Legit.Show measured NvChad's Security frame at 45/100. Security headers present: HSTS. Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.

How does Legit.Show measure NvChad?

Legit.Show scores seven frames — Performance, Accessibility, Security, Privacy, Reliability, Standards and Discoverability — deterministically from the public surface (URL, HTTP headers, real Lighthouse), with no LLM in the scoring path. See legit.show/methodology.

Developer Tools

NvChad

Source: NvChad/NvChad · ★ 28244 · Lua

Last updated 2026-06-11 · benchmark checked 2026-09-12 · unchanged since 2026-08-10 — deterministic & reproducible

A fast, extensible Neovim configuration with a built-in UI and themes.

71/100

7/7 frames

Top 71% of 14,148 measured

Legit Benchmark — the simple average of 7 measured frames. Frames we could not measure are left out of the average, never counted as zero. Every frame is shown below with its evidence.

Checked 2026-09-12 · scores move as sites change

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Legit.Show scored NvChad 71/100 on 2026-09-12, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/gh-nvchad-nvchad/2026-09-12

Is NvChad production-ready?

Legit.Show scores NvChad 71 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on NvChad (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

Performance — 87/100
Accessibility — 91/100
Security — 45/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
Privacy — 25/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
Reliability — 100/100
Standards — 92/100
Discoverability — 57/100

What we measured

Security headers present: HSTS.
No Content-Security-Policy.
Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
Real Lighthouse performance run — 157 ms to first byte.
Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
No privacy policy found.
Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who it's for

Neovim users · developers · CLI enthusiasts · power users

Sources and updates

Description: Taken from nvchad.com's own website on 2026-06-11.
Operator: Siduck, as named in nvchad.com's terms, privacy page or footer.
Code: github.com/NvChad/NvChad.
Benchmark: Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-12.

Put together from public information, without NvChad's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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