Makerkit vs supastarter
Both are boilerplates tools. Here is what separates them.
| Makerkit | supastarter | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Boilerplates | Boilerplates |
| Pricing model | paid | paid |
| Price from | Paid | Paid |
| Upvotes | 3 | 5 |
| What it does | Multi-tenant SaaS boilerplate with teams and billing done properly. | SaaS scaffolding for Next.js, Nuxt or TanStack Start, with your own database. |
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 supastarter is
supastarter is a SaaS starter kit: a commercial codebase you buy once and build your own product on top of, instead of assembling accounts, billing and admin screens from scratch. Buyers choose between Next.js, Nuxt and TanStack Start versions of the kit, and a working demo of the Next.js version is published at demo.supastarter.dev. Authentication is built on better-auth and covers passwords, passkeys, magic links, OAuth and two factor authentication, along with a forgot and reset password flow. Multi-tenant organisations are modelled from the start, with Owner, Admin and Member roles, email invitations for new members, and the option to make organisations required, hidden, disabled or removed if your product has no use for them. There is also a super admin role with user impersonation, and an in-app notification centre with per-user preferences. Billing covers subscriptions, one-time payments, usage-based and seat-based pricing, with checkout, webhooks, trial periods and a self-serve customer portal already wired up. Five payment providers are supported: Lemon Squeezy, Stripe, Polar, Creem and Dodo Payments. The rest of the stack leaves the significant choices open. The data layer supports a choice of database and ORM, with Prisma and Drizzle both working. The API is built on Hono with typed permissions, OpenAPI specifications and a reusable client. The interface uses Tailwind CSS and Base UI, is shadcn/ui compatible and includes dark mode. File storage works with any S3-compatible provider through presigned uploads. Local development runs on Docker Compose with a local PostgreSQL database, MinIO standing in for S3 and mail printed to the console, and the finished application deploys to Vercel and other serverless hosts or runs under Docker. Playwright end to end tests, GitHub Actions and Sentry monitoring are configured already. Surrounding the application are a marketing site, an MDX blog, Fumadocs documentation with full-text search, legal pages and internationalisation with a language switcher and translatable mail templates. For AI work the kit includes a chatbot example and several AI adapters, and the codebase follows the AGENTS.md and Agent Skills specifications so coding agents can extend it. Licences are one-time purchases with lifetime updates rather than subscriptions. Solo costs 299 US dollars for one developer seat and unlimited personal projects used commercially. Startup costs 799 US dollars for up to five seats and unlimited team projects. Agency costs 1,499 US dollars for up to ten seats and unlimited client projects, and adds white-label rights and a private Discord channel with the founders. Startup and Agency each include a 60 minute consulting call, which can otherwise be bought on its own for 149 US dollars. Those are the list prices, and a parity purchasing power discount is offered to buyers in some countries.
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