Makerkit vs ShipFast
Both are boilerplates tools. Here is what separates them.
What Makerkit is
Makerkit sells production-ready SaaS starter kits: TypeScript codebases that arrive with authentication, billing and multi-tenancy already wired up, so those foundations do not have to be rebuilt for every new project. Variants ship for Next.js, React Router, Remix, TanStack Start and React Native, and the documented kits include next-supabase-turbo, nextjs-drizzle, nextjs-prisma, react-native-supabase, react-router-supabase-turbo, tanstack-drizzle and supamode. The Supabase stack uses Supabase auth, storage and database with Postgres row level security. The Drizzle and Prisma stacks instead pair Better Auth with a bring your own database setup, and the Drizzle kits can target MySQL and SQLite as well as Postgres. What comes in the box is the plumbing most SaaS products need. Multi-tenant organisations, team management and role based access control are built in. Authentication covers email and password, magic links, passkeys using WebAuthn, and TOTP based multi-factor authentication, with social sign in through Google, GitHub, Facebook, X and Discord. Billing can run on Stripe, Lemon Squeezy, Paddle or Polar, and a Stripe customer portal is connected so that subscribers manage their own plans. A super admin dashboard handles user and organisation management, account impersonation and account disabling. Around that sit the parts that tend to get postponed. The interface is built from Shadcn UI components on Tailwind CSS v4, and a Figma UI kit is bundled with the purchase. Each kit includes an SEO ready blog, a documentation section and a changelog, with Keystatic and WordPress available as CMS options alongside a custom CMS client. End to end tests are set up with Playwright, with separate unit and database test tooling, and local email is caught by Inbucket and Mailpit. The codebase runs on strict TypeScript compiler settings. For anyone working with coding assistants, the kits ship an MCP server plus agent rule files for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and Gemini. Pricing is a one-off payment rather than a subscription, and the same figures apply across the Supabase, Drizzle and Prisma stacks. The Pro licence is 349 USD, covers one user, allows unlimited projects and includes Discord community access. The Teams licence is 649 USD, covers up to five collaborators, also allows unlimited projects, and adds a private Discord channel and priority support. One purchase includes all future updates to the kit.
What ShipFast is
ShipFast is a Next.js boilerplate: a paid starter codebase, supplied as a GitHub repository, with the parts most web products need already written and connected to each other. What comes in the box is authentication, payments and the wiring between them. Google OAuth is supported for sign-in, Stripe is integrated for taking payments, and MongoDB is the database it is built against. A static page feature covers the marketing and legal pages that sit outside the application itself. Project settings live in one file, config.js, so the values specific to your product are changed in a single place rather than tracked down across the codebase. It requires Node 18.17 or greater. ShipFast's own claim is that setup takes under five minutes and that you can ship in five. Read that as the time to get the template running with your own keys and configuration, not the time to have a finished product. The value on offer is narrow and easy to judge. Sign-in, a working payment flow and the code joining them together are what most projects rebuild at the start, usually under time pressure and often badly. Buying them pre-assembled trades a one-off fee against the days that assembly takes. The cost is accepting decisions someone else has made: Next.js as the framework, MongoDB as the database, config.js as the place configuration goes. Some consequences follow from the way it is sold. Access is paid, and directory listings record it as neither open source nor self-hostable in the usual sense, which is consistent with a private repository you buy into rather than a service someone runs for you. Because it arrives as code, hosting, domains and the running costs of whatever you build on top are yours to arrange. Directories also describe it as aimed at startups and at people who intend to charge for what they build, which fits Stripe being included from the start.
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