any other library here. Nothing shows up on screen until you write your own CSS, and the parts-based API takes a few minutes to click. If you use shadcn/ui, you can skip that work with npx shadcn@latest add toast, which gives you a styled version with a simple toast.add() call. Once it is set up, you get the best accessibility in this list and full control over how every pixel looks.

Common problems with toast notifications

I see two common issues with toast notifications in the wild that could negatively impact the user experience.

Toast placement

When you click a button in the center of your screen or at the top of the screen, seeing confirmation in a distant corner breaks the natural interaction flow.

Most toast libraries place notifications in the corner of the screen, where it is hard to locate. Gmail fails on this, too.

It shows this issue perfectly: delete an email on a large screen, and the “Conversation deleted” message appears in the bottom-left corner:

As users interact more with the application, they become more used to expecting toast notifications in the corners. But for a better user experience, the solution is straightforward: keep feedback close to where actions occur.

Base UI Toast is the only library here with a built-in way to do this. Its Toast.Positioner pins a toast to the element that triggered it, like a small “Copied” bubble right next to a copy button.

No loading state

Another UX problem with toast notifications is the replacement of loading states or spinners with a toast. Some things do not require a toast notification at all.

Not every notification needs a toast; some should be displayed directly in the element that was interacted with. After a submission button is clicked, users remain focused on that button as it changes state from Submit to Loading to Submitted.

You can easily display the success message within the button itself, then redirect the user or proceed to the next step. If you must use toast notifications, position them close to where they can be seen and noticed. These approaches respect natural attention patterns while providing clear, accessible feedback that users actually notice.

Accessibility and performance compared

Toasts are tiny, but they still have to work for everyone. We triggered success and error toasts in each library, scanned them with axe, tried to reach them with the keyboard, and turned on “reduce motion” in the browser:

Library	How it announces toasts	Toast-related axe issues	Keyboard reaches toast	Close button reachable	Respects reduced motion
React Hot Toast	role="status", polite	0	No	No	Yes
Sonner	Polite live region	1 (colorcontrast)	Yes, Alt+T	No	Yes
React-Toastify	role="alert" inside a polite region	0	Yes, Tab	No	Yes
NotiStack	role="alert", no live region	1 (colorcontrast)	No	No	Partly, a 225ms transition still runs
Base UI Toast	Polite live region	0	Yes, F6	Yes	Yes

Base UI Toast wins this one clearly. NotiStack has the most gaps: no live region wrapping the snackbars, failed color contrast, and an animation that keeps running when the user asks for less motion.

For performance, we fired 50 toasts in a row, ran each test five times on the dev server, and took the median:

Library	Median time for 50 toasts	Long tasks	Toasts visible by default
NotiStack	518ms	0	3
React Hot Toast	530ms	0	20
React-Toastify	541ms	0	No limit
Base UI Toast	564ms	2 (223ms total)	3
Sonner	787ms	0	Up to 49 in our run

Take this table with a pinch of salt. NotiStack looks fastest mainly because it only draws three snackbars and queues the rest. Base UI was the only one that blocked the main thread, and Sonner was the slowest overall. But then, nobody fires 50 toasts at once in a real app, and for the usual one to five toasts, all five libraries are perfectly fast enough that users will not notice.

TL;DR: The final verdict

React Hot Toast

Sonner

This polished library gives you beautiful stacked toasts with almost no setup, and you can fire them from anywhere without Hooks. It is not the lightest or the fastest option, coming in at 9.2 kB gzipped and placing last in our 50-toast stress test, but in normal use you will not feel it. Alt+T keyboard access is a nice touch.

Sonner is an ideal choice for projects where developer experience, performance, and accessibility are priorities. It’s particularly well-suited for applications that need a clean, modern toast implementation without sacrificing customization options, and for me, toast should be beautiful, and Sonner is perfect for that.

NotiStack

NotiStack no longer needs Material UI, which makes it a fair pick for any React app. Its built-in queue is its best trick when your app shows lots of notifications. But it has gone quiet since January 2025 and scored worst in our accessibility checks, so it is hard to recommend for new projects.

NotiStack is a fit for existing projects that already use it, or apps where queueing many snackbars matters more than anything else.

React-Toastify

Base UI Toast

Conclusion