Providers
Where your clone runs — hosting, databases, auth and payments, with realistic monthly costs.
GitHub
Where your code lives
Free tier; Pro $4/mo; Team $4/user/mo; Enterprise $21/user/mo
Cloudflare
Full-stack hosting on a global edge network
Free tier; Workers Paid starts at $5.00/mo base with usage-based overages
Vercel
The home of Next.js deployments
Free Hobby tier; Pro $20/dev/mo; Enterprise custom
Supabase
Open-source Firebase alternative on Postgres
Free tier; Pro $25/mo; Team $599/mo; Enterprise custom
Stripe
Payments infrastructure for the internet
Pay-as-you-go; no monthly subscription fees
Neon
Serverless Postgres that scales to zero
Free tier 0.5GB; Launch $19/mo
PlanetScale
MySQL platform built on Vitess for serious scale
Scaler Pro from ~$39/mo (no free tier)
Turso
SQLite at the edge — hundreds of DBs for pennies
Free tier 500 DBs; Scaler $29/mo
Fly.io
Run full Docker containers close to users worldwide
Pay per VM, small apps ~$2-5/mo
Railway
Deploy anything from a repo — servers, DBs, crons — in minutes
Usage-based, ~$5/mo minimum
better-auth
Own your auth: the TypeScript framework with every feature built in
Free and open source
Clerk
Drop-in auth UI: sign-in boxes, user profiles, org switchers
Free to 10k MAU; Pro from $25/mo
WorkOS
Enterprise-ready auth: SSO, SAML, SCIM directory sync
AuthKit free to 1M MAU; SSO $125/connection/mo
Render
Heroku-style platform: web services, workers and crons from a repo
Free hobby tier; paid from $7/mo
Resend
Email API for product emails that actually reach inboxes
Free 3k emails/mo; Pro $20/mo
AWS
Every infrastructure primitive that exists, at any scale
Pay-as-you-go; free tier 12 months
Google Cloud
Cloud Run, BigQuery and the ML-heavy end of infrastructure
Pay-as-you-go; Cloud Run free tier
Microsoft Azure
The enterprise cloud — AD, Office integrations, compliance
Pay-as-you-go; free tier 12 months
DigitalOcean
The cloud infrastructure platform built for developers
Free static sites tier; Droplets from $4/mo
Hetzner
Absurdly cheap European servers — the self-hoster's favourite
Cloud VMs from ~€3.8/mo
Netlify
Static and Jamstack hosting with forms and edge functions
Free tier; Pro $19/mo
MongoDB Atlas
Managed document database with a free forever tier
Free M0 cluster; paid from $9/mo
Upstash
Serverless Redis and Kafka priced per request
Free tier; pay-per-request after
Convex
The reactive backend: database, functions and realtime in TypeScript
Free tier; Pro $25/mo
Firebase
Google's app backend: Firestore, auth and push for mobile-first apps
Spark free tier; pay-as-you-go Blaze
Pinecone
Managed vector database for AI search and RAG
Free starter; usage-based after
Auth0
The incumbent identity platform — every protocol, every integration
Free to 25k MAU; paid climbs steeply
Lemon Squeezy
Merchant of record: sell globally without tax paperwork
5% + 50¢ per transaction
Paddle
Merchant of record for serious SaaS billing
~5% + 50¢ per transaction
RevenueCat
In-app purchases and subscriptions for mobile apps
Free to $2.5k monthly revenue
Postmark
Transactional email with the best deliverability reputation
100 emails/mo free; $15/mo for 10k
Loops
Email for SaaS: transactional + marketing in one editor
Free to 1k contacts; from $49/mo
Twilio
SMS, voice and WhatsApp APIs
Pay-per-use; SMS ~$0.008
OneSignal
Push notifications for web and mobile, free at hobby scale
Free tier; paid from $9/mo
Algolia
Instant-search-as-a-service with typo tolerance
Free 10k records; usage-based after
Meilisearch
Open-source instant search you can self-host free
Free self-hosted; Cloud $30/mo
Cloudinary
Image and video CDN with URL-based transformations
Free 25 credits/mo; Plus $99/mo
Mux
Video streaming API: upload, encode, stream, analytics
