diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3969bda46191d..2da96ce8b7d88 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -11,5 +11,8 @@ __diff_output__
 /coverage
 /docs/.next
 /docs/export
+build
+# TODO `dist` should be replaced with `build`, per convention
 dist
 node_modules
+size-snapshot.json
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index e2604ba62dd11..5a19215590148 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
     "deduplicate": "node scripts/deduplicate.js",
     "stylelint": "stylelint '**/*.js' '**/*.ts' '**/*.tsx'",
     "prettier": "yarn babel-node -i '/node_modules/(?!@material-ui)/' ./scripts/prettier.js --branch master",
+    "prettier:all": "node ./scripts/prettier.js write",
+    "size:snapshot": "node --max-old-space-size=2048 ./scripts/sizeSnapshot/create",
+    "size:why": "yarn size:snapshot --analyze --accurateBundles",
     "test": "lerna run test --parallel",
     "test:coverage": "cross-env NODE_ENV=test BABEL_ENV=coverage nyc mocha 'packages/**/*.test.tsx' --exclude '**/node_modules/**' && nyc report -r lcovonly",
     "test:coverage:html": "cross-env NODE_ENV=test BABEL_ENV=coverage nyc mocha 'packages/**/*.test.tsx' --exclude '**/node_modules/**' && nyc report --reporter=html",
@@ -66,6 +69,7 @@
     "babel-plugin-transform-rename-import": "^2.3.0",
     "chai": "^4.2.0",
     "chai-dom": "^1.8.2",
+    "compression-webpack-plugin": "^6.0.2",
     "cross-env": "^7.0.2",
     "enzyme": "^3.11.0",
     "enzyme-adapter-react-16": "^1.15.2",
diff --git a/scripts/sizeSnapshot/create.js b/scripts/sizeSnapshot/create.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..8dab540f9d9aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/sizeSnapshot/create.js
@@ -0,0 +1,179 @@
+const fse = require('fs-extra');
+const lodash = require('lodash');
+const path = require('path');
+const { promisify } = require('util');
+const webpackCallbackBased = require('webpack');
+const yargs = require('yargs');
+const createWebpackConfig = require('./webpack.config');
+
+const webpack = promisify(webpackCallbackBased);
+
+const workspaceRoot = path.join(__dirname, '../../');
+const snapshotDestPath = path.join(workspaceRoot, 'size-snapshot.json');
+
+/**
+ * creates size snapshot for every bundle that built with webpack
+ */
+async function getWebpackSizes(webpackEnvironment) {
+  await fse.mkdirp(path.join(__dirname, 'build'));
+
+  const configurations = await createWebpackConfig(webpack, webpackEnvironment);
+  const webpackMultiStats = await webpack(configurations);
+
+  const sizes = [];
+  webpackMultiStats.stats.forEach((webpackStats) => {
+    if (webpackStats.hasErrors()) {
+      const { entrypoints, errors } = webpackStats.toJson({
+        all: false,
+        entrypoints: true,
+        errors: true,
+      });
+      throw new Error(
+        `The following errors occured during bundling of ${Object.keys(
+          entrypoints,
+        )} with webpack: \n${errors.join('\n')}`,
+      );
+    }
+
+    const stats = webpackStats.toJson({ all: false, assets: true });
+    const assets = new Map(stats.assets.map((asset) => [asset.name, asset]));
+
+    Object.entries(stats.assetsByChunkName).forEach(([chunkName, assetName]) => {
+      const parsedSize = assets.get(assetName).size;
+      const gzipSize = assets.get(`${assetName}.gz`).size;
+      sizes.push([chunkName, { parsed: parsedSize, gzip: gzipSize }]);
+    });
+  });
+
+  return sizes;
+}
+
+// waiting for String.prototype.matchAll in node 10
+function* matchAll(string, regex) {
+  let match = null;
+  do {
+    match = regex.exec(string);
+    if (match !== null) {
+      yield match;
+    }
+  } while (match !== null);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Inverse to `pretty-bytes`
