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values | tagline stringlengths 44 75 | homepage_url stringlengths 14 50 | pricing_url stringlengths 24 59 | attrs stringlengths 82 107 | rank int64 1 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
clerk | Clerk | auth | Drop-in auth with pre-built React components and organisations. | https://clerk.com | https://clerk.com/pricing | {"b2b_orgs":true,"sso_addon":true,"nextjs_sdk":true,"self_hostable":false,"own_your_users":false} | 1 |
stripe | Stripe | payments | The default PSP. You stay the merchant, so sales tax and VAT stay yours. | https://stripe.com | https://stripe.com/pricing | {"payouts":"you","handles_vat":false,"handles_sales_tax":false,"merchant_of_record":false} | 1 |
supabase | Supabase | database | Postgres with auth, storage and realtime bolted on. | https://supabase.com | https://supabase.com/pricing | {"engine":"postgres","open_source":true,"bundles_auth":true,"self_hostable":true,"bundles_storage":true} | 1 |
vercel | Vercel | hosting | The Next.js host. Zero-config, and the bill is entirely usage-shaped. | https://vercel.com | https://vercel.com/pricing | {"runtime":"serverless","free_tier":true,"nextjs_first":true,"byo_container":false} | 1 |
better-auth | Better Auth | auth | Open-source TypeScript auth that runs inside your own app and database. | https://www.better-auth.com | https://www.better-auth.com/docs/introduction | {"b2b_orgs":true,"sso_addon":false,"nextjs_sdk":true,"self_hostable":true,"own_your_users":true} | 2 |
firebase | Firebase | database | Google's document store, auth and functions on one bill. | https://firebase.google.com | https://firebase.google.com/pricing | {"engine":"document","open_source":false,"bundles_auth":true,"self_hostable":false,"bundles_storage":true} | 2 |
netlify | Netlify | hosting | The other Jamstack host, priced per member rather than per project. | https://www.netlify.com | https://www.netlify.com/pricing/ | {"runtime":"serverless","free_tier":true,"nextjs_first":false,"byo_container":false} | 2 |
paddle | Paddle | payments | Merchant of record — Paddle is the seller and files the tax. | https://www.paddle.com | https://www.paddle.com/pricing | {"payouts":"paddle","handles_vat":true,"handles_sales_tax":true,"merchant_of_record":true} | 2 |
auth0 | Auth0 | auth | The incumbent identity platform, now inside Okta. | https://auth0.com | https://auth0.com/pricing | {"b2b_orgs":true,"sso_addon":true,"nextjs_sdk":true,"self_hostable":false,"own_your_users":false} | 3 |
lemon-squeezy | Lemon Squeezy | payments | Merchant of record for digital products, now owned by Stripe. | https://www.lemonsqueezy.com | https://www.lemonsqueezy.com/pricing | {"payouts":"lemon-squeezy","handles_vat":true,"handles_sales_tax":true,"merchant_of_record":true} | 3 |
neon | Neon | database | Serverless Postgres that scales compute to zero and branches like git. | https://neon.com | https://neon.com/pricing | {"engine":"postgres","open_source":true,"bundles_auth":false,"self_hostable":false,"bundles_storage":false} | 3 |
railway | Railway | hosting | Containers billed by the second, with a database next to them. | https://railway.com | https://railway.com/pricing | {"runtime":"container","free_tier":false,"nextjs_first":false,"byo_container":true} | 3 |
planetscale | PlanetScale | database | Vitess-backed MySQL and Postgres with online schema changes. | https://planetscale.com | https://planetscale.com/pricing | {"engine":"mysql","open_source":false,"bundles_auth":false,"self_hostable":false,"bundles_storage":false} | 4 |
polar | Polar | payments | Merchant of record built for developers, with paid tiers that cut the rate. | https://polar.sh | https://polar.sh/docs/merchant-of-record/fees | {"payouts":"polar","handles_vat":true,"handles_sales_tax":true,"merchant_of_record":true} | 4 |
render | Render | hosting | Predictable instance sizes — the closest thing left to old Heroku. | https://render.com | https://render.com/pricing | {"runtime":"container","free_tier":true,"nextjs_first":false,"byo_container":true} | 4 |
workos | WorkOS | auth | AuthKit free to a million users; the money is in SSO and Directory Sync. | https://workos.com | https://workos.com/pricing | {"b2b_orgs":true,"sso_addon":true,"nextjs_sdk":true,"self_hostable":false,"own_your_users":false} | 4 |
convex | Convex | database | Reactive TypeScript backend — database, functions and realtime in one. | https://www.convex.dev | https://www.convex.dev/pricing | {"engine":"document","open_source":true,"bundles_auth":false,"self_hostable":true,"bundles_storage":true} | 5 |
creem | Creem | payments | Merchant of record at a flat 3.9%, aimed squarely at indie SaaS. | https://www.creem.io | https://www.creem.io/pricing | {"payouts":"creem","handles_vat":true,"handles_sales_tax":true,"merchant_of_record":true} | 5 |
fly-io | Fly.io | hosting | Micro-VMs you place in specific regions, billed by the second. | https://fly.io | https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/ | {"runtime":"container","free_tier":false,"nextjs_first":false,"byo_container":true} | 5 |
