ShipFast vs supastarter

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Feature	ShipFast	supastarter	GenerateSaaS	MakerKit	IndieKit	Open SaaS
Starting price	$199, from $299	$299 one-time	$249 one-time	$349 one-time	$79 one-time	$0
Pricing & licence
Pricing model	Included: One-time; updates from All-in	Included: One-time, updates included	Included: One-time, updates included	Included: One-time, updates included	Included: One-time, updates included	Included: Free, MIT
Projects per licence	Included: Unlimited	Included: Unlimited, per framework	Included: Unlimited, per seat	Included: Unlimited, per kit	Not available	Included: Unlimited, MIT
Client work	Not available	Included: Allowed, no client licence	Partial: Agency tier to deliver source	Partial: Team tier; client buys a licence	Not available	Included: Allowed, MIT
White-label	Not available: Notices must stay	Partial: Agency tier	Partial: Agency tier	Not available	Not available	Included: Allowed, keep the notice
Refund policy	Not available: No refunds, stated	Not available	Not available: All sales final	Not available: No refunds, stated	Partial: 3 days, before access shared	Not available
Verdict	ShipFast starts $100 cheaper, at $199 against a $299 list. supastarter's seats cap at ten on every tier, which is the ceiling ShipFast has no equivalent of because it has no team layer.
Tech stack
Frameworks	Included: Next.js, either router	Included: Next.js 16.3, Nuxt, TanStack	Included: Next.js 16.3	Included: Next.js 16.3, React Router 8, TanStack	Included: Next.js 16, React 19	Included: Wasp 0.25, React 19, Node
Database	Included: MongoDB, Supabase Postgres	Included: Postgres, MySQL, SQLite	Included: Postgres, Neon, Supabase	Included: Supabase, Drizzle, Prisma 7	Included: Neon, Supabase, PlanetScale	Included: Prisma 5.19, Postgres
Authentication	Partial: Google login, magic links	Included: Better Auth, passkeys, 2FA	Included: Better Auth, passkeys, 2FA	Included: Supabase Auth, Better Auth	Included: Better Auth, Google, magic links	Included: Wasp auth, email, OAuth
Billing features
Payments	Included: Stripe, Lemon Squeezy	Included: Five providers, one API	Included: Stripe, Polar	Included: Three on Supabase kits, two elsewhere	Included: Six providers documented	Included: Stripe, Polar, Lemon Squeezy
Subscriptions	Included: Stripe subscriptions	Included: Plans, seat-based pricing	Included: Month, year, lifetime	Included: Flat, per-seat, metered, one-off	Included: Plans, one-time, LTD campaigns	Included: Plans, customer portal
Usage credits	Not available	Partial: Metered usage, no balance	Included: Balances, grants, optional top-up	Partial: Build-it guide	Included: Balances, grants, expiry, top-up	Partial: Counter, one-off top-up
Finance dashboard	Not available	Not available	Included: Revenue, vendor cost, margin	Not available	Not available	Not available
Core features
Organizations	Not available	Included: Organizations, roles, invites	Included: Organizations, roles, invites	Included: Organizations, roles, invites	Partial: Separate B2B kit and licence	Not available
Admin panel	Not available	Included: Users, organizations, bans	Included: Eight admin tabs	Included: Users, organizations, RBAC, metrics	Included: Super admin dashboard	Included: Users, analytics, messages
Admin login as user	Not available	Included: Admin acts as user	Included: Admin acts as user	Included: Admin acts as user	Included: Admin acts as user	Not available
Onboarding	Not available	Included: Multi-step, org, avatar	Included: Profile, first org, welcome drip	Partial: Recipe, build yourself	Not available	Not available
Notifications	Not available	Included: Notification centre, preferences	Included: In-app bell, email	Partial: Realtime, Supabase kits	Not available	Not available
File storage	Not available	Included: S3, R2, Supabase, UploadThing	Included: S3-compatible, local disk	Included: S3, filesystem, Supabase Storage	Included: S3	Included: AWS S3, presigned URLs
Multiple languages	Not available	Included: Locales, language switcher	Included: Locales, language switcher	Included: Locales, language switcher	Partial: Recipe: marketing, auth, email	Not available
Legal pages	Partial: ChatGPT prompts	Included: Terms, privacy, i18n	Included: Terms, privacy pages	Included: Terms, privacy, cookies	Included: Terms, privacy pages	Not available
Verdict	supastarter ships organizations, roles, an admin panel and a language switcher. ShipFast's docs name none of the four.
Marketing & growth
Email	Included: Resend, Mailgun	Included: Resend, Postmark, Nodemailer	Included: SMTP, SES, Resend	Included: Resend, SMTP	Included: Resend, SES, Mailgun, more	Included: SendGrid, Mailgun, SMTP
Newsletter	Not available	Partial: Signup section, no provider	Included: Listmonk, Resend sync	Partial: Signup form, no provider	Not available	Not available
Blog	Included: Authors, categories, schema	Included: MDX blog	Included: Categories, tags, RSS	Included: Blog in every kit	Included: Blog posts, SEO	Included: Astro Starlight, Markdown
SEO tools	Included: Tags, sitemap, schema	Included: Meta tags, sitemap	Included: OG images, JSON-LD, sitemap	Partial: Sitemap, robots, metadata	Included: Sitemap, metadata, Search Console	Included: Meta tags, JSON-LD, llms.txt
Analytics	Partial: DataFast script, pasted	Included: Eight providers	Included: Eight providers	Included: GA, PostHog, Umami, Meshes	Partial: PostHog built in, three by recipe	Included: Plausible, Google
Support chat	Included: Crisp, one config key	Not available	Included: Crisp, Chatwoot	Not available	Included: Crisp	Not available
Affiliate tracking	Not available	Not available	Included: Refgrow, Affonso, PromoteKit	Not available	Not available	Not available
Cookie consent	Not available	Included: Consent banner	Included: GDPR banner, four legal policies	Included: Banner, consent hook	Included: Consent gate before PostHog	Included: Consent modal
Verdict	Both ship a blog and SEO basics. ShipFast pastes in a DataFast analytics script; supastarter wires nine analytics providers.
Operations
Audit log	Not available	Not available	Included: With an admin viewer	Not available: Supamode, sold separately	Not available	Not available
User API keys	Not available	Not available	Included: Per-key rate limits	Not available	Not available	Not available
SMS	Not available	Not available	Included: Broadcast SMS, Twilio, SNS	Not available	Not available	Not available
Error reporting	Partial: Error and 404 pages	Included: Sentry	Included: Sentry, PostHog	Included: Sentry, SigNoz, PostHog, Honeybadger	Included: Sentry	Not available
Rate limiting	Partial: Upstash tutorial, self-installed	Not available	Included: Per-route, per-key	Included: Drizzle, Prisma kits	Not available	Not available
Background jobs	Not available	Included: trigger.dev, QStash, Queuebase	Included: Inngest	Not available	Included: Inngest, n8n	Included: Wasp Jobs, cron
Deploy targets	Included: Vercel, Netlify, Render	Included: Vercel, Docker, Fly, Railway, VPS	Included: Docker, Vercel, Fly, Railway, more	Included: Vercel, Cloudflare, Docker, VPS	Included: Vercel, Netlify, Render, Sherpa	Included: Fly.io, Railway, manual
AI
AI assistant	Not available	Included: Chatbot, history, streaming	Included: Chat, files, web search	Partial: Teams tier, separate templates	Not available: Build-it guide, Inngest or n8n	Partial: OpenAI demo app
User-supplied AI keys	Not available	Not available	Included: Users add provider keys	Not available	Not available	Not available
MCP server	Not available	Not available: Agent Skills, no MCP	Included: For your app's users	Included: Kit, CLI servers	Not available	Not available
Tooling & updates
Project setup CLI	Not available	Included: npx supastarter new	Included: generatesaas init	Included: @makerkit/cli new	Included: npx indiekit@latest	Included: wasp new -t saas
Version updates	Partial: Updates included, All-in only	Partial: Updates included, manual merge	Included: CLI update, AI merges	Included: CLI update, git merge	Partial: Git remote, manual merge	Not available: Docs advise against updating
End-to-end tests	Not available	Included: Playwright, pre-configured	Included: Playwright, pre-configured	Included: Playwright, pre-configured	Not available	Partial: Playwright, no unit tests
Desktop app	Not available	Not available	Included: Electron app	Not available	Not available	Not available
Mobile app	Not available	Not available: Listed as work in progress	Not available	Partial: Expo plugin, Supabase only	Not available	Not available