+ * @param {string} n
+ * @param {'B', 'kB' | 'MB' | 'GB' | 'TB' | 'PB'} unit
+ * @returns {number}
+ */
+
+function prettyBytesInverse(n, unit) {
+  const metrixPrefix = unit.length < 2 ? '' : unit[0];
+  const metricPrefixes = ['', 'k', 'M', 'G', 'T', 'P'];
+  const metrixPrefixIndex = metricPrefixes.indexOf(metrixPrefix);
+  if (metrixPrefixIndex === -1) {
+    throw new TypeError(
+      `unrecognized metric prefix '${metrixPrefix}' in unit '${unit}'. only '${metricPrefixes.join(
+        "', '",
+      )}' are allowed`,
+    );
+  }
+
+  const power = metrixPrefixIndex * 3;
+  return n * 10 ** power;
+}
+
+/**
+ * parses output from next build to size snapshot format
+ * @returns {[string, { gzip: number, files: number, packages: number }][]}
+ */
+
+async function getNextPagesSize() {
+  const consoleOutput = await fse.readFile(path.join(__dirname, 'build/docs.next'), {
+    encoding: 'utf8',
+  });
+  const pageRegex = /(?<treeViewPresentation>┌|├|└)\s+((?<fileType>λ|○|●)\s+)?(?<pageUrl>[^\s]+)\s+(?<sizeFormatted>[0-9.]+)\s+(?<sizeUnit>\w+)/gm;
+
+  const sharedChunks = [];
+
+  const entries = Array.from(matchAll(consoleOutput, pageRegex), (match) => {
+    const { pageUrl, sizeFormatted, sizeUnit } = match.groups;
+
+    let snapshotId = `docs:${pageUrl}`;
+    // used to be tracked with custom logic hence the different ids
+    if (pageUrl === '/') {
+      snapshotId = 'docs.landing';
+      // chunks contain a content hash that makes the names
+      // unsuitable for tracking. Using stable name instead:
+    } else if (/^chunks\/pages\/_app\.(.+)\.js$/.test(pageUrl)) {
+      snapshotId = 'docs.main';
+    } else if (/^chunks\/main\.(.+)\.js$/.test(pageUrl)) {
+      snapshotId = 'docs:shared:runtime/main';
+    } else if (/^chunks\/webpack\.(.+)\.js$/.test(pageUrl)) {
+      snapshotId = 'docs:shared:runtime/webpack';
+    } else if (/^chunks\/commons\.(.+)\.js$/.test(pageUrl)) {
+      snapshotId = 'docs:shared:chunk/commons';
+    } else if (/^chunks\/framework\.(.+)\.js$/.test(pageUrl)) {
+      snapshotId = 'docs:shared:chunk/framework';
+    } else if (/^chunks\/(.*)\.js$/.test(pageUrl)) {
+      // shared chunks are unnamed and only have a hash
+      // we just track their tally and summed size
+      sharedChunks.push(prettyBytesInverse(sizeFormatted, sizeUnit));
+      // and not each chunk individually
+      return null;
+    }
+
+    return [
+      snapshotId,
+      {
+        parsed: prettyBytesInverse(sizeFormatted, sizeUnit),
+        gzip: -1,
+      },
+    ];
+  }).filter((entry) => entry !== null);
+
+  entries.push([
+    'docs:chunk:shared',
+    {
+      parsed: sharedChunks.reduce((sum, size) => sum + size, 0),
+      gzip: -1,
+      tally: sharedChunks.length,
+    },
+  ]);
+
+  return entries;
+}
+
+async function run(argv) {
+  const { analyze, accurateBundles } = argv;
+
+  const bundleSizes = lodash.fromPairs([
+    ...(await getWebpackSizes({ analyze, accurateBundles })),
+    ...(await getNextPagesSize()),
+  ]);
+
+  await fse.writeJSON(snapshotDestPath, bundleSizes, { spaces: 2 });
+}
+
+yargs
+  .command({
+    command: '$0',
+    description: 'Saves a size snapshot in size-snapshot.json',
+    builder: (command) => {
+      return command
+        .option('analyze', {
+          default: false,
+          describe: 'Creates a webpack-bundle-analyzer report for each bundle.',
+          type: 'boolean',
+        })
+        .option('accurateBundles', {
+          default: false,
+          describe: 'Displays used bundles accurately at the cost of CPU cycles.',
+          type: 'boolean',
+        });
+    },
+    handler: run,
+  })
+  .help()
+  .strict(true)
+  .version(false)
+  .parse();