Usage-based per minute
Anthropic API
Claude models over API for reasoning, agents and long documents
Sonnet $3/$15 per MTok; Haiku cheaper
OpenAI API
GPT models, Whisper transcription and image generation
Per-token; Whisper ~$0.006/min
Gemini API
Google's models: huge context, search grounding, lowest prices
Flash-Lite $0.30/$2.50 per MTok; free tier
ElevenLabs
The most natural text-to-speech and voice cloning
Free tier; Starter $5/mo
fal.ai
Fast image/video model inference API (Flux, Recraft, more)
Per generation; Flux from ~$0.003/image
Replicate
Run thousands of open-source AI models by the second
Per-second GPU billing
Pusher
Hosted WebSockets: channels, presence, pub/sub
Free tier; from $49/mo
Liveblocks
Multiplayer collaboration infrastructure: presence, CRDTs, comments
Free 50 MAU; from $29/mo
PostHog
Product analytics, session replay, flags and experiments in one
Free 1M events/mo; usage-based
Plausible
Privacy-first web analytics in one lightweight script
Self-host free; hosted $9/mo
Sentry
Error tracking and performance monitoring for every stack
Free 5k errors/mo; Team $26/mo
Better Stack
Uptime monitoring, status pages and log management
Free tier; paid from $29/mo
Inngest
Durable background jobs and workflows from serverless functions
Free 100k runs/mo; from $20/mo
Trigger.dev
Open-source background jobs with no timeouts
Free tier; usage-based cloud
Expo
React Native apps for iOS and Android from one TypeScript codebase
Free; EAS builds from $19/mo
Tauri
Tiny native desktop apps from web frontends (Rust core)
Free and open source
Electron
The battle-tested desktop shell behind VS Code and Slack
Free and open source
Sanity
Structured content platform with a customizable studio
Free tier; Growth $15/user/mo
Payload
Open-source TypeScript CMS that lives inside your Next.js app
Open source free; cloud optional
Mapbox
Custom maps, geocoding and navigation APIs
Free 50k loads/mo; usage-based
Firecrawl
Turn any website into LLM-ready markdown
Free 500 credits; from $16/mo
Groq
The fastest LLM inference on the planet (LPU hardware)
Free tier; per-token, very cheap
OpenRouter
One API key for 400+ models from every provider
Pass-through pricing +~5%
Together AI
Open-source models and fine-tuning on rented GPUs
Per-token; GPU clusters hourly
Mistral AI
European frontier models with open weights options
Free tier; per-token
DeepSeek
Frontier-class reasoning at a tenth of the price
Per-token, extremely cheap
xAI (Grok)
Grok models with live X/Twitter data access
Per-token
Ollama
Run open LLMs locally with one command
Free, runs locally
Backblaze B2
S3-compatible storage at a fifth of S3's price
$6/TB/mo, 10GB free
Bunny.net
CDN, storage and video streaming at hobbyist prices
CDN from $1/mo; Stream $5/mo min
UploadThing
File uploads for Next.js apps in five minutes
Free 2GB; from $10/mo
LiveKit
Open-source WebRTC: video rooms, voice agents, realtime AV
OSS self-host free; cloud free tier
Daily
Video call API: prebuilt UI or full WebRTC control
Free 10k participant-mins/mo
Polar
Merchant of record built for developers and digital products
4% + 40¢ per transaction
PayPal
The checkout button buyers already trust
~3.49% + fees per transaction
Amazon SES
Bulk email at $0.10 per thousand
$0.10 per 1,000 emails
SendGrid
The incumbent email API with marketing tools bolted on
Free 100/day; from $19.95/mo
Novu
Open-source notification infrastructure: in-app, email, push, SMS
OSS free; cloud free 30k events/mo
Typesense
Open-source typo-tolerant search, single binary
OSS free; cloud from $22/mo
Qdrant
Open-source vector database in Rust
OSS free; cloud 1GB free
ClickHouse
The analytics database behind PostHog and Plausible
OSS free; Cloud usage-based
LaunchDarkly