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  ShipFast

  A compact single-tenant Next.js starter, sold for unlimited projects at the lowest entry price.

  JavaScript and the Pages Router are supported beside TypeScript, and documents may live in MongoDB rather than Postgres. Twenty-seven marketing components and a blog ship with it.

  Its docs name no organizations, no admin panel and no language switcher. Access cannot be refunded once granted, their licence keeps copyright and trademark notices in the code, and updates are announced only in a newsletter archive that has been silent since 2024.

  • Starter $199
  • All-in $249
  • Bundle $299

  

  Strengths

  • Included: The lowest entry price here
  • Included: JavaScript and the Pages Router
  • Included: MongoDB or Supabase Postgres
  • Included: 27 marketing components, a blog
  • Included: Crisp support chat, one key

  Trade-offs

  • Not available: No organizations, roles or invitations
  • Not available: No admin panel or audit log
  • Not available: One language, no language switcher
  • Not available: No credits, broadcast SMS or announcements
  • Not available: Starter drops Discord, updates and discounts

  • Docs
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  supastarter

  One SaaS kit published for Next.js, Nuxt and TanStack Start, licensed per framework.

  Five payment providers sit behind a single API, background jobs run on trigger.dev, QStash or Queuebase, and the database may be Postgres, MySQL or SQLite.

  A licence is bought per framework, so a second framework is a second purchase. Client work is allowed on every tier and needs no client licence. Seats run 1, 5 and 10 by tier. Their terms publish no refund policy at all.

  • Solo $299
  • Startup $799
  • Agency $1,499

  

  Strengths

  • Included: Nuxt and TanStack Start kits too
  • Included: MySQL and SQLite, plus Postgres
  • Included: Five payment providers behind one API
  • Included: Background jobs: trigger.dev, QStash, Queuebase
  • Included: 22 Agent Skills for coding agents

  Trade-offs

  • Not available: One licence covers one framework
  • Not available: Seats cap at ten, even on the Agency tier
  • Not available: Metered usage, but no credit balances
  • Not available: No audit log or user API keys
  • Not available: No broadcast SMS or announcements

  • Docs
  • Live demo
  • Changelog
  • Pricing

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