diff --git a/scripts/sizeSnapshot/webpack.config.js b/scripts/sizeSnapshot/webpack.config.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..645b803518f2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/sizeSnapshot/webpack.config.js
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+const path = require('path');
+const CompressionPlugin = require('compression-webpack-plugin');
+const TerserPlugin = require('terser-webpack-plugin');
+const { BundleAnalyzerPlugin } = require('webpack-bundle-analyzer');
+
+const workspaceRoot = path.join(__dirname, '..', '..');
+
+async function getWebpackEntries() {
+  return [
+    {
+      name: '@material-ui/x-grid',
+      path: 'packages/grid/x-grid/dist/index-esm.js',
+    },
+    {
+      name: '@material-ui/data-grid',
+      path: 'packages/grid/data-grid/dist/index-esm.js',
+    },
+    {
+      name: '@material-ui/x-license',
+      path: 'packages/x-license/dist/esm/index.js',
+    },
+  ];
+}
+
+module.exports = async function webpackConfig(webpack, environment) {
+  const analyzerMode = environment.analyze ? 'static' : 'disabled';
+  const concatenateModules = !environment.accurateBundles;
+
+  const entries = await getWebpackEntries();
+  const configurations = entries.map((entry) => {
+    return {
+      // ideally this would be computed from the bundles peer dependencies
+      externals: /^(react|react-dom|react\/jsx-runtime)$/,
+      mode: 'production',
+      optimization: {
+        concatenateModules,
+        minimizer: [
+          new TerserPlugin({
+            test: /\.js(\?.*)?$/i,
+          }),
+        ],
+      },
+      output: {
+        filename: '[name].js',
+        path: path.join(__dirname, 'build'),
+      },
+      plugins: [
+        new CompressionPlugin(),
+        new BundleAnalyzerPlugin({
+          analyzerMode,
+          // We create a report for each bundle so around 120 reports.
+          // Opening them all is spam.
+          // If opened with `webpack --config . --analyze` it'll still open one new tab though.
+          openAnalyzer: false,
+          // '[name].html' not supported: https://github.com/webpack-contrib/webpack-bundle-analyzer/issues/12
+          reportFilename: `${entry.name}.html`,
+        }),
+      ],
+      resolve: {
+        alias: {
+          '@material-ui/data-grid': path.join(
+            workspaceRoot,
+            'packages/grid/x-grid/dist/index-esm.js',
+          ),
+          '@material-ui/x-grid': path.join(
+            workspaceRoot,
+            'packages/grid/data-grid/dist/index-esm.js',
+          ),
+          '@material-ui/x-license': path.join(
+            workspaceRoot,
+            'packages/x-license/dist/esm/index.js',
+          ),
+        },
+      },
+      entry: { [entry.name]: path.join(workspaceRoot, entry.path) },
+    };
+  });
+
+  return configurations;
+};
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index e94843e4157b9..35d94778a4c1c 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -7987,6 +7987,17 @@ compressible@~2.0.16:
   dependencies:
     mime-db ">= 1.43.0 < 2"
 
+compression-webpack-plugin@^6.0.2:
+  version "6.1.1"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/compression-webpack-plugin/-/compression-webpack-plugin-6.1.1.tgz#ae8e4b2ffdb7396bb776e66918d751a20d8ccf0e"
+  integrity sha512-BEHft9M6lwOqVIQFMS/YJGmeCYXVOakC5KzQk05TFpMBlODByh1qNsZCWjUBxCQhUP9x0WfGidxTbGkjbWO/TQ==
+  dependencies:
+    cacache "^15.0.5"
+    find-cache-dir "^3.3.1"
+    schema-utils "^3.0.0"
+    serialize-javascript "^5.0.1"
+    webpack-sources "^1.4.3"
+
 compression@^1.7.4:
   version "1.7.4"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/compression/-/compression-1.7.4.tgz#95523eff170ca57c29a0ca41e6fe131f41e5bb8f"