stytch | Stytch | auth | Auth plus device fingerprinting and fraud tooling in the same SDK. | https://stytch.com | https://stytch.com/pricing | {"b2b_orgs":true,"sso_addon":true,"nextjs_sdk":true,"self_hostable":false,"own_your_users":false} | 5 |
cloudflare-workers | Cloudflare Workers | hosting | Edge functions with no egress charge at all. | https://workers.cloudflare.com | https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing/ | {"runtime":"edge","free_tier":true,"free_egress":true,"nextjs_first":false,"byo_container":false} | 6 |
dodo-payments | Dodo Payments | payments | Merchant of record covering 220+ countries at 4% + 40¢. | https://dodopayments.com | https://dodopayments.com/pricing | {"payouts":"dodo","handles_vat":true,"handles_sales_tax":true,"merchant_of_record":true} | 6 |
kinde | Kinde | auth | Auth with billing and feature flags bundled in. | https://kinde.com | https://kinde.com/pricing/ | {"b2b_orgs":true,"sso_addon":true,"nextjs_sdk":true,"self_hostable":false,"own_your_users":false} | 6 |
turso | Turso | database | SQLite on the edge, one database per tenant without the bill exploding. | https://turso.tech | https://turso.tech/pricing | {"engine":"sqlite","open_source":true,"bundles_auth":false,"self_hostable":true,"bundles_storage":false} | 6 |
digitalocean-app | DigitalOcean App Platform | hosting | Flat-rate app containers with a predictable monthly number. | https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform | https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/app-platform | {"runtime":"container","free_tier":true,"nextjs_first":false,"byo_container":true} | 7 |
gumroad | Gumroad | payments | Merchant of record with a storefront attached, at a flat 10%. | https://gumroad.com | https://gumroad.com/pricing | {"payouts":"gumroad","handles_vat":true,"handles_sales_tax":true,"merchant_of_record":true} | 7 |
mongodb-atlas | MongoDB Atlas | database | Managed MongoDB with a genuinely free shared tier. | https://www.mongodb.com/atlas | https://www.mongodb.com/pricing | {"engine":"document","open_source":true,"bundles_auth":false,"self_hostable":true,"bundles_storage":false} | 7 |
propelauth | PropelAuth | auth | B2B auth priced per user with org management built in. | https://www.propelauth.com | https://www.propelauth.com/pricing | {"b2b_orgs":true,"sso_addon":true,"nextjs_sdk":true,"self_hostable":false,"own_your_users":false} | 7 |
upstash | Upstash | database | Serverless Redis and Kafka billed per request, not per hour. | https://upstash.com | https://upstash.com/pricing | {"engine":"redis","open_source":false,"bundles_auth":false,"self_hostable":false,"bundles_storage":false} | 8 |
StackTab: the developer services under price watch
One row per developer service whose pricing StackTab reads: its category, its homepage and the pricing page the plan figures were read from.
| Rows in this cut | 29 |
| One row is | one service |
| Cut | 2026-10-01 |
| Refreshed | Monthly, on the first of the month |
| Measured by | StackTab |
| Method | https://toolproof.thecompound.tech/methodology |
| Licence | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International |
| Publisher | Compound Labs |
| Also on | Hugging Face · Kaggle · Zenodo |
How it is measured
The pricing page is fetched and the plan figures are read from the page that states them. Nothing is taken from a comparison site or a press release.
What a citer needs to know
attrsis JSON carrying the service-level facts that are not plan-level.
Files
| File | Format | Size |
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stacktab-services-2026-10-01.csv |
CSV | 0.01 MB |
stacktab-services-2026-10-01.json |
JSON | 0.01 MB |
Every cut is also a GitHub release with the same files attached, so a citation can pin the exact edition it quoted.
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name |
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category |
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tagline |
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homepage_url |
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Cite it
Compound Labs (2026). StackTab: the developer services under price watch. StackTab, https://stacktab.thecompound.tech. Cut of 2026-10-01. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). https://github.com/kyisaiah47/compound-datasets/tree/main/stacktab-services
@dataset{compound_stacktab_services_2026,
title = {StackTab: the developer services under price watch},
author = {{Compound Labs}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Compound Labs},
url = {https://github.com/kyisaiah47/compound-datasets/tree/main/stacktab-services},
note = {Cut of 2026-10-01. Measured by StackTab, https://stacktab.thecompound.tech},
license = {CC-BY-4.0}
}
The whole collection has a DOI, 10.5281/zenodo.22844096, at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22844096. It resolves to the newest Zenodo version. To pin the exact deposit this cut belongs to, cite 10.5281/zenodo.22844097 instead.
Attribution is the licence condition, and it is the only one. Quote a figure with the publisher, the product that measured it and the cut date, and there is nothing else to ask.
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