Enterprise feature flag management
From $10/service/mo
Axiom
Serverless log analytics with a huge free tier
Free 0.5TB/mo ingest
Checkly
Synthetic monitoring as code with Playwright
Free tier; from $40/mo
n8n
Self-hostable workflow automation (the open Zapier)
Self-host free; cloud from $24/mo
Browserbase
Headless browsers as a service for agents and scraping
Free tier; from $39/mo
Apify
Marketplace of ready-made scrapers plus your own actors
Free $5 credits/mo; usage-based
Tolgee
Open-source localization with in-context editing
OSS free; cloud free tier
Next.js
The default React framework for full-stack web apps
Free and open source
Astro
Content-first framework shipping zero JS by default
Free and open source
SvelteKit
Svelte's full-stack framework: less code, faster apps
Free and open source
Nuxt
The Vue full-stack framework
Free and open source
Flutter
One Dart codebase for iOS, Android, web and desktop
Free and open source
Ruby on Rails
The majestic monolith: full-featured web apps, fast
Free and open source
Laravel
PHP's batteries-included framework with a huge first-party ecosystem
Free and open source
Django
Python's deadline-driven web framework with the free admin panel
Free and open source
Phoenix
Elixir framework where realtime is the default (LiveView)
Free and open source
Suno
Generate full songs and soundscapes from a text prompt
Free ~10 songs/day; Pro $10/mo
Runway
Text/image-to-video generation for real production work
Standard $12/mo, credit-based
HeyGen
AI avatar videos: a presenter reads your script in any language
Free tier; Creator $29/mo
Deepgram
Fast, cheap speech-to-text built for realtime streaming
$200 free credit; ~$0.26/hr
AssemblyAI
Speech-to-text plus understanding: summaries, chapters, sentiment
Free credit; from ~$0.12/hr
Vapi
Build AI phone and voice agents that talk in real time
~$0.05/min + model costs
Hugging Face
The open-model hub: 1M+ models, datasets and hosted inference
Free tier; PRO $9/mo; usage-based inference
Cloudflare Workers AI
Run open models on Cloudflare's edge, billed per neuron
Free 10k neurons/day; usage-based
Stream
Chat, activity feeds and video SDKs that scale to billions
Free maker plan; paid from $399/mo
Plaid
Bank account connections: balances, transactions, payments
Free sandbox; usage-based production
Perplexity Sonar API
Web-grounded answers with citations as an API
Sonar $1/$1 per MTok + search fees
Exa
Neural web search built for AI agents
~$7/1k queries; free starter credits
Tavily
Search API tuned for LLM agents with a generous free tier
Free 1k calls/mo; ~$5-8/1k after
Cohere
Enterprise embeddings and the industry-standard reranker
Free trial; usage-based
Cartesia
Ultra-low-latency TTS for realtime voice apps
Free tier; from ~$5/mo
Hume AI
Emotionally expressive voice AI that hears tone, not just words
Free tier; usage-based
Udio
Studio-quality AI music generation
Free daily credits; from $10/mo
Luma AI
Dream Machine: fast text/image-to-video with an API
Free trial; from ~$10/mo, API usage-based
Ideogram
Image generation that can actually spell — text, logos, posters
Free daily credits; from $8/mo
Modal
Serverless GPUs: run any Python/ML workload with @app.function
$30/mo free credit; per-second GPU billing
DeepL
The translation API professionals actually trust
API free 500k chars/mo; Pro from $8.74/mo
Langfuse
Open-source LLM observability: traces, evals, prompt management
OSS free; cloud free tier
Vercel AI SDK
The TypeScript toolkit for building AI features: streaming, tools, agents
Free and open source
LangChain
The Python/JS framework for chains, agents and RAG pipelines
Free open source; LangSmith free tier
Browser Use
Open-source library that lets AI agents drive real browsers
Open source; cloud usage-based